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Give Yourself Goosebumps #4
Deadly Experiments of Dr Eeek
The Deadly Experiments of Dr.Eeek (Give Yourself Goosebumps) Stine, R. L.
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1996
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R.L. Stine
1,737 books19.4k followersRobert 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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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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April 14, 2009
To this point in Give Yourself Goosebumps, each book had branched into two distinct halves near the start, but The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek rejects that convention…and it isn't the last eccentricity you'll see. You and your friend Sam stop by Eeek Laboratories to wait for your mother to get out of work. She promised to take you to a movie, but as you wait for her, Sam becomes restless. He's a fun kid, but gets into mischief easily. He wants to sneak into the labs and poke around; will you go along with that, or insist on waiting here for your mom?
Agree to Sam's plan, and you're nabbed by a chimpanzee named Oscar. He's being experimented on by a Dr. Yzark, who may not be the principled man of science he seems. If you and Sam waited for your mom in the lobby, you are solicited to participate in the mysterious Raster experiment, conducted by Dr. Eeek himself. Say no, and he gives you and Sam a green glob to play with. When the goo spreads over your whole body, can you save yourselves? Dr. Eeek will help, if you agree to the Raster experiment. It's a virtual reality test, one that projects you into a South Seas paradise. Survive a run-in with a Komodo dragon and Dr. Eeek summons you back to reality, but you're actually injured from the nasty lizard, and Sam is fighting for his life in the VR realm. Go back under to save him, and you see Sam fighting a freak octopus. Can you prevent Dr. Eeek from killing your friend? Play your cards right and he'll be carted off to jail in real life. If you don't go back into the VR to save Sam and instead run to get help, you might accidentally telephone for pizza and then trigger the office sprinkler system, but as long as the cops apprehend Dr. Eeek, it's a win.
Did you volunteer for the Raster experiment from the start? Once you meet Dr. Eeek you may wish to renege on that, but Sam stays behind, wanting to be paid. On your own in the lab's corridors, you might find a kid whose body is partly canine. He hands you a silver whistle and says you'll need it. By the time you trace your path back to Sam he's gone, but left a trail of gum wrappers. Dr. Eeek has him strapped to electrodes, but vows to free him if you answer a trivia question about My Hairiest Adventure from the original Goosebumps series. Get it right and Dr. Eeek still locks you in the Canine Maze. Encounter a pack of snarling dogs and you'll be glad to have the silver whistle, which makes them docile. If you don't meet the dogs you might come across a vending machine, but eat too much of its food and you and Sam transform into dogs. If the pack of real dogs finds you now, will they rip you apart? Maybe you’ll cross paths with Dr. Eeek; threaten to bite him and he'll give you a pill to turn human again. Maybe you saved Sam from Dr. Eeek earlier and were never banished to the Canine Maze. The doctor is baffled by your resistance, but when he learns who your mom is, things change. Has she fallen afoul of Dr. Eeek, and he's experimenting on her? If you defeat the madman, then you, Sam, and your mom may exit the building alive and in time to enjoy the cinema.
Nothing is wrong with the concept, but The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek mostly fails. With a few brief exceptions, the lab settings aren’t as unnerving as I hoped for. Internal continuity from one story branch to the next is unreliable; I've seen worse in other gamebooks, but this one would be better had the author prioritized plot cohesion. R.L. Stine's roots are comedy, so I understand his impulse to go for the joke, but The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek would have benefited from the simple, eerie vibe of early entries in original Goosebumps like Stay Out of the Basement and Night of the Living Dummy. I rate this book one and a half stars; it's the first Give Yourself Goosebumps failure, which is regrettable because it held much promise.
Agree to Sam's plan, and you're nabbed by a chimpanzee named Oscar. He's being experimented on by a Dr. Yzark, who may not be the principled man of science he seems. If you and Sam waited for your mom in the lobby, you are solicited to participate in the mysterious Raster experiment, conducted by Dr. Eeek himself. Say no, and he gives you and Sam a green glob to play with. When the goo spreads over your whole body, can you save yourselves? Dr. Eeek will help, if you agree to the Raster experiment. It's a virtual reality test, one that projects you into a South Seas paradise. Survive a run-in with a Komodo dragon and Dr. Eeek summons you back to reality, but you're actually injured from the nasty lizard, and Sam is fighting for his life in the VR realm. Go back under to save him, and you see Sam fighting a freak octopus. Can you prevent Dr. Eeek from killing your friend? Play your cards right and he'll be carted off to jail in real life. If you don't go back into the VR to save Sam and instead run to get help, you might accidentally telephone for pizza and then trigger the office sprinkler system, but as long as the cops apprehend Dr. Eeek, it's a win.
