A compilation of mostly horror stories with surprise endings. You should not read this book 1.at night when you are alone. 2.If you believe in ghosts, goblins, or the Loch Ness monster. 3.during the full moon, particularly when the wolfbane blooms. 4.around a campfire after dark in a dense forest. 5.if the news reported that a deranged maniac has escaped from the local asylum. 6.if you think something from another planet has landed on earth. 7.if your parents did not let you watch scary movies as a child. 8.if limbs being hacked off give you terrible nightmares. 9.during a lightning storm where your home could be plunged into total darkness Table of Contents: SOMETHING IN THE HOUSE Randolph and Francene have come from the cemetery with some friends to visit a house where they lived when they were alive. WITCH ALBERT Marty's new toy man is eating his other super heroes in his collection. He wonders what Witch Albert will do when they are gone, and she gets hungry. BELIEVE IT OR NOT A bank robber takes a desolate road to escape a roadblock. He would have been better off turning himself in to the police. CHARLEY Mandy is the only one who can see her imaginary friend who lives in the swamp. WORLD DOMINATION Barry believes a young man in the window seat is orchestrating Armageddon on his laptop computer game. WHO'S YOUR DADDY Cecil returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral, he discovers the father he never knew was a serial killer who devoured his victims. JOWLS Alex seeks revenge on three partner who reneged on making him partner after 31 years of service in remote locations BRIDE OF THE GORILLA Werewolves cause madness and mayhem at Dizzyworld Amusement Park. GHOST TOWN Settlers come upon a deserted town where the former occupants fled in a hurry from something evil. THE CALLER FROM HELL Clyde Bottoms is receiving calls from a disconnected phone last used by the Morningside Cemetery twenty-five years ago in Hell Massachusetts. THE DOME After attempting to start a concrete business in northern New Jersey, the police found what was left of Earl Breedlove crawling around a dumpster in Newark. His brother, John, seeks revenge. THE TAXIDERMIST Louie finds a deformed taxidermist with outstanding credentials to mount his most prized kill from twenty-five years of hunting. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW Jeremy White stared in disbelief at the footprints in the snow leading away from his front door, and none coming to it. He suspected Billy Smith had broken into his house during the night, and he wanted to nail him. THE BOOGEYMAN Agnes returns from a scary walk after dark and finds her front door standing open. A serial killer the media calls the "Boogeyman" will kill another woman in the next four hours if he follows his pattern. INTO THE LIGHT After Tomas sees an intense light as doctors try desperately to revive him, he finds himself fighting for survival as a new character in the original movie Night of the Living Dead. ROAD KILL Matt and Penny pick up a young man with a flat tire on a lonely road in the middle of the night. THE CADAVER Blanche foolishly risks her career as a university professor to enhance the learning curve of her students by supplying fresher cadavers for them to dissect.