Post your favorites, senpai!
>>81346331
b-b-bump...
>>81348828
b-b-b-b-b-bump
>>81346331
>>81346331
Isn't that the one where the kid gets thrown into a commercial fridge with the egg monsters and they save him by melding together and enveloping the kid and there's like 2 pages of him describing what it's like in his egg monster womb?
>>81349280
That's the only one that's actually spooky. Look at that guy.
>>81349477
Goosebumps was fucking crazy
>>81349477
and it turns out they were raping him the whole time.
For kids.
Is there one where two kids get like decapitated ? I'm asking for a friend.
>>81350441
Headless Ghost or Night in Terror Tower.
>>81349280
>>81349280
Read that as Fecal of Doom the first time.
>>81350590
>Night in Terror Tower
Oh fuck I remember reading that as a kid
This was the cover to Say Cheese and Die and I thought it was so badass. There was a t-shirt with this picture on it that I begged my parents to get me. They wouldn't get it at first but I begged enough times that they caved.
What was the scariest Goosebumps cover/book?
For me it was the Curse Of Camp Cold Lake.The cover is even more scary when you finish reading the book.
>>81351488
When my entire family dies this is how I intend our bodies to be kept.
>>81351668
Slappy was my personal Boogeyman for the entirety of third grade. Fuck that puppet.
>>81351668
As a tyke that one about the alien summer camp really freaked me the fuck out and the tv ep really did not help with that ominous ass last scene.
>>81351668
The Haunted Mask was pretty scary of a cover.
I had almost all the books as a kid. I think the Monster Blood ones were my favorite. Sadly I never developed any kind of transformation or size fetishes out of it. Hm.
http://ifitwerestine.tumblr.com/
Tumblr, yeah, but I still think it's amusing.
>>81351982
Haunted Mask 1 or 2?
There's a very good chance I maaaay have masturbated to the Creeps when I was younger.
Or recently. One or the other.
>>81351668
Yeah, the ghost ones were usually pretty good.
I remember being spooked by Ghost Beach and Ghost Camp.
>>81351488
I didn't get the shirt, but I thought the older kids who did were so fucking cool
>>81352833
Why?
>>81353512
where do you think you are?
I don't have many specific memories about goosebumps. What do you think it would be like to read every single one of them now, as an adult? Torture? I'm suddenly tempted.
>>81353546
No I meant what part did you fap to?
>>81353649
Some of them actually aged ok but I imagine it would be a slog overall.
I thought this cover was so cool growing up
>>81346331
>>81349477
>>81350181
Upon second reading I think its hinted the "boy" is really a girl, a very tomboyish girl or the earliest transgender character in a children's book.
Read it again sometime. The main character tries very, very hard to be a "boy".
>>81353736
That's what I expected. I'm currently in this sort of drive to just read a lot of books this year though. Not necessarily good books, just a high number of them. And I'm sure goosebumps would make for quick reads.
If I had them, I'd do it. But it's probably not worth the effort involved in getting my hands on 62 fucking books.
>>81353913
Topkek is the opportunity ever arises you should make a thread about it.
>>81353913
Libraries are good for that. Raid the children's books. Some are quite good. The first Wings of Fire series is excellent. I read those 1 book a day. Easy.
And yeah, some of the Goosebumps books haven't aged well. The 90's lingo is terrible sometimes.
>>81353980
I meant to say if
>>81353980
It would make a good blog, now that I think about it. Or a video blog. Watching someone slowly lose the light in their eyes over the course of 62 updates.
>>81354116
Hell maybe do a jokey kind of alantutorial type thing.
>>81351668
This fucker right here.
Sometimes when I'm out swimming I remember this cover and panic-flail-swim back to the boat/shore, only to realize that sharks cans sense and usually aim for those fish and seals with elevated heart rates because it means they're tired or injured and will easy picking, which makes panic more.
Too bad the book was actually about fucking mermaids.
>>81354288
Good book, and yes, creepy cover.
Deep Trouble 2 probably gave a lot of readers a transformation kink, too.
