Enter the world of...Darkness Creeping Just imagine, for a moment, that you are trapped forever in someone else's nightmare. Or ponder being swallowed by something so horrible your mind can't even fathom it. If that's not scary enough, picture yourself receiving a hollow-eyed skull in the mail. Is it a twist of fate, or was it sent on purpose? Are you ready to risk getting lost in stories so scary you might have to read them twice to remind yourself they're not real? Then step into DARKNESS CREEPING: TALES TO TROUBLE YOUR SLEEP and find out just how fearless you really are. Each spine-tingling story is sure to send your imagination reeling through the world of the unreal, to a place where darkness creeps and suspense rules. And once you're there, trapped inside the terror, you'll think of nothing else but finding a way out! Contents: • Neal Shusterman's Darkness Creeping: Tales to Trouble Your Sleep (1993) - interior artwork by Michael Coy • Monkeys Tonight (1993) • Black Box (1993) • Flushie (1993) • Screaming at the Wall (1993) • Alexander's Skull (1993) • Same Time Next Year (1993) • Not It (1993) • Car Four (1993) • Resting Deep (1993) • Shadows of Doubt (1993)

Imagine being trapped forever in someone else’s nightmare, with no means of escape. Or caught on one of the most terrifying roller coasters of all time, when suddenly the tracks ahead just disappear. Enter the world of Darkness Creeping, where hollow-eyed skulls arrive in the mail and nothing is as it seems. Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner and beloved author Neal Shusterman walks on the dark side with this classic collection of masterfully creepy stories so horrifying, you may have to read them twice to remind yourself they’re not real. Contents: • Foreword (Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales) (2007) - essay by Neal Shusterman • Catching Cold (2007) • Who Do We Appreciate? (2007) • Soul Survivor (1995) • Black Box (1993) • Resting Deep (1993) • Security Blanket (1995) • Same Time Next Year (1993) • The River Tour (2007) • Flushie (1993) • Monkeys Tonight (1993) • Screaming at the Wall (1993) • Growing Pains (1995) • Alexander's Skull (1993) • Connecting Flight (1995) • Ralphy Sherman's Root Canal (2007) • An Ear for Music (1995) • Riding the Raptor (1995) • Trash Day (1995) • Crystalloid (1995) • Shadows of Doubt (1993)