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Little Johnny Slimeseed isn't like the other monsters living in Nightmare. The gentle swamp creature hates scaring human kids and wishes his fellow ghouls would find another hobby. So he comes up with a brilliant plan—fill the land with oozy, goopy slime trees! If he can plant enough seeds, the monsters won't frighten anyone because they'll be too busy having fun in the sludge! Can Johnny achieve his freaky forest dream?

While two kids are fishing in a narrow ravine, a strange boy in wet clothes warns them of danger. They ignore him, but he persists. Suddenly a flash flood sweeps the boy away and the other two kids barely escape. They run for help only to learn that the boy who warned them had died two years earlier in a flash flood.

A cat that boys are chasing for fun is killed when it gets run over. Then the boys are kept up at night by unknown eerie yowling. They find a snake, rat and dead bird in their homes. They get scratched by invisible claws and cat prints appear on tables.

After moving into an old house, sisters discover a secret chamber in the attic that holds a sealed trunk. They break it open and find an urn. That night, an invisible force attacks them and chokes them before they escape. With their dad in their room the next night, unseen icy hands pull the girls out of bed and slam them against the wall.

A troop of Boy Scouts, camped by a Civil War battlefield, discover a rusty knife. Late at night, the ghost of a Confederate soldier limps toward them and they flee. They discover that the knife was the one the soldier used to kill a former Union soldier.

Two boys who are having trouble with math get help from an old nun who mysteriously appears and disappears in Room 333.