Three Shocking Tales of Terror

Goosebumps Triple Header #1

by R.L. Stine

The spooky spokesmonster whose three heads sport the names, Lefty, Slim, and Righty, presents a hair-raising collection of tales including "Ghost Granny," "Spin the Wheel of Horror," and "Teenage Sponge Boys From Outer Space." Original.

Genres: Horror, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Short Stories, Horror Thriller

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[C.J. Daley · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my final reads for my Goosebumps July reading. This was technically the final GB spin-off that I had yet to read from, so I’m glad I was able to pull it off.

Like the holographic cover art shows, this features the spooky spokespeople Lefty, Slim, Righty and each of their choices for spooky short stories. These stories are a bit chunkier than those featured in Tales to Give you Goosebumps, but they’re still quite a ways off from the full books.

Featuring “Ghost Granny”, “Spin the Wheel of Horror”, and “Teenage Sponge Boys from Outer Space”.

Spooky, quick, and fun. Personally a 4/5*.

[The Gooseblock Bruce · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was a crazy disappointment. Ive heard pretty good things about this story collection for years, and when i finally got to reading it… i kinda hate it.

The first story, Ghost Granny, is just complete shit in every way. I cant even describe how much i dislike this one, from the “granny”, to the horrible ideas brought to the table, and some annoying ass dialogue. Even talking about this story makes me cringe, 0.5/10.

The second story, Spin the Wheel of Horror, is just not good. I found myself wanting the story to end as soon as 10 pages in. I guess the idea is fine, but the execution is tiring for me, 3/10.

And the final story, Teenage Spongeboys from Outer Space was just… oh my god. Out of nowhere you have two characters introduced with nothing to them, which are then kinda revealed as antagonists? But they aren’t really villainous at all, so who the hell knows. The story barely progresses and feels like it could be 25 pages shorter, 2/10.

Overall this is a bad story collection, and i absolutely do NOT recommend.

2/10.

[Zoey De Leon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love horror themed anthologies so I will automatically love this one plus with the Goosebumps style, anthologies are not exactly a perfect package deal, there are some that all stories are great, but this book is just a mixbag of good and mediocre

Ghost Granny - 2/5, Kinda dark, the grannny is annoying plus not really a family member so I see why the whole family hates her, even if she's a ghost, there's almost no difference, kinda pointless but some parts can be enjoyed

Spin the Wheel of Terror - 2.5/5, The gameshow type is okay, nothing interesting or new at the journey, the end kinda makes it pointless

Teenage Spongeboys from Outerspace - 3/5, Probably the best of all three, not much happen, the character's habits are kinda funny, the aliens or the villains are kinda funny but not in a good way but enjoyable out of all three stories probably because of the extraterrestrial theme of the story.

2.5/5 stars,
Atleast have a one good story in the collection to make the book worth it, but idk, each story is just about 30 pages long.

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

The moral of Ghost Granny is to kick out awful relatives because being a relative isn't an excuse to be a horrible bitch. Finally, a good message for the kids.

Also there are other stories I guess.

UPDATE: I have now reviewed this on the blog, here is that: https://spongey444.wordpress.com/2023...

[Austin Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three short stories from the iconic trio of Lefty, Slim, and Righty - the three headed monster as pictured on the cover. How do each of their stories stand up? Well, maybe not the best, but they're not too bad, either. These are pretty average-to-decent stories from Stine. I would recommend this one only for the Goosebumps fans, though.

The first story, Ghost Granny, is about a mean old lady who lives with a family that can't stand her. She dies, much to the family's delight (yikes), but then her ghost comes back to haunt them...
3 / 5 for this one. The whole death thing was a bit dark - but the latter portion of the story leans into humor and edges away from the more mature tones.

The second story, Spin the Wheel of Horror, follows a family that goes on a live game/TV show wherein they "spin the wheel of horror" and have to traverse through whatever haunted attraction luck has granted them. It turns out that the scares are just a little bit too real...
3.5 / 5 for this one. Probably my favorite story of the bunch, even though the ending is as cliche as cliche gets for Goosebumps.

The final story to close out this trilogy, Teenage Sponge Boys From Outer Space, (love the title, by the way) has a couple of kids from school reveal to two of their classmates that they're aliens from another planet, and force the kids to help them work on their spacecraft after it's rendered immobile. What will the kids do in the face of discovering life from another planet, and will they escape unharmed? 3 / 5 for this story as well.

So yeah, this collection was pretty mediocre. I enjoyed these stories but none of them bring anything new to the table. This was written at the tail end of the OG62 series of Goosebumps books and every story here features elements and twists previously used in GB. An okay trilogy but nothing superb.

