When Jennie Clarke arrived at her friend's uncle's mansion for a much-needed vacation from school and parents, getting stalked by a vicious killer was the last thing on her mind. But that's exactly where she found herself -- fighting for her life, trying to figure out if the killer is actually one of her friends, and dealing with a ghostly apparition that could unlock the mansion's deadly secrets.

The long-unpublished debut novel by M.B. Scrutchin, Nightmare Mansion was inspired by the '90s YA Horror novels of Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine. Written in 1995 when Scrutchin was a 14-year-old high-school freshman, it's the first book in the Emerald Valley Horror series of scary stories set in the teenage-wasteland suburbia of Emerald Valley, whose sunny "Anytown, USA" facade hides unspeakable horror lurking just below the surface.