The Eerie, Indiana books are based on the characters from the television show of the same name. One day my editor called me and said, "We're doing these books based on this TV show, but none of the writers we know have ever heard of it." When she told me what it was, they probably heard me scream in space. I loved the show. And that's how I got the job. There are 17 titles in the series, of which I wrote 9. The book THE DOLLHOUSE THAT TIME FORGOT was a finalist for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award in the category of Work for Young Readers. The books are currently not available, which makes me sad. I'm also sad that the TV show isn't on anymore.
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Marshall Teller and Simon Holmes are working cleaning the basement and attic at the Stewarts' house. The boys think their employers are strange -- everything about their habits and clothes seems to be 20 years in the past. Back then, Mrs. Stewart was a Foreverware representative -- she sold the creepy containers that can keep anything fresh -- forever. Any why does she look at Simon like he might be the next visitor to her Foreverware room -- permanently? Look for copies here |
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That's quite a handsome statue of Zebediah Eerie in front of the Eerie Town Hall. But how come there's no mention of the town's founder in history books -- or anywhere else? And what about those hundred-year-old pictures of people who still live in Eerie today ? Marshall and Simon know the truth must be out there somewhere, and they're going to find it. But the earliest appearance of Eerie they can dig up came right after a bunch of UFO sightings in the Fifties. Could the real founders of Eerie have come from the skies? And if that startling fact has been covered up, what else don't we know about the strangest place in America? Look for copies here |
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Marshall has found a great Christmas gift for his mother: an old-fashioned snow globe containing a little village in miniature. But after Marshall shows the globe to Simon at midnight, a real blizzard starts. It doesn't take long for the boys to realize that they've become trapped inside the village, and lost in time as well. Look for copies here |
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When a super-big, super-juicy new line of vegetables is introduced to Eerie, even the kids at the junior high love to eat them. Then people start developing a strange mossy green rash, they get really thirsty, and they want to stay out in the sun all day. Now Marshall and Simon have to stop everybody in Eerie from vegging out -- for good. Look for copies here |
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In the Eerie Museum, Marshall and Simon admire a beautiful painting of a girl named Alice Prophet standing in a flower garden. But when they come back to look at it the next day, the garden is now threatened by storm clouds, and Alice seems to be scared of a sinister shadow to one side. Nobody seems to notice but the boys! They find out that the real Alice Prophet learned how to put things from the real world into her paintings -- for good. The boys suspect that may have included Alice herself, now trapped inside her own painting. Look for copies here |
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Syndi and Mrs. Teller just love the old dollhouse they found at a yard sale, but Marshall and Simon aren't impressed. Still, when they see an interesting doll in a shop window, they make it a present for Syndi. But when Syndi puts the doll into the house, weirdness ensues. And when Marshall sneaks into a real-life house that looks like the dollhouse, he realizes that he's shrinking. What's the connection between all this and the peculiar new girl in school who looks just like Syndi's doll? Marshall has to find out quick, or else move into a dollhouse himself! Look for copies here |
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They say a black cat is bad luck. They say you shouldn't go for a swim right after eating. But who are the "they" that made up all these rules? Marshall and Simon meet a lost old woman who needs their help: it's time for the annual Gathering of They, when They decide on all their sayings for the year. But somebody doesn't want They to meet. If the boys can't unravel this mystery and bring They together, nobody will know what They say about anything. Look for copies here |
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A kid wakes up in Eerie one day and finds a shrunken head in his sweater. And at the breakfast table, the kid's Loopy Letters cereal spells out a warning. Just a normal morning in the universe's strangest town, right? Except for one thing: this kid's name is Mitchell. His next-door neighbor is Stanley. And their dull, drab town is boring. But later on, when they check out a powerful satellite dish in the Cable Stop store, the TV screen fills with static and shows the faces of two other kids. Kids who say they're "Marshall and Simon" and they're from Eerie, Indiana -- in another dimension. With 2,000 channels, could one of the, be connecting the two Eeries? Look for copies here |
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You'd think all the weirdness would give Eerie a rest at least once a year: maybe on Halloween? But no. Mitchell's dad is planning a special Halloween show on radio station WERD -- a spooky story about invaders from Mars. Then Mitchell and Stanley find some cool stuff to wear at the local costume shop, and offer to help the owner organize a Halloween parade in return. Little do they know that they're about to get caught up in the weirdest adventure of all. Because some of the people in Eerie aren't really people -- and Dad's Holloween radio show might just turn out to be true. Look for copies here |