Gattsy on Goosebumps: Recent Episodes
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Crawl under the doona and turn off all the lights; we’re going through every single book in RL Stine’s preteen-horror series.
Join me as I explore the good (‘Night of the Living Dummy II’), the bad (‘Beware the Snowman’) and the downright baffling (I’m still unsure what exactly was going on in ‘Legend of the Lost Legend’) in the most iconic name in nostalgic spookiness.
Do they hold up? Were they as chilling as I remember? Will reviewing books from my childhood starve-off the existential dread I face on a daily basis? Let’s find out!
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You, and your little sister, and your best friend just found a new magic shop at the mall. The man inside calls himself the Magician. He's pretty creepy. Before you know it, your little sister runs out of the shop with his book of magic spells.
If you read one of the spells, you find yourself in the magician's workshop. Suddenly you are part of a magic act. You are forced onstage, about to be sliced into a million pieces!
If the three bullies from the school grab the book, you must find it before the magician makes your sister disappear...forever!
The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!
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Happy Pride Month! I'm sitting down (albeit across different time zones) with Alyssa and Andy, hosts of Say Podcast and Die! to discuss all things queer in the Goosebumps books.
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Don't tell Daddy.
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Monkey in labcoat; I know, I know, it's serious.
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Bad things begin happening when Greg finds an evil camera (I would say "steals" but Greg is middle-class and white).
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Ho, ho, my bros! It's a very special Christmas episode of Gattsy on Goosebumps!
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I sit down to chat to the only man with enough balls to make a Goosebumps musical and discuss dressing up as Curly the Skeleton, mailing RL Stine microphones and the 1998 Goosebumps Scratch-and-Sniff Calendar.
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My special guest fulfills his fantasy becoming (a) Bat-Man. Good for him.
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Feat. green slime, giant dogs and misogyny.
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This kid finds a way to go back in time! Can somebody ask him to stop me ever meeting my ex?? Just kidding. But she was a really hateful woman.
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Dad's spending a lot of time in the basement! Hope he's not watching those 'special movies' he told Mum weren't his!
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Four bedroom, three bathrooms? In this economy? Haunted or not, it’s a hell of a deal.
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Thank you again to Mr Henderson, who made this renewed series possible. I promise not to let you down, sir.
That’s right, the gang is back! All your favorite character archetypes are here; the put-upon protagonist; the science nerd; the high school bully; girl.
Monster Blood IV is the sixty-second and final book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the fourth book in the Monster Blood saga. It was published in 1997.
I Live in Your Basement! I mean, I don’t; it’s just the name of the story. I have, however, frequently been accused of living in my mother’s basement by certain “comedians” on Twitter, simply because I pointed out that there are far too many females in superhero films today.
I Live in Your Basement! is the sixty-first book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was published in 1997.
A second live-action Goosebumps movie?? Not since The Empire Strikes back had the world so anticipated a sequel. Now, imagine if Empire featured only Chewbacca, with Leia returning fifteen minutes before the credits roll, and no events from the first film being referenced. Also, Leia is played by Jack Black.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is the sequel to the film Goosebumps, released in theaters in the United States on October 12, 2018 by Columbia Pictures
In research for reading this story, in which characters dress up as and become werewolves, I attended Furfest, the state’s biggest anthropomorphic animal convention. I’m pleased to see that my negative preconceptions of the “furry” community were largely dispelled, and I have since been doodling sketches of my own “fursona” (which is essentially just me but endowed certain horse appendages).
Werewolf Skin is the sixtieth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was published in 1997.
RL Stine was writing about haunted schools in 1997, but I know a school that would really scare today’s woke millennials; it’s called the SCHOOL OF LIFE, and before you ask, sorry snowflakes, you don’t get a participation award for attending.
Please note: ‘The School of Life’ is no way an accredited learning institute and should instead be considered only a rhetorical expression used to suggest that bigotry and ignorance are somehow grounded in common sense.
The Haunted School is the fifty-ninth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1997.
