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Title | Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
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Author | Deborah and James Howe
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Cover Art | Alan Daniel
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Publisher | Avon Camelot - 1979
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Title | Howliday Inn
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Author | James Howe
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Cover Art | Lynn Munsinger
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Publisher | Avon Camelot - 1983
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Title | The Celery Stalks at Midnight
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Author | James Howe
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Cover Art | Leslie H. Morrill
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Publisher | Avon Camelot - 1984
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Title | Nighty-Nightmare
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Author | James Howe
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Cover Art | Leslie Morrill
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Publisher | Avon Camelot - 1988
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Title | Return to Howliday Inn
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Author | James Howe
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Cover Art | Alan Daniel
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Publisher | Avon Camelot - 1993
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Category | Children
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Bunnicula, Chester, Harold, Howie
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Main Elements | Vampires, werewolves
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Bunnicula
Move over Dracula!
It looked like an ordinary bunny to Harold. But Harold was a dog by profession, so his judgement wasn't reliable - as he was the first to admit. But Chester, Harold's good friend and house-mate, was a very well read cat and he knew there was something strange about Bunnicula. For one thing, he seemd to have fangs. And the odd markings on his back looked like a cape. But when Chester started finding white vegetables, drained dry, with two fang marks in them, he was sure Bunnicula was a vampire bunny.
So it was up to Chester - with Harold's help - to alert the members of their household before another carrot was lost. Because as Chester warned, "Today vegetables, tomorrow the world!"
Howliday Inn
Welcome to Chateau Bow-Wow.
Harold and Chester could hardly believe it. The Monroe family was going on vacation without them! Bunnicula, the family rabbit, would be boarded with a neighbor. But they, the family's loyal dog and cat, were going to stay with strangers at the foreboding Chateau Bow-Wow...
No sooner had Harold and Chester settled into their bungalows than Louise, a French poodle involved in a messy love triangle, disappeared. Chester believed the six other guests were capable of anything - even murder. Would you trust a pair of dachshunds who howled at the moon and were rumored to be part werewolf? Or crazy Lyle, a cat convinced he was a secret agent?
All Harold and Chester knew was that in spite of themselves they had entered the crime detection business and neither foul play nor foul weather would stop them from finding out whodunit!
The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Where is Bunnicula?
That's what Chester the cat, Harold the dog, and Howie the dachshund puppy would like to know. When Chester makes the chilling discovery that Bunnicula the vampire bunny has vanished from his cage in the Monroe household, his head is filled with visions of killer parsnips, bloodthirsty string beans, and homicidal heads of lettuce! Everyone knows that vampire vicitims become vampires themselves - and the neighborhood gardens reveal the ultimate horror: bloodless zombie vegetables!
Determined to save Bunnicula's victims and the unsuspecting Monroes, Chester leads the valiant friends on a wild bunny chase involving a hazardous garbage truck ride, a hair-raising encounter with an irate tomcat...and that's just the beginning!
Nighty-Nightmare
Sleep tight...if you dare!
An overnight camping trip! In the woods! With bugs and ticks...and worse. Chester the cat couldn't believe the Monroes were going camping on Saint George's Eve, the one night of the year when evil spirits come out to prey. Harold and Howie, the Monroe dogs, were looking forward to their adventure, but when they found themselves lost in the woods at midnight, surrounded by weird noises and with only a drooling, scar-faced visitor for company - they began to wonder if there might be something to Chester's warnings. But that was just the beginning. Before the night was over, there would be some fur-raising surprises, including a bone-chilling tale of how Bunnicula the Vampire Rabbit first came to America.
Return to Howliday Inn
The animals sense something is wrong in the Monroe house. Howie is racing around on his little dachshund legs pretending he's chasing hubcaps at the Indianapolis Five Hundred. Bunnicula is hopping all over his cage as if he's dancing on hot tar, and Harold is desperately trying to get some sleep. Chester inisits something terrible is about to happen. And he's right.
The Monroes are going on vacation - and the animals are going to Chateau Bow-Wow...known to them as Howliday Inn. this visit turns out to be even worse than the last harrowing experience - with a whole new cast of characters: a very sad Great Dane, a pair of worried yuppie puppies, and two sinister sisters who pride themselves as cat burgulars. But even more frightening are the voices in the night, mysterious disappearances...and the bone-chilling secret of Howliday Inn.
"It is a story that dares to ask the question: When the moon is up and the night creatures begin to stir, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of lettuce?"
I think that quote from the third book sums up the series quite well. Loads of fun and mystery these books are great even for older readers. What more could you want? There's a cute little bunny that sucks the juices out of vegetables, a daschund pup who might just be part werewolf (well, if you believe Chester anyway) and all kinds of other surprises along the way. Makes you want to walk around with toothpicks in your pocket to stake those evil cabbages and cucumbers before they get you first.
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