I have a box of 30 if these, remember walking to an old thrift store to get them and remember said thrift store closing and them giving me the rest but can't for the life of me remember any actual stories. My memory is terrible. I did enjoy watching the new movie with my sister though and getting nostalgia from every monster popping up.
>>81354388
Lol no that was the episode of spongebob where he turned into a snail
>>81354554
Deep Trouble 2 had the main character or his sister possibly turning into a giant goldfish.
Thinking about the sister transforming gave me funny feelings as a kid. Now of course, well...
The Goosebumps trading cards were pretty brutal.
The only book I've read since elementary school in the 90s is Night of the Living Dummy I. After I saw the new movie I felt nostalgia pangs and picked up a hardcover collection of Night of the Living Dummy I thru III.
I stopped at the first one, if that gives you any indication of how well they've aged.
I will say that when the book DOES pick up (the dummy only comes to life in the last 3 chapters, the first 3/4 of the book is just the sisters pranking each other), it kicks into holy shit overdrive.
Mr. Wood is every bit as violent as the trading card indicates; he straight up threatens to kill the kids, punches and bites them, and tries to strangle their dog.
Been I while since I read the Slappy books (he doesn't become the star until the sequels), but I recall Slappy being much, MUCH less violent and only wanting to make the kids his slaves, not kill them.
>>81355766
Early Goosebumps was surprisingly violent, with things like the dog being killed in Welcome to Dead House, the plant man being hacked to bits with an ax in Stay Out of the Basement, and people dying in others.
Fuck, wasn't the villain of Piano Lessons Can be Murder basically a serial killer, or something?
>>81355766
>Night of the Living Dummy I
Never understood why the TV series skipped that one, but did all the sequels.
>>81356191
Probably because it didn't star Slappy.
>>81356010
Essentially yeah
>>81351810
Welcome to Camp Nightmare, the alien thing was the Twilight Zone esque twist at the end and all I can remember of it is the episode of the show where they tell the kid they're going to earth and they point up in the sky at a shitty little planet effect
Did anyone ever read the choose your own adventure books. They were the coolest thing back in '99 with their hologram bindings. The covers were never the best part of those.
Seems like they started phoning in the covers past the mid nineties.
>>81356963
Yeah kek in retrospect it was cheesy as hell but back then I was convinced aliens were gonna come here and break their foots off in our asses
so anyone listen to goosebuds?looking to rip it off, whose in? thinking maybe animorphs too
>>81354288
>Too bad the book was actually about fucking mermaids.
You WISH that's what the book had been about. Instead, it was just… about mermaids.
>>81350181
The blob monsters put an egg in his boypussy
And then he actually lays it at the end of the story. Just squats down in his front yard and passes an egg.
>>81353743
> mfw play the shitty game as a kid
> never collect all the costume pieces despite playing it off and on for years
> it still haunts me to this day
>>81354288
> showering and close my eyes
> imagine sharks
> nope out and opt to let the shampoo sting my eyes for a while in exchange for the view of my shower walls
This fear never leaves you, anon.
>>81350753
me too, made me hungry for arbys
>>81357582
I'm in. It's been my dream to make a podcast that riffs on these books and I'm so mad I've been beaten to the punch.
Maybe Are You Afraid of the Dark would work well too.
I used to fap to this story
This thread is 2spooky4me.
>>81346331
This one has always been my favorite one.
>>81352833
Uh...transformation fetish or something?
>>81351668
Ghost School
>>81362245
Shit I remember looking at this cover, maybe being fascinated by it. But I don't know if I read it. I have no knowledge what the story is whatsoever.
>>81362078
>>81362199
>>81362289
Man, fuck these kids for trying to tell these people what not to do because of their ethnicity or primary vocations.
>>81351668
The Barking Ghost cover (as seen here >>81351066) still scares me to this day. Something about the intensity of the dog's eyes...
>>81362317
Summary from the wiki:
http://goosebumps.wikia.com/wiki/The_Beast_From_the_EastGinger Wald, former nature camp survivor, is on a vacation with her family in a forest. Besides her mother and father, they are joined by her two twin brothers, Pat and Nat. But they seem to prefer playing video games than learning about nature. After her father jokingly tells Ginger to go "lose" her brothers in the forest, the three siblings wind up lost in the forest...
