الكاميرا الملعونة

Goosebumps #4

by R.L. Stine

Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he found. The photos keep turning out . . . different.

When Greg takes a picture of his father's brand-new car, it's wrecked in the photo. And then his dad crashes the car.

It's like the camera can tell the future--or worse. Maybe it makes the future!

Genres: Horror, Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery

127 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

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

[Mohammed Arabey · Rating 5 out of 5]

ده كان أول اعداد صرخة الرعب يصدر في مصر صيف 1997

هي من اهم سلاسل الرعب للنشء في العالم..بدأت في اوائل التسعينات وكانت ظاهرة مثيرة

دعك من ان الترجمة كانت متواضعة، نهضة مصر نجحت في جذب كثير من جيلي بالسلسلة المرعبة الطريفة دي باغلفتها العجيبة
وجذبتني من عددها الاول، الكاميرا الملعونة
شلة اطفال يجدوا كاميرا تصور ليس من أمامها في حالته وإنما في حادث بشع سيتعرض له بعد وقت قصير
فكرة الكاميرا اللي بتصور المستقبل اتهرست بشكل او بآخر قبل كدة بعض الافلام الاجنبي لكن اسلوب المؤلف كان مثير فعلا حتي لما أعدت قراءتها من سنتين عندما وجدت العدد في دولابي بمنزلنا القديم

حوار ظريف، شخصيات سهل تتفاعل معها من الاطفال والمراهقين، جو الضواحي الامريكية اللي كنا متعودين عليه في افلام القناة الثانية السهل تخيله
خيال حقيقي مفعم بالالوان والصخب والرعب في بعض الاعداد... مفيش تطويل ومبالغ فيه...كل ده أدي ان السلسلة تبقي ظاهرة وقتها

آر إل ستاين بدأ سلسلة في صيف 1992، ومن وقتها صارت نجاحا مدويا في ادب النشء

افتكر جيلنا كله فاكر السلسلة العجيبة دي برغم من سخافة نهايات بعض حكايتها، الا انها كانت تبث فينا قشعريرة ما، جلد الاوزة
Goosebumps
كما يطلق علي اسم السلسلة عالميا
او كما اطلقنا عليها واحببناها بالاسم المميز اللي اختارته لنا نهضةمصر

صرخة الرعب

محمد العربي
في 31 اكتوبر 2016
القراءة الاولي سيتم التاكد منها

[chantalsbookstuff · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked the idea of this book. A camera causing havoc with each photo it takes. I would totally lap up an adult horror version of this!

These books are so easy to read, no brain power, just enjoyment.

[destiny ♡ howling libraries · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was always one of my absolute favorites in the series, so it's one of the ones I was most excited to reread when I started this series reread, and it definitely lived up to my memories! I must have read it a dozen times as a kid but I still had so much fun watching the mystery of the creepy, evil little camera play out. What a clever idea for a story, and it totally reminded me of why R.L. Stine was my absolute favorite author as a kid.

[Bookishrealm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay, so I will admit that this one was a little bit more creepy than Monster Blood and that honestly came from the fact that the antagonist was extremely weird/creepy. While the writing was about the same, I absolutely enjoyed Greg as a man character. He attempted to do the right things like going to adults when things started going horribly wrong; however, (as someone pointed out to me) the parents in these books are ALWAYS CRAP. In his attempt to get guidance, Greg was overlooked and dismissed. One major aspect that I enjoyed about this book was the descriptions of the "scary" moments after someones picture was taken. I think it got to me because all the stuff that happened could truly happen in real life so my internal imagery was a bit insane. Of course as with all Goosebump books this left off on a cliff hanger. I know that there is a part 2 so I'm excited to see if the characters from this first book appear in the second book.

[✨Bean's Books✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

#4 "One picture is worth a thousand screams."
An evil cursed camera? No that couldn't be real, right? Greg and his three friends are about to find out!

[La loca de los libros · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hoy les traigo otra recomendación para todos aquellos nostálgicos de la serie de los 90' que quieran revivir un poquito de esos buenos años.

