My friend gave me all his old Goosebumps books recently. I started reading them, and was overcome with nostalgia. These were a lot better than I remembered them (even with the now obvious shit-tier writing style that I was oblivious to in 4th grade). And I have a new found appreciation for those God-tier covers.
So, given the cool stories, great covers, massive nostalgia rush, and their massive popularity (I think they've sold over 350 million copies worldwide), and given the man child nature of this site, I have to say, there's really no excuse for not having a board dedicated exclusively to Goosebumps.
But that's just me. Would anyone else here be interested in such a board?
The pseudo-patrician neckbeards start tearing you apart in 3, 2, 1...
Sure OP. But most people on this site don't care enough about Goosebumps, so it's not gonna happen. You could start your own chan.
Like I said on the other thread, I would like a RL Stine board, sure, and I could even believe there might be a silent, dormant, unrealized want for the board from the community at large, just waiting to be aroused.
But don't count on Hiroyuki to pick up on it, even if we all demand it. Other than the history board he added, none of the board additions really make much sense, and there are more wanted boards that have not been added.
(Pic related was my favorite cover)
>>7832360
fail
>>7832370
I've asked this before and that's what some people have suggested. I might end up doing that but I want to try to arouse interest in the community and see if we can just get a Stine board here. If not, I'll start my own chan.
>>7832392
I remember you. I think you're wrong about Hiroyuki. The very fact that he has added niche boards far liberally than Mootles did shows that if we bitched about this enough, he would add it. What boards does the community want that he hasn't added yet?
its not 1996 nobody cares about goosebumps anymore lel
>>7832353
my favorite of all time is the haunted school, but no one else ive ever met has read it :(
>>7832432
That's my favourite too, Anon! The b&w world, the crazy b&w kids... truly creepy stuff.
>>7832437
yeah! i read it at night when i was a little kid and i got barely any sleep lol
>>7832353
i'm completely for it, i could talk about goosebumps for eternity
>>7832432
haunted school one was A1 but we all know which is the true GOAT...
>>7832476
Idk that and Camp Jellyjam were 2 of the few I didn't really like.
Pic related is the master race
>>7832492
*true master race
>>7832404
Attack of the mutant is my second favorite book, right behind pic related
>>7832353
I recall reading the newer goosebumps horrorland series that started coming out around 2008, and just a couple of the classic goosebumps books.
That dummy did give me at least one nightmare.
>>7832492
the camp ones were the best, the cover for camp jellyjam was fucking terrifying
pic related is underrated, that was some existential shit
>>7832419
True they're not at their peak, but I think there might be justification in giving these books their own board, or at least a RL Stine board for goosebumps, fear street, mostly ghostly, etc. If Pokemon (which is not at its peak in popularity either) has its own board than I think Goosebumps at least deserves to have a case made for it.
>>7832432
>>7832437
>>7832453
Scared the shit out of me when I was 9, (along with pic related). I wonder how it will read now. I guess I'll see soon, enough but I'm only A Night In Terror Tower this go around.
>>7832476
>>7832492
>>7832510
The Haunted Mask 2 and lets get invisible are god-tier (I'll agree with the other anon, I don't like camp nightmare).
But the Cuckoo Clock of Doom is best
>>7832514
Haven't read horrorland series yet, still making my way through the original ones. How do they compare?
>>7832516
Yeah can't way til I make it back to that one
Pic related was also massively under rated imo
>tfw my mom donated all my old Goosebumps books when I was 15, and I didn't even put up a fight
I was such a fag as a teenager.
Saw them in Barnes and Noble the other day, but they redid the covers and they were AWFUL (pic related).
Will be buying used copies of all the originals next time I get paid.
Also rebuying Animorphs soon.
This is the one that stuck with me the most. That might be more because of the TV episode though, which had a really creepy end sequence.
>>7832353
For some reason I couldn't read these. Probably because I felt they never lived up to the hype of their covers. Enjoyed the t.v. show thorougly though.
