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Graveyard School is a series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by Tom B. Stone (pseudonym of author Nola Thacker). The series contained twenty-eight books which were published by Bantam Books from 1994 to 1998.
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Graveyard School is a series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by Tom B. Stone (pseudonym of author Nola Thacker). The series contained twenty-eight books which were published by Bantam Books from 1994 to 1998.
The series takes place in the fictional town of Grove Hill, although sometimes the books take place at a secluded summer camp or, in one book, on an island. The main characters are usually preteen boys and girls who experience supernatural phenomenon which are often mentioned in other books but are never fully referenced. The characters have a hard time explaining it to the adults and teenagers around them who never take them seriously, save for a few. Some of the main characters of one book are usually seen in other ones although they are merely background characters most of the time.
Grove Hill Elementary School gained the nickname Graveyard School due to Graveyard Hill, the abandoned graveyard right next door to it. The school is run by Dr. Morthouse, who has gained infamy from the students due to her cold, cruel, and frightening personality, along with the possibility that she has a silver fang in her mouth which they often catch a glimpse of. She is aware of the events that happen in her school and is, apparently, part of it. The vice-principal, Mr. Hannibal Lucre, is overly sweet to the students, and is known for the damp, squishy noise his sweaty hands make when he rubs them together. Amongst the most feared of the faculty is the janitor, Mr. Bartholomew, nicknamed Basement Bart, because he spends practically all his time in the school basement which spreads for miles, and can always be seen dressed in army attire. Even though no one actually sees him in the halls, he pops up from time to time whenever someone causes a mess or is about to get into a fight.
Another section of Grove Hill is Slime Lake, a lake out near the woods known for the green color of the water caused by the mysterious slime that can be found in it. Living inside the Lake is a monster nicknamed Emmie, whose existence is known only by a few people in order to protect her.
The kinds of threats the kids usually deal with are ghosts, vampires, and mummies, along with one-of-a-kind creatures such as a demonic Easter bunny, a haunted school bus, resurrected dinosaurs, wish-granting spiders, a skateboarding Skeleton, and other such monsters.
Each book usually contains puns and references to other books, and each contain an activity at the end such as crosswords, ad-libs, and science experiments.
This series is similar in style and tone to the very popular Goosebumps series. Other children's horror series from the 1990s include Are You Afraid of the Dark? , Bone Chillers , Deadtime Stories , Shivers , Spinetinglers , Spooksville and Shadow Zone .
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