Teenage Archie can’t have all the Halloween fun. This one-shot anathology puts pre-teen Archie and friends around the campfire for some late night chills in this Goosebumps-inspired collection.

Reggie, of course, takes up the flashlight first once the kids finish their Adventure Scouts trip with a tale entitled Suburban Legend.

Written by Michael Northrop, he brings back old Archie property, Wilber Wilkin and Laurie Lake at Lover’s Lane where they get a frantic text from the “Veronica” of the love triangle, Linda Moore. A hook hand inmate escaped from the correctional facility and the two suss out that the crazy killer isn’t on its way to them but it might be after Linda.

Northrop provides a nice chilling ending to the tale that is aided by Camero’s art which blends 50s retro with the modern to make the tale perfect for either setting.

The second story, Snack Attack, narrated by Archie is predictable with its hooting owls and scratching scratches outside the campfire door but Ostow has fun in channeling middle-school scares that are horrifying at the time but are lame as you grow up later. Due to that I felt it was one of weaker ones but Carrera’s art is a nice reflection of lunchbox animation-esque art.

The final story was my favorite as Visaggio utilizes a sing-song rhyme scheme to narrate the tale of Whatever Happened to Dilton?

Dilton O’Doyle to be exact, a young kid who finds an old computer game, Artemis from which he is convinced there is a hidden conspiracy that only he can understand. For as the tale repeats: “Dilton O’Doyle was terribly smart.”

It’s just chilling accompained by the detailed art of Ryan Caskey that makes it feel like an old-school colonial broadside. If you closely you could see shadowy figures stalking the background, adding to Dilton’s paranoid state. . . unless he is right and there is a real conspiracy?

Overall, this was a cute collection for kids to enjoy as an introduction to Archie Horror for the Halloween season. I still wish, as I said in my other reviews, that the anathologies could be longer so each story could have more room to breath and incorporate scarier twists.