Deep Trouble II! Did the first Deep Trouble really warrant a sequel? Perhaps not, but neither did G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) or The Croods (2013) but that didn’t stop those Hollywood fat-cats from greenlighting sequels several years after the originals. Deep Trouble II is a lot like it’s fellow aquatic-sequel Jaws 2 (1978) in that it features giant sea creatures and magic plankton that turns you into a fish (note: I have not seen Jaws 2).
Deep Trouble II is the fifty-eighth book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the second book in the Deep Trouble saga. It was first published in 1997.
Now admittedly, this is a personal favorite story of mind because for a long time I was convinced I too had an invisible friend! Sticky Jim, I called him. Oh the adventures we had; the things he told me to do; the ideas he would put into my head. Those horrible, terrible ideas.
My Best Friend Is Invisible is the fifty-seventh book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1997.
Okay, let’s not pretend we haven’t all considered staging a fake drowning to gain sympathy. I myself tried something similar when I was twelve and ran away from a school trip in a nearby forest to upset my parents. It was three days before they noticed I was gone and a week before they notified the authorities. If I wasn’t taken in by that cannabis-growing hermit living on a creek to avoid taxes I would have surely perished (not that Mum and Dad would have cared).
The Curse of Camp Cold Lake is the fifty-sixth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1997. It was included in The Campfire Collection in 2003 and received a standalone reprint in 2005.
A typewriter that makes the stories come alive? Send it my way; I’ve got an idea for a novel about a sensitive but roguishly-handsome podcast host that has to battle lusty female demons with big honking naturals.
The Blob That Ate Everyone is the fifty-fifth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1997.
The title offers a singular piece of advice, but an unwarranted one. I need not be told to avoid the lure sleep that stalks me like a shadow; the juvenile vaudeville that awaits the reader in the pages of this garish book for children pales in comparison to the mind-twisting dread that awaits me whenever I close my eyes; when I enter the darkness where the empty faces of the poor souls I have wronged scream so deafeningly in their silence, so that to wake up in a cold sweat, choking is a freezing fright is only a temporary respite—a relief itself clouded by the knowledge that when evening comes again, as it always does, and my eyelids grow heavy, as they always do, this ritualist torture of my very being must invariably resume until I wake no longer.
Also, I’ve been working some pretty long shifts at Blockbuster this month so I need to get an early night.
Don't Go to Sleep! is the fifty-fourth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1997.
“Nobody calls me chicken.” That’s a recurring line from iconic sci-fi/comedy trilogy Back to the Future. Apparently, only the first installment was critically well-received, but I always enjoyed Part II just as much. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized that Biff Tannen’s appearance and character in that film were based-heavily on then-real estate mogul Donald J Trump. Pretty wild that a decent chunk of Americans that grew up watching that film decided; “Yes; let’s give that literal movie-villain the nuclear codes.” Anyway, this book is about a magic chicken or something.
The dream of flying has haunted man since first he gazed upon a seagull and said “hey; cool.” In RL Stine’s How I Learned to Fly, this ancient dream is realized by a young man whose talents are subsequently used to promote the openings of restaurants around town. Seems like a waste of potential, but what do I know? I’m still stuck on terra firma (for now).
How I Learned to Fly is the fifty-second book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1997.
“Do you want to build a snowman?”
So sang one of the animated characters from Disney’s hit music-film ‘Frozen’, which I had the pleasure of seeing with my girlfriend. Well, ex-girlfriend now. It seems treating a lady to a feature film (and purchasing a small popcorn for her) isn’t enough to keep her from deciding she wants space. Of course, what she won’t say is that ‘space’ is the kitchen counter of her sharehouse with her roommate Duncan who turns out wasn’t gay after all. Forget snowmen; she had the coldest heart of all (I don’t care though and I never even think about her anymore).
Beware, the Snowman is the fifty-first book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1997.
This deals with bullying, a theme very close to my heart. I have been involved in several instances of bullying throughout my lifetime, both as a victim and much more recently as a perpetrator (I’m legally not allowed to discuss it but let me just assure you the little rat had it coming).
