تالار وحشت ۲: کمد شماره ۱۳

The Nightmare Room #2

by R.L. Stine, غلامحسین اعرابی (Translator)

در دست خود کلیدی داری که در را به روی دنیای وحشت و هراس می‌گشاید. از دنیای امن و راحتی که با آن آشنا هستی یک قدم به عقب بردار. در را به روی وحشت باز کن. همیشه جا برای یک نفر دیگر در تالار وحشت… وجود دارد.
با لوک آشنا شوید. امروز روز شانس او نیست. اولین روز مدرسه است و امروز کمد او را تعیین کردند. کمد شماره ۱۳… ۱۳ شانس؟ نه. برای لوک نه او در را به تالار وحشت گشوده‌ است.
در تالار وحشت بعد چه می‌یابید؟
کتاب شماره ۳، اسم من اهریمن را بخوانید!

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

158 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

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 4 out of 5]

Locker 13 is the second book in the Nightmare Room series and the fourth book I've read from it. And while I've enjoyed the previous three books I've read, this one might possibly be my favorite thus far.

Locker 13 actually takes a while to get its gears turning. The plot doesn't start to clearly develop until nearly half-way through, and much of the story revolves around our protagonist, Luke, being extremely superstitious and witnessing his good friend Hannah experience all the good luck.
(This is one of those superstition/luck-based stories Stine writes on occasion, though this one exhibits more of this behavior than perhaps any of the others)
Luke then discovers a tiny skull with red glowing eyes, and finds out that it's a good luck charm - formerly owned by Hannah, and now granting him with all the good luck. Unfortunately, he learns that the luck doesn't last, and that there are consequences to this good luck charm, and there is even a driving, malevolent force behind it... can Luke prevent the sudden bad luck that threatens not only him, but his friends and family as well?

At first glance, this book resembles both The Birthday Party of No Return (From Hall of Horrors) and It Came From Beneath the Sink (from the original Goosebumps series). Stine likes his superstitious-type stuff, and while I think some of the occurrences of luck in this story are a bit over-the-top at times, and some of the superstitious behavior a bit ridiculous, this story brings a new light to this mini "sub-genre" that keeps it fresh and intriguing.
There's some interesting character relationships in this book, especially between Luke and Hannah. There's some hints at a love interest between them, but things remain pretty surface level on that subject. There's even an interesting dynamic between Luke and "Stretch" (the typical bully figure), and the friendship they start to form towards the end of this book. Nothing too deep, but it takes things just a bit further than usual with these types of books.

Perhaps the thing that I found most appealing about this story is the commentary on fear - what it can do / what it does to us when we let it control our lives. Give way to a little bit of fear and anxiety, and it takes more than what's given, to the point where it can become controlling and problematic. This is what the villain of this story, The Fate Master, represents. We become too dependent on circumstances, playing the victim when things don't go our way, and often forgetting that we have to step up to the plate to make the changes necessary to overcome the difficulties in our lives. What's satisfying about these themes in the story, is that Luke actually realizes where he's at fault, and we see exponential character growth - in comparison to many of Stine's other titles, anyway. It's interesting to see Luke learning from his mistakes and that there is victory - not in succeeding, but in trying - trying your heart out, putting in real practice and effort. This sort of message is conveyed quite effectively, and leads to a satisfying ending. No spoilers, but the ending to this one is actually very profound and thought-provoking - inline with the already suggested commentary of the book. I was pleasantly surprised to find such a deep and enjoyable story from R.L. Stine - as much of a Goosebumps and Stine fan as I am, these ones don't come along too often. I was quite surprised.

Now, this book wasn't perfect. Far from it, in fact. It is a bit slow-going at first, and there is some missed potential with the character relations. I would have liked to see more interactions and depth to the already decently-established friendships and both the ramifications and benefits of the choices they make. The climax of the story is also just a bit rushed and could have used some more elaboration on those few final events. I did find things to be a bit goofy at times with how far-reaching some of the occurrences are in regards to receiving both the bad luck and good luck.
But overall, I really enjoyed this one and I can say it's worthy of a solid 4 stars.

