In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers....

Matt Daniels battles a mysterious substance called Monster Blood that makes things grow, and then visits HorrorLand amusement park, where some of his friends disappear.

Thirteen-year-old Aven was born without arms and has trouble fitting in at her new school after her parents take a job at a dying western theme park, but she makes a new friend in a fellow disabled boy who helps her solve a mystery at the park.

The Rose Room princesses get involved in the winter festival talent show and compete against the cruel twins Diamonde and Gruella in an attempt to win a trip to the Winter Wonderland theme park.

A dark and memorable account of Parker trapped in a fenced-in amusement park that has closed for the winter.

While at the fun park, the Dino detectives decide to visit the haunted house, but find it a lot more spooky than they expected.

Carly Beth tries to resist calls from an evil mask she defeated a year ago during Halloween while working at an after-school program at the Tumbledown Farms, where a stable of horses and a farm hand died tragically a century ago.

"Jillian and Jackson freak out when they suddenly can read people's thoughts. But the trick turns to terror when the twins are stalked by a strange scientist who wants to know exactly what's on their minds. Will the twins ever lead normal lives again?"--P. [4] of cover.

On the last day of second grade, Song Lee's party at the local amusement park forces Harry to face his fear of elevators when he is expected to ride the Drop of Doom.