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Leave posted:Oh, yeah, Stine was not afraid to gently caress people up on the last page and just end the story. Fuckin madman The Beast from the East ended with the kids finally escaping only to be attacked by the Beasts from the West, which pissed me off as a kid but in hindsight actually owns edit for my fondest Fear Street memory: The Runaway was about a girl with psychic powers, and the climax is her realizing her best friend has also had psychic powers all along and has been framing her for Bad Psychic Stuff the entire time. They have a cool telekinesis fight in the street and just when it seems like the protag is outmatched, she thinks ‘oh wait why are we throwing stuff at each other when I can just crush her brain inside her skull?’ It was brutal poo poo, the villain ended up institutionalized with mega brain-damage and the protag was traumatized by the whole thing. Great book. Nae fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Apr 3, 2023 |
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I remember the kid in "Why I'm Afraid of Bees" browsed a message board in 1994 to help him beat a video game. Nothing from Goosebumps stuck with me quite as much as this did.
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Apr 4, 2023 00:44
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beast from the east is best. all those stupid game rules. safe because COVERED IN BUGS this made me curious what the russian translations were like, and while usually they use the original cover, sometimes... idk what's goin on there on the middle right  also UZHASTIKI is a wonderful translation title ed: i guess the vaguely horny covers are actually from the side Fear Street series, which i had forgotten about 
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Apr 4, 2023 04:57
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My boyfriend got me this Goosebumps blanket for my birthday last year.  It's not really big enough to sleep with. It works great for across my lap while I'm reading in my chair in the cold Detroit winters, though.
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Apr 4, 2023 10:29
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disaster pastor posted:I remain convinced that The Ghost Next Door is the reason I spent so much of my childhood deeply afraid of dying in a house fire This is the only one that really stuck with me over the years. The "twist" totally got me as a kid, did not see it coming at all. So I had a lot of the same fear for a long time. There was also a Goosebumps spinoff Choose Your Own Adventure style series, I don't remember the title of it but one of them had a couple bad endings like being turned into a flower or into a bird's egg. That one really got to me at the time too, not so much scared but more a "Woah!" way.
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UwUnabomber posted:My boyfriend got me this Goosebumps blanket for my birthday last year. that owns
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1 Haunted Mask 2 Stay Out of the Closet 3 Night of the Living Dummy out of the OP MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Apr 4, 2023 |
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Apr 4, 2023 18:36
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i liked ghost next door as a kid because it was my first encounter with the idea of being unaware that you are a ghost i don't know why i bothered to put a spoiler tag on there because if there is a spoiler involving ghosts then it can pretty much only be one thing
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Apr 6, 2023 17:39
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UwUnabomber posted:My boyfriend got me this Goosebumps blanket for my birthday last year. oh drat i had the sheets version of this
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Apr 8, 2023 06:08
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My wife is a big Fear Street fan. But me, I'm a goosebumper. When I was a kid, I got a big anthology book that collected the first 5 or so bumps books. I ended up reading a bunch of them, all through like #25 or 50. I think I ended with the holofoil cover CYA book before I grew out of them. Probably helped keep my reading habits going.
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Apr 9, 2023 19:26
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Goosebumps helped form my reading habits, too. Kid me felt so awesome, reading horror books; in my elementary school, when I got the Goosebumps out of the library, I used to have to go alone so that the covers couldn't scare other children. Thinking on it now, that's kind of weird
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Apr 9, 2023 20:37
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When I was checking out The Abominable Snowman from the elementary school library, I had a classmate tell me she heard the book was so scary some kids who read it went blind lol
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Apr 11, 2023 13:19
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I learned to read really early. So when I was in kindergarten and the librarian would only let us check out little kid picture books I was... Upset. The teacher hears about this and tells her "Yeah just let him check out some chapter books or something. He can read fine." Cut to me scampering off down the hallway with Say Cheese and Die under my arm. My mom hears about this and calls my teacher to ask if its because of all my skull and monster shirts. The teacher told her it was because she knew I'd get through them without having to come to her desk and ask what a word is every five minutes. My ego fed on that little conversation for years. It really pushed me to read harder and harder books until I was cracking open White Fang in fourth grade and begging my mom for old college anatomy textbooks at yard sales. (Because they had skeletons in them.)