[Reza · Rating 4 out of 5]

کمد شماره13 - از سری کتابهای تالار وحشت شماره 2
با لوک آشنا شوید.امروز روز شانس او نیست. اولین روز مدرسه است و امروز کمد او را تعیین کرده اند... کمد شماره 13... 13شانس؟ نه! برای لوک نه! او در را به تالار وحشت گشوده است...

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really liked this one. The plot was good, surprisingly had me hooked. W villain. The climax was really solid and there was a lot of creepy scenes in the book. I like the luck and bad luck aspect of the story. Pretty interesting. I liked the main character, and he had some small character growth as you see later in the book. A strong 9/10 great for my first Nightmare Room read, definitely will check out some more in the future.

[Senju Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Luke Greene is superstitious boy who is obsessed with having a good luck at all times. He just started 7th grade at his new school and was super scared and wanted to be accepted and cool and also be good player in school's basketball and swimming team. He has 2 best friends Hannah Marcum and Darnell Crosswell but Darnell isn't important as Hannah.
His enemy in school is Shawn Johansen (I forgot his nickname I think it was Long or something), the tall 8th grader who seems kinda like a bully but actually isn't that bad at the end.
Now let's talk about with Luke's sick borderline OCD obsession with having good luck.
At the first day of school he wore his lucky green shirt that was literally tearing apart just because if he didn't wear it he would have bad luck?, also before doing something important he would tie his shoe lace 3 times, clutch his lucky rabbit pawn 7 times, ect. the list goes one and this seems like a bit OCD case. Like if he doesn't do certain things something bad will happen.
Now let's talk about the Luke's charm. One day while opening his locker, Luke finds yellow skull with red eyes inside his locker. He decides to keep it, and after having it in his pocket he notices a huge amount of luck he is getting. Being great in the basketball, getting money for saving the cat, not getting hit by the cars when he skated down in the roller skates, ect.
Suddenly as he was having a lot of luck, his friend Hannah was having just opposite. Falling from bike, losing a basketball match, her leg getting worse, getting rash ect. One day she suddenly asked him if he has seen her lucky charm the yellow skull. He lied to her and he said he hasn't seen it. He was really greedy for luck. One day his luck stooped. Just before the basketball match, he pressed his palm with door of the locker and he hurt his left arm. Okay that was nothing what is going to happen next. First he played horrible during the match and next he crushed into some player and hurt himself. When he became conscious again, he ran to his locker while Hannah ran behind him. She explained that she was the one who gave him the yellow skull. She got it from the Fate Master who after her luck run out forced her to give it to someone else. She tried to save him from the Fate Master when she asked him if he has seen her skull. After that Fate Master appeared and told Luke to give skull to the Shawn (the Long I think it's his nickname). Later Luke was really having bad luck just like Hannah. Eventually Luke put the skull into Long's backpack but took it out right away because he couldn't do that to him. After he and Hannah met with Fate Master and he told them even if they give skull to someone else he won't stop with their bad luck.
Then it was clear that they need to find a way how to defeat him.
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I will stop now because what's the point of reading if I tell you everything hah.
Well the book is nice but Luke was somehow irritating protagonist.
Overall nice book, 4/5

[Nebojša Petković · Rating 3 out of 5]

NIje loše. Simpatično, dečije. Možda čak 3,5...

[Bahman Bahman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Superstitious Luke is miserable at the end of Friday the 13th when his until-then-perfect locker breaks, and he is assigned #13 instead. In it, though, he finds a mysterious charm with a picture matching a face he sees in the locker's mirror, saying it will give him good luck forever. He does win at wrestling against strong, tough Gomez, gets a congratulatory kiss and party-invitation from a girl he admires, and manages to win a radio-contest. But then he is dragged into the locker to meet the Fatemaster, who reveals that the luck from his charm must be repaid by life. Luke must either give the charm to his best friend so he will temporarily be lucky and then weaken as Luke has since he found it...or, if he refuses to let the Fatemaster enslave Jeff, he will continue to suffer the short time until his own life-force is finished.