Como todos los de esta colección, los estoy leyendo con la mayor (la peque se suele quedar frita 😂) y los estamos disfrutando muchísimo.
Siempre tienen esos finales que te dejan con media sonrisa en la cara y ganas de más. 

En esta ocasión, tenemos a un grupo muy variopinto de amigos que en una de esas tardes en las que no saben como malgastar su tiempo, deciden entrar en una casa abandonada; La casa de los Coffman da auténticos escalofríos pero el cuerpo les pide un poco de emociones fuertes. Allí encuentran de pura casualidad, ya que está bien escondida, una cámara muy peculiar, una cámara instantánea que no muestra lo que debería, en ella se ven hechos que no han tenido lugar, aún...

📸 ¿Muestra la cámara el futuro o es una cámara maldita que provoca desastres de todo tipo?

Sonrían 😄, pasen, lean y descúbranlo ustedes mismos 📚🔝

https://www.facebook.com/LaLocadelosL... 📚💜

[Briar's Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who doesn't love a good throwback? Especially one from the master, R.L. Stine.

I loved Goosebumps as a kid and I still love them now. They are the ultimate throwback and totally brightens my day. Sure, these books don't scare as good as they used to but I still love the thrills along the way.

Greg and his buddies, Bird, Michael and Shari, find a magical camera. Except, this camera isn't the good kind of magic - it's the evil kind. When they take pictures with it, the developed pictures show evil, horrible, no good things. Crashed cars and scary scenes, and the worst part? They all become real. Suddenly Greg and his friends need to find a way to save the city and themselves from this potential disaster.

A while back I watched the first season of the television series and specifically watched this episode (Baby Ryan Gosling folks!) and it does not equate to this book. The book is way, way, way better and the show doesn't do it justice. I'm glad I read this book after to see how great it actually was! Don't judge the book by the television episode.

I don't think this book will hold up as well, mostly because it involves a Polaroid camera. I think only the hipster kids will have any idea what it is. Either way, these middle grade novels are the best for introducing kids and readers to horror. It's super fun and spooky, but not absolutely horrifying. Along the way I was chuckling at all of the thrills, knowing full well as a kid I would have been shaking in my boots.

The ending happened very quickly and suddenly, speeding up like a really fast car. I enjoyed it, but some readers may not.

This is definitely one of the better ones in the Goosebumps collection, so if you're looking for fun horror or a good old fashioned throwback, grab this book! It's a real delight!

Four out of five stars!

[Chantel · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is important to note that the majority of the themes explored in this book deal with sensitive subject matters. My review, therefore, touches on these topics as well. Many people might find the subject matters of the book as well as those detailed in my review overwhelming. I would suggest you steer clear of both if this is the case. Please note that from this point forward I will be writing about matters which contain reflections on inappropriate activities of an adult against minors, the disappearance of a minor, & others.

Pitts Landing is in fact, the Pitts, or so claim the group of four (4) young friends who find themselves roaming the streets of their town one summer’s day without any idea of what to do with their free time. After listing off what appears to be a diverse list of ideas, most of which cost money that they do not have, the quartet decides to investigate the Coffman House. This abandoned building sits on the outskirts of the playground, surrounded by overgrown vegetation & is drenched in looming lore; Who lived there? What happened to them? Is someone living in the house now?

I was not expecting this book to be scary, these are, after all, stories written with young readers in mind. However, the reason for which I have put a content warning at the beginning of this review is due to the fact that I read this as an adult with far too much exposure to life & fictional horror to look past how some of the scenes might be interpreted. Firstly, the antagonist of this story is an elderly man whom the local children call ‘Spidey’. He is a ghostly figure who wanders around town, always dressed in black, & whom no one knows very well. He is, at present, living in the basement of the Coffman House when the group of friends decides to explore the premises.

