When the Ghost Dog Howls

Goosebumps HorrorLand #13

by R.L. Stine

Take a little Horror home with you!

In HorrorLand's eerie gift shop Andy finds a hound's-tooth necklace. The big tooth is yellow, has two sharp points, and, according to the shopkeeper, is said to grant wishes. But Jonathan Chiller knows something else about the tooth. It's said to be haunted by the ghost of a huge hound. A ghost that's got a mouthful of sharp teeth--but wants this one back.

Genres: Horror, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Novels, Thriller

137 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Ethan · Rating 1 out of 5]

When the Ghost Dog Howls follows protagonist Andy Meadows and his cousin Marnie Myers as Andy acquires a tooth from a Scottish dog known as a Blue Kerlew Hound in a HorrorLand gift shop. The shopkeeper tells Andy and Marnie the legend of this particular tooth, which involves a village long in the past, and a sorcerer, and the revenge the hound takes on the sorcerer for taking its tooth. The tooth is supposedly able to grant its owner wishes. So, in typical Goosebumps logic, having just been told that the last person to possess this tooth was brutally murdered, young Andy of course wants it for himself.

The story goes in the direction you might expect. Andy and his cousin Marnie, who is annoying as hell and completely insufferable (she is one of the worst Goosebumps characters of all time, I swear to God), start making wishes with the tooth, and Andy starts to hear a dog howling at night outside his room. Gee, I wonder which dog that could be?

This was an unbelievably stupid book, and is one of the worst Goosebumps books I've ever read, in any series. Marnie is indescribably terrible. She becomes obsessed with the tooth and wants to show it off to her friends and make wishes with it, because she is the most petty, vain character possibly in all of Goosebumps. I was hoping Stine would have the ghost dog eat her or something, but like many other things this book disappointed me in this respect. The plot is ridiculous here, and very repetitive; it's one that gets old and stale very quickly, and in the worst possible way. The characters are either flaccid or downright awful people, and the ghost dog isn't nearly as menacing as it should be.

Boo-urns. This one was a real stinker.

CAWPILE rating:

Characters: 2.0
Atmosphere / Setting: 2.0
Writing Style: 2.0
Plot: 1.5
Intrigue: 2.0
Logic / Relationships: 2.0
Enjoyment: 2.0

= 13.5 total
÷ 7 categories = 1.92 out of 10
= 1 star

[Mahbuba Sinthia · Rating 2 out of 5]

The kind of trash book people buy when they don’t read books. And l had the luck to find it in the people's 'bookshelf' mentioned above. 😑

[Briar's Reviews · Rating 2 out of 5]

I will read every Goosebumps book. That's my life goal. It's a fun one, honestly.

When The Ghost Dog Howls is... not my favourite Goosebumps book. The opening was very disconnected from the story, it felt like it was added in last minute because they didn't have an action scene. Marnie? The worst character I've ever had to deal with in a Goosebumps book. My gosh, was she annoying. The ending? Well, now I have a cliffhanger and need the sequel.

Regardless, it's a fun book to read. A middle grader wouldn't care in the slightest about the issues above (except maybe annoying Marnie...). It's silly and fits in with the Goosebumps theme of being scary middle grade books. But, I can't say it's the best Goosebumps book out there. It's a skippable one, honestly.

Two out of five stars.

[Austin Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book opens up with a crazy scene where our main characters wind up in a circus act in the infamous theme park, HorrorLand - included in the circus act is clowns juggling shrunken heads, and zombies described with their guts hanging out as they pursue our characters. Yeah. Pretty insane stuff.
Unfortunately, this only goes on for the first couple of chapters and isn't related to the main story.

Our main character and his friend end up obtaining a special dog tooth at a shop in HorrorLand that will grant them their every wish, but it comes with a caveat: There's an old Scottish folk legend tied to the dog tooth; that the tooth once belonged to a dog, and now the ghost of that dog is searching for his lost tooth, and every time a wish is made with it, it acts as a summon and brings the ghost dog closer to our main characters to enact his revenge and retrieve what is his.
What ensues is the kids taking advantage of the magical tooth, disregarding the legend, until they find out (too late) that there may be some truth to it after all.

