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Scream Shop Pick Your Path Books in Order

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Explore Scream Shop Pick Your Path by Tracey West in order, with summaries and background on Sebastian Cream’s shop and the choices shaping its eerie adventures.

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Scream Shop Pick Your Path books in publication order

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8 books

1

Abracadanger

by Tracey West

2003

Aspiring magician Ben Michaels buys a kit whose spells turn out to work, with dangerous consequences. A dead magician wants to use it to return, and readers choose Ben's path as he tries to undo the trouble.

2

Eye Spy Aliens

by Tracey West

2003

Evan Cranston, an aspiring spy, buys an ancient spyglass from an unusual junk shop. Testing it brings him into an alien adventure, with readers choosing the path of his investigation into what is happening around his Bleaktown neighbors.

3

A twelve-year-old girl's birthday gift is a strange necklace that seems to make her invisible. This interactive Scream Shop adventure lets readers choose what happens next as she encounters the possibilities of an unexpected and mysterious power.

4

Revenge of the Gargoyle

by Tracey West

2003

Tania Robbins buys a black marble as a gift for her grandfather, unaware it is an angry gargoyle's missing eye. When the creature demands its return, readers choose how Tania responds and which direction her frightening adventure takes.

5

The Curse of Count Blood

by Tracey West

2004

Ivan Melchik finds a vial of dust in Sebastian Cream's junk shop and encounters a vampire who claims to be good. Readers choose Ivan's next moves as the vampire seeks revenge against a rival clan.

6

The Day of the Dead

by Tracey West

2004

Alison buys a skull charm from Sebastian Cream's junk shop before traveling to Mexico. During a Day of the Dead celebration, skeletons begin rising, and readers must choose how she responds to the frightening situation.

7

Matthew Carter is a skilled catcher, but his poor batting threatens his hopes of making the school baseball team. An unusual bat from Sebastian Cream's junk shop opens adventures shaped by the reader's choices.

8

War of the Trolls

by Tracey West

2004

Bookworm Sean Flatbush discovers a strange volume in Sebastian Cream's junk shop and is pulled into a world of trolls. Readers decide what he does next as he searches for a way back home.

Series background & context

Scream Shop Pick Your Path begins with a place that looks small enough to overlook and dangerous enough to change a customer’s life. Tracey West sets Sebastian Cream’s Curiosity Shop in a dark alley in Bleaktown, where unusual objects wait for children who find their way inside. A purchase can open the door to a strange adventure. The books use a branching structure, so the reader helps decide how that adventure develops. The recurring shop connects stories whose characters and immediate dangers can change from one volume to another.

Abracadanger introduces Ben Michaels, who wants to become a skilled magician. Dr. Presto’s Magic Kit seems to offer the opportunity he has been looking for. The problem is that its spells actually work, with consequences beyond the tricks Ben expected to practice. The kit is also connected to a magician who died during a failed performance and wants to return. Ben’s ordinary enthusiasm becomes the starting point for a supernatural problem, and the reader’s decisions help determine how he responds to what the purchase has brought into his life.

An object that promises something desirable can also carry a danger its buyer never anticipated.

The later titles include Now You See Me, Now You Don’t!, Eye Spy Aliens, Revenge of the Gargoyle and Three Strikes and You’re a Monster!. Their variety makes the collection broader than one magician’s continuing trouble. The shop provides a shared doorway into different kinds of frightening possibility. Its importance lies in the way a seemingly limited choice, taking an unusual item home, can lead beyond the customer’s expectations. Readers return for that familiar setup while discovering a different threat or transformation within each new book.

The tone is children’s horror adventure, with the interactive format giving suspense another dimension. A decision does not merely express what a character might do; it sends the reader toward a different section of the book. Some paths may be more alarming or more successful than others. Returning to an earlier choice allows another attempt or another discovery. The structure therefore encourages exploration as well as concern about the characters. A particular ending closes one route without necessarily revealing everything the volume contains.

Start with Abracadanger to meet the shop and experience the format, then follow the listed order or choose another title’s premise. Within each volume, follow the directions attached to the choices instead of reading every page consecutively. The stories share Sebastian Cream’s unsettling business rather than one continuous solution. Their recurring question is what happens after a tempting purchase becomes far more powerful, strange or dangerous than the child who bought it could have understood.

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