What's your favourite Goosebumps book /x/?
>>17492845
Night of the living dummy, or the one where they go to the amusment park was pretty cool. Haven't read these since 5th/6th grade though so can't remember all of the ones I read. (graduated in 01).
Some ones I like
> the horror at camp jellyjam
> legend of the lost legend
> vampire breath
>>17492845
the one with the martian eggs, or the cannibalistic yam thing, or whatever
they were all pretty awful, even as a kid
>>17492845
Welcome to Dead House was the only one that made me feel spooped.
Say Cheese and Die,and the sequel.
>>17493811
Honestly if you don't mind reading a "girl's book," R.L. Stine's Fear Street was a MUCH better horror series. Especially the three (4th was meh) Cheerleaders books.
Shit had me spooped haha
Without the horror elements, these books were incredibly depressing.
The kids are always unpopular and there's always someone being a dick to them, put into situations that suck, and the parents either don't give a shit or actively hurt them.
And on top that they have to deal with fucking being turned into a dog or some shit.
These are some grim fucking books.
THIS. DAMN. EPISODE. There is a scene where Carly Beth is getting chased by the floating dead heads near the cemetery. I was horrified at age 11.
>>17493996
>R.L. Stine is so good he managed to accurately describe /x/ 20 years before /x/ was even made
>>17494190
just the cover always scared the hell out of me
>>17493811
I really liked that one
>>17493836
This.
And the pic related one from the 2000 series about the kids with the dnd-jumanji-esque playing cards...which turns out to be a game within another game or whatever. Something else about corncob monsters and a wizard guy??
Best written one in that series, besides the ghost in the mirror.
Who /Say cheese and die/ here?
That's tough, OP. I haven't read them in so long. If someone can help me with the titles, some of my top contenders would be the one where it's revealed a kid at camp(?) was actually an alien being prepared to visit Earth and the one where the kid thought his teacher was a monster, and it turned out his family were monsters too and his parents tricked and ate the teacher.
>>17494190
One of my favorites and I still have it somewhere. I never really liked the show much, preferred to read the books.
>>17494457
This would probably be among my top picks, but not my very favorite. Still have this too.
>>17493826
And the Fear Street books, yes, those disturbed me more than the Goosebumps were, since they were so graphic to me at the time. Still own a few of these.
How I Learned to Fly made me the apathetic secondary character I am today.
>>17493624
> the horror at camp jellyjam
my nigga
did anyone like the choose your own fate books ?
>>17495332
funny you should bring that up. I had a bunch as a kid, and I remember vivdly reading one to a friend of mine on the school playground way back when. he wasn't really into it, and that was one of the last times I spoke to him. I just pased the school the other day so a lot of these memories surfaced.
I think it was fighting fantasy's house of hell. the revised cover seemed awesome to me as a kid.
>yfw you realize R.L.Stine is just a pen name for Stephen King
>>17492845
You can't scare me. That was the one baby.
You posted it, only one that actually scared me for an extended time as a kid.
BEE THROWING
BEE THROWING
BEE THROWING
Any fellow Goosebuddies in here?
>>17495332
yeah, i remember me and my friends found a boxed set with the first 4 in our schools library back in the day. Those kicked ass.
I read this.
In addition to reading Goosebumps/FearStreet/WhateverStinechurnsout, I've read a fair share of Christopher Pike who used to be big as Stine in 90s. Despite gore, Stine is less tame compared to Pike.
Stine's passage: "I like your sundress” he said wiping cheese off his chin with a paper napkin. “I-I’ve never seen your shoulders before.”
“I have two of them,” she said.
“I know, I counted.”
Pike's writing: "Jim reminded Nguyen of a young soldier he’d had under his command in Vietnam. The man’s name had been Tran Quan; he was the best killer Nguyen had ever seen. On sorties into the jungle Tran Quan always killed more VC than the rest of his squad combined. he hunted like a snake, though, not like a human. He wouldn’t stop at shooting or stabbing a victim in the back, Nguyen hated him and needed him at the same time.
