There is a family that moves to an older house with a large garden and lots of nature nearby. One boy in the family and the dad become sick as they go into a mine. The girl in the family is young and communkcates with small fairies. no one believes her. In the mine there are scary creatures that were stuck there. Once rescued from the mine they seem friendly, and the dad and boy recover in health.

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

When Kyle and Evie Preston start exploring the grounds of their late grandmother's house they discover an old, abandoned mine shaft and soon find that the old lady's stories about fairies trapped underground were true.

"It Lives in a Cave in the Woods," tells the story of a young woman, Mable, who discovers that the monsters from childhood fairytales pale in comparison to the ones inside us. Mable lives on her father's farm with her mother and younger sister. After her father leaves mysteriously, Mable ponders a folktale he used to tell her as a child about a beast that lives in a cave in the woods. As memories of her father haunt her and tensions rise between her and her mother, defiance and curiosity grows inside of Mable until she stumbles upon an answer she wishes she hadn't.

While waiting for their new home to be renovated, Nellie and her younger brother George are sent to a farm in the countryside, much to George's delight and Nellie's disgust. However, the farmhouse and the surrounding area are teeming with fey creatures. The first the two children encounter is a somewhat crotchety and unfriendly hobgoblin named Broom, who is (more or less) secretly looking after the farm.

A young boy emerges from a coma after a fall down an abandoned mine shaft. His family is confronted by dark, threatening spirits and the possibility that the child in their home might no longer be their son.

In a remote country house, a girl who is struggling to connect with her family after the loss of her father is visited by a mud monster. As her encounters with the creature become frequent, she begins to suffer from a mysterious illness.

A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.

The ruins of the old castle are a favorite place for children to play - besides the computer, of course. Jon, Tina and her younger brother Peter visit the place every day and also become friends with the occasional resident there. But strange things are happening in the premises of the crumbling castle. Curiosity does not give peace to children. It turns out that the castle is full of secrets, strange things start happening and many people no longer know for sure what is true and what is not... The children slowly begin to reveal what it is really about, and a mysterious boy comes to their aid...

A mother and her two children live in a house where a monster is locked up in the attic. They decide to flee and they take refuge in the woods. In the underbrush, they notice a light in the distance.

After Brad and Meg move to a detached house in need of major repairs after a fire and decades of neglect, they're happy that cheerful teenage son Tyler behaves normally, for puberty. Young daughter Gina's stories about sometimes evil 'fairies' are equally dismissed, but get worse. Self-appointed handyman warns Iver Hagen them for 'things worse than ghosts' and ever scarier things happen. Ma irrationally believes the house bad yet refuses long to have Gina examined by Dr. Werner, who has a patient Olive obsessed by similar trolls. By the time the pieces are fitted, it may be too late.