The Nightmare Room #12: Visitors

You hold in your hand the key to a shadow world of shivers and screams.

Take a step away from the safe, comfortable world you know. Unlock the door to terror. There's always room for one more in . . . The Nightmare Room.

Every night Ben Shipley searches the sky for beings from outer space. But Ben doesn't know there's a real live alien much closer than he thinks!

Living near Roswell, the seventh-grader hooks a homemade antenna to his computer to scan the desert night. Soon eerie signals begin crackling through his bedroom headphones! When his dog Biscuit leads him into the woods, Ben discovers a giant figure eight scorched into the grass that zaps him with electric power.

Before long, bizarre warnings multiply, from a pulsing blue glow to swarms of frogs invading his room. Now chilling secrets are lurking behind locked doors at school!
Alien Invasion: Hidden cages in the middle school darkroom house bizarre, egg-shaped creatures covered in bristly brown fur that need living human hosts to survive.Unlikely Hero: Teased by classmates for his outie belly button and wild theories, seventh-grader Ben must trust his own instincts when his best friends Summer and Jeff turn cold.School Drama: When Picture Day arrives at Bitter Lake Middle School, an ordinary photo session behind the gym curtain turns into a sinister trap for unsuspecting students.Sibling Dynamics: Ben's mischievous sixth-grade brother Will never misses a chance to play cruel pranks, using walkie-talkies to broadcast fake transmissions to his brother's antenna.Also by This Author: Nightmare Hour, Scream and Scream Again! and Rotten School #1: The Big Blueberry Barf-Off!.