Spooksville

Spooksville is a series of 24 children's horror fiction books by American writer Christopher Pike.

[2] The Spooksville novellas centre around a group of friends in their bizarre home town that is host to a wide array of supernatural and unexplained occurrences.

As the series progresses the character Bryce Poole is involved more and more and eventually the five young friends become a solid group.

George Sanders and Tira Jones are also friends of the main group, but only participate in a few adventures, and are not focused on.

Mr. Patton, the owner of Spooksville's army surplus store, appears in a few stories, arming and assisting the group with weapons and explosives.