Can someone find out if anyone actually died in Goosebump books, because I contest this. It was for kids, it wasn’t like point horror where people not only died but made out.

There was Point Romance too where people properly made out. Cindy gave Brett a handjob in one I read.

LOL

I vaguely recall Phantom of the Auditorium creeping me the fuck out as a kid

These were my “substitute” for the Shining as a kid. Stupid parents :/

I think I read about 3/4 of them. My favourite was always “Say Cheese and Die”, for some reason. They’re all out of print in England now, which is really sad/odd, especially when working in a bookshop and having to get misty-eyed every time some optimistic American parent asked if they were in stock. Bad times.

Also, let’s take a moment to remember the joy and amazingness that was “Are You Afraid of the Dark”?

I emailed the author of http://www.bloggerbeware.com/ asking if there were any deaths, and this was the reply I received:

“Hi James,
I always have time for people with the same name as celebrities: Off the top of my head, all the townspeople and kids died in the first book, the ghost kids without hands in Piano Lessons died (and by that token, Hannah and her family in the Ghost Next Door and probably any other ghost book), the victims of the alien twins in Attack of the Jack-O-Lanterns died, and the main character in Werewolf Skin’s death is implied– there are probably more but that’s all I can think of at the moment.
Stay Bigger Than Life,
Troy Steele”

Are You Afraid of The Dark!!!!!!!!! Nickelodeon between 5-7 after school (back in the days of 1997ish) was AMAZING! Alex Mack, Sabrina, Clarrisa Explains it All and Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Are You Afraid of The Dark!!!!!!!!! Nickelodeon between 5-7 after school (back in the days of 1997ish) was AMAZING! Alex Mack, Sabrina, Clarrisa Explains it All and Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Oh my god, yes, Old School Nickelodeon was the best thing ever.Be it shows like Clarissa, Alex mack, Are You Afraid of the Dark and early All That (it got really awful later on) were awesome. Also cartoons like Rocko’s Modern Life, Ahhh Real Monsters, Doug, Early Rugrats. I still have pictures somewhwere of my like 4th grade Ickis costume. Good times, oh nostalgia

Oh my god, yes, Old School Nickelodeon was the best thing ever.Be it shows like Clarissa, Alex mack, Are You Afraid of the Dark and early All That (it got really awful later on) were awesome. Also cartoons like Rocko’s Modern Life, Ahhh Real Monsters, Doug, Early Rugrats. I still have pictures somewhwere of my like 4th grade Ickis costume. Good times, oh nostalgia

I somehow realized I forgot The Adventures of Pete & Pete which was probably the greatest kids television show ever

Doubt there were any murders in Goosebumps, just scary stories.. Fear Street was a step above, and then Christopher Pike books. He also threw in a sexy element from what I remember.

Since people outside of Canada apparently know of Are You Afraid of the Dark? I’m wondering if The Hilarious House of Frightenstein made it? anyone?

yes, i rate mummy’s tomb and say cheese and die highly too!

I’m partial to Attack of the Jack O’Lanterns myself, if only because my dad played one of the jack o’laterns.

I’m pretty sure I had like the first 50 on that list. And yes, Are you afraid of the dark was awesome.

I’m pretty sure I had like the first 50 on that list. And yes, Are you afraid of the dark was awesome.

i remember the TV show it was really scary and wierd

i remember the TV show it was really scary and wierd

Ah, 90′s nostalgia.

Ok, so [geek]
People died in the Goosebumps stories about Ghosts.
There was implied death at the end of the Go eat worms book.
Also in the Cuckoo clock of doom, there was the erasing of someone from history.
Be careful what you wish for,calling all creeps and the garden gnomes stories all featured people permanently changing into things at the end – birds,mutants,gnomes.

“My best friend is invisible” had the best twist at the end though.
[/geek]

I should have done more with my childhood…

Ah, 90′s nostalgia.

Ok, so [geek]
People died in the Goosebumps stories about Ghosts.
There was implied death at the end of the Go eat worms book.
Also in the Cuckoo clock of doom, there was the erasing of someone from history.
Be careful what you wish for,calling all creeps and the garden gnomes stories all featured people permanently changing into things at the end – birds,mutants,gnomes.

“My best friend is invisible” had the best twist at the end though.
[/geek]

I should have done more with my childhood…

was the guy actually invisible or a ghost and not his best friend? I can’t believe I read stories with so much carnage in! x

was the guy actually invisible or a ghost and not his best friend? I can’t believe I read stories with so much carnage in! x

It actually ended up being that the invisible friend had some sort of invisibility device. The main kid and his parents cornered him and destroyed it somehow. The main kid then recoiled in fear at how the invisible friend was a monster.

Only the twist was, the “monster” was in fact the last human child left free after Aliens had invaded the earth and enslaved and/or killed off the rest of humanity.

You don’t get quality twist endings like that nowadays.

It actually ended up being that the invisible friend had some sort of invisibility device. The main kid and his parents cornered him and destroyed it somehow. The main kid then recoiled in fear at how the invisible friend was a monster.

Only the twist was, the “monster” was in fact the last human child left free after Aliens had invaded the earth and enslaved and/or killed off the rest of humanity.