While lost in the forest, Ginger and her brothers encounter some strange plants, some of which rub off different colors on Ginger's hands. They also spot some strange animals, like a small creature that resembles a squirrel and a dog. The ground begins to shake in a clearing and the children hide behind some bushes just as a Beast appears. The Beast is an eight foot tall blue furred bear-faced creature with a long snout, a primate-like body, and a beaver-like tail. He sniffs around, then leaves, then re-enters, then leaves again, and continues to behave in this manner for some time until it finally leaves for a final time. The children decide to make a run for it, but only Pat manages to escape, leaving Nat and Ginger trapped by an entire community of Beasts! The main Beast approaches Ginger and then proceeds to slap her on the back, saying that she is "It".
The Beasts explain in perfect English that they are playing a game called "Beast From the East" and Ginger is now "the Beast From the East." She has until the sun sets to tag another player or she gets eaten. Ginger tries to get the Beasts to explain the rules to her. But they act as if this is an absurd request and do not answer. Only several of them begin to introduce themselves instead. One's named Fleg, another Gleeb, and a third is called Spork. Spork is missing an eye... The creatures also speak in a sort of pidgin English that is combined with made-up words.
>>81362376
or told kids to gawk at homos
>>81362376
>>81362457
>>81362400
Reading that description I kept going back and forth between "this sounds familiar..." to "i've never heard this before", so I have no idea. I definitely remember the cover though.
Actually most of my memories of goosebumps books are covers. I don't know how many I actually read. Apart from messing around with choose your own adventure ones, the only story I properly remember reading from start to finish is the summer camp one where the kids start disappearing.
>>81352833
the ending was pretty good to this one
guess where this was taken from?
>>81362569
lemoade vampire?
genie ride bike?
>>81351066
Maybe the scariest. I was so psyched when I got this one, mostly for the cover.
>>81353743
Came to post this
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>>81353743
This one was my favorite.
I started watching the old tv show with my niece. She has a good laugh at the technology in it but really seems to enjoy it. Too bad I only have like one book left out of my once massive collection or else I'd hook her up. Might just put some on a flash drive for her though. It's a fun series to revisit. Might do the same with Are You Afraid of the Dark.
>>81362245
You couldn't be more right.
I still have the goosebumps figurines book or whatever you Americans call it
>>81362021
Oh god my transformation fetish beckons
>>81352088
Yeah, that was a great cover
Can we post Fear Street covers too? I thought they were well done too.
>>81351668
One Day At Horrorland fucked me up as a kid.
>>81362929
Who remembers Cuddles the hamster?
holy shit a goosebumps thread.. I highly recommend checking out BloggerBeware. Basically it's a blog of a guy just riffing on all the Goosebumps book.
>>81362766
>>81362815
Eh, these new covers just don't do it for me.
>>81362980
>Can we post Fear Street covers too? I thought they were well done too.
I remember buying this even before I knew Goosebumps were a thing pretty much just for the cover. Never did read a lick of it. But
>>81363023
>Eh, these new covers just don't do it for me.
Me either. Too silly or too busy and overall lousy to look at.
>>81363010
Ah yes. Had this one too.
Goosebumps really should have had a comic series.
the CYOAs were legit.
>>81362315
Not ghosts, it's actually weirder.
>>81363095
It had a few graphic novels.
>>81363095
Goosebumps Graphix. They're a series of 3 graphic novels, each adapting 3 classic Goosebumps books.
>>81363183
>>81363190
Cool. Good to know. Thanks. I'll have to check 'em out somehow.
BEEP BEEP BEST STORY COMING THROUGH
>>81363225
>>81363225
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPGcgPVV5O0
>>81363225
That's the one with the game show and they want to eat them, right? I just remember the show from years later. Missed out on the book for some reason.
>>81363225
>>81363262
>>81363338
>so popular get it's own spin-off
I read some the spin off pretty good stuff
>>81362245
Best fucking taste right here
These were fun
>>81363606
im glad it has that warning on the cover, i always feel bad thinking about the people accidentally buying stuff like this for their kids or grandkids
>>81363606
is this a book about cazu marzu?
