Is the Clay family jinxed? That's the word going around the town of Dimvale. Ever since Morton, James, and their older sister, Melissa, moved with their dad into the old house formerly owned by comic-book artist John King, creator of Morton's favorite comic, the magnificently creepy Scare Scape, magic and monsters have come to life around them. After the deluge of horrors in Fisher's series opener, Scare Scape (2013), James and Melissa are comically shell-shocked and at first turn a blind eye to the odd two-headed rat or levitating middle-schooler. But soon kids at Morton's school get their hands on powerful magic devices, and it becomes evident that if the town is not to be deluged with slavering weirdness, they will need to take action . . . and they'll need help. With fast-paced adventure and gross-out humor aplenty, this is great light horror for middle-grade readers who are ready to advance to something bulkier than Goosebumps. A Scare Scape comic closes the volume.