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Goosebumps: helping you be a literate little thang.
Newtron
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Hey! Here's something that gets left out of 90s nostalgia pretty frequently.
If you were in elementary school (or primary school for you foreign swine) between 1992 and 1997 then you probably got around to reading at least one Goosebumps book. Goosebumps, for those of you that don't know, are a series of horror novella written for kids during the early to mid 90s.
Whether you started with the first one: "Welcome to Dead House":
A family moves into a new house within a new town. Over time the family begins to think the house is haunted, and that the inhabitants of the town aren't what they seem.
Or you jumped on the train at "Monster Blood", or "The Haunted Mask":
Kid comes across some weird old toy store and buys a can of weird crap called Monster Blood. Turns out the Monster Blood is some wacky slime thing that grows bigger when exposed to air and tries to consume everything it can. One of Stine's Flagship titles for Goosebumps, there are 3 sequel titles.
A timid young girl finally gets fed up with some local bullies and vows to get revenge. A local costume shop has just opened for Halloween, and the girl muses about buying one of their creepy masks to scare the bullies back. When she does indeed buy one of the masks, she discovers that it begins to change her, and make her more violent. Still worse is that the mask seems to becoming her real face.
Or maybe you just read a bunch of the good shit:
A family goes on road trip to some amusement park, but instead winds up at Horrorland. The family's car explodes somehow, and they become stranded. The story is mostly them encountering monsters and the deadly rides while they try to find some way to call for help.
Basically some siblings go on tour in "Terror Tower" in twentieth century London. The two siblings discover that their tour group is gone, and some crazy man is stalking them in the tower. Crazy plot twists in this one.
Some boy and his little sister hear legends about local ghosts in the area from his grandparents. The boy then goes out exploring with nervous sister in tow. They eventually encounter three mysterious siblings and a mysterious cave on the nearby beach. They end up befriending the two siblings and warning them about a crazy strange guy saying that hes really the ghost that haunts the area, but things end up not being what they seem.
He also wrote some 26 other books in a "new millennium" type run of the series, but as you can guess, it sucked. There was even life action versions of the book on Nick during the latter part of the 90s, but the shows were really poorly translated to TV. You were better off with "Are You Afriad of the Dark?" instead.
Here's the original 62:
1. Welcome to Dead House
2. Stay Out of the Basement
3. Monster Blood
4. Say Cheese and Die!
5. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
6. Let's Get Invisible!
7. Night of the Living Dummy
8. The Girl Who Cried Monster
9. Welcome to Camp Nightmare
10. The Ghost Next Door
11. The Haunted Mask
12. Be Careful What You Wish For...
13. Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
14. The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
15. You Can't Scare Me!
16. One Day at Horrorland
17. Why I'm Afraid of Bees
18. Monster Blood II
19. Deep Trouble
20. The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
21. Go Eat Worms!
22. Ghost Beach
23. Return of the Mummy
24. Phantom of the Auditorium
25. Attack of the Mutant
26. My Hairiest Adventure
27. A Night in Terror Tower
28. The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom
29. Monster Blood III
30. It Came from Beneath the Sink!
31. Night of the Living Dummy II
32. The Barking Ghost
33. The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
34. Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
35. A Shocker on Shock Street
36. The Haunted Mask II
37. The Headless Ghost
38. The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena
39. How I Got My Shrunken Head
40. Night of the Living Dummy III
41. Bad Hare Day
42. Egg Monsters from Mars
43. The Beast from the East
44. Say Cheese and Die - Again!
45. Ghost Camp
46. How to Kill a Monster
47. Legend of the Lost Legend
48. Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns
49. Vampire Breath
50. Calling All Creeps!
51. Beware, the Snowman
52. How I Learned to Fly
53. Chicken Chicken
54. Don't Go to Sleep!
55. The Blob That Ate Everyone
56. The Curse of Camp Cold Lake
57. My Best Friend Is Invisible
58. Deep Trouble II
59. The Haunted School
60. Werewolf Skin
61. I Live in Your Basement!
62. Monster Blood IV
If you were in elementary school (or primary school for you foreign swine) between 1992 and 1997 then you probably got around to reading at least one Goosebumps book. Goosebumps, for those of you that don't know, are a series of horror novella written for kids during the early to mid 90s.
Whether you started with the first one: "Welcome to Dead House":
A family moves into a new house within a new town. Over time the family begins to think the house is haunted, and that the inhabitants of the town aren't what they seem.
Or you jumped on the train at "Monster Blood", or "The Haunted Mask":
Kid comes across some weird old toy store and buys a can of weird crap called Monster Blood. Turns out the Monster Blood is some wacky slime thing that grows bigger when exposed to air and tries to consume everything it can. One of Stine's Flagship titles for Goosebumps, there are 3 sequel titles.
A timid young girl finally gets fed up with some local bullies and vows to get revenge. A local costume shop has just opened for Halloween, and the girl muses about buying one of their creepy masks to scare the bullies back. When she does indeed buy one of the masks, she discovers that it begins to change her, and make her more violent. Still worse is that the mask seems to becoming her real face.