But that need had been superseded the night he had found Tran Quan raping a village girl whom he had shot in the head. He smiled when he was caught in the beam of Nguyen’s flashlight. Nguyen had killed him on the spot and never regretted it."
Do note these are for young adolescent readers (13-14 yrs old).
Also, here's how Stine presents a black character in the book, The Confession. (who are usually absents from his books.)
“Julie, could we go inside?” [Hillary] asked me. “I think I already have enough of a tan!” Taylor and I laughed again. Hillary is African American.
>>17492877
God, that bitch's face is paranormal!
>>17495698
I've read a few Christopher Pike books, and it's really not fair to compare the two of them, as you pointed out. His books had a much more mature tone, whereas RL Stein's books were either cheesy fun (Goosebumps) or creepy but still mostly dependent on typical horror cliches (Fear Street and the like).
>>17495716
Bad joke that would probably be seen as tasteless now, but I'm sure at the time he thought it was innocuous enough.
>>17495456
I remember shooting off so many blanks reading this one.
This cover spooked the fuck out of me as a kid.
>>17495172
I debated if I wanted to try to recreate the potion as a kid but I recall it used a raw egg and I think back then I thought eating raw eggs was asking for food poisoning. I wasn't that bright.
>>17496322
Is it the impending doom of clean teeth?
>>17496352
>back then I thought eating raw eggs was asking for food poisoning. I wasn't that bright.
No, you were right. You could get salmonella.
>>17495332
who /secret agent grandma/ here?
The barking ghost. Actually got to meet rl Stine at an event and he signed my copy. Cool dude from what I recall. I was like 9 and went with my grandpa so it was a while ago might still have it in storage somewhere though
>>17492845
We cannot decide. It is between Monster Blood, Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, and Say Cheese And Die.
Honrable Mentions:
Vampire Breath
Camp Jelly Something
The Bible
Monster IV
I've only read one (lol), so Be Careful What You Wish For, but the ending was weird. Not really spooky but kinda surprising and unnerving
The art work reminds me of the illuminati card game
>>17497437
An inconsiderate one.
>>17492845
I still have this book, the cover of it used the freak the fuck out of me as kid. Still love these books though.
I remember How I got my Shrunken Head and Bad Hare day. I'm sure I read more
This was pretty good
Also, the TV episodes were GOAT. Intro always made me shit myself, especially that fucking dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXiYpfR-cRE
>>17498958
Forgot to attach pic kek
>>17498958
I found the TV episodes to be disappointing and only watched a few of them before going back to the books and ditching the show entirely.
>>17498287
boy you know where its at
>>17501001
>>17495172
yesx100000. not horror at all, but there's just something about it. i still read it like once a year, for some reason.
>>17498287
great book ruined by one hell of a gay ass ending
op the one you posted is the first goosebumps book that always pops into my mind when i think about the series.
any of the stories that ended that way always stuck with me and made me feel unsettled. the scariest parts of the books were how helpless the protagonist was, when they couldnt even rely on adults and no matter what they did the situation was fucked.
>>17492845
Didn't read much goosebumps but I remember reading these books.
Always liked being scared as a kid, but looking back, they had this shit in our fucking public elementary school library. Kids were allowed to read these books, the pictures are straight nightmare fuel! Holy fuck!
>>17501152
But how can you teach children to overcome their fears if you don't teach them true terror?
You fucking X niggers can't do anything right. The only truly good mention so far was How I Learned To Fly.
Monster Blood is and always was where it was at.
If you don't like the easy choice, then the obvious second was that goddam It Came From Under The Sink book. THAT shit was scary. I spent so many nights coming up with ways of protecting myself and fighting again't that evil. I know most of the books had the Carrie ending but that one took the cake where they were just completely fucked in the end.
>>17501152
THIS
This shit haunted my dreams for so long, especially the one about the scarecrow Harold
>>17501398
>You fucking X niggers can't do anything right. The only truly good mention so far was How I Learned To Fly.
This isn't a dick-waving contest, it's a nostalgia thread.