Did you volunteer for the Raster experiment from the start? Once you meet Dr. Eeek you may wish to renege on that, but Sam stays behind, wanting to be paid. On your own in the lab's corridors, you might find a kid whose body is partly canine. He hands you a silver whistle and says you'll need it. By the time you trace your path back to Sam he's gone, but left a trail of gum wrappers. Dr. Eeek has him strapped to electrodes, but vows to free him if you answer a trivia question about My Hairiest Adventure from the original Goosebumps series. Get it right and Dr. Eeek still locks you in the Canine Maze. Encounter a pack of snarling dogs and you'll be glad to have the silver whistle, which makes them docile. If you don't meet the dogs you might come across a vending machine, but eat too much of its food and you and Sam transform into dogs. If the pack of real dogs finds you now, will they rip you apart? Maybe you’ll cross paths with Dr. Eeek; threaten to bite him and he'll give you a pill to turn human again. Maybe you saved Sam from Dr. Eeek earlier and were never banished to the Canine Maze. The doctor is baffled by your resistance, but when he learns who your mom is, things change. Has she fallen afoul of Dr. Eeek, and he's experimenting on her? If you defeat the madman, then you, Sam, and your mom may exit the building alive and in time to enjoy the cinema.
Nothing is wrong with the concept, but The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek mostly fails. With a few brief exceptions, the lab settings aren’t as unnerving as I hoped for. Internal continuity from one story branch to the next is unreliable; I've seen worse in other gamebooks, but this one would be better had the author prioritized plot cohesion. R.L. Stine's roots are comedy, so I understand his impulse to go for the joke, but The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek would have benefited from the simple, eerie vibe of early entries in original Goosebumps like Stay Out of the Basement and Night of the Living Dummy. I rate this book one and a half stars; it's the first Give Yourself Goosebumps failure, which is regrettable because it held much promise.
March 14, 2024
The Deadly Experiments Of Dr. Eek is a book I had zero intention on reading as a young kid.But as I'm going through the series,I got blessed enough to buddy read this with a good friend.The story starts off with you and your friend Sam going to your mom's work place because she promised you guys a movie.As your waiting you get to decide to either wait for your mom or go looking for her.I chose to wait as my first choice and this leads you to what is basically a short Monster Blood story.Only no shrinking or growing.You follow Dr.Eek into a lab where he shows you this slime that's called G substance.This storyline as I said is very short and not a lot happens.The next storyline I went with was I believe the virtual reality storyline.Basically Dr.Eek straps you to these chairs and you get sent into a tropical island where you face off against giant kamodo dragons,giant squids and giant boa consticters.Agian,this story line was super short.The last two storylines were my favorite.One was short and the other took up like seventy percent of the book.The first one is the chipanzee storyline.You end up at a vending machine and get stopped buy a chimpanzee who you learn is named Oscar. After following him to a lab You are introduced to a guy named Professor Yzark.I actually could be totally wrong about that name.This story line is really rediculous.And I honestly cant say much without spoiling it but certain people or chimps in charge change do to the choices you make.The last storyline I went with was the dog storyline.Probably the storyline that everyone hates.I'll go on record saying back in the day when I first read a certain Goosebumps book that everyone seems to hate I actually loved it.Now this storyline I didn't love at first and I still really don't love now ,but I did have what I Believe is as much fun as you can have with this type of storyline.In this Storyline you discover that Dr.Eek is doing something that involves body swapping with dogs.It's not really explained why hes doing this .He just is.This storyline had sime fun dog moments like having to take your medicine and getting turned into a dog yourself.This almost feels like a prequel to that certain Goosebumps book I mentioned before.The Deadly Experiments Of Dr. Eek is a weird one.I'll tell you upfront I don't recommend this book and that it's even bad.However I'll say I also had a lot of entertainment with it.It's not a boring book in my opinion.It's random,poorly structured,and we don't know anything at all about Dr.Eek.But I still had a good time with the different expiriments and the "funny" endings.Speaking of endings,my least favorite had to be the dream ending and chimpanzees tickling your feet ending.As for my favorite,this belongs to the electric bill ending and the ending where you swap bodies with.Dr.Eek.I also want to mention one of the funniest scenerios in this book is where a pizza delivery guy saves the day.That one was good.The Deadly Experiments Of Dr.Eek is a stupid mind numbing book,but its a fun mind numbingly stupid book.I give it a three out if five stars.
