Troy Cummings

Troy Cummings is an American author and illustrator of children's fiction. He is best known for The Notebook of Doom, an illustrated chapter-book series for young readers that follows a boy who discovers a hidden notebook cataloging the monsters lurking around his new town, in books including Day of the Night Crawlers, Pop of the Bumpy Mummy, Charge of the Lightning Bugs, and Sneeze of the Octo-Schnozz. The series mixes lighthearted humor with mild scares pitched at early-elementary readers, pairing Cummings's own comic-style illustrations with a first-person, journal-style text that invites young readers to feel like fellow monster hunters.