Sherpia's a very cold place on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Jaclyn has no idea why her aunt decided to move there. There's also howling noises at night, scar-faced snowmen in front of every house and something on top of the mountain that seems very interested in Jaclyn.

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.