>>7832550
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? That cover is hideous? Why redo it when the original is so iconic?
>also rebuying Animorphs soon
>Animorphs
>>7832581
true the covers are superior to the content inside or the content inside almost any book, but the stories have gotten cooler to me with age, even if the writing style seems worse
the tv show never really did it for me. worst kid actors I've ever seen, too. pic related was far superior imo
>>7832568
never saw the episode but the book is pretty cool phampie
>>7832578
I Live In Your Basement was one of the few I never read as a kid. Am reading them all in order now but only on A Night In Terror Tower.
>>7832595
Agreed. Animorphs went downhill after the first one.
>>7832616
What are worse, the taglines to Goosebumps or the taglines to Animorphs?
>>7832578
How can I Live In Your Basement scare you and not The Haunted School? Are you 6?
Hell yeah nigga! I'd be down for that!
Also, can we get some Mostly Ghostly love up in this bitch?
>>7832526
/vp/ was created as a containment board, it probably wouldn't exist if /vg/ was created first and instead there'd be a /pkmn/ thread there.
I don't think Goosebumps are distorting the content of /lit/ enough to warrant their own board.
>>7832353
>>7832392
>>7832526
I don't think there's a need for a Goosebumps/Stine board.
Moot actually talked about consolidating boards before he left, saying the splits rose from necessity but were lazy solutions that caused their own set of problems.
Now Nagasaki has added a few MORE boards to the site. He'll fragment the communities too much. krippchann is a great example of what happens when you do that.
Like other anons have suggested, I think what really needs to happen is that you start your own chan. I'd use it. I love these books. I think they deserve it.
And I'm always down to talk Goosebumps on /lit/ or /tv/.
>If Pokemon (which is not at its peak in popularity either) has its own board than I think Goosebumps at least deserves to have a case made for it.
I agree. But I think the real solution is to get rid of the Pokemon board, not add a Goosebumps one.
(pic related is objectively the best Goosebumps book)
>>7832647
>/vp/ was created as a containment board, it probably wouldn't exist if /vg/ was created first and instead there'd be a /pkmn/ thread there.
True but as >>7832392 said, we there could be a dormant, unrealized interest in such a board that just needs to be aroused. I'd like to arouse it.
>>7832659
I don't think adding a few more boards would fragment it too much at all.
Yeah I might start my own chan if I can't arouse any interest in this board
>objectively the best
It's pretty good pham, but not the best
Honestly I think a general horror/b-movie board would be better. You can have some good discussion on lit about horror but often times the pseudo-intellectual users will put you down. That would be a win-win for everybody if Hiroyuki moved all horror discussion.
And of course trying to have any real discussion on /tv/ is a fools errand.
But yeah I'd be for it pham.
Also: remember when Reese was in the Noghtmare Room?
>>7832724
Yeah that makes sense, but idk id still rather have a Stine exclusive board. But a horror/b-movie board would be preferable to the current state of things, you are right.
I remember the VHS tape for that episode was always at the library, but I never checked it out for some reason.
>Goosebumps
>good
lad
They were acceptable when we were children but they don't hold up at all. There's an entire site dedicated to proving this
http://www.bloggerbeware.com/
It's be pretty sweet anon. I wish you luck in convincing Hiroyuki.
Did anyone else not like the Monster Blood books? They were always so FUCKING boring. I read everyone of them so I could say I read all the Goosebumps books, but those were a chore. I would have much rather had a Welcome To Dead House series.
>>7832646
I read the first one but they didn't so it for me like Goosebumps did.
>>7832749
Let me guess, it's written by some Snark-Lord 30 year old who got rejected by cracked.com and now is trying to make a name for himself by picking on a very easy target.
Look, in retrospect, the writing style is kind of shit-tier, but the stories are so cool that it just doesn't matter. They actually seem cooler in some ways now than when I was 10.
Also, the covers improve with age, and the nostalgia rush is a huge bonus.
