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American Chillers and Michigan Chillers are a series of horror novels for children written by author Johnathan Rand. The series started in February 2000 as a Michigan-only series and expanded to a national focus in December 2001 with ''Michigan Mega-Monsters''. According to the author, the American Chillers book series will continue through all fifty states. Ohio]]'' (2002): A brother and a sister find magical artifacts and must keep them safe from ogres who will use them to destroy the world. * #3 '' Florida Fog Phantoms'' (2002): Three children must escape a cloud of fog, and the phantoms within it, or they will become trapped in it forever. * #4 '' New York Ninjas'' (2002): A magical mask must be protected by three friends, or else the world will be destroyed by a group of ghost ninjas. * #5 '' Terrible Tractors of Texas'' (2002): Farm equipment comes to life and attempts to destroy a boy and his cousin on a farm. * #6 '' Invisible Iguanas of Illinois'' (2002): A girl offers to watch her friend's iguanas, but these iguanas are huge, and invisible. * #7 '' Werewolves of Wisconsin'' (2002): A group of friends discover werewolves are real with the help of a librarian. * #8 '' Minnesota Mall Mannequins'' (2003): Aliens take control of mannequins to take over the world, and they have already taken over the Mall of America, trapping two friends inside. * #9 '' Iron Insects Invade Indiana'' (2003): An angry toy maker wants revenge on a rival by framing him for the destruction of Indiana by an army of robotic locusts. * #10 '' Missouri Madhouse'' (2003): Three kids who step into a supposedly haunted house late at night may never come out thanks to a boy who died years and years ago. * #11 '' Poisonous Pythons Paralyze Pennsylvania'' (2003): Three teens must survive one night in the wilderness with the world's deadliest snake on the loose. * #12 '' Dangerous Dolls of Delaware'' (2003): The doll that belonged to a ghostly child may help her dead spirit have revenge on an innocent young girl. * #13 '' Virtual Vampires of Vermont'' (2004): Unless two young video game addicts can stop them, an army of vampires from a video game could escape into reality. * #14 '' Creepy Condors of California'' (2004): When a condor attacks two kids in the Californian woods, they have no idea what they are in for. * #15 '' Nebraska Nightcrawlers'' (2004): Three friends meet a man who is attempting to make corn grow faster and get bigger. The problem is nightcrawlers have eaten it and grow as long as buses, posing a threat to human lives. * #16 '' Alien Androids Assault Arizona'' (2005): Aliens disguised as normal people are going to conquer the Earth if two friends do not get in the way. * #17 '' South Carolina Sea Creatures'' (2005): A boy places a toy similar to Sea Monkeys in water mixed with fertilizer. The toy grows to be a very large, very aggressive, semi aquatic monster. * #18 '' Washington Wax Museum'' (2006): A group of robbers will take thousands of dollars in artwork if three kids on a field trip do not stop them in time. (Note that although the events in the previous book were never mentioned, the main character was a side character in ''South Carolina Sea Creatures''.) * #19 '' North Dakota Night Dragons'' (2006): A group of friends have to stop dragons from conquering a fantasy world, as well as ours. * #20 '' Mutant Mammoths of Montana'' (2007): A brother and sister on a camping trip in the Montana wilderness soon discover a herd of aggressive subterranean mammoths that evolved after the ice age. * #21 '' Terrifying Toys of Tennessee'' (November 15, 2007): Three friends must help a toy maker whose experimentation with a new type of battery turned his toys into monsters. * #22 '' Nuclear Jellyfish of New Jersey'' (2007): After a kid sees a UFO over a resort, giant, mutant, laser-shooting jellyfish destroy a water park. (Note that although the events in the last book are never mentioned, the main character was a character in ''Terrifying Toys of Tennessee''. * #23 '' Wicked Velociraptors of West Virginia'' (February 28, 2008): After accidentally breaking a scientist's window, two friends offer to repay him by cleaning his lab windows. They find themselves going back in time after he completes a time travel invention experiment. The experiment works, but brings back three unwanted guests. * #24 '' Haunting in New Hampshire'' (May 1, 2008): After moving into a new house, a girl is plagued by visions that only she can see, and who can also see her. * #25 '' Mississippi Megalodon'' (December 28, 2008): Three friends go boating on a freshwater lake, but this particular lake is the hunting ground of a 60 ft long prehistoric shark. * #26 '' Oklahoma Outbreak'' (January 28, 2009): A school becomes the scene of an outbreak of cooties, vicious insects whose bite turns people into zombies, and there is no cure. * #27 '' Kentucky Komodo