Scott M. Fischer

Ten-year-old orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin have a hard time at Cincinnati's Jolly Days Orphanage, but things get much worse when the Mandible sisters offer to share their home in the Dripping Fang Forest.

Having been reunited with their zombie father only to have him turn into a vampire after drinking an experimental elixir of life, the ten-year-old Shluffmuffin twins continue to try to elude the giant ants who want to enslave all humans.

Lottie Paris goes to the library, her favorite place in the world, and makes a new friend for whom the library is also a special place.

Describes a year at Scary School, where werewolves, zombies, and humans mingle and the teachers range from dragons to vampires.

Charles Nukid and his friends are chosen to be exchange students at Scary School's terrifying counterpart, Scream Academy, where they encounter polter-bears, abominable snowmen, trolls, and the dreaded Ice Dragon.

A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed...but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history of the Magisterium, thought to be responsible for a devastating death and an ever-present threat of war. As a result, Call has been imprisoned...

The ten-year-old Shluffmuffins twins, still evading the evil, giant ants that tried to adopt them, discover the culinary delights of swamps and encounter a zombie who bears a strange resemblance to their deceased father.

As Callum begins his final year at the Magisterium, he is estranged from most of his friends and a furtive darkness haunts him.