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Goosebumps: Hall Of Horrors #4

by R.L. Stine

Welcome to the Hall of Horrors, HorrorLand's Hall of Fame for the truly terrifying.

Matt was never a superstar in school, but he's definitely the most energetic and quick-witted student here. But what's up with the others? His suspicions are finally confirmed when Franny, his new friend asks, "How long have you been dead?" To his horror, Matt realizes his parents have unknowingly enrolled him in a zombie school. When Matt overhears the zombie plans to march and claim the whole city for the undead, he has to make a frightening choice- protect himself and continue his charade-or reveal his aliveness and try to save the unsuspecting alive people in the town.

Genres: Horror, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fiction, Novels, Zombies, Halloween

200 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2011

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

[Audrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

We have a kid, a little dim, starting a new boarding school. It takes him a while to realize all the students and faculty are zombies, and if they find out he’s not dead, they’ll kill him. It’s a bit creepy at times, but mostly it’s the kid being hysterical, the parents refusing to believe him, and a lot of near misses and overhyped suspense. There’s a bit of humor; kids will like it.

Language: Clean
Sexual Content: None
Violence/Gore: Decaying body parts, rotting food, limbs breaking off — descriptions are a little gruesome
Harm to Animals: None
Harm to Children: Many “dead” zombie children, temporary mortal peril
Other (Triggers): Disbelieving parents

[Yelena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow I really enjoyed this book I thought it'll be for children and maybe boring.. it wasn't!!

I LOVED the writing it's very exciting and made me so invested in the story and characters , poor matt moved to a new school little does he know that it's a zombie school!! I liked the vibes and the zombies and for some reason matt was so funny I guess he coped with humor lol .
Overall good storyline very enjoyable I'm going to read more goosebumps in the future.

[Gavin Hetherington]

I read all 25 Goosebumps HorrorLand and Hall of Horrors books in one movie-length vlog on YouTube, check it out: https://youtu.be/DsKCfCAAt7g

[Austin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Where do I begin with this book. I guess I’ll start here.

For those who grew up on the material coming out in the late 90’s of Goosebumps, you may have heard of Triple Header. A two book series that features 3 original short stories in each one written (presumably) by R.L. Stine. There’s a particular story that has inspired quite a few Goosebumps stories called Ghoul School. Where the main character attends a brand new school, meets a weird acting friend, which ends up helping them with a group of bullies by making disguises and offers a weird ending.

This book is basically just a carbon copy of Ghoul School.

Where the story got right is the homage to creators such as George Romero, by naming a creepy boarding school after him. As well, Wes Craven, by creating arguably one of the biggest missed opportunities in this book, Principal Craven.

The story has a horror loving protagonist, who’s a nuisance to his family. So much so, they feel it’s best to dump him off at this relative unknown boarding school they found online. The main character is then thrusted into seeing what he believes are the walking dead roaming his school. Immediately nose-diving into the “you gotta believe me” angle so many lackluster Goosebumps books adopt as well. All of the best parts just don’t… go anywhere.

From the interesting characters, to the creepy setup about the school, to the origin of the titular villains (if it isn’t obvious, they’re zombies), and wasting a cool concept known as the Reviver Room (an infirmary for zombies).

The his book is overall meh. It isn’t spectacular. There are some gory bits and funny moments. The book doesn’t take itself seriously. That goes for every element in it as well. The plot stagnates early on and never gains footing. The explanation for what’s going on is so skimmed over, if you blink you would’ve missed it. The character has zero development. Basically leaving him where he started in the beginning (just rinse repeat the setup for the “twist”). Principal Craven and the Reviver Room didn’t do anything. Considering my they were the MOST interesting parts to this book. Not to mention, the ending is summarized and also contrived. The only thing saving it from a two stars or lower is the fact it was able to be scary. Albeit, gross out and poorly thought out scares that still managed to work. It’s not an offensive book, just an overall uninspired book that didn’t really deliver anything original or anything really to care about. If I had to say in regards for Hall of Horrors, it’s the weakest one. Not the weakest Modern Goosebumps book. But it is pretty abysmal.

