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Are you ready for some Halloween Thrills? Two new Goosebumps adventures, Attack of the Mutant and Ghost Beach – from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have arrived!
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Goosebumps DVDs
With over 300 million books sold, R.L. Stine’s wildly successful children’s stories (www.scholastic.com/goosebumps ) come to life with two all-new terrifying tales. First, Attack of the Mutant includes “Attack of the Mutant Parts 1 & 2” and follows Skipper Matthews and his awesome comic book collection. Skipper’s favorite is The Masked Mutant, the story of an evil, power-mad super-villain who is out to gain control of the universe. One day, while lost in a strange part of town, Skipper discovers a building that mysteriously resembles the Mutant’s secret headquarters… a building that magically disappears. Has Skipper read one too many comic books? Or does The Masked Mutant really exist? The DVD also features “Phantom of the Auditorium™,” a frightening story about a young actress who is thrilled after winning the lead in the school play… until the nightmares begin as there is the talk of a real phantom who has haunted the auditorium for years.
Next, Ghost Beach includes “The Barking Ghost” and follows Cooper Holmes, a young man scared of everything. His father says he’s the only kid to scare himself on Halloween! But as he moves into a new house, this time, Cooper is not just scared of his own shadow. In “Be Careful What You Wish For,” class klutz Samantha Byrd is the laughingstock of the girls’ basketball team. But now, Samantha has found someone who will grant her three wishes. Too bad she wasn’t more careful as Sam’s wishes are turning her life into a nightmare! Lastly, “Ghost Beach” focuses on Jerry, who is thrilled by the prospect of exploring the dark, eerie old cave he discovered down by the beach. When he hears the story of a 300-year-old ghost living inside, Jerry must decide whether to believe the legend or dismiss it as a silly made-up tale.
Our Take: Last year, my 7-year-old fell in love with the Goosebumps Series. One of the stations would show them on TV almost every day during October. Of course, we had to DVR them for hours more entertainment! Well, he slowly stopped watching them and started reading the books. They were just the right amount of “spooky” for his age. When these two new videos came, he was excited and had to watch them immediately. His favorite was Ghost Beach. He said, “It was funnier, had more episodes, and was even scarier!”
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Buy It: Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant Part 1 & 2 and Goosebumps: Ghost Beach
I learned that RL Stine started writing when he was 9 years old.
Halloween is his favorite holiday (surprise, surprise!) 🙂
I learned that R.L. Stine started writing when he was 9 years old.
I learned that there was a new series of books that he wrote…Hall of Horrors. I had no idea…
I learnt that most of RL Steins book ideas came from when he was a child
I learned that he took an 8 yr break from writing Goosebumps.
He needs a lot of ideas for his books so he thinks about scary stuff all the time
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The Haunted Mask is one of his favorite books
He has enjoyed stories since he was a child. His Dummy books came from his love of wood due to Pinocchio.
HE thinks about scary stuff all the time
I learned he once had a duck costume himself for Halloween!
Halloween was his favorite holiday when growing up.
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debbie jackson
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he writes the fear series for older kids
debbie jackson
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I learned he wrote the Fear series.
One of R.L. Stine’s favorite stories was Pinocchino from his mother reading it to him when he was a child. He’s always liked the idea of a wooden puppet coming to life. He bagan with his stories when he was a child.
Love the books