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[Griffin C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty solid collection of stories overall. Only one story isn't a 10/10 and even then it's far from godawful.
My reviews for each story:
Ghost Granny - 5/10
My main issue with this story is that like Micah from Revenge R Us, Granny Deaver is evil enough to make you hate her, but not evil enough to cause any major, permanent damage so what you end up with is an incredibly irritating villain.
Spin the Wheel of Horror - 10/10
Easily the best story of this book, it's fun and wacky and the ending is great.
Teenage Sponge Boys From Outer Space - 10/10
Pretty fun alien story with good aliens.
Overall: 8/10

[Chris Seltzer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like the concept of an anthology for young readers and frankly I think many of Stine's stories could be compressed down into a 1/3 of the page space by cutting out the fake scares and contrived twist endings.

The stories in this book were mediocre at best which is probably why there was only a single extension of this series but it's a shame because I would have loved to see more Triple Header books published.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

People shit on this book sometimes. I beg to differ.
Story 1 was probably the best one here, and it was incredible. Story 2 was nasty and eerie in the best way possible. Especially the pool scene. Story 3 is weird, probably my least favorite, but still good! Really fuckin’ loved it!

[Dakota Foote · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was really excited to read a Goosebumps anthology with 3 stories instead of 10. I assumed the stories would be a little more satisfying and fleshed out. Turns out, Triple Header #1 is the worst anthology book with almost no substance to it.

[Martina · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorite one was the second story. It was so interesting.

[Cooper The Goosebumps Guy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a pretty good collection of stories

[Goosebumps Fan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it, all three stories were great

[Kay Croan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read as an adult for Doggie Daycamp. Moving is not always an option, but you wish it was.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

My oldest son read Goosebumps books in the 90's and also watched the DVDs back in the day. Often his rewards for good grades or getting his chores done was a new RL Stine book. Many of his old books were passed to my 4th grader who loves them just as much.

Lately I've been reading a lot of children's books. Some are ones I loved as a child, and others are ones I always wanted to read but never did. Because my sons both enjoyed Goosebumps books, I decided to read one! Why not? I'm always up for a good scary story!

RL Stine published more than 62 Goosebumpbs books from 1992-1997. More than 350 million Goosebumps books have sold, and the book series inspired more than one television show, a movie and lots of merchandise. For my journey into fear, I chose Goosebumps: Triple Header Book 1. It has not just one story, but 3! I like to live dangerously!

I had to have just the right atmosphere for enjoying Goosebumps. My son told me that Netflix has RL Stine's Haunting Hour on instant view. So, I went into my room, turned the show on my tv, snuggled up with the cat, and started reading.

The first thing I noticed about this book was the nifty 3D cover art. I can see kids picking up this
book just because the cover looks great! It certainly got my attention! The picture shows a three-headed headed monster. Three stories....three heads. Makes sense. The first story is about an annoying old lady who doesn't let death stop her from making the family she lived with miserable. The middle tale is about one family's appearance on a game show that goes shockingly wrong. And, last but not least, the final tale relates the horror of alien sponges that can look like humans. Every tale is introduced by a bit of banter from the three-headed monster, whose heads are named Slim, Lefty and Righty.

Cheesy horror mixed with cute humor. This was a fun read! These books always were creepy, humorous fun! The stories had a light scary edge to them, but nothing was age inappropriate. They were more cute than scary. I'm glad I took the time to read one. I may just read others when I need to lose myself in a fun, quick read. It was a nice way for me to unwind after work today!

And, as an aside, The Haunting Hour is really well done! It's a bit like a kid's version of Twilight Zone. Interesting, well done stories.....a bit of scare, but nothing too over the top.

[Tyler Holman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book had three scary stories in it. One was about someone's grandma who died and came back as a ghost. She was ruining the family's lives. They figured out how to defeat her. Another one was about this family who went to a show and they didn't know where they were. They spun the wheel of horror and it landed on The Hotel for Ghouls. They went through it and it was super creepy. They were all alone apparently. First there were a bunch of snakes, ewww. Everyone got separated. It took a while for the kids to find their mom and dad again. They found a green gooey pool of gross stuff, They had to dive under it to get back to the stage. Turns out the family is all monsters and they eat the people that made them spin the wheel in the first place. The last one is about two girls who go to school and meet two guys who are alien sponges that can change into people. They can also turn people into sponges. The girls had to fix the alien's ship because it crash landed. The girls threw them out in the rain to weaken them since they were allergic to it and then threw them back in the spaceship and it took off and then crashed. I really liked it.

[Devina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buku ini berisi 3 cerpen misteri.. Yang paling aku suka itu cerpen kedua yang judulnya Kincir Maut, lumayan serem dan mencekam wkt bacanya.. Tapi buku ini kurang yahud dibanding buku2 Goosebumps lainnya, karna ceritanya yang singkat, jadi agak kurang detail gt.

[Renee P · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read during the past few weeks' D.E.A.R. time. Be careful with "Spin the Wheel of Horror"--what a twist!

[Natsu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn, I love this book!! Especially the first story, it was sooooo annoying hahaha.. If you like reading Goosebumps, you'll like this one even more..