Monster Blood was good, but I think it got progressively worse with each sequel, IIRC. It Came From Under The Sink was good but not scary. TV show didn't do it justice.
>>17501409
>scarecrow story
This, I remember, was my favorite story.
I miss choose your own adventure books
>>17501984
I always fuckin died famalam
werewolf of fever swamp
the one where the kid gets turned into a vampire
>>17492845
Ermahderd bast fram ast
>>17492845
>Beast from the east
My nigga.
I liked the ones where you decide on your own actions.
That and the one where the boy who thought he was alive but was really a ghost.
>>17495456
Kek
>>17495456
>I hope my tulpa doesn't find out
>>17492845
<---- fucking childhood
>>17493836
Definitely one of the best
>that tension
>>17498960
That title... Wat?
>>17495332
These were my favourites, I used to find all the endings and write walk-throughs for them.
>>17495172
This was one of the best ones, it was so different from the rest of the series.
>>17492845
Deep in the jungle of doom. It was one of the choose your own adventure ones.
Used to get really excited over the part where you turn into the fish person. Later realized I had a transformation fetish.
>nobody talking about Nightmare Hour aka the scariest Goosebumps book I ever had as a kid
Just look at this illustration. The story accompanying it, I'm Not Martin, absolutely fucked me up as a kid and still unnerves me today when I think about it.
>>17506186
Oh god, is that the one where the kids screaming that he's not Martin because he doesn't want his foot amputated and then switches the name plates in the hospital room so as the nurses are wheeling him to get amputated he's just screaming "I'm not Martin " and the nurses response is. "He's been doing that all week, let's just get this over with."
>>17495332
"please dont feed the vampire" was the only choose your fate book i read along with another one but i forgot its name.
>>17506288
That's the one and holy fuck I used to almost feel trapped in the same situation when I read it. It's such a different kind of horror than what Stine usually went for.
Not one person has mentioned the Point Horror series. I'm disappointed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Horror
>>17506334
>>17506336
>TFW you acquire 50 various R.L. Stein books for $5 at a local yard sale
>>17506332
I think it's because it felt more like a real life scenario that could happen, especially when I was younger, it's always made me afraid of being in the hospital with a roommate.
>>17506378
Also, I preferred Bruce Coville to Stein anyway, but it was a hell of a steal.
>>17494205
Lel
>>17495172
That book had something about it, and I read like ALL of these when I was in 3rd or 4th grade this one was just different it stuck w/ you after you finished the book.
>>17495332
MAH MUFCKIN NIGGA! Those books were the shit, I loved skipping forward some n then being like "MY FINGER WAS ON THE PAGE I DIDNT GO TO JAIL FOR TAKING THE MONEY IN THE BUSH!" only to realize my other option got me stabbed.. like fuck you book lol.
>>17506388
Absolutely. And the threat of such a procedure. I remember the descriptions of the hospital walls as one of the most anxious-inducing shit ever, too.
>>17506378
You lucky fuck.
>>17506392
Loved coville, especially goblins in the castle, not particularly spooky but atmospheric as fug.
>>17492845
It was one of the choose your own goosebumps books, something about escaping a carnival.
I have a real soft spot of carnival/circus based horror, even if its super bad,
>>17493826
I loved Fear Street. My older (step)sister is as greedy a reader as I am and her mom and grandparents would buy her anything she wanted book-wise so every two or three months she would come visit and pour a couple brown paper bags of YA novels over my head like a book rain. (Don't judge, we have weird sister rituals)
I had a ton of Sweet Valley books, most of the fear streets, all the Christopher Pike novels and a bunch that were along the same lines but by random authors.
I miss those the most, since the other series are easy enough to find, but some of them I can't remember a title, just a basic plot and I would love to find them again.
>>17492845
I like "The grunch of the bunch". The ending was fucking great.
>>17495494
I had three or four. Loved them. One summer my life was all reading those while taking care of my baby cousins. Rocking a baby for 8 hours because she won't sleep unless she is in motion is so much easier with a book, so they'll always have a warm spot in my heart.