August 9, 2025
Wanna mention this that i read this book within 5 hours but took a 3 hour break in between. I got every single ending because this is the first book i read alongside a book map… and i did this for a good reason.
This book has three main arcs you can take:
1. A three ending arc that basically goes nowhere (isnt horrible but kinda pointless)
2. An arc where you get experimented on which involves lots of canines
3. And an arc where you refuse to get experimented on
The short arc does nothing for the book, the goo arc is fine but has shit endings… even if there is admittedly some cool ideas, and the canine arc is a complete fucking disaster.
Sadly, an entire 14 endings come from this canine arc. And sadly this is an extremely confusing part of the book. Theres tons of shit that makes no sense, and its very tough to navigate your way around especially in the canine maze. When more than half the endings are in an extremely confusing arc with little to no pay off, its hard to find positives. Even if some of the book was decent the canine arc basically ruins all the potential it had at being at least fine.
As a whole, im sad to say this book is gonna get a 3/10.
This book has three main arcs you can take:
1. A three ending arc that basically goes nowhere (isnt horrible but kinda pointless)
2. An arc where you get experimented on which involves lots of canines
3. And an arc where you refuse to get experimented on
The short arc does nothing for the book, the goo arc is fine but has shit endings… even if there is admittedly some cool ideas, and the canine arc is a complete fucking disaster.
Sadly, an entire 14 endings come from this canine arc. And sadly this is an extremely confusing part of the book. Theres tons of shit that makes no sense, and its very tough to navigate your way around especially in the canine maze. When more than half the endings are in an extremely confusing arc with little to no pay off, its hard to find positives. Even if some of the book was decent the canine arc basically ruins all the potential it had at being at least fine.
As a whole, im sad to say this book is gonna get a 3/10.
October 16, 2022
2.5 ⭐️
I did really like the concept of this book where you get to choose your own storyline and it’s a much more immersive reading experience. There are many options on how to make the story come together and I found myself going back and forth at certain points to see who it would’ve turned out if I choose something else. In this one you and your friend arrive at your mums work at a laboratory and then you meet many different characters and the weird experiments conduced by Dr Eeek. It was okay but I didn’t really like that many of decisions and events. Kinda ehh
I did film a reading vlog and review video on my BookTube with the 10 Goosebumps books I read if anyone wants to check it out https://youtu.be/2quZD9vtoh8
I did really like the concept of this book where you get to choose your own storyline and it’s a much more immersive reading experience. There are many options on how to make the story come together and I found myself going back and forth at certain points to see who it would’ve turned out if I choose something else. In this one you and your friend arrive at your mums work at a laboratory and then you meet many different characters and the weird experiments conduced by Dr Eeek. It was okay but I didn’t really like that many of decisions and events. Kinda ehh
I did film a reading vlog and review video on my BookTube with the 10 Goosebumps books I read if anyone wants to check it out https://youtu.be/2quZD9vtoh8
May 17, 2020
Quarantine Quick Read: I'm really liking these choose-your-own ending books! My ending was p.69 . Which means I got the bad ending...
October 7, 2023
Another enjoyable read, choosing your options carefully, each ending is different and that's part of the fun!
March 12, 2025
Got the ending where I was turned into a dog and was given to my mother but have to live to watch her wonder what happened to her son. Harrowing stuff…
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July 14, 2026fire
June 8, 2014
I find myself more drawn to R.L. stine's choose your own adventure books. Only because of the fact that you get to choose your ending. He writes brilliant books for children but he always goes for the same type of ending and for a happy ending sucker like myself, they aren't my favorites. These however are very cool, if you get a bad ending all you have to do is go back to your last choice (or last save point as I call them)and choose the other to get a different ending. I will go through the entire book just to see what all the different endings are. Very good book for chapter book readers or going into chapter book readers.