What renders Spidey such a bizarre character in this narrative is the fact that Stine wrote an entity that glimmers along the water’s edge like a ray while simultaneously floating as a crocodile’s body under the surface. Though Spidey is revealed to be a man who used to be a famed scientist, one that is self-proclaimed as being “very evil”, the actions performed by this man teeter on severely dangerous—whereas they are, perhaps, meant to simply be a bit freaky. Should Spidey not have broken into Greg’s room & gone through all his personal belongings in an act that proves to be at once predatory & insane, I might have felt differently. However, the raving delusions of this adult escalate to a scene where he is chasing two (2) of the children down the street & then has them cornered in the basement of the house telling them that they will never be able to leave.

Don’t get me wrong, the way that this character presents himself throughout the narrative is oddly unsettling—a positive attribute to this tale. Spidey is never given enough dimension to comfort the reader in knowing that his devious plans will not find success. He at once acts as a cartoonish fiend, one who is invisible to all other adults, while also leaving the reader to recall that those who appear solely to children with the inducement of fear are indeed, very unsavoury characters.

I could not help but wonder what Spidey’s ultimate goal was when telling the children (Greg & Shari) that he would never let them leave the basement. Certainly, my questions are pointless because this is, again, a book for audiences much younger than myself. The beauty of writing horror is in not necessarily having to include dedicated rationals. Spidey did not need to have a game plan; suffice it to say that the idea of a grown man entrapping children in the basement of an abandoned house was scary enough, we did not need to see him enumerate the ways in which he would keep them captive.

I have no qualms in stating that because this book presented such a duality with its antagonist & with the garish item of the camera that it left me feeling glad to see such pointed writing play out for all ages. I am a firm believer that a good book is, a good book & that all readers deserve to come upon stories that are well-thought-out & well-written. Stine is a wonder at his craft. Though there were times when some of the actions of the younger characters were quite annoying—Shari essentially bullying Greg into bringing the haunted camera—I could understand that this was the essence of the 90s writing style.

Just as I found it outlandish, in a sadly hilarious way, that Jerry, the neighbour who stopped the initial attack by Spidey upon Greg & Shari; would even think to ask if he should call the police when he saw an unknown adult chasing children who were obviously running for their safety. This brings me to my second reason for including a content warning.

During Shari’s birthday celebration, Greg takes her picture & it is revealed to have made Shari invisible. This plays out with the disappearance of the child & has several scenes in which police are searching the premises in hopes of locating her. I acknowledge that this is meant to be linked back to the haunted camera & is in fact not an ominous occurrence. However, I found myself wondering if Spidey had been lurking in the woods during the party. The police investigation was bad, to be blunt. Yet, I did not expect anything more from them because that wasn’t the point—Shari didn’t vanish, she wasn’t kidnapped, she wasn’t abducted, she was in an in-between state due to the haunted camera. Regardless, the scenes which depict her parent's grief are very vivid & this is something, that I think, is important to keep in mind.

In all, this was a wonderful book & one that I will call to mind in future. I find myself grateful to Stine for having taken the time in this life to write so many stories for audiences across the globe. His words play out like a frozen image in our minds, always holding fast to the terror they create.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved Goosebumps as a kid, along with every other child my age. There was always a Goosebumps laying within arm's reach of me, even if it had to be hidden in my backpack. I was a member of the R.L. Stine fan club and got an autographed picture (which was banished to the back of my bookcase because Mr. Stine's gaze kind of freaked me out) and a t-shirt, which I proudly wore to meet Darth Vader with my dad and kid brother:



And, of course, as I got older, my fascination with them faded away. I sold them to Bookman's, gave them to neighbor kids, passed them on to my brother, and generally forgot about them, 'til I started working in a public library, and they entered my consciousness again. But why reread them? They're not like other kid's books, like the one I recently finished (The Name of this Book is Secret), where an adult can enjoy them too. Or are they? When a couple of Goodreads friends, Caris and Ben, started talking about them, I decided to read one too.

I picked Say Cheese and Die because I remember it being one of my favorites. I liked photography and the picture on the front, of a skeleton family enjoying a backyard barbeque, creeped me out in a fun way. I was kind of disappointed that the copy the library has is a different color, a much more modern style that, well, just doesn't make any sense. There's a camera, which is definitely not a Polaroid style camera, and some kind of deformed skull inside the lens? The heck does that mean? Seriously people. I yearn for the covers of my youth.

