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sci fi horror anthology for kids? Literature

I remember getting this book through a Schoolastic book order. I remember a few of the shorts:

• The first short one had this kid whose mom invented an immortality drug and he took it despite being told not to and got I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream'd between layers of building construction. But he was also a really unlikable protagonist because he feels super entitled to anything he wants and had his butler decapitate an immortal monkey to see for himself if it worked (I think he also did something awful to his dog??)

• And then there was one where a girl found a phone to the future in her dad's work office(science lab?) and starts talking to this girl who lives in the future. She asks the girl from the future when and how she'll die, and the girl from the future looks up her death records, and tells her she and her whole family died in a plane crash at a specific time on the night on the day they're planning to travel for Thanksgiving. She manages to convince her parents to drive instead of fly, and she thinks she's in the clear, but actually they just crossed time zones, and a plane makes an emergency landing on the highway, running over their car.

• This teenage girl is babysitting a boy at the park, but is doing her homework and only halfway paying attention to her surroundings. At first there's only one other kid (I think in a red shirt and blue pants? Different clothes than the boy she's babysitting) there, but as time goes on the number of kids in red shirts and blue pants keeps increasing. And she sometimes sees one coming out of the tube slide but never actually sees one climb up the back. And she eventually realizes that they're all the same kid, but they swarm her and throw her down the tube slide. The support pillar holding up the middle of the tube slide is actually a pipe, and she falls down it into this mass that's creating the kids by budding, and it starts to digest her. It ends with her thinking something ironic about recycling soda cans.

Anyone remember this?