Calling All Creeps! is the fiftieth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
Do you remember that post-Twilight period where all young adult entertainment was vampire-based? You’d come to school and the girls would be cooing about some pasty fictional heartthrob who lusted for blood but and was still somehow non-threatening enough to be desired. Then it would be up to me, the only intellectual in the room, to explain how, historically, the blood-sucking vampire trope was typically used as a means to represent society’s fear of the foreigner and how they may corrupt it while still appearing respectable, with the seduction of innocent women thus having both a literal and metaphorical purpose. And then I would be told to “shut up” and “go back to my own table." Anyway, the point is, I hate my life.
Vampire Breath is the forty-ninth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
The grinning jack-o-lantern is a staple of the spooky season, though as a boy I was prevented from ever carving one, owing to my father’s contempt for Halloween and all things he deemed American. One year, in defiance, I carved a face into a particularly large sweet potato and left it beside the welcome mat, which enraged my father to no end when he arrived home from work. In his fury, he went to put his foot through the vegetable he presumed was taunting him with considerable prejudice, but as I had actually carved it a week earlier and hit it under my bed until the required evening, he found the usually-firm flesh of the sweet potato give way with hardly any force, causing the power of his step to send him falling completely off balance and throw out a disc in his back. It was the last time I ever attempted to carve a jack-o-lantern, sweet potato or otherwise, but some part of me still believes my vegetable friend injured Dad on purpose. I’m glad he did.
Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns is the forty-eighth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
In today's story, RL Stine combines the macabre world of European folklore with the psychological fear of the unknown, presented with elements of semi-steampunk aesthetic. The result is just terrible.
Legend of the Lost Legend is the forty-seventh book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
When we were younger, we thought that monsters were big hairy creatures with claws and sharp teeth. Now, of course, we know that the real monsters in the world are things like poverty, racism and environmental destruction. This book deals with the hairy kind though.
How to Kill a Monster is the forty-sixth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
We don't really have summer camps in Australia, but we do have school camps. I'll always remember the time all of us students hoisted up Mr Thinglestip in the giant swing, pulling him higher and higher despite his frantic warnings of a "crippling fear of heights" and "severe heart conditions". We all had quite a laugh--well, all of us except Mr Thinglestip, of course! Still, I remember that the memorial service the week after was a touching affair.
Today’s spooky episode is primarily about photography, I hobby I eagerly indulged in until I was forced to appear before a magistrate in 2017.
Say Cheese and Die — Again! is the forty-fourth book in the original Goosebumps book series, a sequel to Say Cheese and Die!, and the second book in the Say Cheese and Die! saga. It was first published in 1996.
For those looking for a Goosebumps book about the adventures of 90’s wrestling icon Bam Bam Bigelow, nicknamed the Beast from the East, I’m afraid your search continues.
The Beast from the East is the forty-third book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
RL Stine sits at his typewriter in early 1996.
“Come on Bob,” he says to himself, rubbing his temples. “One more manuscript for Scholastic before Sunday and then you can take the family to the lake house for the weekend. But what to write about?”
"Here honey,” his wife interrupts, placing a plate next to him. “I made you some eggs.”
Stine glances at the eggs, then at his blank page. He shrugs, and begins to type.
Egg Monsters from Mars is the forty-second book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
Today’s episode is focused on young Tim Swanson, who aspires to be a magician. I myself have no time for the mystic arts ever since I was approached by a gypsy man in Rome who claimed to be a street magician but failed to make my wallet and passport reappear. Food was overpriced as well. Wouldn’t go back.
Bad Hare Day is the forty-first book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
He's back, and he's hornier than ever!! That's right, Slappy, the rude wooden dude you love to hate and hate to love has returned to exploit more preexisting family dysfunction. This time he's set his sites on poor Zane, the anxious cousin of Dan and Trina. I enjoyed this book, because Zane reminded me of the black sheep of our own family, Cousin Dudkis, who wasn't actually our cousin but actually a vagrant who lived on my grandparents farm for years after escaping from a paddy wagon on the way to his trial for what the magistrate would later refer to as "serious acts bovine-related indecency." Despite his rap sheet, we knew Dudkis as an affable sort of character, and it was a sad day when we heard grandpa had accidentally blown his head off with a shotgun after taken him for a fox despite the fact that the incident occurred in the middle of the day and in grandpa's loungeroom. But, as Dudkis would say when pressed to pay rent and board, or at least wear trousers around the house, such is life!
