Goosebumps

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Drumstick** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:07 pm

Goosebumps was strawberry floating ace all those years ago, it's what first really got me into reading. I had all 62 (I think that's right) of them. Favourites included pretty much all the summer camp stories, The Headless Ghost, A Night in Terror Tower, Phantom of the Auditorium. 8-)

Great times.

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Turok** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:34 pm

Tragic Magic wrote:The Headless Ghost was the first one I ever read and probably one of my favourites.

Ooh, the one with the scarecrows was good.

Those two were the only ones I remember getting me genuinely frightened. There was a pretty messed up mini-story in the Headless Ghost one which scared me silly. The others weren't that scary, but I read them anyways.
The first one I had was this:

Great cover illustration. Ah, the memories...

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Alpha eX** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:51 pm

Turok, that cover looks wrong, I remember them with the awesome bubble style covers,

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Turok** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:13 pm

Alpha eX wrote:Turok, that cover looks wrong, I remember them with the awesome bubble style covers,

They might look wrong, but at least they didn't cut out a third of the illustration like those British (?) versions

Half of the ones I had though were in Italian. They were much smaller and compact and you'd get Goosebumps glow-in-the-dark stickers as well!

I remember when I went to the States as a kid and when I came back home with a whole bunch of them which still hadn't been released in other languages. Too bad I was the only one who knew English at the time so I couldn't brag much about them...

I think the last one was #4 of a mini-series, something to do with a monstrous jelly or something, before they passed to the 2000 series, which I never got into.

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Turok** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:18 pm

My Human Gets Me Blues wrote:
Turok wrote:I think the last one was #4 of a mini-series, something to do with a monstrous jelly or something, before they passed to the 2000 series, which I never got into.

That'd be the last of the Monster Blood books.

The 2000 series was pretty bad wasn't it?

To tell the truth right about then was when I'd grown sick of Goosebumps, and was considering myself a big boy finally (despite buying Lego Star Wars sets a few years later) so I don't really know as I never actually read any. What was different about them?

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Drumstick** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:28 pm

Oddly, I'm the same. Never really managed to get into them as I was starting to grow up.

Having said that I could probably settle down for an hour now and read one. :lol:

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Mr Thropwimp** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:58 pm

I read more of those Point Horror ones, but we had these audio tape horror stories in school, and they were even scarier (at the time).

The tapes seemed more interesting in retrospect.

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Pez** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:12 pm

Did anyone play Escape From Horrorland for the PC? It was a point and click adventure sequel to One Day at Horrorland with real actors (It even had Jeff Goldblum in it!).

I have very fond memories of it.

Everyone should play this game! (It runs on Vista!)

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Hesk** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:33 pm

I too used to love Goosebumps! The ones that spring to mind that I had are Beast From The East, Night Of The Living Dummy 2 and 3, Say Cheese and Die!, The Blob That Ate Everyone and Go Eat Worms.

I had Bride of the Living Dummy from Goosebumps 2000 aswell. I also had one of those Give Yourself Goosebumps books which, after a quick scan on Wiki, I think was Tick Tock, You're Dead, though I don't recognise the cover on the Wiki picture, just the title.

Oh, and I saw the Goosebumps theatre show too, and got the book version of that! I have more books upstairs, but some I didn't fully read and I can't remember which ones or be arsed to look.

PostRe: Goosebumps by **aayl1** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:58 pm

The first one I read was Go eat Worms, then the sequel to Say Cheese and Die. I remember really liking hem, and I had quite a few, but now I cannot remember much about them.

I started reading the Animorphs series after that. They were seriously awesome books.

PostRe: Goosebumps by **DML** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:04 pm

aaronayl1 wrote:The first one I read was Go eat Worms, then the sequel to Say Cheese and Die. I remember really liking hem, and I had quite a few, but now I cannot remember much about them.

I started reading the Animorphs series after that. They were seriously awesome books.

Animorphs was awesome!

PostRe: Goosebumps by **aayl1** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:05 pm

I've just spent an hour reading about them all on Wikipedia. I never finished the series.

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Parksey** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:20 pm

Ah, Goosebumps. I was really hooked on these as a kid, especially as I loved reading. I reckon I had all 62, or thereabouts.

I always remember a classmate of mine coming back from America with three titles that took an age to come out over here. They had the new style covers, and I really should have just mugged him and got it over with. I recall a sticker album came out at some point as well, and some of the stickers were cover art from as-yet-unreleased titles. As a kid this sent me seriously mental.

I preferred the old-school art style mind, and none of that "bubble image" nonsense.

I think the first one I read was Nightmare at Terror Tower (the one where they go back in time) and Monster Blood II and III (which had a particularly awesome cover).

They went downhill a bit after the first 32 or so (the last old-school one I remember was about that ghost dog and the scarecrow one). They ended up just getting weirder and "out there" as opposed to being scary. In hindsight though, they were probably all pretty naff.

Might go and search the attic to see if I can find my collection...

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Cuttooth** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:25 pm

They were probably all pretty bad and horribly clichéd but seven year old me loved them to bits. I think the first one I read was the first Say Cheese And Die and I have about a dozen more, with one of those Give Yourself Goosebumps ones that was a real bitch to "win".

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Parksey** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:31 pm

Cuttooth wrote:They were probably all pretty bad and horribly clichéd but seven year old me loved them to bits. I think the first one I read was the first Say Cheese And Die and I have about a dozen more, with one of those Give Yourself Goosebumps ones that was a real bitch to "win".

I always cheated at those anyway. The only one I can vaguely remember from that series was the funfair one. I think I had the first three, but then I went back to the original books as I was too lazy to make up my own story.

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Drumstick** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:33 pm

Just watched a couple of episodes on YouTube; The Ghost Next Door & Piano Lessons Can Be Murder.

The latter was pretty terrible.

Website · PostRe: Goosebumps by **Tragic Magic** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:31 pm

I just remembered.

I never read a Goosebumps book before reading the last page first. :fp:

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Pred** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:18 pm

I remember reading some of the Goosebumps books, but I didn't have that many of them. I don't remember being scared by them either, but they were fun to read though. I vaguely remember the TV series as well and that was okay.

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Fruits Punch Samurai** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:20 pm

I loved the Monster Blood ones, the tin on the book looked really awesome and I used to pretend to make some. I don't think they were scary at all I read them as a kid and pretended I was part of the adventure but I was terrified of horror films and still am now!

PostRe: Goosebumps by **Qikz** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:42 pm

Night of the living dummy scared me for weeks on end. I refused to go near those books after I read that.

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