>>81363674
>cazu marzu
That's an actual thing people eat...
why?
>>81362245
I remember that my neighbor had a poster of this book cover in his room when he was a kid. I always found it really interesting to look at.
>>81351668
The one about the lawn gnomes scared the shit out of me because I had it on tape.
>>81362815
I remember I had to do a report on a book of my choice and I did this one. Part of the assignment was we had to draw the cover too. Sadly I don't remember anything about any of the Goosebump books I actually read except the one with the... werewolves I think? I believe it was on a farm. The ending was really stupid.
>>81364171
>the one with the... werewolves
They're all about Werewolves.
Not this one, "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" it's about Fever Swamp.
>>81362315
This was a good one.Even if the enemies were not even ghosts.
This cover always freaked the fuck out of me. I don't know if I ever actually read it, but I do remember staring at the cover and imagining them breaking in through our sliding glass doors out back.
A lot of the time I'd just look at the covers and use my imagination. I know I read some of them, but I think I looked at the covers more than anything.
Y'all remember that PC game Escape From Horrorland?
It was rad as fuck. The sewer maze monster may have given me PTSD.
>>81364328
Fever Swamp is one of the best eps imo. I never watched it until last year and the acting was pretty solid for Goosebumps.
>>81360106
My first one
>>81354116
http://www.bloggerbeware.com/
Somebody beat you to it.
>>81362910
These books were horrifying.I still remember the description of how the aliens crushed that one guy.
>>81349280
Is it me or is there a lot of Goosebump books set in a summer camp?
I'm not a Burger so I'm not sure,
are summer camps really that popular in Murica back then?
I loved these so much.
Ruined the library books with those creases so I could get every ending though
>>81365068
It was the best way to get your kid out of those house during summer break since you couldn't get rid of them for half the day at school
For all the Egg Monster people:
>Upon second reading I think its hinted the "boy" is really a girl, a very tomboyish girl or the earliest transgender character in a children's book.
>Read it again sometime. The main character tries very, very hard to be a "boy".
>>81363262
I wanna cuddle with thar bara ice cream goblin
he seems like a cool guy
>>81365086
I'd always pussy out and keep my finger on the previous page in case my choice caused me to die or something.
Carly Beth was my Goosefu
>>81356963
Man, when I was a kid this ending was mindfucky as hell.
>>81365607
She was Supergirl in Smallville.
>>81346331
what i wouldn't give to see an animated, 2d or 3d, anthology series...
>>81356963
It was one after another. Fist they were just normal kids at camp and then they were like monster commandos and then they were aliens ready to invade. Hilarious.
>>81365655
The Goosebumps book with the most mindfuckery is I Live In Your Basement.
>>81362496
It's not a very good description.
The basic synopsis is that the narrator and her brothers get lost in the forest and end up what is basically Monster Jungle, and end up stumbling into, and thus joining, The Most Dangerous (Calvinball) Game, where they have until sundown to not be "it" before they lose the game and are eaten, but the rules are confusing as fuck and the monsters refuse to explain them. There's plenty of other incidental dangers in the forest as well.
Obviously at sundown the narrator is still "it", but one of the twin brothers (who had disappeared near the beginning) finds them at the last moment, at which point the monsters declare that the brother is a "level 3 player" (because he has the ability to duplicate himself) and thus has immunity to losing their game.
>>81362400
>read the rest of the summary
>it's in the God damn spirit of Calvin ball
>horror Calvin ball
>>81363023
>Eh, these new covers just don't do it for me.
When they were on point (not so much >>81364673, for example), the old covers could be legitimately creepy. The new covers look like deliberate allusions to cheesy B-movies, with their more overt art and title text.
>>81362766
>>81362815
My niggers.
>>81362528
what was the ending?
>>81365904And then the car wash cost five dollars.
>>81365904
Main character gives up/gives in and eats the lizard transforming-seed laced cookies at the bake sale/school cafeteria.
