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Spooksville is a series of 24 children's horror fiction books by American writer Christopher Pike. The series is set in a remote town in the USA and revolves around the lives of five of its young inhabitants. Although intended for a younger audience than his adult and young-adult fiction, they contain some violence and may be considered unsuitable for younger children.
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. The plots of the books often revolve around inter-dimensional travel, extraterrestrial life and interstellar travel, time travel, the fictional histories of the lost continents of Mu/Lemuria and Atlantis, magic, as well as a variety of other supernatural forces and entities. The group is caught between exploring the town and escaping trouble and saving the town from the forces of darkness. 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.