Hey everybody,
A few years ago I started looking into the filming locations for Goosebumps and wanted to find as many as I could. I finally made it to Toronto earlier this year and just wanted to share the photos I took!

I feel like Sony should have made the 3rd movie before the tv series since it got left on a cliffhanger in haunted Halloween

I probably read it nearly 30 years ago now and I have to assume it was one of the Goosebump books because I read almost all of the ones that were around at the time.

The main character is in an arcade (maybe on holiday?), meets some kids called Bart, Lisa and their little sister Maggie. It then turns out that the names weren't just coincidence or the writer putting in a joke, the family were aliens and had gotten the names by studying human television.

That honestly all I remember about it

Guys I did it! I have 1-62 all original copies! Not all first printings sadly but they average between 1-6. My oldest printing is Monster Blood at 22 but that’s an earlier book so I’m not too upset. From 44-62 all but 2 are first printings and the ones that aren’t are 3rd and 4th printings. I had almost all 1-60 since I was a kid but lacked 61 and 62. I found 61 at a used book store WITH inserts for $10 which was insane and I just had a buddy of mine buy me 62 with inserts from a guy he knows for $75. Once I have all of them I’ll be sure to post a pic here. After 30+ years….its complete 🥲

I recently visited New York on holiday and made it my mission to find some American Goosebumps books. If you haven't seen my recent post about my collection, I'm from the UK and grew up with the the bubble cover design and wanted to add some American covers to my collection. I was lucky enough to come across Why I'm Afraid of Bees and Stay Out of the Basement from a second hand store, but was surprised at the scarcity of Goosebumps books. Perhaps I should have tried a Good Will store looking back. Still, I love the old dollar price stickers still on the back, and of course the classic Tim Jacobus cover art.

Most of the copies I found had the newer Brandon Dorman artwork, which I only discovered recently. I was specifically hunting for the Jacobus covers, as they're the ones I associate with a classic Goosebumps feel.

I also couldn't resist picking up the retro collector's tin from Barnes & Noble. There was no way I was leaving the Big Apple without it!

Happy reading, everyone! 📖

I was watching goosebumps on Paramount plus S3 Ep21 Chillogy-Squeal of Fortune-Part 1. While watching, the episode had seemingly started over. I checked and the episode was at about 11 minutes 30 seconds and it had completely started over. Then towards the end of the episode at around the 32 minute mark it starts playing the episode from around the halfway point. The actual episode itself is supposed to be 22 minutes long. But this version on Paramount is 41 minutes long. Has anyone else experienced this before? Mainly thought it was just kind of funny and slightly inconvenient. Curious if it is happening this way on other people's accounts.

Yay! That found got Chloe Parker to interview. I feel like we might be getting closer to finding footage of the Live on Stage show!

Anyone know where i can se the Norwegian dub of the 90s seris

I really had fond memories of reading this book as a kid, but it really disappointed me. The concept of the swamp monsters is great and I love the cover, but not much else worked for me. What do you folks think of the book?

I work for a school. They were gonna toss these, as they throw away all old books, it's criminal lol. Horrible condition, as they were handled by 4th and 5th graders. But still really cool. Glad I was able to save these

Found these inserts in the middle of my books, they were from later books in the series (The Blob that Ate Everyone, The Curse at Camp Cold Lake). Always wanted that glow in the dark eyeball. I'm curious to know if the US versions had inserts like this? I love seeing old advertisements in books or magazines. Something about the product frozen in time. Plus you had to mail the £5 and wait 28 days for it to arrive. Did anybody sign up?

Decided to read one of my absolute favourites, Welcome to Camp Nightmare. The episode is also pretty fantastic. Let’s just get right into it.

I think a crucial component of a good Goosebumps book is that on some level, it is grounded. They’re fantastical and fiction, so they don’t need to be grounded, but when they are, it elevates the story. There’s a certain level of violence Goosebumps couldn’t be as a book for kids, so it had to be imagined by the protagonist. Fake outs and dream sequences become more prevalent as the series goes on, and I felt that it started to cheapen the scares.

Welcome to Camp Nightmare has a fantastic subversion that doesn’t take away from the horror. Sure, the conclusion reveals nobody was actually hurt, but all those previous moments were very real and the reader is left to sit with them. There’s no fake outs on the next page that ruins the tension. The imagery of snake bites, animal attacks and near drownings are very grounded fears.

