Terror Trips

Goosebumps Graphix #2

by R.L. Stine

Come along for the ride on three Terror Trips from the bestselling Goosebumps series. This second GB Graphix anthology features acclaimed comic artists Jill Thompson, Jamie Tolagson, Amy Kim Ganter.


Take these Terror Trips . . . and hope you return!
Three hot, talented comic artists adapt these bestselling Goosebumps books into a cool new graphic novel format.

JILL THOMPSON, the award-winning creator of The Scary Godmother series, brings her quirky humor and madcap illustrations to "One Day at Horrorland," where a family lost in an amusement park finds the rides a little too creepy, a little too real!

JAMIE TOLAGSON, artist on The Crow, The Dreaming, and the Books of Magic series, turns up the juice in "A Shocker on Shock Street,"

Genres: Graphic Novels, Horror, Comics, Childrens, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Fantasy

144 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2007

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

[Brooke · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
I only really enjoyed one story in this one sadly, the rest were fine. They weren’t really spooky tbh. I also didn’t love the art style. It was still enjoyable and fun, but I liked the first issue better.

[Kaye · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I were 9, these would be scary, and infinitely re-readable. The artwork is fun, and the first two stories are pretty spooky.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was interesting. Picked it up on my library's discard cart and it was a fun read. The art is all black and white...but I'm positive I've read the middle story in full color in a different collection before. The black and white does give the collection a certain feel that's different than a typical full color graphic novel...so i would check out more in this Graphix series in the future. As an adult...I don't see myself reading this specific volume again...but it was a decent way to pass the time.

[Isabella Vuoso · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book, all three short stories in the book were great, my favorite story personally was the last one about the mermaid. Overall all the whole book was great!

[Kaylee Johnson]

A boy has a problems with ghosts ,so go and read the book for yourself.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great adaptations of the original stories—but aren’t too special. When I say great adaptations, I’m not necessarily saying it’s a great version of the story, but rather a very accurate version. All three stories were pretty much beat for beat with the books, especially HorrorLand and Shock Street. Props for that! I did enjoying Shock Street the most out of these. It was just like the book, only in a comic format, which had the best art style out of these. The third story, Deep Trouble, had a ‘whatever’ art style and felt a little too… kiddish little girly dork diary ass dumbness? Hard to describe but I’m not a big fan of it—still a decent story though, even it comes off as cringe which is a decent issue for that story. The first story is horrible in some regards. Whilst HorrorLand is a really good story about a spooky theme park, the art is atrocious to not only look at, but the try and navigate. I hate to be a little prick about this, but I had so much trouble reading this that it’s genuinely almost unenjoyable at times. The art style is ugly and the seizure inducing way the pages are laid out just piss me off. For some ratings:

HorrorLand: 6/0, Shock Street: 9/10, and Deep Trouble: 7/10. Overall, the book gets a 7.5/10. Not a big fan of graphic novels (hence my issues with HorrorLand and the layout of them not really being my jest) but this was okay.

[Jose Hernandez · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's 3 stories within 1 book, the 1st and 3rd stories we're in opinion boring and not that scary. I know it's a child's book it's not meant to scare you like a movie is suppose to scare you. The 1st one seemed to be boring to me it didn't catch my attention wasn't much scary either but in the mind if a child it's probably better. Same goes to the 3rd story, I feel like the 3rd story wasn't even horror it was more fiction.The 2nd story actually got me it was the best story in my opinion. So the second story really wasn't scary but it messed up with my mind the ending surprised me I didn't think that would of happen so if you're going to read this book I'm saving you you're time and read the second story.

[Kaitie · Rating 4 out of 5]

As someone who doesn't know the Goosebumps franchise too well (I'm mostly familiar with the TV show and only read only maybe two Goosebumps books ever, and I listen to a Goosebumps podcast) I liked this one. The art is pretty great in all three stories, and it's interesting at the end of the book when the artists talk about how they approach their different styles and techniques. The first two stories are strongest in terms of horror. They're not exactly "scary", at least to the eyes of an adult, but they do have a surprising amount of tension. While it's obvious a lot of the danger is meant to be a mini-cliffhanger for the next chapter, the children in the stories presented are in actual harms way. They get separated from their guardians, cut, nearly drown or suffocated, sprint (sometimes barefoot) away from monsters/people who will legit harm them. These are all small moments but pushes the boundaries a little. Again, I don't know much about the books (and it does help that most of the extraneous narration is cut due to it being a visual medium) and I do know a few of them get really silly, but this one at best has good tension and at worst is a decent fantasy for kids.