You don’t get quality twist endings like that nowadays.

I wish I had enough of an attention span to finish some of those books when I was young now…

I wish I had enough of an attention span to finish some of those books when I was young now…

Yes! I remember that now… isnt there some revelation where they are like “Look at his two eyes and one nose, how weird” and then you realise. Pretty clever, maybe that is how lost will end x

Yes! I remember that now… isnt there some revelation where they are like “Look at his two eyes and one nose, how weird” and then you realise. Pretty clever, maybe that is how lost will end x

‘My Best Friend Is Invisible’ sounds like it could be the same as ‘The Ghost Next Door’. The Ghost Next Door was really shit. Turns out there was no ghost next door, the ghost was actually the protagonist and the woman next door was deaf, so she couldn’t hear him banging on the door, but her kid wasn’t deaf and could see this ghost. The ghost kid didn’t even know he, himself was dead.

Which one was the really ridiculous one where they were in a school theatre and they found this huge mound of crap that they discovered would dissolve if they poured loads of coke over it? I think it was made out of the same stuff as teeth, but squishy and about to take over the world or something. Am I making sense? That book told me a lot about why it’s probably quite a bad idea to drink loads of fizzy drinks.

They used some bad colours on the front of those books.

‘My Best Friend Is Invisible’ sounds like it could be the same as ‘The Ghost Next Door’. The Ghost Next Door was really shit. Turns out there was no ghost next door, the ghost was actually the protagonist and the woman next door was deaf, so she couldn’t hear him banging on the door, but her kid wasn’t deaf and could see this ghost. The ghost kid didn’t even know he, himself was dead.

Which one was the really ridiculous one where they were in a school theatre and they found this huge mound of crap that they discovered would dissolve if they poured loads of coke over it? I think it was made out of the same stuff as teeth, but squishy and about to take over the world or something. Am I making sense? That book told me a lot about why it’s probably quite a bad idea to drink loads of fizzy drinks.

They used some bad colours on the front of those books.

Okay, maybe MBFII and TGND aren’t that similar at all. MBFII sounds really bad, even by R.L. Stine’s standards.

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2005/bioimages/stine.jpg

Okay, maybe MBFII and TGND aren’t that similar at all. MBFII sounds really bad, even by R.L. Stine’s standards.

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2005/bioimages/stine.jpg

oh god, childhood. my friends and i still get together to watch these when they play them on cartoon network every Halloween. we can basically quote “werewolf skin”. hah

oh god, childhood. my friends and i still get together to watch these when they play them on cartoon network every Halloween. we can basically quote “werewolf skin”. hah

Lost will end with probably some twist that people will really love or hate. That, or Hurley saying “Dude”.

Anyway, back to the books:
The sequels kind of killed the series a bit. Like “The haunted mask 2″. The original has the main character be told that if anyone wears the mask again, it permanently becomes their face, only for her brother to try it on at the end.
The sequel mentions nothing of this, but still is focused on the same characters.

Also, does anyone remember that there was a follow on series “Goosebumps 2000″? Now there was some silly re-branding for the millenium.

Lost will end with probably some twist that people will really love or hate. That, or Hurley saying “Dude”.

Anyway, back to the books:
The sequels kind of killed the series a bit. Like “The haunted mask 2″. The original has the main character be told that if anyone wears the mask again, it permanently becomes their face, only for her brother to try it on at the end.
The sequel mentions nothing of this, but still is focused on the same characters.

Also, does anyone remember that there was a follow on series “Goosebumps 2000″? Now there was some silly re-branding for the millenium.

your memories astound me.

Is Lost worth following to the end? I’m about 5 episodes behind and losing interest.

your memories astound me.

Is Lost worth following to the end? I’m about 5 episodes behind and losing interest.

I have read at least half of those, mainly the earlier ones. I don’t recall Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, although that is a pretty fantastic title. The ‘Night of the Living Dummy’ series were the best by a million miles, and Slappy as terrifying a character as you’ll find in the genre.

I also read pretty much the whole Point Horror series and remember being quite pleased, upon graduating to said series, at my new-found literary maturity.

I have read at least half of those, mainly the earlier ones. I don’t recall Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, although that is a pretty fantastic title. The ‘Night of the Living Dummy’ series were the best by a million miles, and Slappy as terrifying a character as you’ll find in the genre.

I also read pretty much the whole Point Horror series and remember being quite pleased, upon graduating to said series, at my new-found literary maturity.

I LOVED those books when I was in middle school! I found out about them when I lived a year in the States and got hooked! I wouldn’t mind at all getting back to reading them again.

I LOVED those books when I was in middle school! I found out about them when I lived a year in the States and got hooked! I wouldn’t mind at all getting back to reading them again.

I feel so old. I was so into RL Stine’s Fear Street Series and grew up before these. How about Christopher Pike? Anyone? Anyone? [crickets]

I feel so old. I was so into RL Stine’s Fear Street Series and grew up before these. How about Christopher Pike? Anyone? Anyone? [crickets]

Did we really need 4 monster blood books?

Did we really need 4 monster blood books?

what is the scariest part of this book? HURRY!!!!

what is the scariest part of this book? HURRY!!!!