Baronet Books is best known for its Great Illustrated Classics series, but in the ‘90s, the Waldman imprint took a walk on the scary side. Between 1995 and 1997, various authors contributed to a set of children’s horror anthologies called Fright Time. Kids who stumbled upon these books — often at local discount stores, such as Dollar General — got their money’s worth, seeing as each issue includes “3 spine-tingling tales for young readers.” That’s two more stories than usual for books aimed at the Goosebumps demographic. There’s certainly an off-brand quality to Fright Time, though the cover artwork is anything but cheap. Illustrations as eye-catching as these are bound to lure in curious readers of all ages.

On the cover of the first Fright Time — these books have no individual titles, only numbers — a boy creeps outside a house, unaware of the decrepit old man watching him from the window.