Invasion of the Appleheads
The Deadtime Stories by “Twisted Sisters” Annette and Gina Cascone offer thrills and chills for the middle-grade audience without violence or gore. They are now being filmed as a live-action feature series!
The Deadtime Stories by “Twisted Sisters” Annette and Gina Cascone — they’ll scare you silly.
Katie and Andy Lawrence thought moving to a new town — especially one named Appleton — was awful enough. They were wrong. When their parents take them to Appleton’s famous apple orchard for a haunted hayride, weird things start happening.
The ghouls who haunt the orchard seem spookily real. The kids they see are acting very strangely, like robots or…zombies. Then Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence disappear — and in their place, Katie and Andy find creepy shrunken applehead dolls!
Now Katie and Andy have to find a way to turn their parents back to normal — before it’s too late!
Hill & Brand Entertainment has inked a deal with Cookie Jar Entertainment to distribute (worldwide) the first season of 26 half-hour, live action episodes based on the Deadtime Stories books. “Grave Secrets” will serve as the pilot episode(s). Cookie Jar distributes over 6,000 episodes of kid’s television programming around the world and serves as a worldwide merchandising agent for the properties. Previously, they were the producers (together with Nickelodeon) and distributors of the very successful Nick show “Are You Afraid of the Dark.”
Deadtime Stories
Deadtime Stories consists of 6 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.