Ghosts are everywhere. Shep mooney knows this is true. That's because he has a ghost of his own. She lives in his basement and always shows up there to scare him When he goes down there. But shep is about to have bigger problems. When the world's most evil ventriloquist dummy shows up, the real fun starts — well, fun for Slappy. Home isn't safe, and now school isn't either! Will shep be able to survive the most powerful version of Slappy yet?.

Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is often called the "Stephen King of children's literature", is the author of dozens of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Some of his lesser-known works include a Space Cadets trilogy, two Hark gamebooks, a two-part novel The Beast and dozens of joke books.