[Imaydahjr · Rating 4 out of 5]

اتمام
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[Dimensionshark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Locker 13 is a decent read that I enjoyed very much, as I do with most books in The Nightmare Room series. The Nightmare Room had a sort of disturbing and surreal tone to it that Goosebumps never had, which is what makes me like the series so much.

The main concept of Locker 13 is that a superstitious boy named Luke runs into a stroke of bad luck. Not very scary stuff until he happens to come across his new locker assignment, locker 13. Inside is a small skull that at first, brings Luke great luck. But eventually he discovers that the skull was previously owned by his friend Hannah, who can't live without it, as she falls deeper into illness every day. Eventually, after having his luck but also watching his friend suffer, he must pay the price for his luck at the hands of the evil Fate Master.

The ending, however, is cut too short and doesn't give enough detail into how the story ends. I found the concept of making your own luck entertaining, but it was too quickly dealt with and didn't offer a satisfactory ending.

Overall, the book is alright, and will be a sufficient quick read. I rate 4/5.

[Owl]

کمد شماره ی ۱۳ : جلد دوم از مجموعه ی تالار وحشت

نویسنده : ار ال استاین



این کتاب راجب یه بچه ی بسیار بسیار خرافاتی(!) به اسم لوکه .

لوک کلاس هفتمه و برای رفتن با مدرسه ، تیشرت شانسشو میپوشه و بچه های مدرسه هم سر به سرش میزارن و بهش میگن خرافاتی ولی لوک به این حرفا توجهی نمیکنه .

طبق عقیده ی لوک ، آدما هیچ وقت به اون حدی که لازم داره از خوش‌شانسی برخوردار نیست ؛ و جایی نمیره که پنجه‌ی خرگوش شانسش تو جیبش نباشه ؛ و حالا تو اولین روز مدرسه کمد شماره ۱۳ رو به لوک اختصاص دادن و وقتی لوک اینو میفهمه علائم حیاتیشو از دست میده(!) و نمیتونه با این موضوع به خوبی کنار بیاد .

با وجود اون همه طلسم و خرت و پرتایی که برای خوش‌شانسیش داره ، تو مدرسه حسابی بد‌شانسی میاره از جمله در افتادن با قلدر تیم بسکتبال و بدشانسی تو کلاس شنا .

برخلاف لوک ، دوستش هنا کسیه که مدام تو مدرسه خوش‌شانسی میاره ازجمله برنده شدن پونصد دلار از طرف نیویورک تایمز و و و (خیلی دارم تلاش میکنم که ک�� داستانو اسپویل نکنم!)

خلاصه تو کتاب میفهمین که چرا هنا انقد شانس میاوورد و ماجرای چیزی که لوک بعدا تو کمدش پیدا میکنه چیه .

اگه عادت داری پایان کتابارو پیشبینی کنی ، باید بگم بهتره این عادتت�� موقع خوندن کتابای استاین ببوسی و بزاری کنار •••

And...

Good luck !

[Omid Mojdehgoo · Rating 2 out of 5]

حتا در کودکی هم که نمی دونم چرا نمی تونستم مطالب خرافاتی رو درک کنم و ازشون بدم میومد و تا الان که دیگه آتئیست شدم.
این کتاب هم همینجور بود با اینکه وقتی خوندمش کم سن بودم ولی چون یکمی حال و هوای خرافاتی توش بود زیاد خوشم نمی اومد.
البته اون زمان کتاب های آر ال استاین برام خیلی هیجان انگیز و جالب بود و یکی از هوادارای پر و پا قرص ایشون بودم.

[Drucilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Luke's superstitiousness borders on OCD and it gets annoying. It would have helped the book to learn more background about the skull and Fate. The idea of making your own luck to beat fate was neat, though.

[Negin · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Tiffany Spencer]

Locker 13
It’s Luke’s first day of seventh grade and he’s set! He has on his lucky (green) shirt and his rabbit foot (keychain). He has a lot on his mind. He wants to check out the computer lab, see when basketball tryouts are, and sign up for swimming. Hannah says she got one of the best lockers (outside of the cafeteria so she’ll be the first one there) and she has a Groom (the best English teacher). But Luke has Warren (who by the sound of is horrible). Darnell (Luke's other friend) tells him he’s got the “lucky” locker. (Locker 13), There goes the year! Hannah teases Luke for being a geek. Then they go look for his locker. On the way, Hannah finds a five-dollar bill. Luke asks why Hannah is always so luck. She doesn’t answer.

