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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2009
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Mysterious Four

1 - Hauntings and Heists (May-2011)
2 - Clocks and Robbers (Aug-2011)
3 - Monsters and Mischief (Sep-2011)

Shadow House

1 - The Gathering (Sep-2016)
2 - You Can't Hide (Jan-2017)
3 - No Way Out (Sep-2017)
4 - The Missing (Aug-2018)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • What if the monsters from your favorite horror books were real? Eddie Fennicks has always been a loner, content to lose himself in a mystery novel by his favorite author, Nathaniel Olmstead. That's why moving to the small town of Gatesweed becomes...



  • Timothy July has been having nightmares. About his brother, who is in a coma after being wounded in Iraq; about his best friend, Stuart, who is behaving like a jerk; about the old biology specimens in jars lining the walls of his classroom; and about...



  • Can you crack the case with six clues or less? Welcome to Moon Hollow, where mystery lurks around every corner--and four kids have come together to solve crimes and puzzles big and small. Whether they're debunking sea monsters, thwarting bullie...



  • Can you crack the case with six clues or less? Moon Hollow's town library is a favorite spot for the Mysterious Four. But when the strange, masonic glyphs that decorate the building prove to be a secret code, they discover there's more than books ...



  • Can you crack the case with six clues or less? Welcome back to Moon Hollow, where mystery lurks around every corner--and four kids have come together to solve crimes and puzzles big and small. When a monster is sighted in the woods surrounding ...



  • Does an abandoned asylum hold the key to a frightful haunting? Everyone's heard the stories about Graylock Hall. It was meant to be a place of healing - a hospital where children and teenagers with mental disorders would be cared for and perhap...



  • Has Gabriel created a monster? Something sinister lurks in the woods outside of Slade. Gabe has seen it, or he thinks he has - a shadow standing at the tree line, watching Gabe's house with faintly glowing eyes. Despite Gabe's misgivings, hi...



  • One kid's trash is another kid's terror in this spooky supernatural mystery. When Cassidy Bean leaves New York to spend the summer upstate, she's disappointed to find that Whitechapel is not the quiet, pleasant suburb she remembers. Ursula Chamber...



  • A remote island is haunted by wedding crashers from beyond the grave. Dan Poblocki is back with a new spooky ghost story perfect for fans of Mary Downing Hahn and John Bellairs. There is an island, far off the coast of Maine, where the ghosts o...






  • Some houses are more than just haunted... they're hungry. Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don't know this at first. They each think they've been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there's nothing innocent about Shadow House. ...



  • Shadow House will find you... Poppy, Marcus, Dash, Dylan, and Azumi are all trapped within Shadow House, a sinister estate where past and present intertwine. As they fight to find a way out, the kids think the ghosts of the house are the greatest ...



  • Shadow House always wins... Poppy, Dash, Azumi, and Dylan may have made it out of Shadow House--but the grounds are a whole new nightmare. Someone they thought was a friend is hunting them, and there's no place that's safe now that they've woken t...



  • Shadow House never sleeps... Five children have been lured into Shadow House, all for different reasons. None of them knows the others. And none of them knows what to do when they can't find a way back out. But something is different inside the...



  • Shadow House never sleeps... Five children have been lured into Shadow House, all for different reasons. None of them knows the others. And none of them knows what to do when they can't find a way back out. But something is different inside the...



  • A spooky stand-alone middle-grade novel from Dan Poblocki, perfect for fans of John Bellairs and Mary Downing Hahn."They say if you see him, it's already too late."Claire doesn't believe in ghosts, even though her dad is a ghost hunter on TV. But the...



  • This spooky stand-alone from MG horror expert Dan Poblocki is perfect for fans of Katherine Arden and Victoria Schwab!Simon is a liar. Stella and Alex know this about their new step-brother, so they aren't bothered by his stories about their new hous...



  • From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Magic Misfits comes a spectacularly creepy novel that will keep you up way past bedtime. Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!"Grab a flashlight and a blanket --...



  • From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Magic Misfits comes a spectacularly creepy follow-up to Tales to Keep You Up at Night that will keep you up way past bedtime. Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!Gil...



  • Get ready for a buttload of laughs in this hilarious picture book about a pair of siblings who face a frightening question—can butts be haunted?Two siblings are going to sleep over at Gramma and Grampa’s creepy new house for the very firs...





Award-Winning Books by Dan Poblocki

The Ghost of Graylock
2014 Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award -- Children's
2014 Kentucky Bluegrass Award -- Grades 6-8


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dan Poblocki has published 19 books.

The next book by Dan Poblocki, My Brother's Butt Is Haunted, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Dan Poblocki, The Stone Child, was published in September 2009.

Yes. Dan Poblocki has 2 series.