When Jerome and his family move to Cedarville, he's not too happy to have left behind his old friends...or that they are moving into a much bigger house. As he begins to explore the house he warms up to the idea slowly when he discovers an attic and in the attic is an old piano. He decides that it might be fun to learn...but that's before he hears it playing itself at night and before he meets Dr. Shreek, the very hand obsessed music instructor who runs the music school outside of town. He doesn't think too much of it until he meets Kim his schoolmate and neighbor and she practically runs screaming from the area when he tells her he's studying piano with Dr. Shreek...shortly afterward he notices that the music school is weird, and he keeps running into Mr. Toggle, the maintenance guy at the school who is apparently some sort of mechanical genius...will Jerome be able to figure out what's going on at the school before he winds up as one of those students who goes in for a lesson and never comes out!

Overall, not bad for the series, the characters are lightly drawn and the plot moves along quickly. Like all books in this series, this one has the signature Twilight Zone-esque ending. I give it three stars; it's entertaining and has a few genuinely creepy moments. ( )

Jerry discovers a piano in the attic- and then discovers its ghost! That's pretty upsetting, but the piano school he's started going to is even worse- his teacher is just a little too obsessed with his hands. He later discovers that his teacher is a robot, and the janitor of the school created him... to train his hands so they can be cut off! Jerry escapes as the hands get their revenge (with the help of the ghost that was haunting his piano. ( )