Who wrote the U.S.-based 'Nightmare Inn' series of young adult horror novels?

Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950) is an American writer of more than 140 young-adult and middle grade novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S. Rue.

It is a brief series that contains only four installments, all of them published in 1993; the books were distributed by HarperCollins, who released them in both paperback and hardcover editions.

'Nightmare Inn' is not only the official title of the series, but is also the title of the first book. The remaining novels are titled 'Room 13', 'The Pool' and 'The Attic'.

All the books of the series are set at the same location, the New Arcadia Inn, formerly known as the Arcadia Inn. The resort is luxurious and located in a forest in the northeastern part of the United States. It has a gruesome history of murder and violence from beyond the grave. All the primary characters are teenagers, which is a common format of the young adult novels.

The books were published in the same time period in which R.L. Stine was enjoying phenomenal success with his highly popular Fear Street novels, but Strasser's saga was short-lived; whether this was the intention of the author or the result of poor sales is unknown, but the entire series has been out of print for many years.