ANYWAY, I was expecting it to be crap, like the one Caris reviewed, When The Ghost Dog Howls. But it is actually... not that bad. It's only the fourth book in the series (following Welcome to Dead House, Stay Out of the Basement, and Monster Blood), so it's not part of the mass-produced crap that came later. The plot follows four children, mainly Greg, who find an old camera in their town's haunted house. The camera, which is a Polaroid style and prints the photo immediately after it was taken, seems to predict an ominous future for the subject of all its photos. Greg is somewhat dimwitted and it takes him forever to catch on, but the plot actually moves at a fairly brisk pace once the book gets past its amazingly slow first five pages. Of course the dialogue is terrible and the characters are one-dimensional, but it's readable. It's not complete dreck and the plot doesn't meander or introduce too many characters to be confusing, which I remember from later Goosebumps books.

They are definitely not books that are truly enjoyable at any age. I think they remain firmly within their audience of 8-12-year-olds. Something about these books is absolutely entrancing. I still remember thinking 12 was the best age ever, because that's when you get to have all these cool adventures.

Now I'm actually kind of disappointing. I mean, I thought I was going to embarass my 10-year-old self for ever reading these books. I think I need to move on to the later stuff to find the really crappy books.

[Matteo Fumagalli · Rating 2 out of 5]

RILETTURA, DA ADULTO, DEI PICCOLI BRIVIDI N.13

C'è questa villa abbandonata e un po' tetra dove pare succedano/siano successe cose terribili. Greg e i suoi amichetti, incauti come possono esserlo i ragazzini dei film horror anni '80, ci entrano. Scoprono che non c'è nulla di pauroso se non un armadio pieno di sgargianti vestiti vintage e una macchina fotografica. Greg la porta via con sé, scoprendo che ogni fotografia prevede il futuro, o meglio, fa accadere cose terribili. E una presenza oscura comincia a tormentarlo...

Divertente quanto scombinato, è uno dei Piccoli Brividi più amati dai fan. Riletto da adulto perde molto del fascino che può avere in età scolare. Tuttavia, questa sorta di Final Destination ante-litteram è un giochino che funziona grazie all'inevitabilità che tutto ciò che viene fotografato debba per forza accadere. Più bizzarro che horror o spaventoso.
Lo sviluppo della storia è un po' sfilacciato e il finale, cliché col solito scienziato pazzo e un marchingegno il cui potere gli è sfuggito di mano, troppo frettoloso e poco soddisfacente.
Viene pure detto che se si viene fotografati si viene privati dell'anima, ma alla fine muore solo chi fa comodo al plot.

Menzione d'onore per l'incredibile naturalezza di quei "Questa macchina fotografica è rotta!" pronunciati davanti a ogni singola fotografia perfettamente nitida che ha la sola colpa di mostrare una realtà diversa.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Από την αγαπημένη σειρά, ένα βιβλίο για μια φωτογραφική μηχανή που τραβάει φωτογραφίες και προκαλεί ατυχήματα! Φαντάζεστε να πέσει σε επικίνδυνα χέρια; Και φυσικά ο τρόπος της είναι πάντα πρωτότυπος: από περίεργα ατυχήματα μέχρι εξαφανίσεις, κλπ....

[Sully (sully.reads) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love goosebumps when I was a kid and this was one of my favorites.
'Say Cheese and Die!' was the fourth book in the Goosebumps awesome book series.

The story starts with Greg finding an old camera at a spooky house owned by Mr. Spidey (a strange old-man with spider-like appearance). Greg's very amuse with the idea of having a camera so he began by taking a picture of his friend Michael who is leaning on the stair railing. Suddenly, the railing gives way and Michael falls. Michael obviously got hurt upon the uncanny landing. Greg surprisingly discovers that the picture does not show Michael standing by the stair railing but instead FALLING. Caught dumbfounded, Greg and his friends continued to investigate and discover the unearthly events the "evil" camera had caused to go along with them.

Years after years, I found out that there's a sequel to it (forty-fourth book): Say Cheese and Die - Again!, and Say Cheese - And Die Screaming!

