When two fearful children are terrified of each other, their respective monsters try to help.

"In this thrilling sequel and conclusion to the City of Nightmares duology, Ness is forced to make a twisted deal with the Nightmare Phantom--only to find herself embroiled in the explosive fallout of the agreement when a botched assassination attempt unleashes chaos into the City of Newham. City of nightmares duology series."--Provided by the publisher.

Things like spiders and talking in front of the class frighten Princess Sophia, but she knows how a princess should deal with the fear.

"For as long as we've gathered by campfires to tell ghost stories, humans have always loved a good scare. Our obsession with getting scared is obvious to anyone who visits ScareHouse, a haunted house in Pittsburgh that is annually ranked among the scariest in the country, and has become a booming attraction with nearly 150 employees and lines wrapping around the block. It even has its own sociologist, who conducts surveys and observations to make...

The toothfairy has been usurped, apparently, by some diabolical creature which leaves dead slugs, or live spiders, or gross earwigs under children's pillows at night in payment for their teeth. A boy named Alfie is the only hope for getting the tooth fairy back in action and ousting this usurper, who may in fact be the mean-looking new dentist in town.

"After a con goes wrong, nineteen-year-old Ness finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare."-- Provided by publisher.

Something is wrong with twelve-year-old Zee, who has returned after a year's absence; nobody knows where he was or what happened to him, but now he is distracted and violent, freaking out when he sees his friends, Justin, Nia, and Lyric, playing an odd game of hide-and-seek, and talking wildly about some danger that is approaching--and soon his friends are pulled into a shadowy world ruled by a monstrous, shape-shifting Seeker, forced to play a terrifying...

Taught chess by the janitor at her orphanage, Beth becomes a prodigy. As a teenager she plays for the world championship, but must conquer her fear to win.

"A strange house appears on Jac's street on the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, and when she gets trapped inside she will have to confront horrors from her past to find a way out"--Provided by publisher.

Freddie must overcome his fear of tackling before the championship game against the Cardinals.