[Amber Hathaway · Rating 5 out of 5]

Goosebumps Graphix Book 2: Terror Trips is an engaging retelling of three classic Goosebumps tales in graphic novel form. This volume covers One Day at Horrorland, Shocker on Shock Street, and Deep Trouble. It's a fun book for Goosebumps fans of all ages.

Like Book 1, each story is illustrated by a different artist, and I appreciated the variation. First up is One Day at Horrorland, which Jill Thompson adapted. One Day at Horrorland was my favorite Goosebumps book growing up, so I had high expectations for this one, and Thompson did not disappoint. I love her art style, and I think she did an excellent job condensing the book down for this graphic novel.

Jamie Tolagson adapted A Shocker on Shock Street, and again I was pleased with this take. I'd forgotten how this book ends, and his illustrations really helped set the tone for the twist ending.
Deep Trouble, which Amy Kim Ganter adapted, was also a pleasure to read. I hadn't read Deep Trouble before, but now I want to get my hands on a copy of the original book.

If you love Goosebumps and graphic novels, then I would recommend checking out Goosebumps Graphix Book 2: Terror Trips.

[Jesse · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read the first story, One Day at Horrorland, by Jill Thompson. The art was fine, but really had none of the beauty or charm I was expecting from her. Part of that may have been that it was in stark black and white, just inked. My main problem was the pacing though. The original story is one of my favorite goosebumps books, and I know its beats and chapter structure pretty well. The tension is builds by putting the characters into scary situations and hanging them there at the end of chapters is just completely missing from this adaptation, because everything is crammed onto the page and goes by real fast. I feel like more could've been done formally, like using big splashes of encroaching black to indicate the times the characters are stuck in the dark, or panels getting smaller into oblivion to represent them feeling lost and alone. Obviously there was a short page count, and a surprisngly large amount of story to get through, but it just felt rushed, and thus not scary or tense at all. Too bad, really.

[Simeon Scott · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was a really disappointing read for me. I've had the first volume since around the time I was 10 as I was a big fan of the Goosebumps show back then and I always really liked it, but this volume feels like a major step down quality wise. One Day at Horrorland was ok but the ending made very little sense and the art felt very slap dash, A Shocker on Shock Street had some of the worst daiologue I have ever read and really just felt like an excuse to fit as many types of horror settings and monsters into one story with some pretty good art and Deep Trouble, while not bad, was just a very typical story of it's type and the art felt like it was taken out of a Little Golden Book. All and all just nowhere near as good as the first volume and if I ever pick up the third it will probably just be to complete the set.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the second of three collections of Goosebumps stories converted into 40 page graphic adaptations that was released back in the mid-2000s, and is a must have for most any Goosebumps collection. Like its companion volumes the stories in this book have necessarily been abridged, but keep the core feeling and story-line. In all honesty I wish that they had done more of these, and the fact that there is going to be a stand alone Haunted Mask graphic novel in 2024 gives me hope that perhaps finally, Scholastic has found a formula that works. Until then, these three volumes, and their 2015 semi-successor volume, as well as the IDW and Boom comics by R.L. Stein will be there for Goosebumps fans seeking a graphic novel thrill.

[The Erudite Gryffinclaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

All together the stories were good. My only problem was the third story wasn't really a horror/spooky story. It was more of a mermaid kid fantasy story. Don't get me wrong I love a good mermaid story, it just didn't feel like a Goosebumps story tho.

The first and second stories were good. I actually remember reading the first one when I was a kid so it was cool seeing it in a graphic novel format.

The second one reminded me of those really old horror movies. The ones that are 1970s and back to like the 1930s. It just kinda had that vibe.

Over all I did like the book and it did carry the same vibe the original books did with me.

[Grey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I usually don't lean towards comics, manga, graphic novels, or anything close to these. I'm not quite sure where I got this from, I suppose it was my brother's since he is a massive fan of graphic novels. These stories were so entertaining when I was younger. I think I lost my copy now, but I used to love the short stories. I even had a Goosebumps game that I played along with it which I think was on the DS. I had no clue this was part of a series. As a long time Goosebumps lover (used to read the books all the time), I will def look into finding the rest of this series.

