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Shadow Zone
Shadow Zone
Series ·
12
books · 1993-2011
By
J.R. Black
Books in series
#1
The Ghost of Chicken Liver Hill
1993
Determined to prove that he is not a sissy by sledding down the steepest, most dangerous hill in town, Toby is rescued from his folly by the ghost of a teenager killed on that same hill thirty years earlier. Original.
#2
Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf?
1993
Annie has always had a crush on her older sister Sara's boyfriend, Jake Wolfe . . . until she witnesses Jake's transformation, under the full moon, into a werewolf! Annie's sure Sara is going to be his next victim—and breaking them up has now become a matter of life and death!
#3
The Witches Next Door
2011
Jennifer knows there's something strange about the little old ladies next door. The weird smells coming from their house. . . the eerie, multi-colored smoke. . . the cauldron in the shed. . . What evil schemes are they cooking up? If Jennifer doesn't find out fast, it's into the bubbling brew for her!
#4
Revenge of the Computer Phantoms
1993
Mike Willis' life is transformed into a nightmare when a computer game comes to life, releasing Thor, a powerful action hero who likes life outside the computer, and a host of evil computer phantoms into the real world.
#5
The Undead Express
1994
When city kid Zach gets lost in a subway station that's under construction, he ends up on a very strange looking train—filled with riders who look and act even weirder than usual. Soon he finds out why—his fellow passengers are bloodthirsty vampires. Next stop, Transylvania: Zach has just bought himself a one way ride on The Undead Express!
#6
Good Night, Mummy!
1994
Blaise Malone thinks her new hometown is totally Dullsville, U.S.A. But that's before a rotting mummy lands in her living room. The mummy needs to find his long-lost coffin and missing book of charms to protect himself from the dreaded Eater of the Dead. Should Blaise prepare to meet her tomb?
#7
One Slimy Summer
1994
A tentacled sea monster rises from the deep to terrorize the beach town of Pleasantville, FL. Max and his sister, Diana, discover that the monster has been somehow pulled into their world as a result of a nearby drill testing. Can they get the creature back into its own world before it has destroyed theirs?
#9
Alien Under My Bed
1994
Hayley is miserable. Her dad has just remarried and now she's stuck with a strange new stepfamily and a strange new house. Things go from bad to worse when she finds a space alien has chosen her new bedroom as his home away from home.
#10
Scream Around the Campfire
1994
When they spot an enormous hairy beast in the woods, summer camp at Camp Slumbering Pines goes from dull to deadly for Gina and Frank Giardelli, and the campers have the biggest fright of their lives. Original.
#11
My Teacher Ate My Homework
1995
Frustrated fifth grader Jesse fashions a voodoo doll of his boring, overbearing teacher as a joke, but when the doll comes alive to seek revenge, he finds there are worse things than too much homework.
Author
J.R. Black
Author · 12 books
#12
Skeleton in My Closet
1995
Riley and Matt find their routine lives turned upside down by the discovery of a human skeleton behind the wall of their house, bones that somehow they just cannot get rid of, no matter what they do. Original.
#13
Attack of the Mutant Bugs
1995
While exploring a ruined mine, Katie Callahan and her cousin Miles uncover a group of miners who were left to die in a cave-in many years before but lived to mutate into giant insects and now want revenge on the people who abandoned them