Two months later. School is going good. Luke’s been doing some good work on a computer animation project he’s been working on and he got a spot on the b-ball team. One day when he has practice, he’s late. There’s this guy on the team “Stretch” that’s been a problems. Basically, he’s a jerk. Luke for the most part has been riding the bench. “Stretch” has thrown his sweaty towel at Luke and spit out some of his Gatorade at him. (These are the kind of things he does). Stretch harasses Luke who can’t seem to make a shot. Luke finally makes a shot, but the Coach doesn’t see it. Luke (not thinking) throws the ball at “Stretch” and it hits him in the head and makes his nose start bleeding. It knocks out his contacts and Luke accidentally steps on it.

“Stretch” yanks Luke up, spits blood in his face, and is about to dunk him, but the Coach tells them to take it outside. He then puts “Stretch” in charge of Luke’s development. He can’t really argue with the Coach so he takes him outside and gets into a rough game of ball with him. He tells him he’s going to pay for his contacts. “Stretch” throws the ball so hard at Luke it hits him in the stomach and knocks him out so bad he sees stars and he can’t breathe. Then he starts to fade out. Through the blackness he hears the voice of an angel and he knows he’s dead.

But it’s Hannah running toward him. She blasts “Stretch” out and then goes to Luke. Hannah is BAAAD! She challenges “Stretch” to a game of basketball. Twenty to twenty. Hannah makes eighteen shots in a row. “Stretch”’s pride won’t let him play anymore. He jogs back into the school. Hannah finishes the game out and makes the next two shots. She says she’s just lucky. Then she tells him the photos she took of her dog she got paid five hundred dollars for. They’re going to publish them and write a story. Like decides then that he’s going to be as lucky as Hannah. It’s late now and Luke stops by his locker. Above the number 13, he writes the word “Lucky” (and already starts to feel it). Then he hears breathing and a soft hiss. Then he hears a cry. He opens the locker and finds a black cat. How long had it been in there? How did it get in there? Why was it in there?

Things continue to go abnormally good for Hannah. She doesn’t study for a test and guesses on the questions and gets a 100. Luke studies for a week and gets a 70. Luke tries out for one of the six spots on the swim team. But Luke slips on the wet tile and does a belly flop. He’s the seventh one to finish and makes an alternate. Luke is disappointed. He could have done better. “Stretch” thanks him for making him look so good. While combing his hair, Luke notices a crack in the mirror. Then he sees red eyes staring back at him. Then they cover his eyes and he screams.

The Coach hears him and asks in concern what’s wrong. Luke demands to know if his eyes are red. The Coach says it’s just the chlorine. He and “Stretch” are looking at him like he lost his mind. Luke wonders what the hell is going on. Luke is supposed to go to the mall with Hannah but decides against it (still shaken). Hannah calls later and tells him she won a raffle for a red SUV. She was supposed to be going to buy Luke a computer program but she forgot in all the excitement. He says what he really wants is her luck instead. She asks if he’s going to school tomorrow. It’s Friday the 13th. He says he’ll be there. He’ll just bring his lucky items. Plus he has basketball practice. Luke dreams of the locker that night. There’s a calendar and the thirteenth is circled. The door is breathing hot and there’s breathing inside the locker. There’s a voice that says “Get me out!” Luke opens the door and inside is Luke trembling all over with glowing red eyes. His face starts to change. Hair begins to pour out his nose and onto the floor and snake around him. It covers him like a fur coat and tightens and wraps him like a mummy. Then he wakes up clutching his four-luck colver. His room is ice cold!