Night of the Living Dummy III is the fortieth book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the third book in the Living Dummy saga. It was first published in 1996.
This book deals with the pandemic of shrunken head and jungle magic, which our mainstream media shamefully refuses to cover.
How I Got My Shrunken Head is the thirty-ninth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.
The Blake siblings have never seen the snow! Well, boo-hoo. Growing up in metropolitan Victoria, I never got to see snow either. The closest we would get was when father let us go to to local sporting pasture after a night of heavy rain and play ‘Bally-Bally Sock and Scud’, an extremely-physical hybrid of rugby and Greco-Roman wrestling originally used to settle disputed on the goldfields. I’ve seen snow since, incidentally, though I’m yet to personally find the appeal (quite cold).
The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena is the thirty-eighth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1995.
Come one, come all! Hear the horrific tale of the unimaginatively-titledHill Houe! WITNESS the aging tour guide who clearly hoped he’d be a proper actor! JUMP WITH FRIGHT at the scare he frequent jump scares which turn out to just be cats or other characters or something! ROLL YOUR EYES at the two twelve year-olds who gave themselves nicknames and based their whole personalities on scaring adults that are forced to humor them! BUT BE WARNED; you find what lurks inside the insidious Hill House MILDLY-ALARMING!
The Headless Ghost is the thirty-seventh book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1995.
Halloween; for many, it means sugar-filled candypops, spinetingling cinemafilms and racially-insensitive costumes. But for young Steve Boswell, it means confronting the scariest monster of all: the ravages of time. Will Steve return to his youth by night’s end? Or will he be confined to a retirement home, complaining about his prostate and how the neighborhood “doesn’t feel like it used to” ever since “those other types started moving in”. Find out in Goosebumps #36: The Haunted Mask II!
The Haunted Mask II is the thirty-sixth book in the original Goosebumps book series, a sequel to The Haunted Mask, and the second book in Haunted Mask saga. It was first published in 1995.
Today's Goosebumps book is set in a spooky theme park. I've always been fascinated with theme parks and growing up I wanted nothing more than to experience the magic of Disneyland. Of course, vacation destination such as those offered by Walt and Co. were well beyond the price range of my humble Melbournian family, so we had to instead settle for a bi-annual trip to a place called 'Haystacks Albie's Family Park and Petting Zoo' in Cludsdale, located between a water treatment facility and industrial slaughterhouse. Mr. Albie was something of a local celebrity in regional Victoria, having inherited a sizeable fortune from his father, who had developed a new method of castrating rams in the 1940's. The junior Albie announced plans to fulfil his life's dream of establishing a family fun park in 1973 after failing several times in his previous life's dream of being elected more of Cludsdale, owing to a series of unrelated but equally-repugnant sex scandals. Opened two years later after Albie lobbied the government to demolish the retirement village on the land he sought, the park became a moderate success for lower-income families, offering helicopter rides, a slippery-dip and a petting zoo stocked with mostly disease-free animals. Known as a hands-on promoter, Albie would never shy away from milling with the crowds at the park and even operating some of the rides himself, which led to his tragic death and the park's closing following a helicopter crash. Still, fond memories.
A Shocker on Shock Street is the thirty-fifth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1995.
"Lawn gnomes?" repeated Mr Scholastic, CEO of one of the largest publishing houses of the United States. "You want to do a book about lawn gnomes?"
“That’s right,” Robert Stine repeated, holding the other man’s gaze effortlessly. “Lawn gnomes. They cause trouble in the garden and get the protagonist in trouble.”
