Don't Ever Get Sick at Granny's

Ghosts of Fear Street #16

by R.L. Stine, Jahnna N. Malcolm

Visiting his Granny Marsha's house for the weekend, Corey comes down with a cold, a situation that skyrockets out of control when his Granny's determination to kill every germ in his body turns her into a crazed person. Original.

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

144 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

[Austin Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is officially the weirdest, most bizarre GoFS that I have read. I actually liked the first big twist on the second to last chapter, as it's befitting and probably the best case scenario for this oddball story - and then we get another big twist on the last chapter that's practically the same thing, but with a different end result - and much less satisfactory.
I suspect this book will be a love it or hate it type. I didn't quite hate it but I can't say it's good, unless one is willing to fully embrace the ridiculousness and campiness of it.

[Laura Pantoja]

freaking awesome

[Lazar Lazarov · Rating 2 out of 5]

Terrible ending :/

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just… wow, okay, I have never been more mixed on a book in my life. I try to have little resonating moments throughout my readings to really grasp my thoughts, and here, I have never been more unsure of how I felt on something. Starting with positives, there’s some solid fear factor and genuinely disturbing depictions. The blanket and treadmill scenes were great, and Granny was a hard character to pick apart simply because her motives aren’t exactly clear, and what she is doing is clearly not for the greater good. The protagonist is solid, the first major twist is solid even if it is one that I wouldn’t usually like, and I genuinely thought the concept—which is basically Misery for kids, minus being wheelchair bound—was interesting enough. Pacing was also on point. Now for negatives… starting with the randomness. Plot coherency is something that can make or break a book, and whilst it makes sense for a book like this to be random (especially when the major twists are revealed, surprising or not), it makes the story seem unidirectional and further emphasizes the filler bits, getting to those now. There’s a whole segment involving crawling and potentially carcasses, and whilst creepy, it was blatant filler. Let alone, lots of this book amounted to nothing story wise, and enjoyability doesn’t quite make up for it. The author clearly didn’t know how to execute the concept beyond the basic ideas floating in their mind, and it resulted in a ninety-page meander-sesh that quite randomly turned into the “climax” (so to speak), then followed up by their twists. It’s well paced but just poorly plotted and there wasn’t much to work with clearly. And now for the final twist… yeah it was DOG shit (get it? If you know you know lol). It was barely hinted at and really just made me ever so more mixed on this one. Overall, um… 6.5/10. Maybe generous, maybe not generous enough, but we’ll see. Safe to say I don’t want to be at GRANNY’S HOOUUSSSEEE! I DON’T WANNA STAY, I JUST WANNA GO HOME, I DON’T WANNA BE-AT GRANNY’S HOOOUUUSEE! SHE BE CREEPING ME OUT, TAKE ME HOME RIGHT NOW, I DON’T WANNA STAY HEEEREE!

[Emi Faine · Rating 3 out of 5]

The ending disappointed me...However thinking this book is for children makes me feel that I should think simply , maybe children love it.

[Ciera · Rating 4 out of 5]

SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME. haha jk

[Strawberri Mystery · Rating 2 out of 5]

Spoiler
What in the world......did I just read??
Uh I don't know what to say about this book.
This book is about as strange as the Goosebumps book
"I Live In Your Basement"
none of it made sense at all.
A boy goes to his grandmother's house out of nowhere he gets sick, the grandmother makes him rest in bed but before he can rest she puts not one not two not three or four or five but up to ten blankets on him telling him that he has to sweat the cold out.
Then she bring him a glass of water and another one and another one and another one and then multiple glasses of orange juice until he almost wets the bed.
Then he finally escapes and there's a voice coming from....you gusses it the wall.
Someone is stuck inside of the wall, he peels the wallpaper off and digs a hole in the wall goes through a tunnel and finds....his sister inside of the wall.
The story just gets stranger as you turn the pages.
In the end.....well you'll just have to read it.
I guess Mr. Stine ran out of ideas because I have never in my life read a book as strange as this one.

[TuxedoSammy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A weak, and apparently controversial, start to my introduction of Ghosts of Fear Street.

Some things didn’t make sense, but I shrugged them off as I didn’t feel a children’s book of this caliber deserves critical analysis.

