Arnie doesn't like going to his dentist, Doctor Fossil. He likes it even less when one day he shows up to find that Doctor Fossil has been replaced by a "substitute dentist," a strange man wearing a mask who calls himself "Darktor Fondskull." F
After his grandmother receives a mysterious invitation for "High Coffee" in the Gorgantic, the world's largest building, Igz accompanies her to the skyscraper nestled in the heart of New York City. But it's clear almost immediately that somethi
In the busiest city in the world, a mysterious black skyscraper rises toward the clouds. But no one is ever invited inside, until one day, somebody is... and discovers that things are not what they seem. Especially not the spooky paintings that
After Penny's grandmother dies, she and her family move into her house for the seven-day mourning period of shiva. Penny starts to notice red rats all over her grandmother's house, chewing through the walls, smacking their tails against the gro
Igz loves going up to his roof to take care of his exotic raijuju plants. Until he sees a man cut off some of the leaves and stick them in a leather pouch. This man tells Igz of a place called “the raij garden,” where they can go to find more o
Fifth-grader Elul has a crush on Dani, a girl in her class. It's Elul's luck that Dani likes her back and the two girls get pretty good at kissing away their lunch period. Until Elul feels something weird on Dani's arm. Something hard that pier
While visiting her cousins in New York City, Penny meets a strange boy in Central Park. He calls himself the watcher and makes chalk drawings on the ground next to a statue of a man reading to a duck. But strangest of all…he claims to watch ove
Mazie Averick and her family arrive at a beachside hotel in the middle of a snowstorm. Something is...off. Slimy green things keep popping up on the rugs and a man on the radio warns that something awful will soon come from the skies.
Join Elie Lichtschein for the first episode of Middle Grade Horror, a storytelling podcast that tries to terrify the 12-year-old in each of us. Today's tale of terror: The Rat's Eyes.