When Bradley takes a shortcut through the graveyard one evening, he encounters a mysterious girl who keeps jumping out from behind the gravestones; she is wearing clothes that resemble a doll that Bradley took from his sister and accidentally ruined, and now that doll with the melted face is back for revenge--and the reader will find five more equally chilling stories in this collection.

Diego and Martin decide to skip school, and spend the day at the beach, but a very odd lightning storm changes their plans, especially when the sea suddenly seems to be full of a strange kind of jellyfish--but these "jellies" can invade people's brains and turn them into zombies.

Professor Igor tells the story of Taylor who, while on a school field trip looking for fossils, stole another student's wallet and buried it next to what looked like a fossilized shark fin--but when he came back the next day to retrieve the wallet he found that where there are fossil fins, there are also fossil teeth, and not all the sharks were entirely dead.

In Ravenville's library there is a special, hidden room for biographies of local people, but when Darren enters the room looking for a book to use for a homework assignment he discovers that there is something hungry living among the shelves, and people who enter rarely come out--and that is only one of the scary stories in this collection.

The Librarian was last seen heading toward the Under Library to confront the Eraser, and the Archivists fear that he is dead--but is he really?

Zak and the other young heroes must descend deep underground to face the creature that wears the lava crown and commands the troll army--can they rescue their mentor, Dr. Hoo and the captive humans, or has the doctor betrayed them?

On the morning after the troll attack, Pablo and his friends wake to find that a dark tower is rising from the ground, and that only they can stop the army of evil that is about to invade Zion Falls.