I wouldn’t recommend it. But if you are looking for a funny or out there read and haven’t read the nth amount books that’s based off of Ghoul School already, go for it. If this was someone’s first Goosebumps book, I can see why they would love it.

[Tiffany Spencer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why I Quit Zombie School
Matt Krinsky is said to always see the bad. He’s moved to a new town and a new school. As soon as he gets to his new boarding school, he knows there’s something off about it. Even the name-Romero Academy-is weird to Matt. And he ought to know because he’s into all things horror. The first thing he notices is that even tho it’s sunny, the school is hidden in shadow. Matt explores the school while his parents go to get his stuff settled in.

Matt sees three boys standing around a trash can. They’re eating something that turns out to be .., a dead squirrel. When Matt tries to point them out to his parens and sister (Jaime) they’ve vanished. They tell him to save his stories for a creative writing class, but he knows what he saw. Or did he?

The principal-a pale man with yellow-green eyes- introduces himself as Mr. Craven and encourages Matt to join their team “The Vultures”. He’s then introduced to Franny and weirdly he introduces Matt as “the newest victim”. Fanny says the school is big and doesn’t want him to get lost and never seen again. She offers to give him the tour. Franny describes the school as “dead” but tells Matt he’ll get use it. He also notices that everyone is moving slowly. The hall also smells funky and musty. He asks why everyone is moving so slowly. She tells him don’t make stupid jokes. Then two guys step up and block the hall. They ask if he’s the new kid. Their eyes don’t have pupils.

Franny introduced them to Wayne and Angelo (twins). When they leave, he asks what’s up with their eyes. But she answers so? Like this is normal. Wayne and Angelo come back and take over the tour. Wayne shows Matt the lunch room and says they eat all their meals there. That is unless they go out for prowling. Matt doesn’t know what in the world their talking about. There are sounds like chocking coming from the room.

Another weird thing he says is the coach “still has the juice” when he mentions everything in the gym is new. Again he notices how slow everyone is playing in the volley ball game. Wayne then asks him if he has night troubles and confides in him sometimes he has “moon fever.” He says sometimes Angelo get it too but he just won’t admit it. He also shows him the “reviver” room. On the way back to Matt’s family, Matt notices a book on the floor. Wayne slips on it, falls, his head cracks, and he plunges down all the steps.Angelo doesn’t do anything so Matt starts to scream.

He runs to get a teacher. They put him on a stretcher and carry him off. Surprisingly Angelo just tells Matt he’s glad he came there. Now they’ll have a replacement for his brother on the soccer time. To his brother being hurt he just says you know how it is. His parents and sister just think he’s over-reacting again. After they leave, he puts out his monster figurines and puts up his movie-monster- posters. Then he takes out his monster makeup and puts black makeup around his eyes, turns his skin pale, and makes his flesh look ripped, and his lips black with blood trickling down his chin.
He sees Frany in the mirror and decides to scare her but Franny acts like this is nothing out of the ordiary and starts complimenting his room. Then she offers to go on a walk with him. He tells her to let him wash the makeup off and she says “You mean it’s makeup?” He asks about Wayne and she says it’s not good. They took him to the reviver room but it didn’t take. Matt asks what goes on in the room and after a tick she answers you go in that room if your low or damaged and they turn on the power. The high voltage shock she says is so high it usually revives them. She says Wayne didn’t come around. He’s gone!

They go outside and crows fly overhead. Franny says he’ll get use to this. There’s a black fence. Franny says no one wants to go there. Its too depressing and sad. She asks does he want to go back there and he says no, not realizing he’ll be there soon. Days go on. Angelo doesn’t mention his twin so Matt doesn’t either. Franny starts to give him weird vibes. She seems to be.. studying him. He asks her how long she’s been to the school. She says she doesn’[t know. Time gets messed up in your head.

Things get weirder. One day, he watch’s a boy climb up the balcony and fall off. No one does anything to stop him. Then everyone starts to cheer. Then everyone else starts jumping off the balcony. Matt is confused. Angelo tells him it’s one way bungee jumping. Then urges him to try it. When he tries to tell his sister about it she doesn’t believe him. He’s sickened and tells her the worse part is when they got up from the jump they were all fine. He starts to tell her the school is weird but then she tells him she has to go.

