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Goosebumps Anonymous Mon Jul 6 01:31:06 2020 No.15786701 [Reply] [Original]

What are your thoughts about the Goosebumps books? I read tens of these as a kid around 2010. Haven't read one since like 2012. How are they today? Did any of you read them in the 90's?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 01:49:07 2020 No.15786831 >>15786701 What's the Goosebumps for adults? Stephen King?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 01:51:42 2020 No.15786852 >>15786701 the twist at the end of the ghost next door took me totally by surprise, i still remember how visceral the sensation was, not a lot of books can do that

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 02:03:21 2020 No.15786935 >>15786701 Fever Swamp is such a good name

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 02:07:20 2020 No.15786962 >>15786935 make a great sludge metal band imo

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 02:08:19 2020 No.15786966 >>15786831 Lovecraft

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 03:02:08 2020 No.15787262
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>>15786701
The one about the guy and his wife slowly having moss or fungus growing on them made more of an impression on me than any highly acclaimed horror novels for adults I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 03:05:52 2020 No.15787275 >>15786701 I had The Haunted Mask on a cassette tape and I must have listened to it a hundred times when I was a kid. It was so good

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 03:06:41 2020 No.15787280

>>15786701
Loved them as a kid, didn't have all but I had most of the original series. Read a few for nostalgic purposes maybe a decade ago but not since then. The adventure ones like the first mummy book, the shrunken head book, the mutant book, the animatronic theme park book, and the lost legend book were my favs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 03:12:37 2020 No.15787315 File: 2.64 MB, 2014x2969, The_Horror_at_Camp_Jellyjam_(Cover).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This cover always creeped me out a lot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 03:28:49 2020 No.15787381 >>15786852 exactly the same

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 04:17:09 2020 No.15787551 Do new ones still come out?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 04:41:31 2020 No.15787625 >as a kid around 2010

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 05:18:34 2020 No.15787746 >>15787625 Yes?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 05:23:27 2020 No.15787765 >>15786701 I’m old enough that I was reading them in the 90s as a kid. I haven’t read any for over 20 years, but I remember being enthralled by them at the time, me and my sister. I don’t think I read anything else back then, other than for school.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 06:21:45 2020 No.15787945 >>15786852 Not sure I ever read that one. Give me the run down anon. I remember Curse of Camp Cold Lake fucking with my 9 year old brain hard, but I don't remember anything about it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 06:22:48 2020 No.15787953 >>15787625 literally me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 06:32:45 2020 No.15787991 >>15786701 King/Lovecraft for the youth fiction market; still holds up

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 06:49:59 2020 No.15788072
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I read around 20-30 of them when I was a kid. The only books that stick out to me now were 'Cuckoo Clock of Doom' because it had an unusually cruel ending, and Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum which was my favorite book iirc. Most of them had the same 'twist' and were very shallow.

Kind of surprising to find out that R.L Stine was almost 50 when the first Goosbumps book was published.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 07:01:17 2020 No.15788122 >>15788072 Most of the books have cruel endings.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 07:40:26 2020 No.15788254 File: 17 KB, 313x286, 1579381191939.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15787746

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 08:00:17 2020 No.15788327 >>15788254 Hai?

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 08:04:28 2020 No.15788344
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Kino artwork. Apparently the french versions had much more tame illustrations, whereas in the US/CAN we had a distinct, overtly 90’s style.

Did we end up like CYOA or did it feel lazy?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:35:03 2020 No.15788731 What was the whole grand plot behind Horrorland?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:38:47 2020 No.15788752 >>15787915 vastly superior

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:41:44 2020 No.15788765 Only ever read escape from the carnival of horrors but liked feeling the raised lettering on the covers at the scholastic book fairs.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:47:38 2020 No.15788800

>>15787945
'The Curse of Camp Cold Lake' was one of dozens that I bought from a local thrift store. Even now, I remember the cover featured a halfway submerged head. It was the only one of dozens I genuinely felt frightened by. Moreover, the ending left me feeling empty. Few books can elicit those kinds of feelings in an adult.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:51:39 2020 No.15788819 >>15786701 as a kid they were dope as hell, evoked real emotional responses

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:53:45 2020 No.15788826 File: 1.43 MB, 2060x3003, OS_32_Barking_Ghost_cover_1stprint_w_Terrifying_Tattoo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One of my favourites

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:54:21 2020 No.15788831 I still have some in a box somewhere. I got them when they were actually being released. I had to clip an order page from the back of the book to mail it in so I would get the next one.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:25:20 2020 No.15789793

Never owned any, but liked borrowing them in the library.
I remember once, about 12 yo, when I was home alone for a night or two, I read one of these and I don't know if it was the horror or what, but it made me super depressed.
For no actual reason, I just started crying and felt so much despair for really no rational reason at all.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:34:38 2020 No.15789875 >>15789793 Maybe you got molested and blocked that part of the night out

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:46:01 2020 No.15789966 >>15789875 No, as I said, I was home alone, which must have enhanced the feeling. It was always scary to have the (dark) house for myself for the night. (though today it's a blessing ofc)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:47:00 2020 No.15789981 >>15786966 nah, stine's brand of horror is much closer to king's than to lovecraft's

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:48:11 2020 No.15789990 They are unironically better written than shit like Harry Potter to the point I'm sure RL had a ghost writer. The writing styles are incredibly varied from book to book too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:48:53 2020 No.15789999 Is it true that Stine wrote like 10 books and all the rest are ghostwritten?

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:52:33 2020 No.15790029

>>15788072
>Kind of surprising to find out that R.L Stine was almost 50 when the first Goosbumps book was published.
And he'd already had a fruitful career writing teen slashers for "Point Horror" and "Fear Street".

"Goosebumps" pretty much got me into reading and horror as a child. I lost a lot of them growing up but I'm collecting them all over again from places like eBay. If you take that they're written for 8-10 years olds, the ideas still hold up.
>ywn have another Scholastic book fair at your school
>ywn fight your way to the front to score the newest book

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:53:58 2020 No.15790040 File: 290 KB, 500x497, 193127923479.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15790029 >>ywn have another Scholastic book fair at your school

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:05:34 2020 No.15790122 >>15789999 >ghostwritten

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:06:02 2020 No.15790123 >>15790122 Yes?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:30:32 2020 No.15790304 File: 758 KB, 1707x2560, 91Lf26SRe+L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15786831

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:05:55 2020 No.15790566 >>15789999 Nah. Hes a writing machine >>15790122 >>15790123 >thatsthejoke.png

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:09:01 2020 No.15790588 File: 33 KB, 657x527, 2158147821763.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15786701 >tfw you learn foreign languages by reading Goosebumps in the target language

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