I liked the anticipation wondering what Granny would do next and how Corey would escape. The pacing was effective and the story was good up until the sister in the wall. It wasn’t believable, didn’t make sense, and although it wasn’t really what it seemed, it felt like it was baseless and deprived.

I didn’t like the final twist. There were no hints or a correlation to the rest of the story. With all the mouse references, that woulda made more sense.

[Trần Lệ Mẫn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Giải trí với một quyển sách mà theo chồng mình nói là giành cho trẻ em, thế mà mình bị cuốn hút và hồi hộp theo dõi tình tiết qua từng trang sách, cuối cùng mới nhận ra đây là giấc chiêm bao của một chú cún, khi cùng gia đình chủ chuyển đến nơi ở mới. Những điều mởi mẻ, những sự hiếu kỳ đã tạo nên một giấc mơ thú vị trong cơn sốt.

Đọc xong mới nhận ra, trong cái thân tưởng chừng như trưởng thành của mỗi chúng ta, vẫn len lỏi đâu đó tâm hồn con trẻ : )).

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good book for most of the beginning and middle and I was wondering what granny would do next and how the book would end… the ending wasn’t for me. Spoiler** the main character ends up being a dog the whole time and he was never a boy that got sick at granny’s. Very weird ending and I wasn’t pleased with it. Didn’t make much sense and I wish the book ended differently to where there was a boy that was actually at his crazy grandmothers house and he tried to get out.

[Benjamin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I remember I wrote a book report about this as a kid. It was creepy, but that is to be expected of a Ghost of Fear Street book. The worst part however was the twist ending. Oh I don't necessarily mind twist endings, you couldn't see the twist coming, because it was incredibly stupid and made no sense. Even M. Night Shmaylan hasn't mad a twist that stupid. Maybe if there had been some indication that could even hint at the ending. I read quite a few of the books in the Series but this one in particular stood out in my memory mostly because of how far out there the ending was. At the time I did get some enjoyment out of it.

[Glendy C · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a crazy fun story. When Corey is left with his Granny Marsha he’s warned by his father to not get sick while there. At first everything seems great but then he sneezes and that’s when Granny turns crazy trying to make him better. Her treatments to help him are horrible. There’s a twist at the end that I really liked but then another twist happens which I wasn’t a fan of. Overall it was a quick fun nostalgic read.

[martin · Rating 2 out of 5]

por el momento creo que es el libro mas bizarro que lei en mi vida, me gusto pero apenas, justo la copia que conseguí tiene bastante errores ortográficos y eso me cagaba un poco la lectura. todavia estoy analizando que me parecio el final pero no me gusto por el momento, esto puede cambiar cuqndo piense un poco más lol

[Tịch Nhan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Truyện kinh dị thiếu nhi hihi

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was fun.

[Ngọc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Twist được phết =)))))), rất giải trí

[Yeon · Rating 3 out of 5]

ông này có mấy ý tưởng ngộ nghĩnh thật :))

[✨Yvette✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the twist at the end!!! I tried to predict the ending, but I was so wrong!

[Rick Vickers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, a little disappointed in the ending

[Nathan Barbieri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Weird.

[Paul Lê · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some light Misery-esque sadism and body horror preface this bizarre entry. The twist ending feels especially out of left field.

[virrrr bianchi · Rating 3 out of 5]

me lo leí en un día esta bueno

[Tùng Lâm Phạm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thích văn của bác Stine nhưng câu chuyện lần này thật rời rạc và thiếu cao trào...

[ngan di · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book feels like a fever dream thats why i love it

[Nguyễn Vy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Vẫn là một phong cách rùng rợn với những cú twist nổ não của bậc thầy kinh dị trẻ em R.L. Stine. Tuy nhiên nhìn chung thì cuốn này hơi thiếu sự đặc sắc

[Faith]

Just wanted to see if it’s as wild as i remember and it absolutely is. This is definitely where my fear of old people and getting sick started. The ending has haunted me for 18 years

[Yamila Sosa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vaya final!! No me lo esperaba...
La abuela Marsha daba miedo...

[Stacy ( cr33pycrawlspace ) · Rating 2 out of 5]

But what was that ending??

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was absolutely loving this until that ridiculous ending. It ruined the whole book for me, and was probably the worst Stine ending of all time.

[Lady Sen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nostalgic