You can't really prove something that's subjective anyway.
>>7832353
Just make a fucking general. Goddamn, you do not need an entire board for Goosebumps.
What you should do OP, if you're serious, is create your own Goosebumps forum, bring people from all corners of the web over. Then, when you get a sizeable audience, tell them to flood /lit/ with threads. Then when Hiroyuki creates the Stine board, you tell them you're deleting your forum, and that they should relocate on the 4chan stine board.
Imagine what would happen if there is a board made for every popular franchise, just make a general or whatever and talk in there.
>>7832905
I agree that it shouldn't be done more than once or twice. Pokemon already has one. So I think we could try to make Goosebumps the second one.
how about this one
I always liked all the goosebumps as a kid, but I never really got scared until I read this one. I recall reading it at night and running into mothers room, shaking.
Is it just me or was this one terrifying? I don't even remember the plot desu
>>7832780
I thought they were ok, but I agree Welcome To Dead House or some of the others justified sequels more.
>>7832841
kek yeah maybe it'll come to that
>>7832977
see:
>>7832659
I'll throw my favorite into the mix. Remember these from 5th grade. Circa 1996. You werent cool unless you had these in your backpack.
>>7832510
This was the first Goosebumps I read from the box set I bought.
>>7833207
That's a good one pham
>You werent cool unless you had these in your backpack.
Ahh the feels. I remember when Animorphs briefly took over for a minute but Goosebumps made a much stronger legacy
I would be all for this, but I have no idea how to go about pushing for it. Do you just samefag threads? Is there a way to contact Hiroyuki?
my favorite one
This was my favorite Goosebumps book
>inb4 series 2000
That was a marketing ploy. There is no difference between the "original 62" and series 2000.
>200 million American Dollars
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/authors/r-l-stine-net-worth/
>>7833638
>50c per book sold
publishers must love him
>>7833638
>tfw you just have to keep writing shitty, formulaic kids books until you hit it big with one then make millions by milking your fame and repeating the formula
>>7833713
>implying "shitty formulaic" automatically equals bad
>>7832535
>The Beast from The East
GOAT Goosebumps along with the Halloween mask one and the plant people
So much nostalgia
>>7833741
>something shitty isn't bad
>>7832646
I actually read the first two Mostly Ghostly books first, when I was 10. Then someone told me about Goosebumps, so I bought a volume that had the first 3 books. When I finished welcome to dead house and started stay out of the basement, I was confused cause I thought that these were gonna be a series, and was disappointed to find out they weren't. In the long run I ended up liking Goosebumps a lot better.
Pic related was my favorite one (actually it's The Haunted Mask but someone already said that)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were 100 times spookier and less trashy than Goosebumps.
>implying we shouldn't shitpost on /x/ until we drive all non-goosebumps content off the board
>>7833629
The part where the kid is sleeping in the car and it locks him in is borderline Kafka
Pic related was my favorite but I also loved How I Learned to Fly, Monster Blood III-IV and Egg Monsters from Mars.
This thread makes me truly happy
Goosebumps Gold when?
http://goosebumps.wikia.com/wiki/Goosebumps_Gold
>>7833863
Kek yeah maybe we should try it
>>7833882
Imagine how happy a whole board would make you phampie
>>7833895
kek never
I think he ended up funneling a couple of those into... One of the newer series.
>>7833895
There's a better chance of a Goosebumps board happening than Goosebumps Gold
No, OP. Even if you could arouse enough interest in a Goosebumps board, it's still not the way it should be done. No single franchise should have its own board, including Pokemon.
Frankly, /lit/ is a slow enough board that it could stand to have some more traffic. But as >>7832724 suggested, there might be some justification in a general horror board. Start pushing that, pham, and I'll show my samefagging support.
>>7834070
Wouldn't a Goosebumps/Stine board be so much more fun, though?
>>7834082
Daily Goosebumps Thread
I remember really liking this one.