Girl who cried monster gave me monster girl fetish
>>17506392
>Bruce Coville
Brofist. I didn't read a lot of his stuff, but I loved what I read. "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" was my first one, been meaning to try to find it again. But my favorite had to be the "My Teacher is An Alien" series. Surprisingly deep for a YA series with that title, and I love how the art for the book covers was so misleading. I have some art here I requested in a drawthread after I picked the books up again and re-read them on a whim.
>>17506334
>>>/lit/
this is clearly a goosebumps thread
>>17501152
I took this out from the library as a kid and the illustrations scared me so much I left it in my Dad's car until we had to return it.
>>17507568
It's mostly a Goosebumps/R.L. Stien thread, but I see no reason why we can't talk about other YA books we read when we were younger.
r.l stine is still writing books
I remember reading this one the most. and the bad trip on acid one.
>>17498887
Ahh I remember reading this one when I was younger... I never finished it, I remember leaving it off at the part where it was late in the night and the ground was rumbling for some reason. I really wish I finished that one now.
These were better. They fucking traumatized me as a kid.
>>17495172
I am just going to echo what everyone else is saying. This one was great and i remember it almost perfectly.
>>17496352
You wouldn't have had the secret ingredient
>my friend and i tried it.
>>17508010
Reddit please leave.
>>17493996
>And on top that they have to deal with fucking being turned into a dog or some shit
>>17495357
>>17507903
What, is he still making these?
>>17506489
ever read whistles the starlight calliope?
>>17492845
That one still sorta haunts me if it's what I remember
>>17492845
Welcome to Camp Nightmare and A Shocker on Shock Street
>>17494190
That fucking cover holy shit.
The concept is also very scary and maybe lovecraftian? It might also be the origin of all the HYPERREALISTIC creepypastas.
>>17498287
Ma ntigga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjUHeEHSwwc
>>17498958
For real? The painted over reptile eyes were goofy as shit
For me the covers and general imagery was 90% of the fun. I had some special album with a page with various spoopy scratch and sniff patches that was one of my greatest treasures.
>>17509433
>It might also be the origin of all the HYPERREALISTIC creepypastas.
wat
>>17506336
This was pretty good. I was fairly dissapointed with the ending, though. But it did have a great build up.
>>17507568
I hate faggots like you. Stop trying to police the internet. It isn't your job so fuck off.
>>17508350
And you fuck off too. Can't discuss his childhood scary books because they are too mainstream for your hipster faggot taste. Fuck you.
My definite favorite.
GooseBUMP
>>17501617
>"It doesn't do dishes!"
Those little flavor texts fucking kill me
>>17510929
They were the best kind of cheese.
>>17494190
I used to hide this book under my dresser, I was so afraid of the cover. Never read it.
>>17493996
I think Why I'm Afraid of Bees was the book that made me realize I'm trans. I really, really wish body-swapping clinics existed in real life.
>>17511050
Cute bait, senpai.
>books
Night of the Living Dummy
>tv/movies: werewolf of fever swamp
When I was a kid, I had a bad experience with a doll.
>Be me
>Mom liked to collect dolls with dresses from Victorian era
Breaking greentext for a sec. Look up 'doll victorian dresses' and it looked almost exactly like that doll in the 3rd link wearing red
>Playing vidya with friend in 'game room'
>Game room had a 'nest' in the upper right corner of stuffed animals, so they wouldn't take up space anywhere else
>As we're playing, doll in red victorian dress falls out of nest
>Paralyzed in fear with friend for minutes, feels like hours
>Pick up doll as if it were a biohazard and carefully place on couch arm rest in living room
>Tell mom about what the fuck just happened
>As we were walking back into the house, I noticed the doll's head was on the floor while the rest of the body was on the couch
Trying to rationalize that situation: Sure, the neck may've cracked when it fell from the nest, but there was no reason the body should've slipped onto the couch cushion when I placed it on the armrest.
>>17510977
Nope
>>17492845
I don't remember the name bad it had something to do with a school cafeteria.
