American Chillers
American Chillers and Michigan Chillers are a series of horror novels for children written by author Johnathan Rand. The series started in February 2000 as a Michigan-only series and expanded to a national focus in December 2001 with Michigan Mega-Monsters. According to the author, the American Chillers book series will continue through all fifty states.
- #1 Michigan Mega-Monsters : A pair of kids at a camp find a giant sea monster.
- #2 Ogres of Ohio : A brother and a sister find magical artifacts and must keep them safe from ogres who will use them to destroy the world.
- #3 Florida Fog Phantoms : Three children must escape a cloud of fog, and the phantoms within it, or they will become trapped in it forever. And forever seems like a very long time.
- #4 New York Ninjas : A magical mask must be protected by three friends, or else the world will be destroyed by a group of ghost ninjas.
- #5 Terrible Tractors of Texas : Farm equipment comes to life and attempts to destroy a boy and his cousin on a farm.
- #6 Invisible Iguanas of Illinois : A girl offers to watch her friend's iguanas, but these iguanas are huge, and invisible.
- #7 Werewolves of Wisconsin : A group of friends discover werewolves are real with the help of a librarian.
- #8 Minnesota Mall Mannequins : Aliens take control of mannequins to take over the world, and they have already taken over the Mall of America, trapping two friends inside.
- #9 Iron Insects Invade Indiana : An angry toy maker wants revenge on a rival by framing him for the destruction of Indiana by an army of robotic locusts.
- #10 Missouri Madhouse : Three kids who step into a supposedly haunted house late at night may never come out thanks to a boy who died years and years ago.
- #11 Poisonous Pythons Paralyze Pennsylvania : Three teens must survive one night in the wilderness with the world's deadliest snake on the loose.
- #12 Dangerous Dolls of Delaware : The doll that belonged to a ghostly child may help her dead spirit have revenge on an innocent young girl.
- #13 Virtual Vampires of Vermont : Unless two young video game addicts can stop them, an army of vampires from a video game could escape into reality.
- #14 Creepy Condors of California : When a condor attacks two kids in the Californian woods, they have no idea what they are in for.
- #15 Nebraska Nightcrawlers : Three friends meet a man who is attempting to make corn grow faster and get bigger. The problem is nightcrawlers have eaten it and grow as long as buses, posing a threat to human lives.
- #16 Alien Androids Assault Arizona : Aliens disguised as normal people are going to conquer the Earth if two friends do not get in the way.
- #17 South Carolina Sea Creatures : A boy places a toy similar to Sea Monkeys in water mixed with fertilizer. The toy grows to be a very large, very aggressive, semi aquatic monster.
- #18 Washington Wax Museum : A group of robbers will take thousands of dollars in artwork if three kids on a field trip do not stop them in time.
- #19 North Dakota Night Dragons : A group of friends have to stop dragons from conquering a fantasy world, as well as ours.
- #20 Mutant Mammoths of Montana : A brother and sister on a camping trip in the Montana wilderness soon discover a herd of aggressive subterranean mammoths that evolved after the ice age.
- #21 Terrifying Toys of Tennessee : Three friends must help a toy maker whose experimentation with a new type of battery turned his toys into monsters.
- #22 Nuclear Jellyfish of New Jersey : After a kid sees a UFO over a resort, giant, mutant, laser-shooting jellyfish destroy a water park. : After accidentally breaking a scientist's window, two friends offer to repay him by cleaning his lab windows. They find themselves going back in time after he completes a time travel invention experiment. The experiment works, but brings back three unwanted guests.
- #24 Haunting in New Hampshire : After moving into a new house, a girl is plagued by visions that only she can see, and who can also see her.
- #25 Mississippi Megalodon : Three friends go boating on a freshwater lake, but this particular lake is the hunting ground of a 60 ft long prehistoric shark.
- #26 Oklahoma Outbreak : A school becomes the scene of an outbreak of cooties, vicious insects whose bite turns people into zombies, and there is no cure.
- #27 Kentucky Komodo Dragons : While hiking, two siblings discover that Komodo dragons are loose in the forest, and they are extremely vicious.
- #28 Curse of the Connecticut Coyotes : A silly curse from an old witch becomes reality.