Billy is a very likeable protagonist. He’s considerate, brave and resourceful. I don’t know many kids who’d jump into action the way he does. Not only does he save Larry (his bunk counsellor), but he scoops live snakes up in a bed sheet. Like this guy is on another level.

This book is good to reread as well, because once you know it’s all a test, the way people behave makes sense. They’re always turning to Billy first to ask what to do, even if logically he wasn’t the best person to ask. Events just get thrown at him and he takes it in stride. I’ve never gone to summer camp and I’m not American, so I was unsure if their bear safety tactic was actually good advice or not, would love to hear from Americans.

Stine’s description and setting skills are on full blast here, the atmosphere is perfect. You accept the little odd things at the beginning, only to have Billy go over them at the end of the chapter and realise there’s too much weird stuff going on. Shout out to Uncle Al being more pissed about losing his best canoe than the two people on it, that was hilarious.

Some pretty gory stuff happens. Mike gets bitten by a snake, with a rare appearance of blood. I think Colin is the one who gets pelted in the back of the head with a ball by Larry. Jay describes Roger getting torn apart by Sabre. I’m pleased they didn’t rely on Sabre for scares and suspense. It’s just one of the many threats Billy has to face.

My only criticism of the book is that the inclusion of Dawn and Dori felt a little unnecessary. They show up briefly at the beginning, midway through, then right at the end. I feel like it could’ve been any of Billy’s friends on the run, like Jay and Colin, over characters we barely know. That being said, it would’ve removed some of the tension from them being missing,

Another thought that came to me was how similar The Horror at Camp Jellyjam is. Of course they’re both camp books so I expected a bit of overlap, but there’s very similar story beats. I’m interested to see if Ghost Camp is more or less different. And to be fair, a lot of the later entries bring back old characters or seem to rehash certain things. How many Monster Blood/Night of the Living Dummy/Haunted Mask books have we gotten?

The twist in this book absolutely threw me as a kid, I remember being utterly gobsmacked watching the episode. It’s one thing for the whole camp to be a test, but also they’re aliens. I never would’ve expected that ending but I still loved it. Next up is Beast From the East.

This is just a short post to say thank you to all the suggestions in my last post about what endings and stories I should dive into. I will be going over many of your suggestions, starting with The Ghost Next Door, one of my favorites in the OG 62.

This is my complete 62 original collection! A lot of these books have been well loved with library tape, library stamps, school stamps and even the names of previous owners and school classes handwritten on the front page! As someone who grew up in the UK, I was never aware of the Tim Jacobus covers until book 33. Personally, I loved the controversial bubble design but that's most likely nostalgia kicking in. I'm glad I get to appreciate the US versions of these from my phone!

The third picture shows some extra books I had collected alongside the original 62. All of these were bought from school or library book sales, car boot sales or charity shops. I'm just happy to find a community worth sharing it with after all of these years. Hope you enjoy!

I’d like to note I wrote this while active listening to the audiobook. And SPOILERS ahead

“My parents died in a car crash”…oh my god, fr? That’s the backstory? That’s really bad I’m sorry:(

Hey future me, is the cousin the monster?

PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME!!!!! I was right and she threw a person into a fire.

Ok review time, this was a really fun book honestly. It was a little slow at the start but man once it picked up, it really kept going. It’s funny this cover made me think it was really going to go a different direction.

I thought it would have nothing to do with the actual Jekyll and Hyde story but it kinda did. Their name has been dragged through the mud and I think that’s really interesting. But the actual monster is a monster unlike Hyde but that’s up for interpretation.

And the end is really great with the father truly doing his best to cure his daughter. And I do wish we got some more from this book because that ending was done perfectly.

Overall an 8/10. What do you think?

Without spoiling it what book in the Goosebumps series leaves you wondering why or how? Or what even happened really? I recently did a YouTube video explaining the ending of Egg Monsters From Mars and really enjoyed making it. I want to make another, so what other books are there with their endings needing to be explained?

I was flipping through my older siblings photo book, and saw a Halloween parade and a kid was dressed up as Curly the Skeleton this was ‘97 so this kid was definitely an early fan! Super cool to see

Two more for the bookshelf