5/1/2023 0 Comments Spooksville the wishing stoneThe Deadly Past: A doorway to the past opens and unleashes dinosaurs and flying reptiles upon the town.The Wicked Cat: Misfortune follows a cat the kids find.The Wishing Stone: The group learns the dangers of wishing when they find a mysterious stone with wish granting powers.The Little People (Reprinted as Pan's Realm): A herd of magical creatures invade Spooksville.The Dark Corner: Adam, Sally, and Watch visit The Secret Path again to rescue Bryce Poole and find themselves in a different alternate Spooksville.The Witch's Revenge: The kids visit Ann's castle and become trapped in it.The Cold People: Ancient cryonically frozen Atlantians attack the town.Aliens in the Sky: The kids get kidnapped by aliens.The Haunted Cave: The four kids become trapped in a cave that closes by itself and must find a way out or risk being trapped in it forever.The Howling Ghost: The trio searches for a young boy being held hostage by a ghost. ![]() The Secret Path: Newcomer Adam meets Sally and Watch and gets his first taste of how weird his new home is.In almost every novella, the group befriends some sort of person or creature who they either assist, or who assists them through the course of the story. Patton, the owner of Spooksville's army surplus store, appears in a few stories, arming and assisting the group with weapons and explosives. George Sanders and Tira Jones are also friends of the main group, but only participate in a few adventures, and are not focused on. Both Ann Templeton and Bum help the main characters, usually in the form of information, but sometimes taking a more active role in helping defend the town. Other characters appear frequently, two most notably: the town witch, Ann Templeton, of whom the main characters have differing opinions and Bum, the friendly and knowledgeable homeless ex-mayor of Spooksville. As the series progresses the character Bryce Poole is involved more and more and eventually the five young friends become a solid group. Cindy Makey appears in the second novella and remains for the rest of the series. ![]() The main characters throughout the series are five young friends: Adam Freeman, the leader Watch, the brains and Sara "Sally" Wilcox, the realist, are the only characters to appear in all 24 novels. Although the books are chronological they differ in their relevance to previous stories, there are recurring characters out with the group, as well as recurring places and themes, and the books are not intended as stand alone however, they may feasibly be read in a different order than below. The group is caught between exploring the town and escaping trouble and saving the town from the forces of darkness. The plots of the books often revolve around inter-dimensional travel, extraterrestrial life, interstellar travel, and time travel, as well as the fictional histories of the lost continents of Mu/ Lemuria and Atlantis, magic, and a variety of other supernatural forces and entities. The Spooksville novellas center around a group of friends in their bizarre home town that is host to a wide array of supernatural and unexplained occurrences.
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