I think I kept it from the library
>>7834082
That doesn't matter, though. It would be slightly more fun for the people who use only that board, MAYBE, but it would drag the rest of the site down. And it would open the door for other fags to get their own franchise boards.
Dont be a spoiled brat. Look how many responses this thread has gotten. There will always be a place to talk about Goosebumps, with plenty of people to talk about it with. You don't need your own little board.
/thread
>>7834096
fml
>>7834098
Maybe you're right, but frankly I don't care if the rest of the site will suffer. A 4chan informed Goosebumps forum would be true master race, and I will samefag until it happens, or until I die.
Have a look at the Dutch translation cover style, Goosebump anon.
None of you plebs have said pic related?
You don't deserve to call yourselves fans
>>7834125
>Netherlands: Not Even Once
>>7832526
This was the book I had in mind when I saw this thread. This is probably the only goosebumps book i can say legitimately unnerved me. The idea that time was going backwards was very scary; it was especially eerie when the protagonist was just a baby and had to turn the clock around after it was now in some store. The sense of tension was crazy.
Should I do more?
https://vimeo.com/115991249
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuJuI5Fc31w
I remember thinking this was a really cool one. It's not scary, it didn't even try to be, it was just a neat concept where he finds an old book that contains a recipe that, when ingested, gives flying powers.
>>7832392
I remember really liking this one too. I think I related a lot to the protagonist's social problems in school.
This cover is beautiful. That coloration....
>>7834160
That's my favorite cover of the series
>>7834145
Yeah it freaked me out too.
Plus thewish fulfillment at the end with the girl he wanted to ball is straight outta /r9k/.
Calling all Creeps is the greatest book of our time. Stines Magnum Opus.
>>7834183
>I call them my four enemies because they're my four enemies.
Poetry
>>7832353
>No Animorphs
Nostalgia can be fun, makes you feel young again.
>>7833882
I remember I bought this one from a scholastic book fair, it came with a glove paw that looked exactly like the one on the cover.
Brings me back.
>>7832606
You're right but I watched both.
Love scary things!
>>7834204
I haven't read it in years so I don't remember that, but it made me kek.
>>7834334
Ok, fine. You want scary this is what you want. Forget Goosebumps, or even Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (half of those stories are either jokes or just urban legends the art is what carries that book.)
If you want scary STORIES then you need to read this series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Stories_for_Sleep-overs
>>7834235
animorphs never did it for me after the first one
>>7834327
>scholastic book fair
Oh the feels.
My teacher actually bought me Go Eat Worms from one of the book fairs once.
>>7834333
yeah i did too just cause my friends watched it and i didn't want to be left out but i secretly preferred Are You Afraid of The Dark
>>7832986
Why Dav?
>>7832353
A board? No way. Maybe an occasional general in /lit/ or /b/ though. Who else always fucking died in the chose your own adventure goosebumps? I could never complete those bastards.
>>7834375
>Sao Progrethifff!
>>7834383
The first one I ever did I ran into a giant. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I think you could either run from the giant or offer him an apple so he wouldn't eat you. I gave him my apple, he said thank you, ate it, and then ate me. It made me kek.
>>7834353
I COULD NEVER REMEMBER THE NAME OF THESE!
Seriously I remember one where a kid got eaten alive by ants graphically. But man this series must have the worst title ever. Thank you anon!
>>7834421
No, problem! Here's a site that has a review of most of them http://www.gnarlybookreviews.com/2014/08/scary-stories-for-sleepovers.html
I add my vote to creating your own chan. A stine chan needs to happen.
Pic related was MY favorite book. Fuck Slappy, Mr. Wood was true master race.
>>7832353
The idea of an entire board devoted to one series is retarded, but then again that didn't prevent the creation of /mlp/.
>>7832646
>>7833814
Did you guys ever play the Mostly Ghostly Graveyard Panic game that was on the old website? I played it a lot in the summer of 05, was never able to beat it. Found it again on link related, was actually able to beat it after a few days.
http://www.y8.com/games/graveyard_panic
>>7834661
or /vp/.
