Goosebumps Monster Edition #1

Goosebumps #1, 2, 4

by R.L. Stine

The #1 gift on every kid's list is here--three sensational Goosebumps classics, bound together in a monster-sized hardcover edition, and a screaming sound chip that's activated when readers open the front cover! The interactive package includes:
- #1: Welcome to Dead House
- #2: Stay Out of the Basement
- #4: Say Cheese and Die!

Genres: Horror, Childrens, Middle Grade, Fiction

390 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1995

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

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've subsequently learnt that the U.K. had a slight different release order for some of the Goosebumps books but I'll always consider these titles collected together as the strongest trio of tales that kicked off the series here.

Honestly I re-read this collection so many times that even now I know all three stories of by heart.
It was easily gateway into horror and whilst now I can spot what Stine was riffing on with allusion to Stephen King, Twilight Zone and The Fly this series helped cement my love of reading.

Welcome to Dead House.

Stine himself admits that he wasn't sure how to pitch this series to a young reader and this title is definitely the darkest in the whole series.
Nice use of both a sinister house and creepy kids.

Say Cheese and Die.

A fun concept of technology predicting the future to devastating effects.

Stay out of the Basement.

A really effective creepy tale as the mistrust between Marget and Casey towards their scientific father is brilliantly portrayed.
Let's face it we'd all be inquisitive to know exactly what experiments were happening down in the basement.

[Briar's Reviews · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes, you have to buy the anthologies to be able to find all of the books in one.

I am going to leave my review for each book separately on their own pages. I did want to make a comment about the first in the monster collection/edition though.

Welcome to Dead House - Doesn't exactly feel like monsters, feels more like paranormal.
Stay Out of the Basement - Definitely monster. Feels right in the collection and is a solid read.
Say Cheese and Die - Kind of a monster, more of a haunted/possessed item. Doesn't fit fantastically. Still one of my fave stories though, annnnnd.... Ryan Gosling starred in the television episode of it way back in the 90s. Check it out. It's worth it.

Good collection if you just want a selection of Goosebumps books. If you're looking for what we normally classify as "monsters" then this isn't exactly it... But that's my personal opinion.

Three out of five stars.

[25bensonk · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think that this is a very interesting book, it throws many surprises like when the son disappeared and was found in a graveyard running through tombstones. I've been told it is bad luck, Also when the daughter seen a "ghost", In the creepy old-fashion looking house and thought she was seeing things knowing that it is a Goosebumps book she was not seeing things and how the son and the dog were acting strange but the others think it is just because they do not want to move or are homesick.

[John Inman · Rating 4 out of 5]

First two stories were good. Third was meh. But I'm sure that for a younger reader all three would have been just fine. This was my first Goosebumps. It was kinda fun. Not sure I'll read another, but I'm glad I tried at least one. Now I know what they are, and I can see why kids love them.

[David Andrew Edmundson · Rating 5 out of 5]

My first ever goosebumps book as a kid with the light up curly eyes and screaming pages!

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Three books in one big book. Love these classic stories!

[Urko Santillan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Guay

[Wildcard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Goosebumps was popular when I was in elementary school, so when I found this edition at a goodwill a decade ago I had to get it and enjoyed the nostalgia trip from it.

[jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

adventurous medium-paced
Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
3.5

nothing like a good RL Stine book to drive away the reading slump.

[Jamie · Rating 5 out of 5]

If your kids love a good mystery...these are good. I won't list them all, but I have read (with my kids) most in the series, and watched the shows on t.v. and they are pretty scary, but oh so fun.

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

i thought this book was good because i did not expect the other dad to be split it too.

[Cheyenne Bell · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is definitely a good scare. My favorite story is Welcome to Dead House,. I love how it was a good mystery.

[Cadence Lanyon]

This book was good I really liked that it was not that scary. This book had 3 of the first ever goosebumps books. The first story is called Welcome to Dead House it is about a family moving into a house that looked like no one has lived in it for years. Amanda and josh Learned that the kids in the neighborhood are not alive.

Mr Dawes the landlord of the house gets families to move into the house and kidnaps the families and make them like the neighborhood kids.