Scholastic puffed his cigar. “You’re a damn fine children’s horror author, Bob; hell, in forty years in this industry, you might be one of the best I’ve ever seen. But the board will never go for a Goosebumps book about lawn gnomes!”
Stine was silent for a moment, picked up his manuscript and stood. “Then tell the board to find another children’s horror author.”
Scholastic watched him head for the door. “Wait!”
Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes is the thirty-fourth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1995.
As a child, I was never one for sports; while my peers were off playing touch-down baskets or ten-pin jump-up, I was in the safety of my room, receiving a rapturous standing ovation for my one-man version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats' from an imaginary audience. No; as I stood upon the school oval, just waiting for the child with severe scoliosis to inevitably get picked before me for kickball, I dreamt violent fantasies of a vengeful creature that would punish those athletic types who always told me to "Try my best", as if it was that easy. Yes; I dreamt of King Jellyjam, and the horrors he would deliver upon them.
The Horror at Camp Jellyjam is the thirty-third book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1995.
Filmed, back-to-back with the previous entry, meaning I am still drunk as a skunk for the recording of this one, but when you hear my slurred summary of what is generously-called a "plot" in this hot, spooky mess, I don't think you will begrudge me that.
The Barking Ghost is the thirty-second book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1995.
Don't let the fact that I'm drunk as a skunk during recording fool you; this one is actually pretty good. It's a classic tale of family, acceptance, and sentient evil puppets. Top stuff.
Night of the Living Dummy II is the thirty-first book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the second book in the Living Dummy saga. It was first published in 1995.
Have you ever been washing the dishes or, if you're a big shot, soaping up your Corvette, and looked down at the sponge in your hand and thought, "Say; what if they weren't a sponge but was instead a mythological beast that fed on bad luck?" No, of course you didn't, because you're not a twisted genius like RL Stine and you'll never have a million-dollar children's-horror series OR a Corvette, you idiot. God, you sicken me.
It Came from Beneath the Sink! is the thirtieth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1995.
How many times does the third entry in a trilogy derail the franchise? 'Godfather Part III' was the only film in the series not to win a Best Picture Oscar, while 'Spider-Man 3' required Peter Parker to dance AND cry, though thankfully never seen in the same scene. How will 'Monster Blood III' fare in comparison? Listen and find out, my fiendish friends.
Monster Blood III is the twenty-ninth book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the third book in the Monster Blood saga. It was first published in 1995.
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace," declares smuggler Harry Lime in Carol Reed's noir thriller 'The Third Man'. "And what did they produce? The cuckoo clock." Lime is wrong, incidentally--the cuckoo clock originated in Southern Germany--but it's fair to say he never envisioned a cuckoo clock that could reverse the flow of time itself. The best use of such a device? Killing Hitler, perhaps? No--getting your bratty sister in trouble! Now there's your thriller.
The Cuckoo Clock of Doom is the twenty-eighth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1995.
Time travel?? Dark magic??? SEX??? This Goosebumps is JUST like Harry Potter. Except for the sex part.
A Night in Terror Tower is the twenty-seventh book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the first book in the Terror Tower saga. It was first published in 1995.
"Ch-cha-cha-cha-changes," David Bowie famously said. "Time to face the strage (changes)." Today's Goosebumps book is all about the changes we start to go through at about age twelve or thirteen (twenty-one, in my case); changes to our friendships, changes to the way we think and changes to our bodies. Fortunately, these physical changes aren't always as horrifying as they're portrayed in this book. Other times, however, they are much, much worse. Believe me.
My Hairiest Adventure is the twenty-sixth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1994.
Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe exploded onto our screens and into our hearts, the concept of larger-than-life superheroes existing in a world not-too-dissimilar from our own was explored much more effectively by RL Stine in Goosebumps #25: Attack of the Mutant. For those of us who grew up in the 90's, the exploits of America Man and Iron Downey Jr will always come second-place to the tale of Skipper Matthews and his battle with the Masked Mutant, who may or may not have ever existed, the story isn't really clear.
Attack of the Mutant is the twenty-fifth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1994.