Even tho he’s lost his appetite he goes to lunch and ses the kids eating what looks like raw meat-chicken legs- and gray soup sluring it down. The drink machine has a thick, clotted, drink that looks like blood. Matt asks Angelo why the school is so strange and he says he’ll get use to it. Before he can get more of an answer a kid starts to chock and then throw up brown stuff everywhere. Again, everyone acts like this is normal! The boy stumbles out of the dinning room. Angelo tells him no worries. He’ll be ok. He’s going to the reviver room.

Matt tries to get Franny alone to ask her the many questions he has. In the library they’re interrupted and then she leaves and tells him she’ll talk to him later. Before she leaves tho she asks him when he died. Franny is shocked to find out he’s alive and tells him then they’re the only two alive in the school. Then she drops the bomb. It’s a ZOMBIE school. Fanny says they have to keep it a secret they’re alive. They have to walk slow, act dumb, and be a little clumsy. If not they’re in danger. Matt says forget that. He’s leaving. He can run to the highway. She tells him the crows are trained to guard the school and they’ll alert the others. She says if they find out they’re alive they’ll kill them,

Of course, Matt’s parents don’t take him serious. His mom tells him he just needs to make some friends. Then she wishes him luck. WORSE PARENTS EVER! She tells him they’ll be there Saturday for parents week. The door burst open and Angelo and three other boys tell Matt they just heard about him. But they just found out he was all star on his old school’s soccer team and want him to try out.

Matt tho forgets when he’s trying out to dial it back and starts to get looks of suspicion. He starts to play at a more believable rate but then he kicks one of the players to hard and his leg comes off. David is taken to the reviver room. Coach tells him not to worry. Injuries like this happen all the time and sends Matt back to his room for the rest of the afternoon. Angelo and some of the guys question him after the game. He tells them it was nerves. They ask when he died and he tells them very recently. They let it go.

Saturday comes. Matt makes a deal with his parents that they’ll keep an open mind. If he can’t convince them by lunch he’ll drop it. It’s raining this day. Mr. Craven is ushering parents in. Matt tells them to shake his hand. It’ll be dry and cold but he lets them move past him without shaking hands. He shows them the other kids having breakfast but his parents just think it’s normal for kids to toss food around and eat messily. They see everyone walking slow and think it’s jutt “a relaxed atmosphere”.

A blond girl jumps off the balcony but at the same time Matt’s dad has dropped his phone so his parents backs are turned. In a last ditch effort he sees Franny and asks her to tell them what’s special about the school. She tells them the library stays open late, they have good computers, and the dining room is special. She invites Matt to a dance that night. His parents encourage him to go to get out of his fantasy world. Later, Franny tells him there were too many kids around them listening. She says some of the others are starting to suspect him and warns him to be careful at the dance.

At the dance, a kid chocks up his tongue. The dances goes on and they all do “The Stomp”. After this some guys surround Matt and the leader introduces himself as Ernie. They comment that he’s not to good a t the Stomp and he needs to practice with them. But Franny pulls him away. They claim their “just making friends”. Franny tells him their dangerous. She pulls them behind the bleacher’s when a food fight breaks out. Franny tells them they suspect him. He wants to know why they don’t suspect her. She says she’s a better actor. She tells him she’s going to help him. First he wants her to dance with him. Then he has to go to the food table and convince them.

He does a convincing stomp. Then when a girl named Evie asks him to ate some of the meat, he gets down a rotted pear instead. He asks Evie to dance but then she discovers his hand is WARM! HES STILL ALIVE! Angelo and some of the others ask when he died. He says last Sunday but they say he arrived two Sunday’s ago. Then he says 2 or 3 weeks ago. Angelo says test him. They take him to the balcony. A rubber hand saves him when he drops it, but now Ernie wants him to go to the reviver room to reattach it. But some kids drag Ernie from the room and back to the Stomp contest.
The next morning, he gives his skin a tint of blue. But it runs off when Matt has to “run” in gym class. He starts to sweat and a ring of it gets on his tee-shirt. He’s snatched up by some guys in the locker room. They notice he has a heartbeat. Matt takes off running. But he’s hit by a softball and falls. He recovers and runs to the tall, black, fence. The zombies catch up. Matt sees a rock, makes a leap, and swings himself over the fence. He lands hard on his back. On the other side of the fence is a graveyard. He’s locked in and the sun is going down. He sees Franny’s tombstone.