[Kathryn Grace Loves Horror · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this art in this collection a lot better than in the Creepy Creatures collection. This one also adapts two of my favorite Goosebumps books from when I was a kid, One Day at Horrorland and Shocker on Shock Street (which features my favorite twist of the Goosebumps series). My favorite of the collection might be the one I was unfamiliar with before, Deep Trouble. Overall, I think kids will really like this collection, and it might be a nostalgic treat for adults who read the original series.

[Rex · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a faithful adaptation of several goosebumps books. However, I feel like these adaptations are limited by some of the weaknesses of the original books. The illustrations themselves are mostly fine but I’ve never liked the twist of ‘shocker on shock street’ and I don’t like the way the Horrors are defeated in ‘welcome to horrorland’. I have never read the original ‘Deep Trouble’ but it doesn’t feel very goosebumpy to me because the bad guys in it are not monsters, but humans. I feel like the artists did the best they could with what they had.

[Mx.Lucey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was gonna jump to Return To Horrorland but then I heard about this on a podcast and found it for free on archive.org so I decided to check it out. I feel like Deep Trouble didn't fit in with the theme park theme I thought they were going for and wasn't nearly as scary as the other two so I took off a point for that. Otherwise I love it!! The art is great for all three and they really do a great job of cutting the stories down without cutting anything important. Truly awesome!!

[Steph · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have to say these Goosebumps graphic novels are super popular with my kids and this one will be just as popular. 3 spooky tales told in 3 different styles! A horror theme park, a horror film set and a mermaid hunt! You wouldn’t find me going anywhere near these haha

[Katlin Thurston · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. What a fun way to read goosebumps.

[Alexander Van voorhees]

i thought it was pretty good, excellent, awesome which word do you think is more accurate for description

[Amethyst · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the first two stories. The last one was a bit weak.

[Gwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't realize there were any Goosebumps comics! I enjoyed this, however, I much prefer the original books.

[Alexa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these graphic novels. Such a fun way to enjoy the Goosebumps stories we know and love in a visual way.

[Miles Madonna · Rating 3 out of 5]

cute and fun. a childhood fav.

[Steffi]

CW/TW: Kidnapping, Violence, Death and Murder

[Kev · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Phillip · Rating 4 out of 5]

Terror Trips from the goosebumps series is a graphic novel that includes three very interesting and thrilling stories.
I read this about a year ago as previously I have been a goosebumps fan and this book had recently came out so I decided to read it.

Terror Trips was a very action packed and thrilling book and is a great read for all age groups, the story I enjoyed most was "Deep trouble" and is about about two young kids who go snorkelling with their father and discover a mysterious being at great depths...

I very much enjoyed this short story book as it kept me entertained for long periods of time as the book was thrilling and suspenseful at the same time as the stories progressed.

I decided to read this book as I have read many other goosebumps books, and when I was younger I was a huge goosebumps fan.
I found this book early last year and decided to read it as i had read many other books in the series.

I liked this book as it had many different stories that weren't long and over done, this book had quick thrills and suspense as the story progressed quickly but not too fast for the suspense to be nulled.

I did not like the fact that this book's stories were quite a bit different to the books, I have read the hard copy books and this graphic novel differed from the story to make it more entertaining, in which I did not like because it cut out giant chunks of the story.

I would recommend this book to children between the age of 10 to 15, this book has fast paced suspense and thrills which will captive any teenagers attention for long periods of time.

This book completes the: "A graphic novel" book on the bingo board

[Afif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Why I decided to read this book:
Because I used to be a Goosebumps fan. I wanted a to see if the books were still good, and to see if the short graphic stories from this book followed the same storyline from the text-versions of the stories.

Which category on the bingo board this completes:
The 'a science-fiction book' category.

What I liked about this book and why:
How it did follow the storyline from the other text-versions of the story, and the great pictures drawn by the illustrators.

What I didn't like about this book and why:
I think that it could have been a little bit more descriptive, but I guess that's what you get for reading a graphic novel.

Who would I recommend this book to, and why:
To people aged between 9 and 15 years old that love scary books.

[Amina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ha! I'm a new fan to the 'graphic' world and I absolutely love it! Goosebumps has always took me and these graphic novels are just so awesomely depicted that... wahh. Nice work. I read one each night before going to bed xP Of course they don't scare me like they used to, but hey! at least they made me laugh :)

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Book worth the read. I LOVE graphic novels and mangas so when I saw that there was a graphic novel of Goosebumps books I had to read it. I have said it so many times but I love R.L.Stine and I love graphic novels so what better way to have it then to have a graphic novel of R.L.Stine books?