One of the most-maligned groups in the Western education system is the so-called "theatre kid". I would know; I used to be one. Oh certainly, we were easy targets for the beautiful people of the schoolyard due to our grotesque physical appearances and social insecurity. More than once I found myself stuffed into the toilet in the disabled stall because I had broken into renditions of popular West End productions in PE class. But in the sanctuary of the drama room, we would dance, we would love, and we would plot our terrible revenge against the hateful upper-strata of the school. RL Stine's 'Phantom of the Auditorium' explore this revenge fantasy with chilling affect.
Phantom of the Auditorium is the twenty-fourth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1994.
Mummy's back, and you'd better hope you've not been a naughty boy!! No, it's not a description of my Friday night (well, not just that), but the description of this sequel to the earlier Goosebumps classic 'The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'. Once again, Gabe and his zany uncle are disrupting ancient Egyptian tombs in the name of archaeology and once again there is something waiting for them in the pyramids. Could it be long-serving Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, who assumed power in 1981 after the assassination of President Sadat? Let's find out!!
Return of the Mummy is the twenty-third book in the original Goosebumps book series, and it is a sequel to The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb. It was first published in 1994.
The beach... dwelling of ignorant tourists who never learned to swim and aggressive locals who confuse being from the coast with having a personality. But in the warped mind of horror-maestro RL Stine, the beach holds something even darker. What could it be??? A zombie lifeguard? A werewolf lighthouse keeper?? A ghostly vagrant?? (It's the last one. The clue was in the title).
Ghost Beach is the twenty-second book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1994.
Oh dear! It seems Uncle Gattsy stumbled on a bottle of happy sauce shortly recording this week's episode, and he's sounding crazier than usual! LOL!! But tanked or not, he's still the perfect guy to give you the rundown on Todd Bartsow, who really likes worms and probably doesn't have a girlfriend. Don't miss!
Go Eat Worms! is the twenty-first book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1994.
These days, everybody loves "gaming"; who among us hasn't spent at least one evening with a big bag of Doritos playing the latest "Call the Duty: Mario Boys" video game?? However, did you know that video games used to come in board format? They were called board games, and families used to play them while they waited for father to come home from the acid mill. Sam and I investigate the Goosebumps franchise's answer to this quirky trend as we sit down with a few bottles of happy sauce and play 'Shrieks and Spiders'.
Ah, the American mid-west; historic home of rolling fields of corn and historic laws concerning who can and can't legally marry. But this idyllic slice of American Pie harbors a bitter aftertaste. For generations, the humble scarecrow has watched over these crops without complaint; what happens when our scarecrows say: "No More"?
The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight is the twentieth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1994.
Ahoy, mateys! It's Captain Gattsy here on the SS Goosebumps, here to tell ye about the nautical tale of Billy Deep and the mermaid he loved. Get ready to walk the plank (your podcast app of choice) and plunge into the deep blue (pre-teen horror), but don't forget to secure (leave) your pirate gold (a rating on Apple Podcasts). Yo ho ho! Etc.
Deep Trouble is the nineteenth book in the Goosebumps book series, and the first book in the Deep Trouble saga. It was first published in 1994. It was later followed-up by the fifty-eighth book, Deep Trouble II, and the second book in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series, Creep from the Deep.
Sequels are tricky; for every 'Empire Strikes Back' or 'Godfather Part II' there is also a 'Speed 2: Cruise Control', which didn't even bring back Keanu Reeves from the original and was reportedly based entirely on a recurring nightmare the director had involving a cruise ship crashing entire an island. Monster Blood II doesn't feature a cruise ship or Keanu Reeves, so how will it fare? Let's find out.
Monster Blood II is the eighteenth book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the second book in the Monster Blood saga. It is the first sequel in the original series, and was first published in 1994.
Ah, the noble bee; drinker of nectar, maker of honey, stinger of rosy-cheeks. We admire bees. Some of us even love them, as a man loves a woman. But only from a far! For we know, in our heart of hearts, the bee is beautiful but she is also vengeful. Gary Lutz, perpetual loser in life's great gamble, is about to discover this universal truth the hard way...