Matt realizes she must have been spying for the other kids. He thinks he sees two snakes but it’s someone tossing down a rope ladder to him. It’s Franny. Fanny confesses the kids made her spy on him because they need to know if a live kid doesn’t come there by mistake. But she says she likes him and that’s why she helped him. She said that if he comes back in the morning they’ll give him the final test. They throw you in the stone quarry and force you to stay there 20 minutes. They’ll run a car over him and throw him off a cliff. Before leaving, she wishes him luck.

Matt sneaks back to his room and gives himself the best makeup job he’s ever done. But will it be enough? Turns out he does TOO good a job and they all think he’s falling apart. They host him up and carry him to the reviver room. Inside he meets the reviver who says he’ll make him good as new. He says he’ll be more careful this time. The last boy he burnt. Then he pulls down the switch. The machine tho is out of juice from the other kid. Matt tho jumps up and says he’s fixed. The reviver is convinced and tells him to go back to class.

In a week, Matt begs his parents and he’s put in another boarding school for normal kids. Only when he’s drinking from the water fountain-the water is red-. The kids in the dining hall are drinking something from bowls that’s red. The principal has fangs and he welcoms him to “Dracula Middle School.”

My Thoughts
Of all the horror books I’ve read about monsters, I think zombie stories have been the least of all. So, I did enjoy this one. I didn’t have a lot of comments for it. It’s just one of those books that you like just because you like and that’s all the reason you need. I did wonder tho why these parents always have to be so unbelieving and clueless. If my child told me they were ia school that was dangerous and they feared for their lives, I don’t care how much of a jokester they were, I think I’d listen. And then I guess the lesson here is that you can’t just believe something -or think it’s a good idea- because you see it on the internet. Why would you even pick a school like that? Something like this actually did tho happen to someone in my family. He saw something on You Tube-an eating place- and he was driven two hours just to find out that the food he wanted was NOT good. But he listened to people saying how good it was. SMH! I think these parents just wanted to get rid of this kid so bad that they didn’t care *what* kind of school they sent him away too.

Rating: 7

[Josiah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the R.L. Stine we knew and were sometimes astounded by in the original Goosebumps series. Why I Quit Zombie School takes several outstanding qualities of favorite Goosebumps books—the frustration and desperation of not being believed by one's parents when it matters most, the electric suspense of the main character being trapped in their scenario by violent death on every side, and the inclusion of stray story aspects that don't seem to add up until we discover our assumptions were all wrong from the start—and weaves them into a high-voltage adventure that easily rates best of the first four Hall of Horrors installments. As in the three preceding books, we know that twelve-year-old Matt Krinsky must survive his encounter with the undead because the story begins with him approaching the Listener in his haven at Horrorland theme park, ready to spill every macabre detail of what went on when his own parents mistakenly enrolled him in a school for zombies. But how could the rubber hand Matt is now holding have spared his life from the murderous hordes of the waking dead?

Matt has shown an affinity for horror fiction since he was a little kid, but the gruesome makeup effects he loves on the silver screen take a took-close-for-comfort turn after he and his family move to a new town and enroll him in a private boarding school. It doesn't take long for Matt to notice there's something off about the other students, even those who are reasonably friendly toward him. Mild disgust at their weird eating habits grows into revulsion as he sees their nonchalant response to a life-threatening head injury suffered by one of their peers in the school's halls, and then outright terror when he witnesses their "One-Way Bungee Jumping", a recreational favorite that requires kids to leap from a ledge several stories up, squash on the floor like roadkill, then stand up and walk away as if nothing happened. Matt's darkest suspicions are confirmed by a girl named Franny, who pulls him aside to let him know this school is for the juvenile undead. He and she are the only living students in the building, she reports. If the faculty or other kids find out Matt and Franny aren't dead, they won't stay that way long.