>>17511239
Anon, dolls can be creepy, but that was just you being scared of gravity, seriously.
>>17505562
this was the fucking best of the give yourself goosebumps. dope cover too
>>17506340
My sister had this one and most of the Fear Street books. I read this one and got too spooped as a 7YO. So I declined reading the rest of the 'big kid' Stine books she had.
>>17509433
invasion of the body squeezers was one of my favorites. loved those covers, and a goosebumps book so epic it needed two parts
>>17498287
hey cool. i'm a writer now, and my first journal was a facsimile of this book. i got it at a book fair in first grade, iirc.
so many of the covers posted have brought back intense awesome memories of reading under the covers with a flashlight in my teeth. 20 years later and i'm still an insomniac obsessive reader, even if Stine is a hack i still owe him a large part of who i am today.
the ending of Ghost Beach (spoiler: they're GHOOOOSTS) freaked me the fuck out when i was like 8
>>17512064
You know, he is a hack, and I even started to realize that after a while when I was young, but he's an *enjoyable* hack, at least as far as some of his earlier stuff goes, not sure about what he does now. When you're a kid, cliches are not obvious to you because you're new to it all. In a way, his books, loaded with cheesy horror twists, were like an introduction to them, and he still made them fun and enjoyable most of the time.
>>17492845
The first 50 or hell even 100 are great, iirc. I was 13 upon last reading them, but in that mindset, I think that's about right. Awesome covers too.
>>17495462
Wtf is this shit
>>17495462
chad's taking over /x/ too?! reeeee etc.
for real though, I listened to the first episode and it was alright, might save the rest for later when they start to build up an archive
>>17512119
Yeah it's okay. I do wish they'd skip the Facebook tier normie shit at the beginning though. No one wants to hear how you locked yourself out of your girlfriend's house, or any of your boring daily life nonsense. I just want to hear you fucks talk about children's horror books, alright? Can we just stick with that? Absolutely hate it when podcasts do this.
At any rate, I hope they get better with that as it goes on, but otherwise it's holding my attention and it's fun to listen about these old rags again after so many years.
Also holy fuck they need to learn how to resize images on their page because they're gargantuan and they make scrolling a pain in the ass.
>>17508010
I read these repeatedly as a kid, probably why I am into folklore today.
The series got pretty dark near the end
>>17494190
Holy shit, me too. My mom got really concerned after I ran out of the room.
>>17506296
I haven't read that one, but who WOULDN'T feed the vampire? I mean, you don't want those getting hungry.
>>17509364
No, but thanks for the recommendation, I have a shameful addiction to YA lit still.
>>17511239
Nice bullshit you wished happened to you. Fgt.
The ghost next door was probably my favorite. Not because it was scary, but when I was little the twist was new to me. I mostly read fear street though because they were the higher reading level and my school forced us to read at our own level, so because mine was higher, I got out in the teen section of the library while everyone else got to read in the smaller kids section.
I also noticed some talk about Christopher pIke, I read a few books of his but only the series with the girl that is killed by her friend when she puts broken glass in her burger and then is reincarnated in the other two books (if you know the name please tell so I can find it again) and the one about the scuba diver that was murdered (also would like the name) interested me.
>>17492845
Is it cheating if I say all the Monster Blood ones? Also loved Deep Trouble and its sequel, I would pick either one of those even if they weren't followed up.
>Beast from the East
actual fucking /x/ tier, still disturbs me
>family goes camping in jungle
>I guess the kids walked too far from the camp site, no big deal
>may have been less than polite to a creature at some point?
>they're now lost forever
>they will presumably be eaten alive, in the dark, in some bullshit Twilight Zone alternate universe, by big blue talking razor-clawed sloth-bears and whatever the fuck else is out there
>their parents, if they're even alive, will never even find their bodies
goes to show how spooky an open ending is
>>17493961
same
>>17493996
Stine purposely stayed away from getting "too real"-- none of the kids were ever abused or had to deal with drug problems, it was mostly all "first-world problems" outside of the fantastical horror elements. Some books did walk the line though, you could read them as having a bit too much pressure on them or being somewhat neglected.