Goosebumps, at least at its peak, was as every bit as popular as these 2 (and they're not at their peak either).
>>7834678
No I never did. Just played it now. Got to level 13.
Would have gotten further, but my cat jumped up on the keyboard and made me lose a couple lives. Then in my rage I lost my concentration and lost the other 3.
Fun game anon.
I reread a few of these books a little while ago, and to my great distress noticed a number of things in the writing that reminded me of my own style.
>tfw goosebumps ruined your prose
Spoilers for the Goosebumps Movie:>tfw when I thought of the basic idea for the goosebumps movie (all the goosebumps characters come to town) 10 years before it was made
>tfw I can't do it now
>tfw my story was a lot better than that movie
>>7834805
I know that feel anon:
>write story that I'm excited about
>show pages to friend
>he tells me it's ok but the writing style sounds kind of like stephen king
>tfw i realize he's right
haven't tried to rewrite it yet. its been almost 4 years.
>>7834830
>image.jpg
>know your meme
NORMIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>7834832
fuck you my computer is being fixed
and I rarely use this phone (tfw no friends) so I didn't have any wojaks saved so I just went to google images and typed in wojak
it wasn't letting me save it so I just screencapped and forgot to cut it down.
>>7834837
>not having an emergency reaction image stash on your phone
No wonder you write like Stephen King.
>>7834837
lmao
>>7832353
Pic related, my absolute favorite. Don't remember much about the actual plot, but I do remember the ending giving me a preteen existential crisis. If I'm remembering correctly they find the "lost legend" in Antarctica and the legend reads WHOEVER FINDS THE LOST LEGEND WILL BE LOST FOREVER. The characters look up and one says "where are we?" fade to black all is lost. Shit fucked me up
I have PDFs of all 62 books in the original series. Can put that up if anyone wants. Where do the cool kids upload their files these days?
Attack of the Jack O Lanterns was the gayest book of all.
He didn't even trymain character wants to go trick or treating with a group of kids including kids who are shitty to her. wait there are two of main characters friends in the group who didn't show up. well they'll catch up. Two jack o lanterns surprise the group and I guess threaten them and force them to keep walking and force feed candy down their throats eventually the two kids who are shitty to the main character run away scared. Reveal that the two scary jack O lanterns were those two friends of main character who didn't show up and the main character narrator was in on it the whole time. Oh and on the last page Stine pulls something out of his ass where they're aliens and it is implied they're gonna eat the main character
>>7834864
thats no way to own goosebumps. you need those dank physical paperbacks
>>7834869
Wow you need to re read that one because you got a lot of the details wrong.
>>7834874
I have most of those in a cupboard too.
>>7834883
Take a picture of all the books laid out on the carpet.
my mom donated them all when I was 14 cause I didn't care about them anymore
now i wish i had kept them
>>7834883
pls upload cupboard
>>7834899
>>7834925
Okay not most. I remember now that my Mom went through a phase when she thought they were evil or something and I had to sell most of them (including all my favourite Give Yourself books).
And for some reason I have two copies of Deep Trouble II.
>>7834934
Oh man was hoping you'd have monster blood 3. That was one of the first ones I read, I remember thinking "oh shit those books at the store with the cool covers are actually tight"
>>7834934
hold onto those
for the most recent printings they have some new weird shit tier covers, who the hell knows why they did it
>>7834934
>the haunted school
>attack of the mutant
>the haunted mask II
>the cuckoo clock of doom
>let's get invisible
>the beast from the east
Well you have all the best ones, besides calling all creeps and the curse of camp cold lake.
And trick or trapped if we're counting give yourself goosebumps.
And trick or trapped
>>7834934
shit that's cool
i'll post my collection tomorrow if I can find it pham.
>>7834943
Yeah I remember when I read Welcome To Dead House. Wanted to splooge.
