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When the Standing Ones sent us on a journey to explore the darkness far from the sun's light, I never expected to find monsters there. Like something out of the scary tales my son so loved, they captured us while I slumbered. I woke with my crew, locked away in a cold thundercloud colored cage. The others looked to me for escape, but all my plans had ended in failure and pain, so much pain. At the same time, the monsters began to take them away...

The year is 2112: corporations have become nations and the human race has colonized the solar system. But the one thing humanity didn't count on, was Nibiru parking itself in orbit around Earth. Nibiru and the Annunaki have come back to Earth to finish the job they had started so long ago, or so everyone thought. When the planet parked itself in orbit and nothing happened, people began to wonder. Sending in a team of field experts with a battle-hardened...

A volume of seven stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.

After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.

"When Jerry finds a dusty old piano in the attic of his new house, his parents offer to pay for lessons. At first, taking piano seems like a cool idea. But there's something creepy about Jerry's piano teacher, Dr. Shreek. Something really creepy. Something Jerry can't quite put a finger on."--Back cover.

Amy gets a new ventriloquist dummy, Slappy, but he veers from her comedy routine and creates a routine of his own.

In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.

After he is clawed by a stray, Tray finds himself turning into a cat every night, so he sets out to find the old gray tomcat called Honcho who can reverse the curse, and the reader is invited to choose between three possible outcomes.

"Plagued by nightmares from their summer in the Brookline asylum, Dan, Abby, and Jordan return to New Hampshire College for a prosective students weekend, only to find themselves caught in a dark and dangerous mystery"--

Ready to be presented to the last apprentice, Tom Ward, the spook's notebook contains instructions for vanquishing boggarts, witches, the unquiet dead, and other dark creatures and spirits.