Was always uncomfortable about how he just gives up the fight and decided "lizard world? Okie dokie!"
Only ending I really remember. That and the goldfish puffing eyes of deep trouble II.
which book was most well written?
pic related. when i was looking back at some of the old goosebumps books this was the only one i was genuinely interested in.
>>81366052
pretended to be rid of it, kept it as a secret in the end
>>81349280
this is the most fucked up goosebumps I have ever read. it still haunts my nightmares
>>81362815
>Might do the same with Are You Afraid of the Dark.
It holds up better than the Goosebumps TV series, IMO. At least the first 5 seasons, before the relaunch with the new cast.
>>81363225
The twist was soul crushingly existential. Nothing an 8 year-old could be prepared for.
I have fond memories of this one but honestly all I remember is the twist ending
dis is a good one
>>81362404
>>81349280
>>81365607
Carly Beth is cute. CUTE.
What was the one where the kid turned into a bee? I remember really enjoying that one.
And I think one where like the main character turned out to be the ghost instead.
Pleb Tier, I know, but Night of the Living Dummy II had a cover that used to scare the shit outta me.
I remember when I was finally brave enough to read it (I didn't even like to touch the cover), I found the actual story to be not so scary.
Slappy didn't want to kill anyone, just make them his slaves. He only plays pranks on the kids and frames them for trouble throughout the book. He gets killed at the end by just smashing his face in because he's made of, like, clay and was never really all that dangerous.
The story I made up in my mind was 100X more terrifying and reading the book helped me get over it.
>>81366607
>lappy didn't want to kill anyone, just make them his slaves. He only plays pranks on the kids and frames them for trouble throughout the book. He gets killed at the end by just smashing his face in because he's made of, like, clay and was never really all that dangerous.
Yeah, the sequel came out when Goosebumps was toning down its violence due to parental concerns.
The first Living Dummy book has this scene in it (>>81355766) and it was pretty fucking horrifying. The girl catches Mr. Wood walking down the stairs in the middle of the night and tries to stop him. He punches her in the stomach and throws her down the stairs then starts biting her and threatening to kill her.
I remember the girls trying to kill Mr. Wood by burying him alive in the backyard. And the whole time, he's calling out from his suitcase that he's locked in that he'll come back and kill them in their sleep once he gets out.
He comes back the next day and fucking strangles their dog near to death and then starts biting and punching them until he gets crushed by a steamroller.
None of the Slappy books ever topped that.
>>81362021
Glad I'm not the only one.
>>81360106
>Look up a PDF because I don't believe it.
>"Everything looked so beautiful to me. The grass. The trees. The spring flowers. The sun setting behind the trees."
>"What a day! What a beautiful, perfect, normal day!"
>"And then halfway across Anne's lawn, I stopped."
>"I crouched down on the grass — and I laid the biggest egg you ever saw!"
>>81362158
Another good transformation fetish book... Hmm, I'm starting to understand where my kinks are from a bit better. Thanks, R.L. Stine.
>>81366742
>>81366602
Why I'm Afraid of Bees and The Ghost Next Door.
BEST STORY COMING THROUGH.
>>81366443
What was the twist?
>>81365483
There's no shame in that
>to turn left, go to page 52
>to turn right, go to page 136
>"You turned left....AND DIED!!!"
>>81366793
Oh yeah! They're the ones
>>81363010
The next one gave me my size fetish.
>>81365483
Yeah, Peter, I seen it.
Now I'm watching episodes of the show on youtube.
Thanks /co/. Just what I needed today, no sarcasm intended
Realizing that these books were more absurdist dark comedies for kids than horror made me re-evaluate them. It's Fear Street that's Stine's genuine attempt at scary stories. Goosebumps seem closer to the funnier episodes of Tales from the Darkside.
That's not to say there ain't shit that didn't stick with me because of how existentially horrifying it is. There's one story called the Ice Vampire where this girl has all her heat sucked from her and is turned into an ice sculpture by an ice statue of a vampire. I soon realized that if the Ice Vampire was alive she was probably still alive too. And she would know the terror of slowly melting in the hot sun. Fucked me up, man.