By the time he gets to school, he’s late. He notices there’s a calender in his locker and the thirteenth is circled. For fear the dream will come true, he doesn’t open the locker. (He takes his coat with him). At lunch, all the fruit Hannah brings is rotted. The banana is black. The apple is chock full of worms. Hannah runs from the lunch room. Deciding that he doesn’t want to carry his coat and book bag to practice, he’ll put it in his locker. He opens the locker. There’s s a tiny.. yellow, skull. Luke does gret in practice. The Coach says he’s going to give him some playing time in the next game. Could it be the skull? Of course, it is. Luke decides to never go anywhere without it now. On the way home, luke hears the cries of a kitten stuck in a bush and saves it. His owners grateful. It’s been missing for two days. She rewads him with 100. 00. That night his mom makes his favorite dinner (meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and coconut cake). He even finishes his project. He calls Hannah but she doesn’t sound happy for him. She says she’s in a bad mood. She skinned herself, feel off her bike, and hurt her ankle. She says there’s something she has to tell him.

Then she says she can’t and hangs up the phone. The next day Luke’s homework isn’t there. He left it at home. But the teacher says she gave the wrong questions and they can rip those up. He gets an A on another test and he gets the last piece of pizza. Mrs. Cofee won’t be leaving and she told a friend about him and he says he can come in (off the books) and pay him five dolalrs an hour. Hannah has a game and plays badly (and they lose). Hannah tells Luke she lost her good luck charm. It was a skull. He says no, But when he leaves her he tells himself, I’ll just keep it for two weeks and then return it. (Snorts. RIIIGHT). When he gets home Mrs. Coffey calls and tells him he can start working Saturday with the guy she knows, but the really good news is she knows someone who’ll pay him a thousand dollars to enter one of his animations in a (showcase? Display? Exhibit?). After this, his mom comes in his room and tells him he won the drawing. For the rest of the year, every month they’ll get a free dinner at his favorite steak place.
Before Lucke goes to bed, he sets the skull on his dresser. Then he sees the image of it in the mirror magnified. His dad comes in the room, but the only thing he finds is the small skull. His dad tries to take it away but Luke stops him and says it’s a good luck charm. His dad says it looks evil to him, but Luke says it’s not.

The lucky streak continues. “Stretch” gets demoted and plays only when Luke gets tired. Hannah’s luck continues to get worse. Her ankle keeps having to get drained. She might need surgery. She also can’t go on the overnight class trip. Luke feeling like he’s on top of the world tries to attempt a crazy stunt blindfolded skating into a bunch of cars. Hannah warns him the luck doesn’t last forever, but he ignores her. He comes out of it without a scratch. Darnell and “Stretch” tell him he was almost killed three times. “Stretch” has to pay him 10 dollars.

On the overnight campout, Hannah does get to know but she’s on crutches. She broke her water bottle and it soaked all her clothes. Her face has also broken out in a rash. It’s all over her body. She’s pissed and really doesn’t want to talk to Luke. Luke hears screaming from the girls and sees two, big brown snakes. He tries to grab a hold of them. He hears them snapping but then they flee. He wasn’t bitten. The other kids cheer him and tell how brave he is. Hannah sees him. She’s scowling. Luke realizes she’s jealous but thinks too bad! He’s got the luck now and he’s going to keep it. Before a big game, Luke accidentally slams his hand in the locker door, but he shrugs it off. Hannah is at the game in a wheelchair. The game goes badly. When he looks for the skull it’s gone.

Luke takes off running and calling “TIME OUT!” (frantically). He has a head-on collision with one of the other players. The Coach tells him he has a concussion and has to go to the ER. Luke refuses to go and somehow makes it to the locker room (still in search of the skull). It’s not in the locker room so he looks in his school locker and finds it in his jacket pocket. But the eyes are dark and the face has changed. The skull is scowling. There are red, glowing, lights on the floor of the locker (two eyes). The black cat steps out (its eyes firey). The cat transforms into a human figure with a black hood. He demands to know who he is, but he just answers. the luck has run out. It takes the skull, but Luke snatches it back. He sees the skull is now crawling with maggots.

