Monster High: New Scaremester, Vol. 2 - by Jacque Aye & Keryl Brown Ahmed & Ben Kahn (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The new scaremester is well underway as a mystery fills the halls and the students prepare for the Howlidays!

Students have gone missing, and un-life at Monster High gets more complicated with each passing day. Everyone is on edge, causing cat fights between even the beast of fiends. But none feel the burden as heavily as the school's new protector. Only Wydowna Spider and all six of her hands could count Draculaura's obligations. Between her new position as director of the school board, fearleading practice, ghoulwork, student disembody council, and Ra knows what else, she's found herself at D'Eath's door...literally. Plus, questions swirl when the school board dusts off the Monster Claws and begins to enforce them after centuries of being lax about monster-normie relations. Who created the Claws? Why reinstate them now? What is their true purpose?

Then, Halloween is coming! Headmaster Frankenstein and Draculaura are throwing a carnival for the real monsters guaranteed to genuinely send chills down their spines, and Monster High is packed with booths: whack-a-molar, pin the wing on the dragon, spiderweb candy, and even a maze of frightmares. Plus, blankets of snow have settled over Monster High, which can only mean that the Howliday Ball is around the coroner. There's nothing quite like a school dance to scare up some defrightful drama.

Volume 2 collects issues #5-7 and the Halloween Special and Howliday Haunt one-shots.

About the Author

Jacque Aye is an author, worldbuilder, and creator of the popular indie brand Adorned by Chi. She is a vocal supporter of mental health awareness and self-care among Black women, advocating for those suffering from depression and social anxiety. In her fiction work, Jacque writes about woeful women with a surrealist, magical touch.

Jacque boasts over 16k followers on Instagram and over 12k on X.

Caroline Shuda is a comic artist and illustrator from Olympia, Washington. She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2021 with a BFA in sequential art. She is the oldest (by two minutes!) of a set of identical triplets all of whom are visual artists. In her free time, Caroline can be found playing competitive Mario Kart online, watching anime, and spending time with her hamster.