February 22, 2024
Yeah this was quite a weak GYG book. Most of the endings weren’t very good, and kinda bad I’d say. The book is all over the place and is really hard to keep track of where you’re at, especially if you’re trying to read every page of it. The villain was lame, the twists and turns weren’t creative nor fun, and the plot lines as a whole were bland. The only things I liked were some of the endings, mostly the ‘good’ endings where you get the fuck outta there, and the stuff involving a certain character named Oscar… that was kinda cool and was pretty fun. Overall the book is a 4/10, not the worst thing ever but the worst GYG I’ve read thus far.
Edit: Night in Werwolf Fecal Excavation is Worse.
Edit: Night in Werwolf Fecal Excavation is Worse.
June 23, 2026
This one had a very interesting premise, which honestly made it even more disappointing. A mysterious laboratory, genius chimps, a mad scientist, and the promise of bizarre experiments? I was completely on board.
Unfortunately, it felt like almost every interesting path ended just as it was getting good. Instead of feeling like I was going on an adventure, I felt like I was collecting abrupt endings. I kept thinking, "Okay, this has to be the main story," only to turn the page and see THE END. There were some genuinely fun ideas here, but I never felt like they were given enough time to develop.
Adventure Log: Followed a chimp who immediately stole my chocolate bar. Discovered the chimps were actually running the laboratory and studying humans instead. Watched Tarzan casually show up in a Jeep to pick up Oscar like it was perfectly normal. Met a twelve-foot-tall kid for approximately thirty seconds before the story ended. I still think Oscar deserved a better book than this one.
Unfortunately, it felt like almost every interesting path ended just as it was getting good. Instead of feeling like I was going on an adventure, I felt like I was collecting abrupt endings. I kept thinking, "Okay, this has to be the main story," only to turn the page and see THE END. There were some genuinely fun ideas here, but I never felt like they were given enough time to develop.
Adventure Log: Followed a chimp who immediately stole my chocolate bar. Discovered the chimps were actually running the laboratory and studying humans instead. Watched Tarzan casually show up in a Jeep to pick up Oscar like it was perfectly normal. Met a twelve-foot-tall kid for approximately thirty seconds before the story ended. I still think Oscar deserved a better book than this one.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 18, 2024
This Give Yourself Goosebumps book is one of the weaker ones I have read. I liked the fact that it had to do with evil experiments but some storylines/endings were just kind of random. For example one being that you get tickled by chimpanzees! A totally random one about not paying an electric bill on time (which was kinda funny) and even ending up in a virtual reality world…to another where you become a dog. You literally never knew what was coming haha! The book was a little all over the place but I will say it was still pretty entertaining. (I would like to point out I really like the cover art with the chimpanzee and all the slime, it’s pretty cool and I like that it describes the book well) overall I didn’t hate the book…but didn’t love it. It is an okay Give Yourself Goosebumps book to say the least. But It is really not that memorable. For that reason I will give The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eek 3 out of 5 stars! :)
December 25, 2025
So far the worst story options and the most difficult book to navigate, which I actually enjoyed. good vs bad paths are sometimes very predictable of it offers you an active or a passive choice. The passive choice will almost always lead to a bad ending. Here, you're often rewarded for taking the passive route. So while this has the most unpredictable choices so far, it's also a complete mess. It's not clear what any of the experiments are and you basically just try to escape this lab with various science experiment cliches. I really do appreciate the unpredictability but this one was definitely dull.
July 5, 2017
This book is one of the Choose Your Own Adventure books from the Goosebumps series, and while I guess it’s okay, it’s not as good as a regular novel. But even amongst the Choose Your Own Adventure books in the Goosebumps series, it’s not particularly good. I don’t think I’d recommend it.
As for the story line, it casts you in the role of a kid as they become a human guinea pig inside a crazy doctor’s futuristic laboratory. My main memory is of there being a lot of chimps around, but that’s to be expected in a setting like this. Plus it only takes twenty minutes to read it. So yeah.
As for the story line, it casts you in the role of a kid as they become a human guinea pig inside a crazy doctor’s futuristic laboratory. My main memory is of there being a lot of chimps around, but that’s to be expected in a setting like this. Plus it only takes twenty minutes to read it. So yeah.
April 3, 2025
I love CYOA styled stories, and I loved this one as a kid!
Went through this now as an adult and mapped out all the paths and routes so I could read every ending.