- #29 Oregon Oceanauts : Two friends who are training to become divers are called to rescue a chemical barrel from a sunken submarine, but they discover that the chemical makes marine life far more aggressive than usual.
- #30 Vicious Vacuums of Virginia : Robotic vacuum cleaners come to life.
- #31 The Nevada Nightmare Novel : A novel comes to life.
- #32 Idaho Ice Beast : Two friends wander away from a ski resort to search for a mythical bigfoot creature, but when the creature starts hunting them, things get out of control.
- #33 Monster Mosquitoes of Maine : Mosquitoes grow to enormous sizes and attack Maine.
- #34 Savage Dinosaurs of South Dakota : Two friends who are both dinosaur lovers get a chance to visit a new dinosaur theme-park, complete with mechanical lifelike dinosaurs. The problem is, the dinosaurs are acting a little too lifelike.
- #35 Maniac Martians Marooned in Massachusetts : When a ship containing a race of violent aliens crash-lands on Earth, three friends find themselves fighting for their lives.
- #36 Carnivorous Crickets of Colorado : Two brothers' experiments on crickets mean big trouble for three friends who stumbled across their cricket farm.
- #37 The Underground Undead of Utah : Three fossil-hunters stumble on a frightening secret.
- #38 The Wicked Waterpark of Wyoming : A sinister world lies beneath the new waterpark, spelling danger for its patrons
- #39 Angry Army Ants Ambush Alabama : The swamp hides an insect threat.
- #40 Incredible Ivy of Iowa : A farmer's experiments with super plant food create scary ivy.
- #41 North Carolina Night Creatures
- #42 Arctic Anacondas of Alaska : In Fairbanks, Alaska, an old trapper's legend is about to become true. Sasha and her friend Trey, are aware of the old legends of giant snakes that live in the ice and snow.
- #43 Robotic Rodents Ravage Rhode Island
List of Michigan Chillers books
- #1 Mayhem on Mackinac Island : A brothers and sister on vacation on Mackinac Island discover a fantasy world, and must defeat an evil sorcerer in order to escape
- #2 Terror Stalks Traverse City : Two brother must save Traverse City from a Yeti during Christmas time.
- #3 Poltergeists of Petoskey : Twins move into a house they realize is haunted and must banish the ghosts from their home.
- #4 Aliens Attack Alpena : Friends Mark and Meghan discover a spaceship full of aliens who want to take over the world and must stop them.
- #5 Gargoyles of Gaylord : Friends Corky and Ashley realize their neighbors gargoyle is alive.
- #6 Strange Spirits of St. Ignace : Kevin while on a camping trip with his family begins to notice ghostly happenings.
- #7 Kreepy Klowns of Kalamazoo : Kayleigh's town becomes the host of an evil carnival filled with bionic clowns.
- #8 Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit : Friends Nick and Summer find a hole in time that allows them to go back in time to visit the dinosaurs. However, Dinosaurs come back through the portal and destroy the city.
- #9 Sinister Spiders of Saginaw : Giant spiders rise up through the ground and attack the city of Saginaw.
- #10 Mackinaw City Mummies : Josh's friend Robyn is kidnapped by a mummy king and he must find a way to save her.
- #11 Great Lakes Ghost Ship : Two friends become trapped on a ghost ship.
- #12 AuSable Alligators : While fly fishing Craig hooks an alligator and he must figure our where they are coming from.
- #13 Gruesome Ghouls of Grand Rapids : Ashlen has an ability to see mystical creatures, but one day she sees an army of ghouls ready to take over her hometown and must stop them.
- #14 Bionic Bats of Bay City : A group of friends must stop a swarm of bionic bats terrorizing their city.
- #15 Calumet Copper Creatures : A sister and brother must escape a copper mine and the horrible monsters that live in it.
- #16 Catastrophe in Caseville : Shelby goes to a burger festival, but a set of strange circumstances causes the food to come to life.
- #17 A Ghostly Haunting in Grand Haven : Two friends go ghost hunting with one of their dads and it goes wrong.
- #18 Sault Ste. Marie Sea Monsters
- #19 Drummond Island Dogman
- #20 Lair of the Lansing Leprechauns
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