After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

When Freddy falls out of a tree and breaks his arm, he finds inspiration for his oral report on nocturnal animals.

After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.

When a group of friends gather to play baseball in the backyard, they go to the attic to get the bats and find they are black, furry, and alive.

Fat Bat and Swoop the owl play a trick on Emily the cow but end up getting some of their own medicine.

It's dawn and time for bats to go to bed, but Fang's brother Fink can't sleep. Soon the whole family tries different bedtime stories to lull Fink to sleep.

Wings of Death They'd flown north from Central and South America, appearing one day in the southern wetlands of the U.S. like ominous ink stains in the twilight sky. With each sunset, more appeared, first hundreds then thousands. Massing into a great black cloud of terror, the vampire bats were beating their wings in time with the panicked heartbeats in the towns below. No one knew how to stop them as they fell onto their prey like dark, deadly...

On Gracie Gillypot's birthday, greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, and unless Gracie can find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg, the Five Kingdoms may succumb to evil magic and Total Oblivion.

The night has teeth.... A boy on his way home from a little league game, viciously attacked, some of his flesh devoured.... A band of street people found dead in a subway tunnel, their skin riddle with sharp, bloody gashes.... A young woman attacked and killed inside an apartment elevator.... Something is loose on the streets of Manhattan, nesting in the subways, living in the building walls. Creatures with a vicious and insatiable taste for...