In the trailer for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, we meet Stella Nicholls (Zoe Margaret Colletti) and her group of friends. One night they decide to enter the old Bellows house that had been boarded up due to the disappearance of several children. Zoe and her friends decide to break into it and inside they discover a hidden room with Sarah Bellows' (Kathleen Pollard) book of scary stories. When Zoe reads a story inside the book one night, it coincides with the disappearance of her friend Tommy (Austin Abrams). Seeing it as no coincidence Zoe attempts to destroy the book with no success. Soon the rest of Zoe's friends begin to appear in stories in the book. As the stories continue to write themselves and the horrors come alive, Zoe and her friends must face their fears in order to survive.