POSITIVES:
I liked the opening sequence in HorrorLand, for how crazy and gory that it was, even though it was short and inconsequential to the story as a whole.
I liked the legend and lore of the dog tooth/ghost dog - there's certainly a germ of a good idea here.

NEGATIVES:
The main character and his friend are both obnoxious and idiotic. Majority of the story is them fighting over the dog tooth and making a bunch of nonsensical wishes.
There's a pointless dream sequence that goes on for like three chapters.
There's a huge fakeout/"it was all a prank" moment near the climax - just more wasted page space.
The actual ghost dog doesn't come into the story until 110 pages in - this book is about 130 pages long, mind you. The entire middle of this book just feels random and senseless.
There's not enough scares or tension throughout. There's a couple of moments where our main character thinks he hears a dog howling in the distance, but that's literally it.

Overall, the negatives kind of outweigh my positives for this one, and this book feels more like a Be Careful What You Wish For ripoff, with maybe some elements of The Barking Ghost thrown in there. It's not terrible, there's some good stuff in here, but it mostly feels like wasted potential and is one of the weaker HorrorLand entries.
It gets a flat 2/5 from me.

[Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

R.L Stine's "HorrorLand" is a bone chilling story that had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. From the first word to the last which left me wanting more. Have you ever been scared by a frightening dog's howl? Or a scary story that isn't real? Well maybe that howl or that story isn't fake. Reading this story will make you say that too. I recommend this book to anybody who like bone chilling, horror stories. Or to anybody who likes R.L Stine and his gory horror stories.

[Weathervane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked the plot conceit -- foreign legend added flavor not often present in Goosebumps. Story felt a pastiche of Be Careful What You Wish For with a dash of Don't Go to Sleep! Characters were a bit more distinctive than usual, and the Jonathan Chiller subplot is more intriguing, maybe, than the original Horrorland series arc, which seems to bring together far too many nondescript characters, and without an initial headliner villain to lead it. Stine's style evolution (or devolution) is especially evident here. I suspect his editors in the '90s put the kibosh on all-caps exclamations, and for good reason. They're tacky, cheap, and appear here far too often. It also seems to me that he resorts more in these new novels to exaggerated, comic book-like names, like "Chiller" and "Doom." But I'm guessing this is largely my nostalgia obfuscating the true past, even if his recent reversion to comedic books might explain some of the stylistic incongruities.

Solid.

[clumsyplankton · Rating 2 out of 5]

My sister really hated this one and honestly reading it to her had me so bored there was nothing good about it and she hated it just as much as I did as a kid

[Bronwyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Galen finish on March 16, 2024.

“Wish for something, want a Blue Kerlew Hound tooth? Because everything comes true with it but it can cause trouble sometimes. I like it but the ghost dog is only at the end of the book.”

[Gavin Hetherington]

I read all 25 Goosebumps HorrorLand and Hall of Horrors books in one movie-length vlog on YouTube, check it out: https://youtu.be/DsKCfCAAt7g

[House of Goosebumps · Rating 4 out of 5]

8/10

I was not expecting to enjoy this book as much as I did. This was such a fun read. I highly recommend this one

[April Baird · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is probably one of my favorite books from the goosebumps series. This story is about two cousins Marnie and Andy, they are at a theme park called Horrorland, after a show they go to Chillers house (shop) and Andy finds a canine tooth, he wants to get it, Chiller tells them the story of the tooth, he said it can grant wishes but they had to be careful not to use it when its wet or they will be ripped to pieces. When Marnie and Andy came home they started to wish for extra food and it was granted straight away. However Marnie goes out of control and starts wishing like crazy, Andy is worried because at night he would hear howls outside his window. Andy and Marnie goes to a mall and she starts to wish but Andy is against it and the tooth falls in a puddle of water, he wished but got electrocutes instead. When Andy woke up Marine takes advantage of Andy's memory loss and claimed the tooth was her's. He still heard howls and searched about the tooth on google, it told him that each wish would send a signal to the dog, so it would follow them to the tooth. Worried by this Andy goes to find Marnie but instead makes her wish for more Andy realizes that the tooth was his and at night Andy tricked Marnie to come to his house, so she would admit the tooth was his. In the basement they encounter the ghost hound, Marnie confesses, and they give back the tooth to the dog.