>>81346331
I love Tim Jacobus' art. The covers would keep me captivated for the longest time as a kid. I wish he had a real online gallery instead of that small 90's one.
Also, which Goosebumps is this? I don't know if it's a book, but it was an episode.
>Three punk kids have a "cool kid club"
>New boy moves in, kids target him
>Try to initiate him by trapping him in an old house haunted by a dead couple who died of grief after their son died
>Ends with new kid convincing the ghosts to take the three punks as their new children.
btw, What did you guys think of the movie?
Anyone remember Stein's other series "The Nightmare Room" ?
>>81366870
the TV episode for this was killer
>>81367101
From what I've heard, the movie isn't shit. I might give it a go.
>>81367144
Hell yeah, it was.
>>81367101
I really enjoyed the movie because it plays like "What if RL Stine wrote a book about a Goosebumps movie based on himself?" Because it does work almost exactly like some of Stine's cheesier/goofier work.
Others may be disappointed because unlike the TV series it doesn't do anything straight. Tonally though it's probably most similar to that 80s movie Killer Klowns From Outer Space. So if you liked that you'll probably enjoy this film.
>>81367101
"The House of No Return", from the "Tales to Give You Goosebumps" short story collection.
>>81363454
>so popular it had it's own board game and video game
Yeesh.
So, did R.L. Stine really write all of this, or were some parts of it ghostwritten like Animorphs was?
I mean, they're fairly simple books, but doing one Goosebumps a month + one Fear Street a month + all of the endless spinoffs for both seems like a ton of work for just one person. Surely there were ghostwriters for the two series's, right?
>>81367332
I think good chunk of goosbumps were ghostwritten
I'm sure he wrote some of the early ones but you can tell that a lot of them were written by different people
>>81367332
I know some of the spinoff titles were definitely ghostwritten. Not sure about the main line.
>>81367332
Wait, you mean there really is an R. L. Stine? I thought that was just a corporate cover name.
>>81367332
Maybe he has enslaved the ghosts of Poe and Twain?
>>81367403
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._L._Stine
Maybe he just got lucky with the name.
>>81367403
He's a real guy.
Fun fact: He did writing on Eureka's Castle before he started the Goosebumps books.
>>81367403
>Wait, you mean there really is an R. L. Stine?
>mfw
>>81346331
>getting fetishes from all these lame Goosebumps books
Nah, THIS is the one especially since it's POV. One ending where you transform into a dog and have to put your tail in between your legs to show your subservience while the other dog eats his dogfood first, one where you end up being tickled on your feet and armpits for the entire rest of your existence, a retarded TF ending involving a basketball. The be all end all right here.
>>81367504
>>81367479
>72 years old
What the hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_Candy_(TV_series)
>R. L. STINE
This cover fucked with my head for years.
>>81366607
>MFW my childhood bedroom had a ventriloquist dummy sitting on an old trunk facing the bed
>Wasn't allowed to move or throw it away because it was "an antique"
>The jaw was loose and would occasionally flap open on its own
>>81367741
I remembered that dropped like a rock. VJuice ever recover?
>>81367504
>>81367540
Writing children's books must be a personal hell.
>>81367512
fuckin a i love choose your own adventure books
>>81366881
>What was the twist?The kids spend the whole book lost in the weird abandoned amusement park populated by monsters and deadly rides. In the end, they finally escape, only to suddenly become paralyzed and fall limp. Some human technicians then appear and open up panels in the backs of the kids. It turns out at the kids we were rooting for through the whole book were just robot test dummies sent through the park to make sure all the new hi tech rides and attractions were safe. They only thought they had parents and friends and homes to get back to because they were programmed to think they were real kids. And they've been "reset" and sent through the hell of the amusement park dozens of times before and would continue to be reset to do it over and over again forever.
Brutal.
>>81367905
That wasn't One Day at Horror Land that was A Shocker on Shock Street faggot
>>81367147
>From what I've heard, the movie isn't shit. I might give it a go.
It's pretty good. It's more fantasy than horror and doesn't try to be scary, but captures the weirdness of the books very well. Jack Black is surprisingly tolerable, too.
