Goosebumps

[Anonymous No.17162260]

A thread dedicated to the most enlightening and supreme pieces of Literature ever conceived by man.
Lets chat about Goosebumps.

[Anonymous No.17162268]

>>17162260
In my opinion, The Haunted Mask is his best one. The main character slowly turning into a monster and being unable to be normal again, to even show themselves around friends, is a story that still hits hard as an adult

[Anonymous No.17162271]

>>17162260
Let's chat about the King James Bible.

[Anonymous No.17162284]

>>17162268
in pic related a dude actually rips his face off trying to get the mask off and he bleeds out and dies. Probably one of the most gruesome scenes i've read in Goosebumps. It's not even played for laughs, it's just depressing

[Anonymous No.17163063]

Ghost Beach was scary. The ending- his grandparents are ghosts!- was a good twist because isn't that a scary idea? instead of being a sense of comfort and support, they will eat you and enjoy your suffering. kind of like learning that the government is one huge child sex ring.

Monster Blood was a favorite of mine. And the ventriloquist dummy one. I think the best cover was the one where a hammerhead shark was coming up to bite a swimmer, I still don't like to be in deep water where I don't know what's under me.

In the mid-90s, I was just starting elementary school and Goosebumps were what I learned to read with. I think I read every single one- some of my earliest memories are of looking at the pages and having the words resolve into people and places and events. I have been viciously addicted to consuming printed material ever since, and still fall asleep reading, just like when I was in elementary school.

[Anonymous No.17163211]

>>17162260
I really wish I could write a full book in ten days. I wish it tooi me less than two weeks to write a bestseller. How do I accomplish this?

[Anonymous No.17163215]

I could never look at old dirty sponges under the sink the same way again

[Anonymous No.17163244]

>>17163211
Have a template and writing style that you follow. Every Goosebumps book has more or less the same plot structure and is written in the same way. I imagine they just started writing themselves at some point, and the only thing he put thought into was a new story idea every few weeks. If you know how you want to write something and have the plot ironed out, it just kinda falls into place

[Anonymous No.17163391]

Even as a kid I found these stories really boring. I understand the importance of the first act in a story but all I remember from the 20-some odd volumes I read were kids in new neighborhoods bickering about things and chapters ending in cliffhangers that were all false alarms.

I know I read Say Cheese and Die but all I remember are kids breaking into houses, going into basements, and beating around the bush. I don't remember the ending to any of these stories. Even with Night of the Living Dummy, all I remember are the parts where nobody suspects the dummy is alive.

The covers were better than the actual stories themselves.

[Anonymous No.17163995]

The gnome one always spooked me. Them little niggers would catch my size 9's on the upside of their terracotta heads. Little cunts

[Anonymous No.17164044]

>>17162284
Why would people put it on in the first place?

[Anonymous No.17164761]

>>17164044
The guy in the story has an evil brother who puts it on him. He eventually tears it off and somehow stumbles up to an attic to die. Very realistic.

[Anonymous No.17164773]

[Anonymous No.17164788]

>>17164773
Based.

[Anonymous No.17164789]

I started reading Goosebumps as a first grader. By the time I was in 3rd grade I'd outgrown them.

I was shocked that kids in my 8th grade reading class were still reading Goosebumps. Goddamn some people are awful at reading.

[Anonymous No.17164835]

>>17164773
God, I love this man.