Oh, I love Merlin's Mistake! I read it in India when I was a kid, and I have a copy still. I should re-read; it seemed like the kind of thing that would hold up.
The ones no one else seems to remember, I don't know what the actual titles are.
- An Indian book about a brother and sister named Sudhir and Shailie, whose parents leave for some reason and leave them to tend the sweet shop, but an evil dude breaks the glass keeping the flies out and they get shut down for health violations, and they go on a quest to find their parents and get menaced by a jackal-headed man in a graveyard.
- A book of fairy-tales of the world. There's a really spooky one about three sister witches, one with one eye, one with two, and one with three, and a boy and a talking red bull. (It's not the folk-tale about sisters with that eye configuration, but might be inspired by it.) In another one, a rose becomes a man and rapes a woman. (!)
- A Nancy Drew-like mystery about some kids. The villain has twisty pale brown teeth and they nickname him Horrible.
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The ones no one else seems to remember, I don't know what the actual titles are.
- An Indian book about a brother and sister named Sudhir and Shailie, whose parents leave for some reason and leave them to tend the sweet shop, but an evil dude breaks the glass keeping the flies out and they get shut down for health violations, and they go on a quest to find their parents and get menaced by a jackal-headed man in a graveyard.
- A book of fairy-tales of the world. There's a really spooky one about three sister witches, one with one eye, one with two, and one with three, and a boy and a talking red bull. (It's not the folk-tale about sisters with that eye configuration, but might be inspired by it.) In another one, a rose becomes a man and rapes a woman. (!)
- A Nancy Drew-like mystery about some kids. The villain has twisty pale brown teeth and they nickname him Horrible.