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Apr 12, 2023 02:28
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UwUnabomber posted:I learned to read really early. So when I was in kindergarten and the librarian would only let us check out little kid picture books I was... Upset. The teacher hears about this and tells her "Yeah just let him check out some chapter books or something. He can read fine." Cut to me scampering off down the hallway with Say Cheese and Die under my arm. It's true - anything with skeletons in it is automatically cool. (Which includes everyone here, as far as I'm aware  )But now that you mention both Goosebumps and skeleton-based textbooks in your post, now I'm wondering what an anatomy textbook written by R. L. Stine might be like! 
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Apr 12, 2023 02:40
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Upgrade posted:i read the first book he did... and it does not translate well. also a lot of very poorly written sex. I'm sure it can't be worse than the sex I've actually had, so it might be pretty true to life for me.
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Apr 12, 2023 05:12
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i don't think i remember any of the goosebump books, but i know i obsessively read all of them that i could get my hands on. i would check them out again, but i don't know if i would still enjoy them.
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Apr 27, 2023 13:38
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Youremother posted:My favorite Goosebumps was Egg Monsters from Mars, and I couldn't really explain why. It had this really weird dreamlike atmosphere that captivated me I guess, and I liked that the monsters in it seemed nice. I had a pretty extensive collection of Goosebumps books when I was a kid and was always actively searching through yard sales and thrift stores for more. gently caress. god. this one was disgusting to read i remember. i think i loved it too
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Apr 27, 2023 13:58
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i vaguely recall one of the CYOA books having an ending where you got turned into one of the resident animated skeletons by slowly disappearing all of your organs fuckin badass why cant i actually get turned into an animated skeleton
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Apr 29, 2023 03:54
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Kitsunegari posted:When I was checking out The Abominable Snowman from the elementary school library, I had a classmate tell me she heard the book was so scary some kids who read it went blind lol I was a gullible kid and some kids in my class convinced me that the covers would glow red and you'd get sucked into the book. I remember feeling actually scared by it. I never liked masks at the store because of Haunted Mask. I don't remember a lot about the books but there are scenes and imagery I really have strong memories of with a few I read.
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Apr 29, 2023 23:27
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can't remember what it was called, but the one with the sponge that was attacking people was pretty wild
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May 12, 2023 22:22
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My mom met RL Stine at a thing and he told her he typically wrote a Goosebumps in 14 days but if pushed he could do one in 10 days. Absolute maniac. George Simenon numbers.
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UwUnabomber posted:My boyfriend got me this Goosebumps blanket for my birthday last year. The Goosebumps mascot is the most 90s Dude ever. I had a Boglins knockoff of him, just his head with little skeleton arms and you could puppet his mouth.
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May 13, 2023 16:14
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the cover of the first Night of the Living Dummy scared me. it was pretty crazy just how much more violent the fear street series were
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King Vidiot posted:The Goosebumps mascot is the most 90s Dude ever. I had a Boglins knockoff of him, just his head with little skeleton arms and you could puppet his mouth. Curly is cool and smart and he is my friend.
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Karl Welzein posted:I enjoyed the Dune Reads Goosebumps podcast. I'm not familiar with this but I do like the GooseBuds podcast. It's the guys from Continue? from YouTube, which is a channel I've watched since forever. Fun hark posted:can't remember what it was called, but the one with the sponge that was attacking people was pretty wild It Came From Beneath The Sink or something like that. One of my faves, for whatever reason. Also Monster Bloods, The Barking Ghost, kinda that early-middle era of books.
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End of chapter: and then a bloody ghost came into my room! Start of next chapter: it was just my mom covered in red yarn
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How I learned to fly had the scariest ending of all: the bully kid who steals the secret flying recipe gets recruited by the government
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