Scary movies are full of different ways to give you nightmares--but once you figure out the formula, the frightful looks pretty funny. Take a whirlwind tour through the common categories of the creepy, from lines like "let's split up!" to tropes like the car that never starts. If you dare to master everything from cobwebs to clowns, you'll be ready when they all converge in a single hilarious finale scene. You won't believe how fast the spine-chilling turns side-splitting when you know the secrets of The Hallmarks of Horror.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an ancient empire has left behind a powerful Oracle. With it in her possession, the evil Russian Countess Natasha Novelova plans to take back the throne of Russia and only Dr. Illinois Jane, cartographer extraordinaire, can stop her! In this action-packed adventure, Illinois Jane and her sidekick, Sid Knickerbock, pursue the Countess and Ivan the Irritable into the jungle where they must face crocodiles, a giant anaconda, volcanoes, and more.

When eccentric billionaire J. Leslie Arlington is murdered, a clueless detective finds the suspects are all reluctant to admit their alibis . . . because they were all committing other ridiculous crimes at the time. Designed as a flexible build-your-own mystery, you can perform these plays in any combination and thread them together with optional interludes. You never know what's coming next when your suspects include disgruntled chefs, teen detectives, and vengeful divas, but one thing's for certain: Every alibi is absolutely absurd.