I think the story was telling us to be careful what you wish for and It shows that humans can be possessed when encountering these powers, like the character Marnie she was wishing like crazy and was controlled by the power to wish for more, which led to taking the tooth forcefully from Andy.

Overall, I truly love this book, R.L. Stine can really create the mood for the reader and puts them in a totally different world experiencing what the characters would have felt.

10/10

[τλιϓλ · Rating 4 out of 5]

ومع تشيلر ومحله العجيب الغريب وأبطال - كما هي العادة حتى الآن - في سن المراهقة وإني لأتسائل دائما عن السبب.. قصة أخرى جيدة دفعتني للتوغل أكثر في عالم الأساطير الإسكتلندية الذي أعرف منه القليل فحسب

[A.R. Zihan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story was boring at first. The ending was satisfying to me, though.

[María · Rating 2 out of 5]

N0-rating out of 5 stars
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This book is mediocre, it has nothing on the original goosebumps classic series. The writing is heavily pre-teenish and the writing is mediocre. this read was just something to pass the time with.

[Santiago Gutierrez · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book “Goosebumps: When the Ghost Dog Howls” by R.L. Stine is about 12-year old Andy and his cousin, Marnie. When they get to visit Horror land they found themselves in a souvenir shop and saw something that held an adventure, the tooth of the ghost hound. Problems occur after they found out the tooth’s true power. The power to grant wishes. This is a very good book packed with exciting parts. I recommend this book to people who like fantasy adventurous stories.

[Sharuk Akter · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book “Goosebumps Horrorland: When the Ghost dog howls” by R.L Stine, is about a boy named Andy who went into a cursed gift shop and was pressured by his annoying cousin, Marnie, into buying a cursed tooth. But here’s the catch it grants wishes. The tooth itself came from a wolf that terrorized a village, long story short they stole one of the tooths from that wolf. If they were to get the tooth wet, the wolf would find them. And of course his annoying cousin dropped it in orange soda and they had to battle with the wolf trying to get its tooth back. I think my favorite characters were Andy’s parents, because they were so oblivious about Andy and didn’t really care what he did, so I feel like that would be me as a parent.
My opinion on this book is pretty in between. The plot itself kept me interested, but the ending was vague and unoriginal. Leaving the book on a cliff hanger was also disappointing since the series of the book are all different stories, so you wouldn’t really knows what happens to Andy. I did enjoy the part where they made their first wishes, I understood that pure ecstasy of excitement they went through, like wishing for that Escalade and going to the burger shop. Also when he got struck by lightning, I enjoy other people’s misery.
I would recommend this book definitely to someone under the age of 12, because someone my age would be just as mad as me when the get to the end of the book. So mostly children would just enjoy the ride and not the ending. Also the suspense and the attempt of “gore” would certainly keep the children on their toes while reading.

[lina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this years ago to a little niece of mine who was 6 at the time and wanted something scary. So I thought Goosebumps was a good idea for a starter horror. I grew up with Goosebumps and wanted to share a love for reading with her. i read this in 2017 and she actually liked it. So i got more and read to her.

[Ashley Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this super quick, it was a neat story but the ending was a little lacklustre to say the least.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

"When the Ghost Dog Howls" is the second Goosebumps book I've read concerning wishes. The first, Be Careful What You Wish For, was not my favorite book from the original series. In fact, I ranked it 51st, so pretty low. I was worried that When the Ghost Dog Howls would suffer the same fate. Luckily, this one is much better.

The main issue I had with Be Careful What You Wish For is that I really did not like the main character, Samantha. Here, Andy isn't great. He buys a tooth that grants wishes. Of course he is skeptical at first, but the wishes really do come true. And unlike Be Careful What You Wish For, these wishes actually work out well. Even knowing this, Andy is hesitant to use it. This simply isn't how a sixth grader would act and I find it a bit annoying. But he's much better than Samantha.

