The Creature from Club Lagoona

Ghosts of Fear Street #21

by R.L. Stine, Gloria Hatrick

His family's dream vacation at Club Lagoona, a wild water resort, turns into a nightmare because of Tad's fear of the water, a fear that becomes a reality when a big, green creature lurking beneath the surface of the pool starts eating slow swimmers for lunch. Original.

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Childrens, Young Adult, Thriller

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 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

[Lilli Immel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Kommt leider auch mit viel Kinderaugen-Zudrücken nicht annähernd an Fear Street & Gänsehaut heran.

Die Bücher der "Schattenwelt" sind außerdem nicht von R.L. Stine selbst verfasst, jeder Band wurde von einer anderen Person geschrieben (was allerdings nur im Impressum steht).

[Austin Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was about to be one of my favorite GoFS books.
It's basically One Day at Horrorland and Camp Jellyjam combined, but set at a massive water themed park. There's some cool ideas in here, and an awesome final act with some scary monster action that I enjoyed.
But then we get a twist reveal that essentially makes it all for nothing.
Gotta love it.
Not.
Fuck you.

2.5⭐, would've/should've been a 3.5⭐.

[Coos Burton · Rating 4 out of 5]

RL Stine meets Lovecraft

Los libros de RL Stine siempre me gustaron porque son lecturas livianas y entretenidas, y las hay de todo tipo, para toda época. Este verano seleccioné tres del autor, y por supuesto, la temática de El monstruo del Club Laguna fue uno de ellos. Divertidísimo, y me gustaron las referencias de Tiburón, de Peter Benchley, uno de mis libros favoritos.

Pronto estaré hablando de estos tres libros de Stine en mi canal: https://www.youtube.com/coosburton

[Thomas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Been wanting to read another one of those that I hadn't read before, and Tweets To Give you Goosebumps over on Twitter gave me a good excuse to fit one in. He's doing another summer reviewing/recapping thing,we'll if I can fit in any others I haven't read if I wanted. I knew I'd be able to at least do this so here we are.

So for the most part, this was actually fine. A boy named Tad (cute) is going to a resort with his family. The problem is, he's afraid of the water and has kept it a secret but now he has to face it head on. What doesn't help is that there seems to be a strange creature hanging out in the pool, and it spirals from there.

It's fairly basic but moves at a decent clip. They hammer in how he's afraid of water too much, and there's a few dumb fake outs but it kept me interested. The highlight is the location, which is used well. I'm not scared of water so I'd have fun there. It picks up in the latter half once things get wild. It starts cliche with people vanishing and the staff acting like they never existed but than the creature gets involved and oh man it picks up.

It gets pretty wild and fun with solid suspense. It becomes one of the most fun ones in that way, and doesn't waste too much time. Even gets the adults involved. It leaves you with questions on how this happening but it's fun enough to be forgivable.

But then twist ruins it. Yeah, it's in that Be Afraid zone where it's fun if flawed, than the ending tanks it. It's really weird/dumb and doesn't make much sense. Than the final beat makes it worse since it makes that twist pointless. It's just a weak way to end this,it tanks what it was building to.

So yeah, basic, than pretty fun, than a bad ending. The rest before that works but honestly that ending was just...what? I peeked at this awhile and got the ending spoiled for me there so I imagine I'd be more upset if I didn't already know it.

Rating it actually a high 2.5, more fun that the others I've given that rating but the ending just tanks it, and the rest wasn't quite good enough for it to not bring the rating. If it still had a fine conclusion beforehand like Monster Blood is Back did, I'd forgive it but as it is...not so much.

Ah well. Also, the audio-book has Will Ferrell. Yes, really.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