With rotting middle-schoolers shuffling, groaning, and falling to pieces around him, Matt tries to stifle his dread and make it to the day parents are scheduled to visit, so his mother and father can see the true nature of the school with their own eyes and withdraw him from the program. Parents Day is almost here, but can Matt convincingly maintain his false front as a dead kid until then? The zombie students are beginning to suspect Matt is alive, and a warmblooded interloper like him could spell trouble for the school. What if he publicly reveals its existence, and the government shuts them down? Matt's doubters are closing in on him much faster than their staggering, moaning gait would seem to allow, but he knows if he can't make it to Parents Day and convince his mother and father of the patently absurd truth about the school, he'll never see his family again. What will it take for Matt to escape the scourge of this zombie academy?

I didn't think cover artist Brandon Dorman could top his artwork for Hall of Horrors book two, Night of the Giant Everything, but what he came up with for Why I Quit Zombie School definitely does the trick. The cover picture is gorier than any other Goosebumps book I know, a ghoulish, green-skinned boy bursting from his locker with one eye popping out of its socket. I can't imagine anything that graphic getting the nod for the original Goosebumps series, but I suppose young readers twenty years later were more acclimated to grotesque imagery, and the amped-up scare factor works for this book in particular. Rarely has R.L. Stine generated better suspense than in Why I Quit Zombie School, a claustrophobic runaway vehicle of crackling intensity that operates shrewdly within its limits to produce a fright fest of impressive proportions. I would without a doubt give it two and a half stars, and only a few declined opportunities to add emotional depth to the story prevent me from rating it higher. I love that two decades after Goosebumps debuted, R.L. Stine remained capable of this high caliber of horror and suspense writing. It leads one to approach the rest of the Hall of Horrors miniseries with great expectations.

[Lidojack · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was okay in that a kid was "accidentally" transferred to a zombie school and how he needed to survive to be able to move out of the school and allow himself to stay far away from the undead. This book was not very scary but it had some moments when he was about to be found-out about and it would have been over. He even had a test where he had to jump off a building to prove that he was a zombie and it was the most dramatic moment that needed to happen for his survival. Overall, this was a book that wasn't that scary but it wasn't that bad either.

[Victoria Zigler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a great read... Not one for the squeamish though.

[Austin Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

In this Hall of Horrors entry, our main character, Matt, somehow ends up at an all "zombie" boarding school, where he discovers he is the only living human and must blend in with the rest of the undead. Much of the book centers around him trying to keep the fact he is alive a secret, while trying to figure out a way to escape the school.

In this book, R.L. Stine really plays off the zombie theme fairly efficiently. There's a lot of body horror, slapstick humor, and gross-out / funny moments. There's also some clever jokes sprinkled through-out and even a couple of references to well-known horror movie directors; which I thought was cool, although it would have been cooler if the references had been more subtle and not so obvious.
I was mildly entertained during this book. To me, this is more of a Goosebumps book you don't take too seriously. The attempted suspense regarding Matt trying to blend in with the other zombies and them becoming suspicious of him... just didn't work for me. There were too many inconsistencies with the rules of the zombies and the way they were singling out our main character that ruined it for me. Also, this book has a more lighthearted tone to it, more so than the other Hall of Horrors books thus far. Despite some of the more graphic descriptions involving zombie-body parts, this book leans more towards the comical side of things. Some of the humor worked - I actually chuckled a couple of times- and other parts I found the humor quite childish and annoying.

The story itself didn't have much to offer. Nothing we haven't seen before in Goosebumps, and has been done much better. The plot here is a little reminiscent of Creature Teacher from Series 2000. Unfortunately, it just doesn't have even close to the amount of suspense in that book. Again, I feel like this one is to be enjoyed more as a comedy than anything. The plot twists at the end are cliche and predictable. Also, the resolution is very abrupt and makes you wonder why Matt had to go through all of that in the first place if the solution had been that easy...? Of course, we never even learn why he had to go to the boarding school to begin with, or why he gets sent to ANOTHER one after.

Overall, not a very good book, but not bad, either. I mostly enjoyed this one for its humor, which is really the book's only strong point to begin with.
2.5 / 5

[Zoey De Leon · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book mostly relies on the suspense and tension revolving around our main character Matt being singled out as the only alive kid in the boarding school of zombies, it's mostly just that being repeated with all it's setup, it's cool at some aspects but it gets kind of repetitive and boring at times and the implications surrounding the plot mostly didn't happened until 100 pages into the book. Some of the ideas in there are cool, where there's this obvious twist building up earlier but how it is revealed following it is actually really cool in my opinion.