The character I really like is his cousin Marnie. She is quite diabolical and manipulating. I always like when the main characters have a bit of edge to them. R.L. Stine did this a bit in Help! We Have Strange Powers but here it is done much better. After Andy gets shocked by the tooth (that's what happens if you make a wish while the tooth is wet), Marnie steals the tooth from an unconscious Andy. She then lies to him and says it was actually her tooth and any memory of him actually buying it is because his brain is fried. She then uses the tooth as a sixth grader would; new clothes, an expensive purse, to pass a test, and to win a contest.

Like other books in the HorrorLand series, we get an extended backstory and history for the villain. But here, we actually get the backstory from the HorrorLand park itself. Rather than facing the villain at home and then getting invited to HorrorLand with the rest of the characters like the first half of this series, Andy and Marnie bought the tooth at HorrorLand and then took it home with them. I'm very interested how the second half of this series will play out, learn more about HorrorLand (my favorite Goosebumps setting), and whether the books will be connected.

1. Revenge of the Living Dummy
2. Escape from HorrorLand
3. Who’s Your Mummy
4. When the Ghost Dog Howls
5. Say Cheese and Die Screaming
6. Creep from the Deep
7. Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz
8. My Friends Call Me Monster
9. Help! We Have Strange Powers
10. The Streets of Panic Park
11. Monster Blood for Breakfast
12. The Scream of the Haunted Mask
13. Welcome to Camp Slither

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Andy and Marine are cousins that go to Horror Land, The pair end up in Mr. Chiller's shop of souvenir where Andy buy a Blue Kerlew Hound tooth. The only one in existence. Marine wants it but it Andy who saw it first. Andy who buys it. The tooth is said to grant wishes discovered after a sorcerer cursed the dog's teeth to fall out only to have one fall out- the tooth Andy know owns.

The two start making wishes and find out that the tooth does work. From the more realistic as to getting to go out to dinner to the more unrealistic as school gets canceled for the day due to a cow being lt lose in the school. Marine wants to keep using it but Andy is wary of using the tooth. Then the tooth gets wet in the Mall as the two are getting shoes from Shoe Universe. Andy gets a shock from the tooth and that's when Marine takes the tooth and claimed it as her own. Telling Andy that it always has been hers all along.

From there, Marine goes wish crazy and Andy, after doing some research, finds out that the hound that once had that tooth gets closer with every wish that is granted. Trying to get Marine to confess to stealing the tooth, Andy plans for the hound to some but it really just his neighbor's new dog dressed up as the blue hound. But the real dog turns up instead.

At first, Andy wishes that he and Marine to be invisible but because of that, they can't touch anything. SO with a quick wish to revert back to normal they see that the dog is still there baring his teeth. Eventually, the dog gets it tooth back- or so it seems. With the dog gone, Marine boast that she still has the tooth and is willing to share it with Andy

The epilogue is when Andy is back in his room noticing that his little Horror- the free item he got from the shopkeeper but was told he was going to pay back later- is glowing. Soon enough in the pull of the little Horror has pulled him back to the shop where Mr. Chiller can now have his fun.

The big twist in the middle really threw me for a loop. The fact that Andy wanted to be a little bit standoffish about the tooth is something different that I didn't expect from a 12-year-old especially after the fact of knowing that the tooth works with the only caution of not getting it wet. But to say overall I liked the pacing and content in this 132-page read.

[Lucinda Ahmed · Rating 4 out of 5]

اشعر بالغضب كثيراً إتجاه (مارني) علي الرغم من أنها ابنة عمي و صديقتي أيضاً إلا أنها تصابني بالأستياء و بالرغم أيضاً من ذلك فهي تملك ضخكة مميزة

اندي و مارني في رحلة مميزة اليوم و تجربة شيقه فبخلاف أنهم انتصبوا و هم يسمعون الرجل مالك المتجر و هو يقص عليهم قصة ذلك الناب الذي كان يعود إلي أحد كلاب الصيد الاسكتلندية و قال أيضا أن أحدي المشعوذين ألقي علي ذلك الكلب بتعويذة فقد بها كل انيابة اعتقاداً أن هذا سيجعله يفقد قواه و قال الرجل شيئاً أيضاً عن أن صدي صراخ المشعوذ امتد داخل القرية بعد مدة و مثل كلب ما بجثته و لم يتبقي من تلك القصة إلا جثة المشعوذ و اثار اقدام الكلب جانبه و و ذلك الناب الوحيد الذي لم يختفي و لكن لا أحد يعلم أن مات الكلب ام ما زال يجوب الأراضي ثائراً و لكن لا يهم كل ذلك انا فقط اريد انت اذهب لمنزلي فلدي مدرسة غذا .