[Cora Tea Party Princess · Rating 2 out of 5]

5 Words: Nasty, selfish, thieving little shits.

I think I've made my thoughts on Goosebumps quite clear... No thank you.4

That's two books in a row filled with the most obnoxious children in the world. I'm gonna try a third one in case it's just a fluke and I happen to have picked up the wrong ones, but I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.

These books are fine for a certain kind of kid, but even when I read them when was young I was rolling my eyes and not impressed by breaking and entering and burglary.

[Ken · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having grown up reading the Goosebumps books, I thought it would be fun to take a nostalgic trip so see how well it stood up.

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

Say Cheese and Die was actually surprised me slightly, as I enjoyed it alot more than I'd remembered.

[Tyler Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am pretty sure I read and loved this one as a kid. Still enjoyable. Evil camera. Loved the ending!

[Tiff · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Stine's ideas. This one would make a good movie.

[☾❀Apple✩ Blossom⋆｡˚ · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of my favourite things about re-reading this whole series has to be the reference to 90s "technology". Isn't it weird how it all sounds cheesy to think somebody cool because they have a VCR?? The future generations will make so much fun of us for spending 1k on an "old" Iphone 12 🤣

[Carmen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some people think that a picture will steal your soul.

Greg's always been interested in photography, but he only owns a point-and-click that doesn't take very good pictures.

Greg, Bird, Shari, and Michael live in a really boring town called Pitts Landing. One day, for fun, they decide to break into the old Coffman house. It's been abandoned for as long as they remember.

There's a homeless guy, Spidey, who dresses all in black and runs around the neighborhood. He's very old and very thin. He reminds the children of a spider.

When they break into the Coffman house, they make their way down to the basement, where it's actually brighter than upstairs. They find an old mattress and frozen food and quickly figure out that Spidey has been using the house as a shelter. When playing around in the basement, Greg twists a vise and opens a secret chamber.

In the chamber is a camera.

Greg can't resist stealing the camera and using it to take pictures of all his friends. But it doesn't take him long to figure out that something is really wrong with the camera.

When he takes pictures of his friends and family, they are not in the smiling stances that they posed in. Instead they are falling. Or lying on the ground, injured. Or not there at all.

And the worst thing is that the pictures come true. After taking a picture of Michael which shows him falling through a railing, Michael does indeed fall through a railing and twist his ankle. After taking a picture of his dad's brand new car, he sees in the picture that the car is totaled, with the driver's side caved in. Two days later his dad's in the hospital with a broken arm, broken ribs and a concussion, the car now un-drivable.

Is the camera evil? Is it CAUSING the bad events to happen? Or is it predicting a future that would have come to pass no matter what? And why is Spidey now following Greg everywhere, stalking him? Did he know about the camera? What would he do to get it back?

One of the scariest parts is when Shari insists that Greg take her photo with the camera, and she's not in the two photos he takes. She promptly disappears. No one can find her. The police are called and start combing the woods by her house. Her parents are panicked and convinced she's been kidnapped. For two days, Shari is missing. Then, in a fit of pique, Greg tears up the photos of the invisible Shari, and she re-appears, with no memory of the lost time or where she had been. Spooky.

In the end, Spidey turns out to be the evil scientist Dr. Fritz Fredericks. His evil, warlock partner invented the camera using the dark arts, and Fredericks stole it hoping to make tons of money. But the camera ends up killing his family, and he loses his job. Now he keeps it locked away so it can't do any more damage. It's indestructible and will never run out of film. But he obviously hasn't become good since he's willing to kill? Kidnap? the kids in order to keep his awful secret. He dies of fright in the end when his picture is taken by the camera. After that, the neighborhood bullies who had been tormenting the kids, find the camera and start taking pictures of each other with it, continuing the cycle of evil.

I think R.L. Stine did the world a great service by introducing horror books to children. Children love horror; they love being scared. But only a bit scared - these books are great at being genuinely frightening, but not scarring.