Sure these books are a little more all over the place compared to standard goosebumps, but the whacky adventures are part of the charm. Plot continuity is very lax, so it’s best to think of every alternative path as an entirely different universe (gasp! The metaverse!)
Fairly sure books like these are what inspired me to make Twine games.
Went through this now as an adult and mapped out all the paths and routes so I could read every ending.
Sure these books are a little more all over the place compared to standard goosebumps, but the whacky adventures are part of the charm. Plot continuity is very lax, so it’s best to think of every alternative path as an entirely different universe (gasp! The metaverse!)
Fairly sure books like these are what inspired me to make Twine games.
August 22, 2025
Welp so much for playing it safe. LOL. I'm just going to do this my way from now on.
The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek follows a boy and his friend while they wait for his mother to take them to the movies. They are patiently waiting for her at her work but it's taking longer than usual. I decided to take the safe choice and stay and wait vs going to look for her and it got me in a really bad situation. Sigh. It did take me down some interesting twists and turns at times but overall was not memorable.
The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek follows a boy and his friend while they wait for his mother to take them to the movies. They are patiently waiting for her at her work but it's taking longer than usual. I decided to take the safe choice and stay and wait vs going to look for her and it got me in a really bad situation. Sigh. It did take me down some interesting twists and turns at times but overall was not memorable.
October 7, 2026
Bought this book as a gift for a friend who wants to get into Goosebumps and had a cheeky check out of it myself before giving it to her, I have STRONG memories of reading this book as a kid and it was one of my favourite Give Yourself Goosebumps, on rereading I do feel as many have said that there are too many Canine endings and it doesn’t really hold up to how much I used to love it, this would probably be a 3 star but I’ll give it an extra 0.5 for nostalgia (Nice to have 0.5 options now btw!)
July 2, 2024
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Aku cuman bisa membuat 4 pilihan. Ending cliffhanger yang aku bisa memperkirakan beberapa konflik yang mungkin sedang terjadi—entah benar atau salah, setidaknya aku enggak tewas di sini.
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Langsung disuguhi masalah, pembaca enggak dikasih waktu untuk mengenal, terbiasa, dan menyukai protagonis terlebih dahulu.
Aku cuman bisa membuat 4 pilihan. Ending cliffhanger yang aku bisa memperkirakan beberapa konflik yang mungkin sedang terjadi—entah benar atau salah, setidaknya aku enggak tewas di sini.
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Langsung disuguhi masalah, pembaca enggak dikasih waktu untuk mengenal, terbiasa, dan menyukai protagonis terlebih dahulu.
October 1, 2024
This was fun to revisit. I think I only found a few endings as a kid, this time round I found 25 distinct endings and there was two where there were multiple paths to the same ending. There might have been more.
In terms of the story, I think they could have done a bit more with the experiment angle but this is fun for the target demographic.
In terms of the story, I think they could have done a bit more with the experiment angle but this is fun for the target demographic.
October 28, 2026
"Elige tu propia aventura" que cuenta con entre 20 y 26 finales diferentes (clasificados habitualmente como finales buenos, finales malos y finales ambiguos).
Opinión:
Desde pequeña me pone muy nerviosa este tipo de novelas. Empiezo con ilusión y acabo con ansiedad por no tener la facilidad de leerme todas las historias y acabo buscando ayuda en internet.
Opinión:
Desde pequeña me pone muy nerviosa este tipo de novelas. Empiezo con ilusión y acabo con ansiedad por no tener la facilidad de leerme todas las historias y acabo buscando ayuda en internet.
June 23, 2019
Why does he always have dogs in his stories?
July 24, 2019
This one was a little better than the last one, I'll have to try another attempt to see if I get any farther.
Page 45 was the end of me. I was put into a cage to be studied by chimps.
Page 45 was the end of me. I was put into a cage to be studied by chimps.
November 24, 2021
This was fairly entertaining, but will probably be the last one I read for awhile.
May 5, 2022
I had a great time but the story is batshit insane
June 7, 2023
Really funny to explore
October 9, 2024
In one of the endings, you find out it was all a dream, which may fill you with existential dread as you wonder how much you should care as you go through the different paths.
October 28, 2024
My children loved this one. It's was great. Can't to read it again.
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June 8, 2025another good old campfire story, my new passion perhaps
July 31, 2026
I mean, it was ok
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