>>81367948
>Jack Black is surprisingly tolerable, too.
I think it's cool that RL Stine personally picked him for the role.
>>81367922
>That wasn't One Day at Horror Land that was A Shocker on Shock Street faggot
There's like a hundred of these fucking things it's a miracle I can remember any details at all.
>>81366052
Yeah, How I Learned to Fly felt like an 80's kids movie, it was good.
I also really liked Ghost Next Door as a kid, shit was actually rather heavy and sad for an otherwise goofy ass series of kids books.
>>81367948
>that RL Stine cameo at the end
Best thing in the whole movie.
>>81366742
I honestly completely forgot about this. I must have read it several times as a kid. Maybe I miss read it as the character seeing another big egg? fuck man..
What was the one where the girl suspects her teacher of being a monster, but at the end she tricks him home and her parents are also monsters and eat him or some shit.
>>81367504
I think R.L. Stine is the most Jewish-looking man to ever exist.
>>81367540
>>81367880
Well, yeah, he's 72 *now*. That means he'd be around fifty when he was writing the books. That's how time works.
>>81367147
It's very much in the spirit of kids' horror/adventure movies from the 80s.
>>81368042
>What was the one where the girl suspects her teacher of being a monster, but at the end she tricks him home and her parents are also monsters and eat him or some shit.
That was >>81366870.
>>81366533
Favourite one right here, it's just so ridiculous.
>>81368041
>Mr. Black
so.... anyone know where the fuck can I get the Give Yourself Goosebumps books? I have a few of them and I've been wanting to get a complete set. Also mainly because I like gamebooks/CYOA, some guy used to run it on /tg/ but he stopped due to lack of participation (Shame really)
>>81367504
>sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine
Yeah I'm sure.
>>81367880
Bobs seen some shit
>>81367104
Was that one of the anthologies he did?
One of those had a scary fucking story that still creeps me out
do they still pump out new goosebumps books, or do todays kiddies have their own horror/twilightzone series
Okay, there's one I remember a counselor reading to us at summer camp (yep, those things were real just like in your American Cartoons). I don't recall the title.
Story goes that a kid sees lights in the sky that crash in the woods. She goes to investigate and thinks aliens are invading.
She finally discovers that the aliens weren't real, but it was all a movie that was being filmed in secret. Relieved, she goes home.
She walks in to find that her parents have been replaced by monstrous aliens with tentacles.
It was one of those endings that didn't make any sense but I remember scaring me. There was another one that was exactly the same; a kid thinks his new baby brother is evil and tries to prove it. Turns out the baby was normal and the kid was imagining things. But the baby was also mixed up at the hospital and has to go back to its real parents.
The kid meets his real baby brother and everything seems okay until the parents leave the room. Then the baby stands up and grabs the kid by his throat and starts threatening him, the end.
>>81368235
They keep making new series.
I recall one where one or two kids were visiting their grandparents and they either came home or woke up one morning and they were locked inside the house and the grandparents had left a note saying there was a monster in the house
Anybody know what that one was
>>81368275
How to Kill a Monster
>>81368246
Those were both from "Tales to Give You Goosebumps"
>>81346331
This series was pretty cool as a kid and much more graphic and fucked up with some stores. By the time the third book was out I had already outgrown them unfortunately.
>>81360971
You were afraid of being attacked by sharks in the shower? Like, tiny sharks swimming inside the water drops? I mean, I thought about sharks and freaked out while swimming in a pool, but the shower is next level paranoia.
>>81367993
Ghost Next Door is one of my favorites. That was one read that stuck with me.
>>81368318
>Those were both from "Tales to Give You Goosebumps"
Makes sense, considering I remember hearing both of them at summer camp. Thanks.
These were legit
>>81368330
There was one really good story in there and it's the only one I remember.
This lady goes to a playground and sits down on a bench. She looks over at the tube slide and notices a bunch children coming out of the slide, but no one climbing the ladder to get in it. She also notices all the kids coming out of the tube look identical.
