Valerie and Mark know there's something weird about the new after-school club building and the kids who joined the club. Someone is brainwashing the sixth-graders of Shadyside and turning them into zombies. Are Val and Mark next?

"One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detective story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems--"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee"--Remain among the most popular in American literature. Poe's tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like "The Purloined Letter." "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," together...

Mark is intrigued with the shrunken head his aunt sends him from the jungle island of Baladora, and his fascination only increases when he wakes one night to see the head glowing with a strange power.

"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...

Having immersed herself in the books of horror writer Martin Wisemann, Joanne is shocked when the hideous monsters in their pages come to life and begin haunting her days and nights.