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[Goosebumps/ R.L. Stine thread No.18331625]

We've all read at least one, so which is your favorite/most memorable?

This was the first chapter book I ever read through on my own. I was in the third grade and had two younger sisters, so I think the story struck a chord with me.

[Anonymous No.18331678]

Probably the first Haunted Mask or Welcome to Dead House. I love the twist endings at the end of these.
Have you read these Horror’s Call books from here? Very similar.

The tv show these books had was good too. Growing up in Canada I always wanted to be on the show. They were filmed around where I used to live.

[Anonymous No.18331684]

For me it was "Welcome to Dead House" or "Say Cheese and Die", although the former is my absolute favorite. I remember crying at the end.

[Anonymous No.18331694]

>>18331678
The tv show rules. I still watch it sometimes, its comfy

[Anonymous No.18331697]

The summer camp one where the camp is a conspiracy to feed you to a mutant blob. Solid narrative build up compared to some of them.

I always thought a YA version of this, aiming for the 15-20 crowd, a bit more graphic and with some sex, could sell well.

The TV version of Night of the Living Dummy scared the shit out of me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.18331701]

Horrorland was my first, but Fever Swamp is probably my favorite.

[Anonymous No.18331704]

This guy made my childhood, I'm so thrilled people actually remember him
We're probably all in our 30s or so

[Anonymous No.18331708]

>>18331678
I only read Call of the Arcade but you’re right. It’s a lot like Goosebumps just edgier. Say Cheese and Die is my absolute favorite goosebumps book. First one I read.

[Anonymous No.18331715]

>>18331697
I'm pretty sure RL Stine actually did write a separate series that dealt with slightly more adult themes, but I don't remember reading it at all since at that point I was just reading Stephen King.

[Anonymous No.18331725]

>>18331704
I mean, those books were at book fairs and school libraries for years. Plus he kept writing more books beyond the normal goosebumps series for a long time
t. 21 year old that grew up with them

[Anonymous No.18331752]

>>18331697
The Horror at Camp Jellyjam! That one was amazing!
>>18331678 to all skimming the thread this is very true. This is where Call of the Crocodile came from. Closest thing I think I’ve ever read to Goosebumps.

>>18331694
I’m going to rewatch this show now. I wish they’d bring it back. Why did they never adapt the rest of the books?

>>18331715
Name of series?

[Anonymous No.18331804]

>>18331625
I remember liking Monster Blood. I was reading novels by second grade but loved horror and have decent memories of going out into the woods, climbing a tree, and reading them. The one I mentioned and the one that was a play on The Phantom of the Opera are the only ones I remember though. It was a decent gateway into horror for kids (but didn't really hit hard with the morality plays like other Children's Lit did).

>>18331694
Are You Afraid of the Dark and Tales From The Cryptkeeper (cartoon) were better than that show. The opening for the former actually still stands up pretty well (which says something for being low budget Canadian show from the 90s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2G8ySKNgA

[Anonymous No.18331812]

>>18331715
>>18331752
Fear Street? I never read them but I remember a cover that had a giant insect standing over the suburbs.

Check out these shows: >>18331804

[Anonymous No.18331840]

>The Bugman Lives
kek

[Anonymous No.18331889]

>thinking of adding some 50 goosebumps, animorphs, nancy drew, and hardy boys books to my goodreads to inflate my read count and impress girls (don't worry the western canon classics are at the front so they won't be able see these books)

should I do it bros?

[Anonymous No.18331900]

>>18331625
Were your sisters named April and Jessica

[Anonymous No.18332439]

>>18331889
I can think of no better use of your time

[Anonymous No.18332845]

>>18331752
The writer probably read Goosebumps when he was younger. Cool that it had an influence on another author.

[Anonymous No.18333277]

>>18331752
Call of the Crocodile has the strangest twist out of all of them. Which Goosebumps book had the biggest and best twist? They all were good but it's been so since I've read any of them. I might order some online. Are they even still in print? I don't want to have to shell out a lot of dough if they're collectors items now.

[Anonymous No.18333336]

Beast From the East
Legend of the Lost Legend
These were my favorite as a woods kid.

[Goosebumps/ R.L. Stine thread No.18333435]

>>18333277
"The Shocker on shock street" probably takes the cake for the craziest twist. It literally happens in the last paragraph or two.

[Anonymous No.18333451]

>>18333435
Thank you. I’m going to start with that one. I think I might have read it a long time ago.

