Fan CastingAre You Afraid of the Dark? (Nickelodeon Series)

• artchie28 S01E01: The Tale of the Phantom Cab. Two brothers, Buzz and Denny, get lost in the woods while hiking. As night falls, they are directed by a stranger to a cabin where they might seek help from old Dr. Vink. The strange Dr. Vink poses a riddle to them which they must solve before he will let them phone their parents. The boys cannot solve it and he throws them out into the forest. The boys panic as they are left in the woods alone under Dr. Vink's curse. Their only hope is the Phantom Cab, but they soon discover that the cab won't help them the way they had hoped.

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• artchie28 S01E02: The Tale of Laughing in the Dark. Two 12-year old boys, Josh and Weegee, and Kathy, 10, come upon a spook house, "Laughing in the Dark", at an amusement park. Even though it is rumored to be haunted by Zeebo the clown, Josh declares he will go through the spook house and bring out Zeebo's nose as proof that he completed the mission. What he never expected was that the clown would come after his nose, and the situation gets worse when Josh soon discovers for himself the truth about the mysterious Zeebo...

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• artchie28 S01E03: The Tale of the Lonely Ghost. Everybody is psyched about summer vacation except Amanda Cameron, because she has to spend the entire summer with her obnoxious cousin, Beth. Amanda is willing to do anything to join Beth and her group of friends, including the initiation: Amanda must sleep all night in the haunted house across the street. Even though Amanda does not believe in ghosts, what she finds in the house changes the past and the future. She might be able to change her fate for the summer after all...

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• artchie28 S01E04: The Tale of the Twisted Claw. At Halloween, Kevin and Dougie decide they will break with the tradition and visit the scary house of Miss Clove, known to everyone as the Witch. Instead of the usual candies they are expecting, Miss Clove has a special treat for these daring young boys--an ugly, Twisted Claw. Although the Claw is supposed to grant the boys' wishes, they find this evil Claw brings them more than they anticipate.

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• artchie28 S01E05: The Tale of the Hungry Hounds. During summer vacation, Amy visits her cousin Pam, who lives in the country. While rummaging through the old family possessions in the attic, they come across a picture of Aunt Dora, who died tragically at a very young age. To their amazement, she looks strikingly like Pam. The girls find a trunk from which a scratching sound emerges at the mention of Aunt Dora's name. Amy and Pam discover their late aunt's old horse-riding jacket in the trunk. When Pam puts on the jacket, she becomes possessed by the aunt's spirit, who must feed her hungry dogs in order to rest in peace.

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• artchie28 S01E06: The Tale of the Super Specs. In a junky magic shop Weeds, a wimpy trickster, jokingly casts the spell of "Second Sight" with the help of a do-it-yourself voodoo book. Some magic dust accidentally falls on MaryBeth, his more sophisticated girlfriend, and on a pair of "Super Specs"--guaranteed to give X-ray vision. MaryBeth is spooked when the glasses make her see a dark figure motioning to her, and she is completely frustrated when no one believes what she sees. Has she opened a window into an alternate universe? In a bizarre make-shift seance, two worlds fight for the same space...

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• artchie28 S01E07: The Tale of the Captured Souls. Danielle "Danny" and her parents are planning to stay at a rented house for the summer, which is rather run down and spooky. Even more mysterious is their host, a sickly young boy, Peter, who lives there without any sight of his parents. Danny becomes very suspicious when her parents seem to be aging by the day as Peter seems to look healthier. Danny must fight not only her own fear, but also her parents, who don't believe that their lives are threatened. So, Danny sets out to find out why before her and her family souls are gone.

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• artchie28 S01E08: The Tale of the Nightly Neighboors. Emma and DayDay Toll have some new neighbors who seem a bit out of the ordinary. The eerie family--a couple and their anemic-looking son--wear only black and are never seen during the day. A workman informs the kids that they are from Transylvania. When the mailman is getting unusually tired and pale passers-by sport band-aids on their necks, Emma comes to a natural conclusion--the neighbors are vampires. DayDay is skeptical but Emma is not taking any chances: garlic, crosses, and wooden spikes--just in case. Suspicions seem confirmed as the kids find a store of blood in the neighbor's basement...

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• artchie28 S01E09: The Tale of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Dean has trouble at school--especially with chemistry. His best friend, Alix, seems to be the only one who understands him. One day an archaeologist visits the class and brings along a bewitching snake, which entrances Dean. Soon thereafter Alix begins to notice changes in his personality. Dean's transformation is so extreme that Alix must summon the courage to battle a Sorcerer and his Apprentice to save her friend.

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• artchie28 S01E10: The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun. Jake, a young actor, has landed the lead role in the "Will O' the Wisp", in which his character is slowly turned into a leprechaun. Errin, the director and actor playing the leprechaun, seems to take an intense interest in Jake. A new-found friend, Sean, reveals to Jake that the events in the play are actually coming true! Now, strange things start happening to him when it's only a matter of time before opening night. In the final performance the audience is in for the show of their lives...

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