Later incarnations of the series included the more obscure Goosebumps Series 2000 (a Darker and Edgier Goosebumps series that ran for 25 books), and Gamebook series Give Yourself Goosebumps. Egg Monsters from Mars featured the monsters as horrible threats on the cover, but the egg monsters are a ( relatively) benevolent force captured by (you guessed it) a Mad Scientist.
Deep Trouble, for instance, had a picture of a giant shark going after a boy swimming in the ocean, which is only a minor point - the story was really about a boy finding a mermaid who was being targeted by scientists who wanted to experiment on rare sea life.
The series also became somewhat infamous for the " You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" idiom exemplified by the books' cover art from time to time. Stine cites Tales from the Crypt (published by EC Comics) as a source of inspiration, even though the series isn't nearly as gory and violent as the comics. It was The Twilight Zone for pre-adolescents, with a twist at the end of every book (sometimes cruel, sometimes not, sometimes non-existent, which is a twist in and of itself given the series). The original Goosebumps series lasted for all of 62 books, including such famous titles as The Haunted Mask (which was also the first episode of the TV adaptation, shown as an hour-long special episode), Welcome to Camp Nightmare, the Night of the Living Dummy series (there were three in the original series, but the other spin offs and successor series have had at least one story with Slappy as the antagonist), and the Monster Blood series (the fourth and last of which is the final book in the original series).
It was through this simple idea that one of the most successful and controversial pre- Harry Potter-era children's book series began. Stine had an idea: "Why not write scary books for children?" OL15095144W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 77.82 Pages 150 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:083681973X Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:47:48 Boxid IA108801 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition Ed.
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