[Anonymous No.18333519]

>>18331625
He wrote some adult novels. One of which I read when I was a kid. It was called the "The Secret" I think. Part of his Fear Street, series. It had a small romance and betrayal in it and then a curse. For a kid, it was actually Kino af. Definitely a gateway to literature. I'd recommend young kids read his adult stuff as it's still childish but he genuinely tries to write something interesting.

[Anonymous No.18333534]

>>18333519
This one?

[Anonymous No.18333550]

Anyone remember the trilogy(?) of YA horror about highschoolers, there was an evil house one kid moves into and the renovators get fucked up w a big nail working in the basement. One of the cheerleaders gets steamed to death in the locker shower. One kid gets his hand cut off in the shop.
Late 90s at the newest

[Anonymous No.18333568]

>>18331625
I've sold them all except those with the shiny covers

One was a gamebook, one was short stories, stuff like this, stuff like this

[Anonymous No.18333576]

>>18331840
I had some of these, too - think I sold them

[Anonymous No.18333582]

>>18331625
Any of the choose your own adventure books were kino

[Anonymous No.18334032]

>>18333568
Forgot all about shiny hunting

[Anonymous No.18334294]

My favorite was The Ghost Next Door, which I remember being genuinely moving. The scariest was A Night In Terror Tower. A Shocker On Shock Street had the coolest cover aesthetics

[Anonymous No.18334367]

>>18331625

I don't remember a single one that stayed with me in the sense of being a meaningful story, or having an interesting idea. I did read several because it was the done thing (b. 1984) but it was all just simple tropes. The "Monster Slime"(?) ones were slightly interesting, but that's only because I knew the basic premise of The Blob and found it scary. I couldn't tell you a single detail of the actual Goosebumps books, except that there were like two or three installments of that particular one.

After about two dozen I got bored with them. Then, in middle school, I started reading John Bellairs, enticed by the Edward Gorey covers. Here were finally some interesting stories with elements you could latch onto and remember, even if only slightly, and since the stories usually involved boys in a Catholic upbringing, I learned a little bit of foreign culture (my upbringing was protestant). When I did a book report on one of the Bellairs books, the teacher expressed happiness for the simple fact that it wasn't another (damn) Goosebumps book.

[Anonymous No.18334414]

>>18331625
Say cheese and die is the only one I can remember because the cover used to creep me out as a kid. These short stories are what I can remember more.

[Anonymous No.18334449]

>>18331889
Absolutely. Good luck, anon.

[Anonymous No.18334568]

I liked the CYOA ones. They kind of seemed better written, too.

[Anonymous No.18334592]

>>18331804
Are You Afraid of the Dark was a classic!
Growing up I remember a surreal film by the name of Killer Clowns from Outer Space. I liked it so much I wrote a letter to Sky asking when they would be showing it again. They wrote back saying something along the lines of 'we don't have the rights to broadcast that film again.
Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-nAo0Y4gc0

[Anonymous No.18334607]

>>18331625
I remember two pretty well - the one with the mirror with the evil twin inside who switches places with the main character, and also the monster amusement park that had a pretty dark ending IIRC. The rest are all blurs. I think there was one about a demonic puppet too?

[Anonymous No.18334744]

>>18334607
3 actually

[Anonymous No.18334846]

>>18331678
>Horror’s Call

Reading these books makes me so happy because it’s clear he must’ve loved Goosebumps growing up. Are there any other series where Goosebumps was an inspiration?

[Anonymous No.18335020]

There was this childrens book i read that had two rival magicians in highschool or something trying to one up eachother and one of the parts had one trick the other into grossing the school audience so bad they got projectile vomited by so many students they got literally washed out in a river of vomit. One swapped the magicians juggling watermelons act with one's filled with maggots and whatever and made him drop it
In another part one of them falls into the river out of a boat while wasps attack and the sister saves him by filling water ballons full of snot and throwing them at him covering him in a layer of mucus that protects him from stings

Its burned into my head and to this day i have no idea why this stuff was given to a child to read, or who wrote it

[Anonymous No.18336198]

>>18331625
Whatever happened to goosebumps?

[Anonymous No.18336334]

>>18331625
Goosebumps gave me the weirdest fucking boners. Anything that involved tf, girls who were secretly monsters, or brainwashing gripped me as a kid and I had no idea why at the time. I remember in Egg Monsters From Mars, the main character is a boy with a girl's name who gets covered in a "friendly" slime monster at one point, and then at the end of the book he lays a massive, pulsating egg and isn't shocked or anything by it.

[Anonymous No.18336355]

Goosebumps books smelled so spooky.