The figure says now he has to pay. Hannah shows up and says she’s so sorry. She says he made her do it but she didn’t want to. She’s crying. She says he made her give him the skull. She said she had good luck for a long time. Then it ran out. Then he made her give it to him. He says he’s the “Fate Master”. Hannah says she gave him a chance to give it back and wants to know why he didn’t return it. The “Fate Master” says it’s too late and they both belong to him. Luke says he’ll make his own. Amused by this, the “Fate “Master” says he can’t go up against him. Then he tells him to feel his ears. They’re bleeding and he says the bleeding don’t stop. Luke is convinced. “The Fate” Master says if they want him to go easy on them both they have to [ass the sli;; pm tp “Stretch”. He’ll give him good luck for 2 months and then he'll be his.

Luke comes to and thinks it’s just a dream brought on by his concussion. Uke it ready to go home but his bike has flat tires. Then his shoelace breaks. Then it starts to rain. Then it the lightning starts and a branch falls to his feet. Then one hits close to his feet. Then he sees the eyes watching him. Then it becomes clear to Luke, he’s definitely not dreaming. At home, one of the oak trees crashes onto the roof of the house. A neighbor tells him his parents aren’t home. They had to go to the hospital because his father fell down the stairs. Luke gives in and gives “Stretch” the skull the next day. Things go downhill real quick for Luke. He answers the wrong questions in class, his milk is sour at lunch and he almost throws up in front of everyone, and hair combs out of his head (a big chunk) when he combs it. He also spills hot coffee on Mrs. Coffey. After school in addition to all the other things, Hannah’s eye is swollen shut. Hannah wants to find the “Fate
Luke realizes (thinking of something “Stretch” said) he can break the pattern by practicing hard and working on SKILL. The last game of the year, Luke is all pumped up to play but the Coach tells him he can’t play without a note from his doctor (because of the concussion). “Stretch” is allowed to play the whole game. At lunch, Luke realizes his teeth (all of them) are loose and one comes out. He goes to talk to Mrs. Coffey but she took another job. The new teacher says he’s too busy to look at Luke’s animation. He makes him promise to look at his animation program later. He sees this as a victory! When he gets home his dad tells him he might need sugery and there’s problems with the electricity. But Luke remembers he made a backup copy. All that’s on the disk are glowing, red, eyes. The Coach comes up to Luke and says one of the guys got sick and he wants him to win in his face. He now has a bald spot, two more missing teeth (and white bumps) and his face looks like Hannah’s.
At the swim meet, he vomits in the pool and the Coach tells him he can’t swim. Since he has no one else though he lets him continue. As he swims, he feels eels and jelly fish and the water turns hot, but he keeps going. He wins the race! He even set a school record. Hannah is running to Luke (out of her wheelchair). Luke takes a sledgehammer and bashes his locker to bits. There’s a grown. A human-sized skull rolls out. It gorwns and the eyes blackout. Outside, he finds a lucky penny on the sidewalk.


My Thoughts
So that’s what happened to me this year. Someone hid a “Doom Skull” in one of my belongings. It all makes sense now. Only they didn’t give me the trial of the 30-day luck that that came with it. The “Fate Master” must have conveniently forgotten that part. For the most part, I do believe that like Luke learned in the end you make your own opportunities. I do think there are in life small “nuggets” of luck on and off. Maybe every once and a while. For instance, I think the luckiest thing that happened to me this year was finding a certain site that offered SOOOO many books that I was looking for. But the ugly ironic part of this story is how cruel the “Fate Master” was. He offered you good luck but only for a little while and then he snatched it away. Much like in life. Things go good for a little while and then slowly it all goes downhill either gradually or in the blink of an eye. Then everything is as rotten as the worms is coming up like the sour milk Luke had or the rotted fruit and worms Hannah had. And that’s just life. In the story, Luke could reverse his bad luck by trying (and practicing). But what about the people who try to reverse their luck and they just aren’t able too and the “Fate Master” just continues to dish them out continuous bad luck? How long can people go through it until the story turns into a “real” nightmare room scenario that wouldn’t be appropriate to turn into a fictional story? I use to think there was a “Fate Mater” and I use to wonder if there was one then why didn’t he let up on people who continue to go through events like Luke and Hannah? But now, I really believe that you have to make your own path in life.