Or maybe you just read a bunch of the good shit:
A family goes on road trip to some amusement park, but instead winds up at Horrorland. The family's car explodes somehow, and they become stranded. The story is mostly them encountering monsters and the deadly rides while they try to find some way to call for help.
Basically some siblings go on tour in "Terror Tower" in twentieth century London. The two siblings discover that their tour group is gone, and some crazy man is stalking them in the tower. Crazy plot twists in this one.
Some boy and his little sister hear legends about local ghosts in the area from his grandparents. The boy then goes out exploring with nervous sister in tow. They eventually encounter three mysterious siblings and a mysterious cave on the nearby beach. They end up befriending the two siblings and warning them about a crazy strange guy saying that hes really the ghost that haunts the area, but things end up not being what they seem.
He also wrote some 26 other books in a "new millennium" type run of the series, but as you can guess, it sucked. There was even life action versions of the book on Nick during the latter part of the 90s, but the shows were really poorly translated to TV. You were better off with "Are You Afriad of the Dark?" instead.
Here's the original 62:
1. Welcome to Dead House
2. Stay Out of the Basement
3. Monster Blood
4. Say Cheese and Die!
5. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
6. Let's Get Invisible!
7. Night of the Living Dummy
8. The Girl Who Cried Monster
9. Welcome to Camp Nightmare
10. The Ghost Next Door
11. The Haunted Mask
12. Be Careful What You Wish For...
13. Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
14. The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
15. You Can't Scare Me!
16. One Day at Horrorland
17. Why I'm Afraid of Bees
18. Monster Blood II
19. Deep Trouble
20. The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
21. Go Eat Worms!
22. Ghost Beach
23. Return of the Mummy
24. Phantom of the Auditorium
25. Attack of the Mutant
26. My Hairiest Adventure
27. A Night in Terror Tower
28. The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom
29. Monster Blood III
30. It Came from Beneath the Sink!
31. Night of the Living Dummy II
32. The Barking Ghost
33. The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
34. Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
35. A Shocker on Shock Street
36. The Haunted Mask II
37. The Headless Ghost
38. The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena
39. How I Got My Shrunken Head
40. Night of the Living Dummy III
41. Bad Hare Day
42. Egg Monsters from Mars
43. The Beast from the East
44. Say Cheese and Die - Again!
45. Ghost Camp
46. How to Kill a Monster
47. Legend of the Lost Legend
48. Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns
49. Vampire Breath
50. Calling All Creeps!
51. Beware, the Snowman
52. How I Learned to Fly
53. Chicken Chicken
54. Don't Go to Sleep!
55. The Blob That Ate Everyone
56. The Curse of Camp Cold Lake
57. My Best Friend Is Invisible
58. Deep Trouble II
59. The Haunted School
60. Werewolf Skin
61. I Live in Your Basement!
62. Monster Blood IV
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I think the Monster Blood ones were the only ones I didn't read
my cousin and I had this elaborate plan for a goosebumps video game
Holy shit me too
I think I still have a bunch of boxcar children books at my dad's, someplace
i was a stupid kid, but i read so many of these books.
you're like 4 years older than me
my path was more like Animorphs > Redwall > Lord of the Rings > Song of Ice and Fire
Redwall was awesome too, those books were SO smart.
my dad and I had a tradition from when I was like an infant to when I was about 6 of him reading to me every night before bed, and I loved it
but after Mossflower I really really wanted to find out what happened in the next book so I started reading ahead a little bit
and after that I was just like "dad, this is great and all, but I can move a lot faster if I read to myself so... sorry!" and that was the end of that
then I started my science fiction phase
hooooo boy
they loved me for it
you mean... the first book?
Goosebumps though was pretty alright, of course the two I started with, Curse of the Mummy and The Scarecrow walks at midnight, sucked pretty hard.
ahahaha sure
The only other creepy shows I can remember being around in the 90s were Eerie Indiana which was campy and awesome, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? Which was geuniely terrifying sometimes, and otherwise just generally great.
That is awesome as all hell.
wow
you're old
I remember that episode, too, but I couldn't tell you anything about it as it's been an eternity since I've seen that show.
Man, now I'm remembering how fun that show was back in the day.
no no...i distinctly remember one of them becoming a main character and tagging along with the group, unless my memory is bad and he was there the whole time.
Shivers I think
I had a lot of those, too
One about little toy monsters that grew into the real deal, one about a dude cursed by a gypsy, one about a really fucked up haunted house, etc
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-DAWveB_g
Ax showed up in #8
Never considered himself one of them though
he was the head writer for the entire series
You damn kids with your loud music.
I stopped reading those after Night in Werewolf Woods. They were pretty good for CYOA, but this was at the time where I felt he was up and down with his writing.
the books were so much fucking cooler
The first one was about people staying young by sleeping in giant Tupperware containers
I didn't know this was a book series.
I probably would have loved it if I'd known at the time.
Was still pretty good though.
Ah, okay.
I thought he only wrote the one episode, because I saw his name mentioned in an advertisement for it.