عزيزي آندي و عزيزتي مارني دوماً ما اسأل ذاتي ماذا سيجري أن امتلكت عصا سحرية لتحقيق كل امنياتي فقط اقوم بهزها فتطيع كل أوامري فيمكنني فعل الكثير كلعب البلايستيشن و كرة القدم طوال الدراسة دون علم والداي و أيضاً الحصول علي اعلي الدرجات ، بربك يا عزيزي هناك الكثير يمكن أن أفعله إذا امتلكت عصا سحرية مثل التي بحوذتكوا ف آندي و مارني الأن يملكون عصا سحرية علي هئية ناب كل ما يلزم لجعل الأمر يعمل هو التمني فقط ...!

لم احب النهاية قط لكنني وقعت في غرام التفاصيل و القصه الأساسية

[Liam F. · Rating 4 out of 5]

When The Ghost Dog Howls
R.L. Stine
8/29/18
Liam Fitzpatrick

The book Blue Kerlew Hound is a horror novel in the amazing series called Goosebumps. It starts of with a boy named Andy meadows and his cousin Marnie Myers. The opening scene is the two of them traveling around a theme park, and they find hems selves in a gift shop. Something catches his eye, the a giant tooth. Little did he know it was the tooth of the Blue Kerlew Hound.

Eventually finds out it can grant him any wish he wants and he is having the time of his life. When your read a horror story there is always a plot twist that. I find the plots of this story quite interesting like all the other goosebumps stories. My review here is not give away the books but to talk about it. See Andy’s life is like no other but it all changes when the Blue Kerlew tooth comes into play. What I find the most interesting is the side effects when using the tooth, like for instance if he uses the tooth while it is wet it changes the wish and andy finds that out the hard way. I haven’t read this book since last year so sorry if it doesn't quite fit the theme.

[Lizzy · Rating 4 out of 5]

"it has powers you may not want to unleash"
in horrorland's eerie gift shop Andy finds a hound's-tooth necklace. The big tooth is yellow, has two shart points, and, according to the shopkeeper, is said to grant wishes.
But Jonathan Chiller (the shopkeeper) knows something else about the tooth it's said to be haunted by the ghost of a huge hound. A ghost that's got a mouthfull of sharp teeth- but he wants this one back.

ok that was the blurb (the writing at the back of the book telling u about the story) i just figiured out i have already read this book so im writing a review moral of the story DONT TAKE STUFF FROM WEIRD SHOPKEEPERS!!!!!!!!! yeah i think u should follow that advice so really good book it has 33 chapters and 131 pages in it very small print and absolutely no pictures in it thats the type of books i like though so YAY am i babbling yes i am so i better stop writing by the way next book is little shop of hampsters #14 in the horrorland series share this review and make the world a better place see u later lizzy book fans!!! (best i could come up with!)
♡ Lizzy

[Georgiana-Laura Gheorghe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review for “When the Ghost Dog Howls” by R. L. Stine:

It’s the thirteenth book from the “Goosebumps HorrorLand” series written by the bestseller author and master of horror and comedy, R. L. Stine. The story follows Andy Meadows and his cousin, Marnie who purchase an ancient tooth necklace from the Chiller House. The owner tells them that it grants wishes and warns them to not get it wet. But the children will soon discover that there is a legend behind the tooth and also great dangers.
Mr. Stine brings Scottish and British legends and myths to life through the villain from this book. Suspense, courage, laughter and many other things are present in every page one reads and the story will make the readers have a frightful and comical experience which will put their imagination to work.
Through his style, Mr. Stine can be named the Stephen King for children’s literature. Not only that his novels are digestible, but they give the readers the opportunity to choose the ending for the character(s).
I recommend this book to readers 12+.

[Yolanda Sfetsos · Rating 2 out of 5]

Late last week, I set myself a small reading challenge: read the 10 Goosebumps HorrorLand books we found in one of our local thrift stores earlier this year.

