It Came from Ohio! My Life as a Writer was a young adult biography of Stine written by the author “as told to Joe Arthur”.

Christopher Pike’s The Hollow Skull involved the inhabitants of yet another small town being taken over by an alien evil, while Christopher Pike’s Tales of Terror 2 collected five stories by the author.

Nightworld: Witchlight by L. J. Smith was the ninth in the series, and Black Rot and Temper Temper were the third and fourth volumes, respectively, in the Weird World series by Anthony Masters.

Four children battled with a city’s supernatural forces in Celia Rees’ H.A.U.N.T.S.: H is for Haunting, A is for Apparition, U is for Undercover, N is for Nightmare and T is for Terror, the first five volumes in a six-book series. M. C. Sumner’s Extreme Zone series continued with Dead End, and Monsters and My One True Love by Dian Curtis Regan was the fourth and final volume in the “Monsters of the Month Club Quartet”.

Kipton & the Voodoo Curse by Charles L. Fontenay was the tenth volume in “The Kipton Chronicles” series of SF mysteries, and involved Kipton investigating a voodoo curse on Mars.

The Flesh Eater by the excellent John Gordon was a variation on “Casting the Runes”, about a mysterious club and its ghostly bogeyman. Theresa Radcliffe’s Garden of Shadows was inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Rappacini’s Daughter”, and Louise Cooper’s Creatures: Once I Caught a Fish, If You Go Down to the Woods and See How They Run were the first three volumes in a series which reinterpreted old nursery rhymes.

Another small town was menaced by evil in Darker by Andrew Matthews, a girl defied her uncle and opened The Boxes by William Sleator, and a girl ended up at a Greek clinic run by gorgons in Snake Dreamer by Priscilla Galloway.