Nicholas writes:

Hi. I’m trying to find a kids to pre-teen scary book series and having alot of difficulty.. It was a small box set with three or four books, each with three stories. I can’t remember exactly what they were called.. Spine Chillers or something like that I think. One story was about hedge animals that come to life.. Another was about a cursed newspaper route a kid gets from his brother.. Another was about a kid who wakes up to nobody knowing who he is except a mysterious Asian woman.. Any ideas? It was around the Goosebumps days. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

This seems like it should be an easy question to answer, but actually, it’s not. Publishers went bananas with the advent of Goosebumps. They all wanted to jump on that bandwagon! And all of those series lasted for more than three or four books. The series Nicholas remembers could be  Betsy Haynes’ Bone Chillers, M.T. Coffin’s Spinetinglers, or Fred E. Katz’s Spine Chillers. The only problem is that these series told only one story per book. The Midnight Library books by Damien Graves has three stories per volume, but the plots he describes don’t match up to the stories in the books. I shared the information I had with Nicholas, but I’d really like to know if this is a series, what series it is, and I’m sure Nicholas would love to know as well. If any of this sound familiar to you, post a comment, or email me at monsterlibrarian@monsterlibrarian.com