>>17495160
first one sounds like >>17498887
second one, I can't remember, but I liked it, also it was the librarian not the teacher
>>17512081
If anything they lead kids into analyzing books, because after you read 10 of them you start to go "wait a minute something just like that happened in this book and this book". The time after that you'll probably see the twists coming-- and the books get less enjoyable because of it, but hey, now you're looking for patterns in writing.
>>17513985
It wasn't camp Jellyjam, I remember that one.
>it was the librarian not the teacher
Thanks for the refresher.
>If anything they lead kids into analyzing books, because after you read 10 of them you start to go "wait a minute something just like that happened in this book and this book".
Yeah, I used to joke with my friends about it after a while, especially the false scares at the end of almost every chapter, but he could still make stories interesting enough that I kept coming back for more for years, and judging by this thread, most of you did the same.
Anyone?
>>17514046
As with most of the books posted here, I know I read them, but can't remember the plots of 90% of them.
So what you guys thought of the graphic novels? They were nice to look at but not spoopy enough as reading them
>>17514046
I only remember the covers
im lurking and watching the crappy 90's goosebumps show on netflix at the moment and uh you cant scare me as fav!
like all the main characters are eating frosted flakes for breakfast in every book! come on stine!
>>17514991
Pics or it didn't happen.
>>17514046
Yup, I was coming here to post this one
anyone interested for ye olde goosebumps choose your own adventure?
>>17494190
>Don't Judge a book by its cover
whoever the fuck said that obviously never saw this book as a child o_o
>>17514046
>fuck this shit i'm going home
>die anyways
fucking choose your own adventure my ass
>>17495357
Lol goosebumps is where he sticks his shit stories
>>17495332
You ever /pillars of Pentagarn/ my nigga?
>>17498287
First on I ever finished
>>17495698
The Starlight Crystal touched me deeply
My personal favorite. I wanted one of my GF's to be a werewolf for the longest time
>>17514991
My favorite is the one with the garden gnomes that turn kids into garden gnomes.
>>17516126
That's not really choosing your own adventure because where's the adventure in just going home?
hey, french here. I always thought we had a pretty nice edition of "goosebumps" in there (called chair de poule in FR). Here is my first one, my parents bought it to me when I was about 10 years old. Always loved the cover...bretty spooky
>>17516502
I also enjoyed this book. It was my first exposure to concepts and plots like that. Still own it.
my favorite
Is there a livestream of the T.V. show? or are you afraid of the dark? haven't seen a goosebumps livestream on /x/ in months.
>>17516529
I remember how bothered I was by the stump like paws of that wolf
the pincer feet of >>17498287 also triggered my child autism, that's not anatomically correct at all damnit
>>17507960
Holy shit I haven't read that book in years. So many memories. These were my favorite by far.
>>17501409
HAROLD
That story was the best in there, it was subtle and creepy. The image in my mind of that doll stomping around on the roof, while one guy is forced to go back always scared me so much.
>>17495741
Hey she grew up to be pretty hot.
>>17518545
Time to relive your nightmares.
>>17518562
GOD BLESS ANON I HAVE WANTED THIS STORY FOR AGES
>>17518580
Those birdies are adorable.
If you want some more, start up a Scary Stories thread and I'll take some requests for a while, don't want to derail this one too much.
>>17492845
Probably "Say cheese and die!". Actually no, now that I think about it the one with the werewolf was the best in my opinion.
>>17518784
"Let's get invisible!" was also one I liked.
Let's be real, though.
I always chose which book to buy based on the cover more than anything else.
>>17495462
is that paul and dom from continue? cause if so, im already down.
>>17513702
im not finding this one at all. like no info about it.
on an unrelated note, anyone remember a book called "Land of the Lawn Weenies"?