The ending of this one sucks, it's just a repeat again of the implications that started on around the 100 page mark and it ends on the same way in those threads which leads to the story's conclusion which was super easy for the main character and not only that, I did thought that could also have happened earlier on in the middle of the story, so basically this mostly is like a short story that is repeated two times which results into a full length 130 page book.

This book wasn't that all bad, it's just the execution within the ideas I thought was just padded too much. In verdict, this is my least favorite installment in the Hall of Horrors series.

[Tarissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Matt gets sent to a boarding school... for zombies... but he's not undead like the rest of them, so he has to be very careful not to stick out like a sore thumb. Or else.

Goosebumps Scary Level for Kids: 4/5
(The zombies are intense sometimes. They hungrily devour a LOT of raw meat. There's a couple of gross scenes. And there's also a way to test one's zombie-hood... If you can jump off a balcony, kersplat on the floor, and walk away, then you've proved your zombie self-worth. Grim, isn't it?)

[shuang · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was such an interesting plot for young me. A teenage horror adventure with a side of rotten romance 😳. This book really started my reading journey...

I remember this was the first ever book that I picked up and read all on my own accords. I found it in my grade school teacher’s shelf, which I was sure it was just for decoration. I was always into goosebumps series but I was too wussy to read them. However, I decided to read it because I liked plants vs zombies.

[Zoe]

OMGG GUYS THIS IS DEVINELTY MY FAVORITE GOOSEBUMPS!! YOU GUYS HAVEEE TO READ IT!!-ZOE

[Totoro · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Arad Bahmandoost · Rating 3 out of 5]

At first, I found it a bit boring, but as I kept reading, I realised it wasn’t a bad book. However, the part where the main character tries to convince their family really got on my nerves! I liked the ending and found it interesting. Overall, I’d recommend this book to teenagers.

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Come già detto in precedenza, Piccoli brividi ha un posto speciale per me. Quindi ho deciso di leggere un'altra storia. Questa volta dalla serie La galleria degli orrori. Il libro ha sempre il classico stile di Stine. Mi piace molto perché ci sono capitoli corti e che ti lasciano sempre con un po' di suspense. Forse avrei preferito un finale costruito meglio, invece è stato buttato lì. Non vedo l'ora di leggere il prossimo.

[Ziying · Rating 3 out of 5]

Matt krinsky is a new student.When he transfers to a new school he notices the kids are walking really slow, way slower than him and they asked weird questions.I'm sure that Matt is going to find out why their behaving this way and maybe some of their school secrets on the way?This book has a bit of horror which i really don't mind, I guess that's what makes this book interesting to read.

He finds out that their zombies!I'm not too shocked because I've read many of R.l stine goosebumps series of books and these kind of stuff happens in almost every book I've read of his,but i'm still curious if he can play along like one of them as a zombie and don't get notice.He's planning on telling his parents but what if his parents won't believe him?I can't wait to read another book of this series.

[amelia Davies · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book is such a good book you sit there and you want to know what is going to happen a little bit confusing about the undead and the dead . but it a brilliant book I recommend it to everyone who likes a scare.

[Emily]

it was kinda gross. it said something about decaying but i like the book just a little gross that's all.

[Thomas-James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favourite goosebumps story of all time, but plenty of DEAD-pan laughs in there!

[Yolanda Sfetsos · Rating 3 out of 5]

I decided to grab this book today. Mainly because the condition is so shitty and I want it out of the house. 💩

Matt has just been enrolled in boarding school for the first time. But this isn't your average school, there are a lot of undead kids walking the halls...

Uh, for being a zombie book it wasn't remotely creepy. Sure, there were plenty of tropes and familiar undead stuff going on, but the story pacing was way tooooooo slow.

I don't know if it's because it's a Hall of Horrors or if it's just this book, but it wasn't as cool or as intriguing as the books in the original series. There seemed to be something missing. Something I can't put my finger on.