Dragons'' (May 28, 2009): While hiking, two siblings discover that Komodo dragons are loose in the forest, and they are extremely vicious. * #28 '' Curse of the Connecticut Coyotes'' (August 24, 2010): A silly curse from an old witch becomes reality. * #29 '' Oregon Oceanauts'' (2010): Two friends who are training to become divers are called to rescue a chemical barrel from a sunken submarine, but they discover that the chemical makes marine life far more aggressive than usual. * #30 '' Vicious Vacuums of Virginia'' (2010): Robotic vacuum cleaners come to life. * #31 '' The Nevada Nightmare Novel '' (November 8, 2011): A novel comes to life. * #32 '' Idaho Ice Beast '' (December 15, 2011): Two friends wander away from a ski resort to search for a mythical bigfoot creature, but when the creature starts hunting them, things get out of control. * #33 '' Monster Mosquitoes of Maine '' (February 15, 2012): Mosquitoes grow to enormous sizes and attack Maine. * #34 '' Savage Dinosaurs of South Dakota '' (May 15, 2012): Two friends who are both dinosaur lovers get a chance to visit a new dinosaur theme-park, complete with mechanical lifelike dinosaurs. The problem is, the dinosaurs are acting a little too lifelike. * #35 ''Maniac Martians Marooned in Massachusetts'' (September 1 2012): When a ship containing a race of violent aliens crash-lands on Earth, three friends find themselves fighting for their lives. * #36 ''Carnivorous Crickets of Colorado'' (October 27 2012): Two brothers' experiments on crickets mean big trouble for three friends who stumbled across their cricket farm. * #37 '' The Underground Undead of Utah'' (April, 2013): Three fossil-hunters stumble on a frightening secret. * #38 '' The Wicked Waterpark of Wyoming'' (December 15, 2013): A sinister world lies beneath the new waterpark, spelling danger for its patrons * #39 '' Angry Army Ants Ambush Alabama'' (March 15, 2014): The swamp hides an insect threat. * #40 '' Incredible Ivy of Iowa'' (2014): A farmer's experiments with super plant food create scary ivy. == List of Michigan Chillers books == Rand has written a separate series of books titled, Michigan Chillers, starting in 2000. These books' settings take place in major cities and places in Rand's home state of Michigan. * #1 ''Mayhem on Mackinac Island'' (2000): A brother and sister on vacation on Mackinac Island discover a fantasy world, and must defeat an evil sorcerer in order to escape. * #2 ''Terror Stalks Traverse City'' (2000): A kid with a magic kit summons a monster from a drawing that could destroy the city. * #3 ''Poltergeists of Petoskey'' (2000): Two kids must find a way to get a poltergeist out of their home, before they themselves become poltergeists. * #4 ''Aliens Attack Alpena'' (2000): Two friends must fight a hostile race of aliens that could destroy the planet. * #5 ''Gargoyles of Gaylord'' (2000): After gargoyles escape their dark underground world, two kids and their neighbor must find them and put them back. * #6 ''Strange Spirits of St. Ignace'' (2000): When three siblings become lost in the forest they are camping in, they discover spirits from another realm. * #7 ''Kreepy Klowns of Kalamazoo'' (2000): Two children go to the carnival but discover that the clowns are secretly robots intent on world domination. * #8 ''Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit'' (2001): A time window opens, which allows a kid to get a dinosaur egg from the past. Only a pack of Tyrannosaurus Rex follow him through the time gate and will not rest until the egg is found, no matter how many people are killed. * #9 ''Sinister Spiders of Saginaw'' (2001): A girl who has an intense fear of spiders realizes that Saginaw is about to be invaded by giant man-eating spiders. Now she, along with her friend, needs to defeat them, but this is more complicated than she thinks. * #10 ''Mackinaw City Mummies'' (2001): A boy has to brave a hidden world full of horrifying creatures to save his best friend from being mummified. * #11''Great Lakes Ghost Ship'' (2005): Three kids must escape a ghost ship, or stay on forever with zombies. * #12 ''Au Sable Alligators'' (2005): For some bizarre reason, there seem to be alligators in a river in Michigan, and two kids must find out why before someone gets hurt. * #13 ''Gruesome Ghouls of Grand Rapids'' (2007): After some ghouls escape their prison within the Earth, a group of kids must put them back. * #14 ''Bionic Bats of Bay City'' (2008): Mutant bats are unleashed upon Bay City. * #15 ''Calumet Copper Creatures'' (2011): Siblings find giant copper creatures lurking in an abandoned mine. * #16 ''Catastrophe in Caseville'' (July 2013): A giant cheeseburger threatens to destroy the town of Caseville, Michigan, and wreck the annual cheeseburger festival. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Chillers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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