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Obligatory everyone's-mad-about-Scooby-Doo-adaptation plug for Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

It's not exclusively a pastiche on Scooby Doo - there are some other Kid Mystery Gangs mixed up in there - but it's a book about sort of the primordial ideal of your Gang of Meddling Kids, now young adults and deeply, diversely psychologically fucked up after their last job, which went wrong somehow.

The style is kind of internet-friendly/Terry Pratchettesque¹, with neat, creative, twisty analogies and use of screenplay formatting and dialogue to get points across differently.

The plot is fun, but not light - there's that adage that a really good parody is both a mockery and a good example of the thing it's parodying, and the thing Meddling Kids is parodying is horror². I'm a terrible source for content warnings, but seek them out if you're unsure.

¹Woman who's only read one author: "Wow, this sounds exactly like-" [the agent assigned to me slams the detonation button]

²And, I would posit, the full-length Scooby Doo movies a lot of us grew up on, where the putative monster threat just keeps escalating