>>7834964
And trick or trapped
>>7832353
>tfw OP makes an ironic post and it gets taken over by serious discussion
>>7834964
More & More & More Tales is another one I'm glad I've still got. Not well known, but a great collection of shorts.
There's one about a girl who goes to this ballet that's so slow the audience starts aging in their seats, and she can't walk fast enough to escape. Nightmares pham.
>>7834805
>>7834830
>>7834844
Stine's prose might not be top-notch, but let's remember his stories were based af, or at least the good ones were. King's prose is far less embarrassing, but his ideas can't compete with Stine's, and he usually fucks up the plot halfway through. Stine usually delivers.
>>7834978
This. Stine came up with, or ripped off, the coolest ideas ever. King does too, but often times he squanders its potential on piss poor plotting.
>>7832432
It was a great Goosebumps, although I forgot what it was about. Haha.
>>7834978
your wrong
Although king has the same skeleton for all his novels, you can still appreciate his style, his ability to hook someone and you have to give him credit for popularising reading for a lot of people.
just don't read two of his novels in a row as they will be so similar and dull otherwise he makes a great entertaining read
>>7836137
you're*
I never even thought of this but now I want it so bad.
And unlike you, I have the sense to know it's NEVER gonna happen.
Fuck you OP
(Pic related was my favorite)
>>7836392
its one of the few i dont like
Holy shit why do I have to share a board with such manchildren? I want to talk about Dostoevsky and Dickens, and yet you plebs make threads about King and Grisham - and now worse, R.L. Stine?
Yeah, I think a separate board needs to be made here, but not a Stine board, just a pleb board. /lit/ should be for patricians only. I would fully support having to register for this board and being forced to take an IQ test to gain entry.
>>7837119
How's 10th grade going, pham?
This skeleton fuck kept me up for ages.
>>7834864
I would be super grateful for that actually anon! Mediafire, solid files, mega, anything is fine really. Thank you!
I should also use this time to vent my FRSTRATEASDJH my brother gave away all our goosebumbs to our school library full of illiterate little shits who will never appreciate it.
Still, it would be nice to go over some of the old classics...
Anyone read the one where it showed the origin of the haunted car?
Pretty fucked up, if I remember rightly there was a bit where a kid got his eyes clawed out by a possessed cat.
My dad used to bring me to the Worlds Biggest Bookstore (Toronto) when he had me on weekends and leave me upstairs while he used the public phones to call phone sex lines.
I got so good at reading I could read a whole Goosebumps book in an hour flat.
T-t-thanks dad for t-t-t-teaching me to r-r-r-read.
Damn, this thread is still up?
>>7837276
Reader, beware, you're in for a scare.
www dot solidfiles dot com slash v slash pVPYVapYB7dXa (plz no bully spam filters)
Note that this is just the original 62 Goosebumps books (no Series 2000, Give Yourself or any of that), for nostalgic browsing by those poor souls who had theirs donated.
>>7838561
Holy shit.
Thanks anon!
When it comes to goosebumps there do have a very important nostalgic value for meThey are also important as they convinced me that some fetishes can be an inherent rather than a learned as they triggered thoughts which a child with no knowledge of such matters should have
>I have to say, there's really no excuse for not having a board dedicated exclusively to Goosebumps.
The community is simply not big enough, for a comparison the only board here based one series is vp which is for pokemon and mlp which is for my little pony, considering this is an anime board this is rather impressive. Until you get those kind of numbers (these communities have multiple forums and sites already) and become that cancerous there wont be a new
>>7838704They are also important as they convinced me that some fetishes can be an inherent rather than a learned as they triggered thoughts which a child with no knowledge of such matters should have
Care to elaborate?
You're right, the community is not big enough. The idea is to arouse potentially dormant interest in existing members of the community, and maybe bring in some new ones, too.
>>7838561
ANON! Thank you so much! I just got back from work to see this, you're amazing and an angel <3!