Why I'm Afraid of Bees is the seventeenth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1994.
Ah, the amusement park. How many glorious summers did I spend at Wanrer Brother's Movie World, riding the Superman Escape and sharing a urinal with a man in a Bugs Bunny Costume. But this theme park features something much scarier than drunken teenagers on Schoolies and fifteen dollar hotdogs...
One Day at HorrorLand is the sixteenth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published 1994. It received its first sequel as the thirteenth Goosebumps Series 2000 book, Return to HorrorLand.
The book has received several adaptations, and has inspired many other pieces of Goosebumps media, including three video games and a book series.
You Can't Scare Me! --ah, the hubris of youth. One day you're cock of the walk, striding through life without fear, the next your 27 years old and fear lurks around every corner; fear of your next heating bill, fear of the federal government, fear of your partner looking through the special "research" folder on my computer. Fear doesn't always come from mud monsters; sometimes it comes from looking in the mirror and realizing you've wasted the best years of your life reading books for children. Anyway, enjoy!
You Can't Scare Me! is the fifteenth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1994.
It's pre-Teen Wolf! Whose howling at the moon around Grady's house? It can't be his Mother; she hasn't made those sounds in years.
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp is the fourteenth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993.
Many hands make light work, as the old proverb goes. Whoever first coined the phrase probably wasn't thinking about decapitated hands playing a piano, but it applies just as well.
Piano Lessons Can Be Murder is the thirteenth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993.
A mysterious old woman offering me three wishes? I don't see how this could backfire dramatically, and therefore there is no reason at all to be precise in my wording when I expresses my wishes. Easy street, here we come!
Be Careful What You Wish For… is the twelfth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993.
We all wear masks sometimes. Why? Because we all desire to be somebody else. Why, just this morning at work, I donned the mask of sobriety and wore it all the way home until I could reveal my true face and pass out in the tub. This story is sort of similar.
The Haunted Mask is the eleventh book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the first book in the same name saga. It was first published in 1993, and was later followed-up by the thirty-sixth book, The Haunted Mask II in 1995.
Goosebumps?? On the big screen? With Jack Black playing RL Stine??? If you told me this would happen as a child, I would have been like "Who's Jack Black?"
Sam and I try to understand how a book about dying can make you want to kill yourself from boredom.
The Ghost Next Door is the tenth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993.
What's Uncle Al been doing in his "naughty cabin"?? Why is Counselor Larry allowed to work near children?? Find out, dear listener!
Welcome to Camp Nightmare is the ninth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993.
You won't BELIEVE the things this bald man is eating in the library. Number three will BLOW YOUR MIND.
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The Girl Who Cried Monster is the eighth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993.
Pour yourself a rum and coke, children (mostly rum during this particular recording) and I will tell ye a tale of the unfortunately-named Mr Wood.
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Night of the Living Dummy is the seventh book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the first book in the Living Dummy saga. It was first published in 1993. It was later followed up by Night of the Living Dummy II in 1995 and Night of the Living Dummy III in 1996.
A magic mirror that turns people invisible? Could use one of these for when the in-laws come over! LOL!!!
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Let's Get Invisible! is the sixth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993.
I've been around mummies before and BOY let me tell you right now
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is the fifth book in the Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993.
A camera that shows horrible things? If I took a selfie it would show LITERALLY NO DIFFERENCE.
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Say Cheese and Die! is the fourth book in the original Goosebumps book series and the first book in the Say Cheese and Die! saga. It was first published in 1992.
Revisting one of my childhood favorites and subsequently determining I must have always been an absolute moron. Enjoy!
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Monster Blood is the third book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the first book in the Monster Blood saga. It was first published in 1992.
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Stay Out of the Basement is the second book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1992.
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Welcome to Dead House is the first book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1992. Along with this, it was rereleased in 2010 as the thirteenth book in the Classic Goosebumps series, featuring new artwork by Brandon Dorman.