By:  John Whitman Published by Bantam Books June 1997 Hologram Fun World.  It's a theme park visited by families from all across the galaxy.  It's a place where Tash and Zak can safely hang out while Hoole continues his work. It's a place where daytime fun turns into nighttime terror. One of the park's attractions is called the Nightmare Machine.  It scans your brain, then shows you your worst fears in holographic form.  Hairy, creepy-crawly insects.  Cyborrean battle-dogs thirsting for blood. But it's not real, so it's fun--right? Wrong. As Zak and Tash will soon find out, nightmares can come true.

    Zak heard the skitter of tiny feet.  Thousands of tiny feet.  They scraped along the ground all around him.  Something brushed across his foot.  Then again, and again.
    Scratch, scratch, scratch!
    Something crawled up his pant leg.  Panicked, Zak tried to brush it away, and felt something soft and hairy and many-legged cling to the back of his hand.  Then it started to crawl up his arm.
    More of the skittering creatures were crawling up his pant legs.  He felt them crawling inside his pant legs and inside his shirtsleeves, pushing their way up his shirt, crawling out from under his collar and scrambling around the back of his neck.  Zak wildly thrashed his arms and legs about, trying to get the horrible creatures off him.
    He felt something tugging and biting at his hair.  Zak opened his mouth to scream, and a dozen hairy legs scrambled past his lips.