The recurring tagline in the book, “Time to Get Wet,” aged graciously. Anywho… this book is the final traditionally-bound book of the series before they started experimenting with fonts and styles and even artists, and was the final book of said style I was yet to read. To put this entry simply: it’s Camp Nightmare but at a water park. Mostly. I really enjoyed the first two-thirds of the story and I have little to complain about in that margin; the pacing is good, I like the writing (the author—Gloria Hatrick—‘s only other work for GoFS is Nightmare in 3-D, a banger imo), and I liked the mystery building up. It hit the familar beats towards Camp Nightmare with people disappearing, staff being off-putting, and the isolated feel. The setting is cool, too, being entirely set at Club Lagoona and the surrounding area. There’s some good elements/moments in the climax of the book, even if nullified entirely, and I enjoyed Tad’s hydrophobic dilemma, as it is ironic and it almost sounded like a parallel to queer people in some of his monologues (when the day comes and I find a queer-coded kids horror book, I will rave endlessly). But… the book had some stuff near the end that was atrocious. The climax hadn’t much a direction, with the only task being getting the fuck out of a certain location I can’t say for spoiler reasons. There’s a ton of mystery and you’d expect some answers as they try to get out, but you get none… and that’s thanks to the final ten pages. There’s a twist right before page 100 that nullifies the entire final third to be a complete waste of time for reading, and the ending afterwards is almost like the book laughing the readers face, saying “you’ll never get answers and the plot has barely even begun.” It’s an utter wet fart of a conclusion and I hated it. Also, the first two-thirds were a little derivative. Overall, 6.5/10. I enjoyed the first two-thirds for the most part and there’s some good in the climax albeit nullified, but the big reveal was a slap in the face and the final chapter was just an annoying ass flaunt, only to just end. Cluh Lagooner. Also just clocked this one didn’t even take place in Shadyside… wtf.

[Brandon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Going into The Creature From Club Lagoona. I had some high expectations. But when I looked on Goodreads I found out that the same person that wrote This book also wrote Nightmare In 3D ,which is actually one of the worst Ghosts Of Fear Street books in my opinion. And this one was no exception. I did not like this.The story starts off pretty strong with our main protagonist named Tad of all things is going to a water park.The name of the water park is club Lagoona and the whole place is aquatic themed. You even get nicknames based off of aquatic animals.They have a Loch Ness Monster water slide. They have an underwater restaurant and even video games.Even the bedrooms is decorated with fish and clam pillows.But Tad's parents don't know that Tad actually can't swim and he's afraid of water .How does his parents not know this? It's because this book sucks. Tad quickly learns that there's this big swimming race that categorizes people in different groups, and he can't swim at all so he's in the group of guppies .while out exploring ,he notices there's a diver and he dives underwater and he hears his whirring sound and he sees the diver disappear and a bunch of bubbles come up.He also sees his big green snake-like thing coming from under the water and pretty much every time he goes swimming somebody ends up disappearing or if he leaves somebody alone with this creepy swim instructor named Barry another guy gets gone and that's honestly where I'm going to leave this book ,because it does have a pretty decent mystery going for it.But it's very slow. I wasn't really interested in this. Towards the end there is a scene where it's applied that somebody gets eaten and that kind of boosted up for me, but then the ending happens and again it overrides any of the potential this book had going for it .I give The Creature From Club Lagoona probably a two out of five stars. Also the cover of this book is really great but that's not what the creature looks like.It is more of a giant fish with tentacles with one eye.

[Abe Francis · Rating 4 out of 5]

“This time I would really be face-to-face with the creature of Club Lagoona.”
WOW what an exciting read! I’ve never read R.L Stine before but I’m SO glad I started!!! This was full of twists and turns that I couldn’t predict, with an immersive writing style! Definitely stay away from Club Lagoona kids, no matter how bad you want to get WET.

[Yeon · Rating 3 out of 5]

vl cái kết =)))))

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was really liking this book. It was atmospheric and a nice change of scenery but it totally lost me after he went into the drain. The twist was bizarre and didn’t make sense and the creature looks nothing like the creature you’re thinking about so it’s not even close to how I saw this book was going to go. It was so outlandish and not in a good way. Such a disappointment because I was really liking it.

[Jessie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best way to describe R.L. Stine's books is cute horror.

[Lolo · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nunca entendí porque cambiaron los nombres de los personajes en la mitad del libro.

[§amantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so much fun. It has a really unique setting that is very immersive. It doesn’t always make sense but that’s RL Stine. Loved this book as a kid and upon re-reading it as an adult it holds up. One of my fav RL Stine stories

[Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

funny!

[Luis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Libro ágil, sencillo, divertido y muy imaginativo.
Pertenece a una saga de 22 libros O_O

[Nayab · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a really weird book! I am really disappointed!

[Francis Ang · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book. Has much details. This book kept me on the edge of my sit. I highly recommend this book.