Rating: 7

[Sandra Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s Luke’s first day of Jr. High and he gets assigned Locker 13. This one is a little slow with all the basketball and swimming stuff. For a while, Luke gets weird dreams about Locker 13. Luke’s luck seems to turn around when he finds his friends good luck charm, turning his friend’s luck bad. And the luck turns REALLY BAD for her. All because of a little skull. It seemed that more emphasis was placed on the skull with the glowing red eyes. How does the locker tie in? Of course, the story of the good luck charm was interesting. Who wouldn’t want good luck? But what happens when the good luck runs out? It’s still a good horror story. It was pretty scary when the Fate Master shows up demanding that the good luck be paid. A good read!

[Sreypich Van · Rating 3 out of 5]

This reminds of another Stine's stories where the main character is also superstitious.
The book started off with a chain of unfortunate events and the second half, followed by luck. It felt repetitive to me and some of them were just so out of the blue.
I didn't really the dynamic between Hannah and Luke although it's pretty to see Stretch and Luke friends developed.. the ending was a bit rushed and fall kinda flat for me.
Nevertheless, loved the theme and moral of the story here.
You can't blame everything on luck. You need to put in the work

[Katarina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book for the first time probably in primary school, and now again - in my 30s. It's not the best book I've read, but it was fun reading it since I was looking for something that will ease my mind. I read it within a day or 2, so if you're looking for something for quick reading, I'd say all of R. L. Stine's books are ideal for it. Now I'm even thinking of re-reading all of his books, since a lot of people of my age were really crazy about his books, especially when we were teens.

[Ferchiss · Rating 5 out of 5]

No voy a mentir con el hecho de que ME ENCANTÓ ESTE LIBRO, el protagonista es un tanto chistoso con el tema de las supersticiones, no voy a mentir, la trama es buena, pero su narrativa es algo tonta, sé que está dirigida a un público más juvenil, pero vamos, eso me decepcionó un poco, pero bueno, no hay nada que se pueda hacer, fuera de eso lo recomiendo, una lectura ligera mientras tomas un chocolate con galletas y fuaaa, super recomendado.

[Diana Come Libros · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me gustó muchísimo.

El libro se trata de como Luke un niño súper perticioso que cree mucho en la buena y en la mala suerte, de un día a otro comienza a tener mala suerte.

Aún utilizando elementos que él considera que le han dado buena suerte como camisa, una pata de conejo que carga todos lados, entre otras cosas.

y esta mala suerte también la van a tener personas cercanas a él...

[Past Zach · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a heck of a lot here -- different characters having different levels of luck over and over again, before some pretty awesome skull-man action happens. Still, too little, too late, and the ending feels rushed as always.

[The Endless Unread · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic

Another fabulous addition from the king of horror himself. I really loved this one. It was very well written and creepy.

[Nastaran · Rating 3 out of 5]

ایده داستان ایده جالبی بود و خوندنش تجربه خفنی بود اما ترجمش خوب نبود ⁦🤦🏻‍♀️⁩

[Huhn · Rating 2 out of 5]

War ok, nichts Besonderes, aber auch nicht mies.

[Sierra · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was awesome!!!!

[Kasthuri BV · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not creepy as the usual R L Stine books but really good and worth reading!

[Knjiški Ahilej · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bilo je oke. 2.9.

[S · Rating 4 out of 5]

...this series was my childhood lmao i love it so much

[Stormi (StormReads) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a decent middle grade horror reads.

[Matineh sanaeipour · Rating 3 out of 5]

تاریخ شروع کتاب: ۱۴/آبان/۱۴۰۱
تاریخ اتمام کتاب: ۱۴/آبان/۱۴۰۱

[Sabina · Rating 3 out of 5]

S vremena na vrijeme pročitam neki od nastavaka Sobe košmara da se odmorim od teške literature koju inače čitam, ali ovaj dio zaista ne bih preporučila nikome. Premalo radnje, likova.

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another one in the Nightmare Room series. Read it in Slovenian.
It's really refreshing reading shorter books in Slovenian for the change of pace. :)