Richard Parker

"When an online prank goes viral and triggers a spate of gruesome murders, documentary maker Hazel Salter watches in horror. But then Hazel's childhood friend, Meredith Hickman, is the next victim and Hazel knows she has to find out what happened to her. Is it one killer or more? Random acts of violence, or part of a bigger, twisted plan? The police have no leads, but Hazel has a theory--one she'll stop at nothing to prove--and she also has a film crew. She'll make a documentary, catch the killer, and give Meredith justice. Her stage is the abandoned amusement park where Meredith was found. Her cast are the family and friends the killer left behind. And her crew? They keep disappearing, one by one ..."--Page cover.

Paul, an orphan, and Etta, an only child, have problems getting along when Etta's parents decide to adopt Paul.

"Scooter, Maryellen's pudgy pet dachshund, may be lazy, but he's one of the family, and Maryellen loves him dearly. And he never misses a meal! So when Scooter doesn't show up at dinnertime, she's worried. Maryellen launches a search and discovers some strange goings-on in her neighborhood. With the help of her friends and family, the search for Scooter takes Maryellen from the streets of Daytona Beach to the rocket launchpad at Cape Canaveral!"--Publisher.

Through unforeseen circumstances terrorist guerrillas kidnap three children instead of one. Then begins the wait to see if government officials will meet the terrorists demands.

A boy tries to keep his pet mouse in his pocket, in a box, at school, in the park, and in an old building, but experience teaches him that a mouse can find his own house.

When Mike begins to share his interest in railroads with his autistic little brother, Orry begins to come out of his shell and a deep bond is formed between them.

A twelve-year-old boy goes to a new foster home where he is confronted with a bossy girl his age, a surly older boy who is a rock and roll player, a sick father, and a mother with a quick temper.

Charles has a hard time keeping a job until he finds one which allows him to use his artistic vision.

Seventeen-year-old Steve and Mary gradually realize their strange sensations are glimpses of another world in the same time and space--a world they must choose to enter or lose forever.

Life becomes unpredictable and dangerous when Caroline discovers that the wand she bought for her brother's conjurer's set really does work magic.

Asimov's Ghosts Ghosts - essay by Isaac Asimov Lost Hearts - short story by M. R. James On the Brighton Road - short story by Richard Middleton Poor Little Saturday - short story by Madeleine L'Engle The Lake - short story by Ray Bradbury A Pair of Hands - short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch] An Uncommon Sort of Spectre - short story by Edward Page Mitchell The House of the Nightmare - short story by Edward Lucas White The Shadowy Third - novelette by Ellen Glasgow The Twilight Road - short story by H. F. Brinsmead The Voices of El Dorado - short story by Howard Goldsmith The Changing of the Guard - short story by Anne Serling and Rod Serling (variant of Changing of the Guard 1985) [as by Anne Serling] Asimov's Monsters The Power of Evil - essay by Isaac Asimov Homecoming - short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming 1946) Good-by, Miss Patterson - short story by Phyllis MacLennan The Wheelbarrow Boy - short story by Richard Parker The Cabbage Patch - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell The Thing Waiting Outside - short story by Barbara Williamson Red As Blood - short story by Tanith Lee Gabriel-Ernest - short story by Saki Fritzchen - short story by Charles Beaumont The Young One - novelette by Jerome Bixby Optical Illusion - short story by Mack Reynolds Idiot's Crusade - short story by Clifford D. Simak One for the Road - short story by Stephen King Angelica - short story by Jane Yolen

At one stroke a car crash robs Jennifer Barbury (Mirabel Rainwood's grand-daughter) of two close friends and puts an end to her own promising musical career. To escape from the constant solicitude of the Rainwood family circle she accepts an invitation to stay with her cousin Christine in the Border country. There the sympathy is less obtrusive and there, too, Jennifer meets Joel and his vivacious four year old niece, and despite Christine's disapproval of Joel, she finds despair gradually yielding to hope again under the influence of his dominant personality and the child's unquenchable zest for life.

Brian goes for a ride on a mysterious steam train that takes him back into his childhood.