Kitty wants to be a superhero like her mother, once she gets over her fear of the dark, but when Figaro the cat needs help she springs into action.

Twelve-year-old Malik Jackson is afraid of the dark, so he is reluctant to join his friend, Ian, in an exploration of an abandoned mansion on the night before Halloween, but he agrees to the adventure because a girl he likes is going--but he soon realizes that it is not the dark he needs to be afraid of, it is the things that are hiding inside the dark.

Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.