So she goes to investigate, climbs the ladder and crawls in the tube. But halfway down the slide, she falls into a pit and lands on a hive of gelantanous cocoons. All the identical kids are being birthed from some huge insect monster and escaping through the tube slide. Then they swarm her.
>>81368433
>mfw when I found out they were reprinted with new art
Fucking why.
>>81368463
>>mfw when I found out they were reprinted with new art
>Fucking why.
Yeah, there's a good article showing comparisons:
http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/
Jeez, the new art is so bland.
>>81368447
>>81368330
Remember that one pretty well actually. Made me feel funny. I remember two or three about weird TV/remotes, something about a tree keeping evil inside and luring kids or some shit, the first story about an evil pixy, an evil doll, being trapped in bed by hundreds of centipedes, and a couple more but even vaguer. Maybe one where a kid goes to summerschool where troublemakers stop keep dissappearing and in the end he accidentally breaks a rule and taken to the inside of a locker right behind the rusty summerschool chalkboard where he's forced to listen to for the rest of his life but that might've been a Goosebumps.
>>81368346
Was that the one where it turned outthe whole town died because of poison gas from a factory or something?that was some dark stuff
>>81368589
It's the one where the girl thinks her neighbour is a ghost. Turns outshe's the ghost who accidentally killed herself and her entire family in a fire and has come back to save her neighbour from a fire.
>>81368330
>>81368447
>>81368541
I remember one story from that book during the peak of the mid-2000s internet hype
An innocent kid with a "Kirby"-something username can't remember it exactly is in an online chatroom chatting with another user who you can tell right off the bat is a fucked up craigslist-killer fucker. He persuades to kid to meet up with him in real life at midnight in a spooky location, and to not tell anyone.
"Kirby" sneaks out, meets up with the other user, and just as the fucked up guy starts to show his true colors,"Kirby" reveals that he's actually this weird fucked up bat monster who lures online predators so that *he* can kill them. The predator tries to run but "Kirby" transforms lunges at him and then does a monologue while sucking his blood out and shit.
>>81368664
I think I remember that one actually. I like how the books actually tried to be scary and not hold back it's events or stories for kids. Imagine RL Stine trying to get a story about some kid in a chatroom obviously being lured in by a pedophile/serial killer especially in the era of internet danger sensationalism.
>all this talk of getting fetishes from Goosebumps books
>no one's mentioned Say Cheese and Die Again yet
>>81368514
I love helquist's art, especially with ASOUE, but he's not good at making the pieces especially scary or disturbing, which was the main reason the book was so popular
>>81352833
I couldn't eat cookies for two years thanks to that book.
>>81366017
>Was always uncomfortable about how he just gives up the fight and decided "lizard world? Okie dokie!"
Didn't the creeps think he was their leader or something?
>>81360971
I have the same thing, bro.
>>81369175
That was why he was hired I suppose.
>>81369246
Yeah, they thought he was the leader of the invasion. And all the people in his life treated him like shit so he decided that being king of the lizard people was the preferable option.
>>81369246
Yes they did. Really he was in too deep not to give in.
>>81369124
why what happened in this?
>>81369175
I can see them changing the art to something more tame so that younger children can read them without being traumatized
>>81366017
>>81369246
>not wanting to TF regardless
>>81369350
A photo taken of the main character shows him enormously obese, and he gains a ton of weight over the rest of the book. Blowing out the tires on his bike just by climbing on, outgrowing his clothes, getting stuck in his desk, etc. His dad even has to rent a minivan to drive him to school because he's too fat for the family car, and it's mentioned he takes up the entire backseat.Near the end, he reverts back to normal in his sleep and when he wakes up and tries to heave his no-longer-immense body out of bed, he ends up flinging himself clear across the room.
>>81362404
I'm curious as to what kind of sick riffs Dracula would play.
>>81369310
I always loved the ending. You expect it's going to be one of those stories where the moral is "The hero has to stop the invasion because even if it means his life will continue to be shit and he'll miss out on all that power, it's the right thing to do!" but then he's just like "You know what? fuck it, I'm in charge now."
It was great.
>>81369451
Age changing fetish.