>no one has posted this
Beats from the East is my favorite of all time, it's the best
On a side note does anyone remember a YA series that involved time travel, aliens, one of the characters (the MC) could heal from any wound and another was a super martial artist? I remember reading one and never finding another of Those books (before the internets popularity ofc
Dutchfag here, I used to get these books when I was a child all the time. I usually preferred the ones that were slightly less over the top and more adventureous. I don't know the exact English titles but they should be something like Headhunters and The Curse of the Pharaoh I guess.
Of course the classic ones were good as well. Pic related, Dutch version.
>>17520321
I remembered the start of this one very well, but I had no idea it was goosebumps, so when I read the synopsis on the site by accident and it immediately spoiled me on the villain I've put off reading it again
feels bad man
>>17518578
I don't understand the last part... "He kneeled and dryed bloody skin"? Who did ? what?
>>17516529
My nigga
>>17516610
Yeeeeees
>>17521143
learn to read nigger
>>17501152
I was waiting for someone to mention Scary Stories...I couldn't really get into Goosebumps...even though they both have cheesy writing, those illustrations were/still are terrifying
>>17501384
Wtf...seriously what was the point of this?
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=152008285739&alt=web
I'm really fucking tempted to buy this.
>>17521143
Harold busted a Buffalo Bill on Thomas
>>17522379
Overprotective parents and 'moral guardians' decided censorship was the answer again, unsurprisingly.
>>17518565
>They both would laugh
>but not Harold
>>17495462
>it's a talking about animorphs episode
>>17522506
Animorphs was the best. Do they have anything interesting to say about it?
>>17492845
Where can I download them CYOA books? Been searching for a clear link for months but to no avail. I dont live in the US so internet may be my only cheap saviour
>>17495172
This is where the MC let go of his power and became a married normal man right? Meanwhile his bully became a depressed celebrity or someshit?
>>17523592
pretty much, it ends with him still being a happy teen after pretending to lose his power, the bully is content with his fame at the end, but the underlying message is that it won't last and the MC will come out on top. so as the OP said, it breeds the message of becoming an apathetic secondary character.
dunno if that's the best message but it seemed to stick with a lot of people here
>>17522405
People need to fuck the hell off.
Our generation did fine with the original illustrations. Yes we're all emotionall scarred by them, but its made us better people in general.
Plus, kids like the old illustrations better. I had the originals, bought the new ones and my cousin pleaded until I gave her my originals because the "stories are better with THOSE pictures."
I need to rebuy the originals.... But she is taking very good care of my old books.
The Beast from the East?
What, are we talking China or Philadelphia?
>>17524749
Chinadelphia.
>>17523606
Without the pictures, they're just mildly interesting stories, "Introductions to Urban Legends 101", essentially.
WITH those pictures, it becomes far more interesting, and is more easily seared into your brain forever.
Fucking Bunnicula
>>17492845
>Goosebumps thread
>on my /x/
FUCKIN
FINALLY
Egg Monsters from Mars
The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
Attack of the Mutant
A Shocker on Shock Street
Calling all Creeps
Let's get Invisible
Holy crap,that takes me back.
Does anyone have the title of this one,not sure if it's a goosebumps book,but it's the story of a girl who stumbles on a evil AI clone of her,and the AI takes over her body,while she was stuck in the computer.
>>17493817
this was a right dinger m8
>>17516126
>>17516616
I think you guys are confusing One Day at Horrorland for a different one.
ODaH wasn't a "Reader beware, you choose the scare!" book.
>>17514780
That reminds me... there was a 3-part series called the Fear-street Saga(?) that was written magnificently. You Anons should check it out - definitely worth a read.
>>17528048 (samefag)
Yep, here we go.
>>17528048
Fear Street became its own series, though this sounds like the original trilogy you're talking about. I was partial to the Fear Hall two-parter, even though now it feels kind of like he mixed Carrie with a giant dose of schizophrenia cliches.
>>17527876
This was a great book, but I can only vaguely remember it.
anyone else read this?
>>17528096
Yes.
>>17501020
That dude on the cover is clearly not the ghost in question.
>>17528114
OR IS HE?