Anyway, at least the ending was funny.

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 I think this book was interesting and there were times of suspense which I liked but I HATE WHEN NOBODY BELIEVES THE MAIN CHARACTER. The parents of course are so stupid like 90% of these books but come on. And the way Matt kept getting out of being caught red handed made no sense… I know they’re zombies but they can’t be that brain dead. I think it could’ve been done creepier maybe and less “funny”. I think the ending “Dracula middle school” would’ve maybe been better even. Just seems like the plot kept repeating multiple times and nothing new happened and I hate that. But it had its moments and wasn’t a total dud. Kept storyline and had characters/plot. Just not the best execution.

[Youssef · Rating 5 out of 5]

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لماذا غادرت مدرسة الزومبي؟ مسكين «مات كرنسكي »! لم يجبره أبواه على مفارقة جميع أصدقائه المقربين فقط، بل ألحقاه أيضًا بمدرسة داخلية. إنها لا تتسم بالتشدد، لكن هذا لا يعني أن الأمور بها طبيعية. اعتاد «مات » أن يكون أحد أفضل الرياضي ن في فصله، لكن هؤلاء الأطفال يتحركون بالتصوير البطيء. وفجأة.. يدرك أنه محاط بالزومبي. وفي نفس الوقت، بدأ زملاؤه في الفصل يلاحظون دقات قلبه وجلده الدافئ. أيستطيع «مات » أن يقنعهم بأنه زومبي لفترة كافية ليظل على قيد الحياة؟
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[رأيي في القصة]:
قرأتها في (١٣/٢/٢٠٢٤)، ووجدتها قصة جيدة، عدا كم صفحة وجدتها تعتبر خيالية نوعًا ما، وكانت السبب في عدم تقييمي لها بالخمسة نجوم كاملة.

[Anish Nair · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really deserves in top five.

This book has some really good thrills and suspenses. Better than other Wimpy Kids. I have experienced this thrice with Wimpy Kid novels that after started the reading, I left them one at 60 pages, one at 126, and one at 187. After starting a Goosebumps, especially this one, a person can never stop reading it completely, and even thinks the story to feel short! Its books are never over lengthy and my best record of reading one book in a complete 5 hours, including workout, doing homework, etc. Because these books are extremely extremely interesting.

[Mohamed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why I quit zombie school is about a kid named Matt and he is a average boy at his old school but not at this school. At this school it's pretty weird and Matt always calls his parents and says "There are zombies", but his parents don't believe him. What I like about this book is that it's funny, entertaining and weird. If you had all that in one book I would love it, and trust me you should definitely read this book.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Without a doubt one of the best moderns and as well as zombie books in Goosebumps. The zombie contents were gross, unnerving, and even a bit goofy. I quite liked the main character, being a horror fan and all. The book has a decent plot and lots of tense moments. Also a very entertaining ride. The only real issue is the reveal with the side character, Franny, and the last ten pages not being the proper conclusion. 9.5/10 rounded it to five stars because why not. Very solid book.

[Mark Koung · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was quite interesting with its viewpoint on zombies and the way they act, like for instance; in the book, it says zombies can speak properly, play sports, eat food with cutlery, and don't chase after humans to eat them. Although the zombie school kids did try to run the kid over with an SUV to prove that he was a zombie.

[Amber · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun read. I really liked the weirdness of the zombie school. The Reviver Room was interesting. The main character could be annoying but he is a kid so. The ending I wasn't expecting. I really thought this was going to go another way but then with an abrupt cut it became something completely different. A fun zombie time.

[Glendy C · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually liked this book more than I thought I would. It wasn’t scary but it was a fun read. It’s about a boy Matt who gets sent to boarding school and discovers it’s a school for zombies. This book had lots of gross scenes and was kind of funny. Also horror movie fans will appreciate that the school is call Romero Academy and the principal is Mr. Craven.

[Sandra Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Something was off about Matt’s new school. Kids jumping off of balconies without a scratch, the cafeteria serving raw meat and chicken bones, and kids asking you when you died. Died? That’s because Matt was in Zombie School. The only way to survive was to pretend to be a zombie. Can he pull it off…or will he be dead meat? A good story!