Ten-year-old Malcolm and his best friend Dandy, armed with a ghost detector ordered from Beyond Belief magazine, make a late-night trip to a haunted house, despite the warnings of Malcolm's great-grandmother.

While his great-grandmother seeks her deceased husband, ten-year-old Malcolm and his best friend Dandy have no trouble finding a ghost on which to test Malcolm's latest gadget--a ghost zapper.

When forced on a camp-out with their fathers, ten-year-olds Malcolm and Dandy seek the smelly ghost of notorious outlaw Wild Willy Wallace, who is believed to haunt his old hideout at Lake Itchyburr.

Mrs. Goolsby's class is on a field trip at the sugar factory when they discover the factory is haunted and Malcolm and Dandy decide to get rid of the ghost once and for all.

In this first volume of three stories, ten-year-old best friends Malcom and Dandy thwart a practical-joking poltergeist, rid the Miller house of a ghost, and get to the bottom of some unusual paranormal activity in their elementary school.

Malcolm and Dandy are excited by the prospect of Horrorfest at the local movie theater, but are not so thrilled to find the Wolfman, the Fly, and King Kong have escaped their black-and-white films and are intent on chasing them down.