>>17528304
BWOOOOOOOOONNG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvrCoDZUwRg
>>17492845
>had a scratch and sniff version of the book
I miss that smell
Anyone read the one about the haunted car?
>>17529545
That's King. This is a Stine thread.
>>17529708
at least it was a contribution to the thread. This place is deader than the paranormal things we discuss nowadays.
>>17529723
Ha, pretty much.
so... is this any good, fellow /x/philes?
>>17530596
What is it, a movie poster?
>>17530621
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goosebumps_(film)
>>17530636
>that half-assed plot where book characters become real
I want Hollywood to stop ruining my childhood already.
>>17530596
>we want the harry potter audience
>>17530697
Yeah, just look at that kid in the middle.
>>17513702
>that scene where the mother is murdered
>that incest subtext
>>17519748
>Land of the Lawn Weenies
That book is really good - definitely worth a read.
"Gothic!" is another good group of stories. I didn't find a pic, but I sort of remember the cover.
It's black with a list of 10(?) authors and the title "Gothic!" in big greenish yellow letters.
>>17531623
Explain? I don't think I read this one.
>>17516529
>tfw secretly wish I had werewolf powers
>>17494190
Yes. Yes. Triple yes. Not the first book I read, but the first one I owned. Went back and watched the episode for Halloween. Still remember it just as well as when I was a kid.
>>17494205
Just remove the supernatural part and you have /x/.
>>17509433
That book made me paranoid as shit for like a month afterwards. I was convinced that anyone who wanted to hug me was secretly an alien. Also there was a part in the book where the alien emerges from the asteroid and morphs into multiple other aliens before turning into the monster on the cover, implying that those other aliens were previous alien races that the body-sqeezers had assimilated.
>>17510977
I had a friend who always bullshitted me about the Goosebumps books. Told me that there was a deep trouble two, and that in that one the monster was a shark/human hybrid that had a machine gun.
>>17511091
Or maybe they actually are trans and just wanted to share an experience they had as a kid? Just a thought.
>>17493076
You're talking about Horrorland.
>>17495462
Are they still making episodes?
Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum from GYG,
I can still remember the ending where you wake up and your body is in pieces, you scream and hear it from the other side of the room because your ears are elsewhere etc.
There was also one about like... superhero, or comic book heroes or something where you become one? It's foggy but i'm try'na follow the lighthouse across the Nostalgic Sea to remember it.
>>17535346
That was Little ComicShop of Horrors! That was the first GYG I ever read, you were a kid who ended up getting transported inside a comic book. It was surprisingly humorous, as one path has you finding out that your favorite superhero comic is faked and staged like a movie or tv show, and the guy who plays the evil supervillian is actually a nice guy.
>>17535365
I just googled it, these covers take me way back. I miss the feeling of reading these books. As a kid, I think this was my first introduction to themes of hopelessness rather than horror. The idea that it could end badly if you didn't do the right thing, or even if you thought you were. Fucking ACE books.
>>17535377
What freaked me out most about them was that a characters motivation and personality could change depending on the choices you made, or at least I think this was a theme for the book. For instance, in the comicshop of horrors, there a story path were you could end up locked inside the comic shop owner's insanely huge cellar. There, you encounter two other kids who've been stuck there for months. Depending on whether you trust them or not, their either friendlies who help you escape, or insane cannibals who will attack and eat you. Their was also a book called night in batwing hall where you join a group of kids called the horror club. Depending on one arbitrary choice, the kids where either monsters disguised as kids who wanted to kill you, or normal kids who just wanted to scare you. I always thought it was so weird how characters were never consistent, meaning you couldn't use information you learned in one path to help you in another, as that information may not even be true or relevant in another path. Made the books different from the other choose your own adventure book series of the time, but also way more irritating.
>>17506296
>You throw a glass of blood in Countess Yvonne's face, and she is swarmed by the other vampires trying to lick the blood off her. Instead of escaping, you join the other vampires and try to drink some of the blood. You get scolded for making that decision and are advised to close the book and repeat, "It is not normal to drink blood." The book tells you how weird you are, and speculates that you may be a real vampire.
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