Well, this is the last one. And I have to say it's one of my least favourite. Not because this is the start of the new HorrorLand arc, but because I just didn't like these kids. Especially Andy's cousin, Marnie. She was annoying as hell. Pretty much from the moment she appears trying to steal his popcorn. Ugh.

Anyway, the kids meet Jonathan Chiller, the shopkeeper who 'sells' a yellowed hound's tooth to Andy. It's supposed to belong to the Blue Kerlew Hound and can grant wishes.

As you can probably guess, many wishes are made and a lot of things go wrong for Andy. But nothing is shittier than what Marnie puts him through. I seriously couldn't stand that cousin of his. And because of her, I couldn't enjoy this story. 😐

[Wendell D'Costa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Andy,who along with his cousin Marnie,is having a visit to the scariest place on earth,Horrorland .While at Horrorland Andy and Marnie come across a spooky looking gift shop named 'Chiller House'.Once they enter,they are greeted by a strange looking man,who looks astonishingly similar to Benjamin Franklin.He introduces himself as Jonathan Chiller owner of the chiller house.Andy then finds a tooth which is attached to a chord.Jonathan chiller says that the tooth once belonged to a blue kerlew hound.He says that the tooth can grant wishes.Andy decides to buy the tooth,but Chiller warns him that he must never get the tooth wet.Andy agrees not knowing about the serious danger that he has put himself in,not knowing that the ghost of the blue kerlew hound is out there searching for its missing tooth,and it would do anything to get it back!

I had always wanted to read this book,and one day I finally did.It was amazing,a really good story which is gripping as well as intriguing.The story is really well layered.The wishes that the tooth grants and how Andy gets head to head with the ghost of the blue kerlew hound was really interesting.It is by far my favorite book from the Horrorland series and the chiller house arc.This book is surely a must read.

[Youssef · Rating 5 out of 5]

[ظهر الكتاب]:
يكمن في هذا الناب قُوى قد لا ترغب في تحريرها «يعثر آندي في متجر الهدايا والتذكارات المخيف «بأرض الأهوال» على عُقد به ناب أصفر اللون، وله رأسان حادان. إنه ناب أحد كلاب الصيد الشرسة وهو يحقق الأمنيات كما يقول بائع المتجر جوناثان تشيلر، إلا أنه يعرف شيئاً آخر عن هذا الناب... يقال إن شبح كلب صيد عملاق ذي فك ضخم وأنياب حادة يسكن هذا الناب ويتوق بشدة إلى استعادته.
...
[رأيي في القصة]:
قرأتها في (١٧/٢/٢٠٢٤) .. أول ٢٦ صفحة ليست سيئة، ولكن نقصانها من القصة لم يكن ليفرق أو ليؤثر فيها.
أتذكر أنه واجهتي كم صفحة خيالية نوعًا ما.
والآن أصبحت قصص (جوناثان تشيلر) لا تروق لي.
...
[رأيي في الترجمة]:
لم تواجهني مشاكل في الترجمة حينها.

[Sandra Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

It started off with being dragged on a clown stage at Horror Land. Then it turns into wild chaos from the hungry zombies. Fortunately, that was all an act. But then the weirdness came at the souvenir shop, where they find the long tooth and learn the legend of the Blue Hound. A werewolf tooth that grants wishes? To wish for anything and make all the wishes you want? Cool! Sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Just one rule: Don’t get it wet.

Naturally, the two kids go on a wild wish extravaganza. Man, was it wild! But it all stops being fun when the ghost dog starts howling.

A good read!

[Tarissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one certainly held my interest. Not too scary, but the story had just enough of a ghostly chill in it to be... thrilling.

When these two cousins get a hold of a wishing tooth, they can instantly receive anything that they could possibly think of wishing for! But will they take it too far? Will the Scottish ghost wolfhound track the cousins down? He will -- if they don't stop their wishing spree!

[H.A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don’t understand why the secondary characters in these books have to be so insufferable. Marnie stole from her cousin while he was knocked out and then made him think he was going crazy. How horrible do you have to be to do that? On a more positive note, I prefer the way these books are set up to how the previous Horrorland books were.