Deadtime Stories

The Deadtime Stories by "Twisted Sisters" Annette and Gina Cascone-they'll scare you silly. Katie and Andy Lawrence thought moving to a new town-especially one named Appleton-was awful enough. They were wrong. When their parents take them to Appleton's famous apple orchard for a haunted hayride, weird things start happening. The ghouls who haunt the orchard seem spookily real. The kids they see are acting very strangely, like robots or...zombies. Then Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence disappear-and in their place, Katie and Andy find creepy shrunken applehead dolls! Now Katie and Andy have to find a way to turn their parents back to normal-before it's too late!

The Deadtime Stories by "Twisted Sisters" Annette and Gina Cascone-they'll scare you silly and give you giggles at the same time. Peter Newman really wants a twenty-one-speed mountain bike. That's the grand prize for his school's talent competition. And Peter's pretty sure he can win it. All he needs is a talent.... When he and his best friend Bo see an ad for the Little Magic Shop of Horrors, they rush right over. For only $9.95, Peter buys a magic kit and becomes "Peter the Great." Now he can do tricks even Houdini couldn't perform! The only problem is Peter can't undo the tricks. But that doesn't bother him too much. Until he wins the talent contest-by taking off Bo's head! Will Peter be able to save his headless best friend?

Amanda Peterson has a pet cemetery in her backyard. It's where she's buried all her family's dear departed pets, like Ralphie the hamster, Herman the goldfish, and Snitch the canary. But, when Amanda and her friends set out to bury a dead squirrel, they accidentally dig up a grave that's already occupied-and not by a pet. The scary old lady who lives next door has lots of buried secrets. And she'll do anything to keep them that way...

The Deadtime Stories by "Twisted Sisters" Annette and Gina Cascone-they'll scare you silly and give you giggles at the same time. C. T. and his cousin Lea are staying at their grandparents' old farmhouse. It's Grandpa's seventieth birthday, and everyone's celebrating with a big family reunion. All the weird relatives are here, and all they seem to want to talk about are "the good old days." C. T. and Lea think "the good old days" are pretty boring-until they find some home movies hidden away in the attic, movies from when their grandfather was just a boy. The home movies give them a piece of family history that the relatives never talked about. It seems that horses, cows, pigs, and chickens aren't the only creatures Grandpa's been taking care of on the farm. C. T. and Lea discover there's a monster among them-and this creature is dying to eat a lot more than the birthday cake! Hill & Brand Entertainment has inked a deal with Cookie Jar Entertainment to distribute (worldwide) the first season of 26 half-hour, live-action episodes based on the Deadtime Stories books. "Grave Secrets" will serve as the pilot episode(s). Cookie Jar distributes over 6,000 episodes of kid's television programming around the world and serves as a worldwide merchandising agent for the properties. Previously, they were the producers (together with Nickelodeon) and distributors of the very successful Nick show "Are You Afraid of the Dark." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Another creepy tale for beside the campfire or beneath the covers from "Twisted Sisters" Annette and Gina Cascone's Deadtime Stories-now a hit show on Nickelodeon! "Bloody Mary." It was just a silly wishing game-one that Lindsey and her friends had played a hundred times before, in front of a dozen different mirrors. The game never worked. It wasn't supposed to. But when they play "Bloody Mary" in front of a strange antique mirror, the game quickly turns into a nightmare! One by one their wishes start coming true, with horrifying results. Something evil is lurking behind the looking glass... and Lindsey learns much too late that wishes don't come free-and that "Bloody Mary" is definitely not just a game!" At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.