This idea of a camera that causes people to suffer, die, get injured, disappear - is fascinating and gripping. Making the main character a kid only adds to the anxiety - kids are pretty powerless. At one point Greg tries to explain to a cop what's going on and I was getting anxious that the cop would blame Greg for what was happening.

I liked Stine's explanation for the camera, and I liked the ending to this book, a Jumanji-type ending that makes you anxious about a never-ending cycle of violence.

P.S. Points to Stine for a creative, funny title! Say Cheese and Die! Exclamation point! The front cover of a skeleton family having a barbeque is great, also. Tagline: One picture is worth a thousand screams. Sonríe y muérete! Una imagen vale más que mil alaridos.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Re-reading some childhood favorites with my own daughter has been fun.

This one is about a cursed/evil camera (weirdly one of my favorite tropes). There’s some handwavey stuff happening but that’s okay. The camera’s evilness is never explained, but she had fun and I had fun with her.

She picked up on something I never noticed as a kid, but perhaps explains why Goosebumps was so bingeable- each chapter ends in a cliffhanger, then immediately gets a somewhat mundane explanation.

Either way. We got a few more of these to go through and I’m looking forward to it!

[Ethan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unpopular opinion time: I did not like the TV episode for this one, and I didn't like the book either. I know the TV episode is considered iconic by some, and features a young Ryan Gosling, but to me this is just a bad story, which makes both incarnations of it by extension bad. I like the concept. A kid comes across a camera while rummaging around in a derelict house thought to be occupied by a local vagrant known only as "Spidey". He starts taking pictures with it, but when he photographs something like his dad's new car, the photo that comes out shows the car all demolished.

Or when he takes a picture of a girl, she doesn't appear in it, almost as if he missed her somehow. He first thinks the camera is just broken, which is utterly ridiculous, I mean how could you think it's broken?! This was the 1990s. There was no such tech as a camera that could magically invent alternate reality images and spit them out. Hell, that doesn't even exist today, really. People just use Donald Trump for that. I mean, what is this kid, simple? But anyway that's what he thinks. But then the terrible alternate realities shown in the camera's photos start to come true. The family car is wrecked in an accident that hospitalizes his father, and the girl missing in the photo disappears for real. It's a great concept for a story.

I guess I just didn't like how it played out. Stine's writing was really bad in this one. And the TV episode was short, only 20 minutes instead of the regular 22, so it felt like it barely started and then it was over. I think a lot more could have been done with such a great idea, and it could have been a lot scarier, but to me the story we got just wasn't very good. Sorry! I know a lot of you adore this one. It just wasn't for me.

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favourites growing up.

The notion of a group of bored kids finding a creepy camera that somehow depicts the future with devastating consequences has a nice Sci-Fi Horror twist.

Stine certainly knows how to write for his target audience as the group of friends all feel relatable.
The peer pressure between them as Greg repeatedly insists that there's something wrong with the camera really helps drive the story.

It has dark descriptive moments (like the car crash and baseball scenes), whilst an everyday item being evil always appeals to me.
A strong early title in the range.

[Ashley Daviau · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will never be too old to love Goosebumps! This was one of the first ones I read when I was young and reading it again brought back so many good memories. I think this is probably one of my favourite Goosebumps stories, something about it just really hits the spot for me. This story still holds up all these years later, I enjoyed the hell out of my reread of this one! I had forgotten most of the details of the story so it was like I was experiencing it again for the first time and I fell in love with it all over again. It still amazes me how brutal these can be for young teen/middle grade books, I’m not complaining but I am questioning my parents for letting me read these at such a young age.

[Chantal · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a fast read. The story was okay, but I have read better stories of RL Stine. Sometimes the tension wasn't there and the story could have had more dept. Still a good read for a Sunday.

[امتياز · Rating 3 out of 5]

العدد الأول من سلسلة صرخة الرعب

قصة مرعبة تذكرني بمرحلة المراهقة وخاصة انها تتناول القصص المرعبة بطريقة بسيطة وجميلة مناسبة لجميع الاعمار وغالبية أبطالها " أي السلسلة " هم من المراهقين والأطفال :) لكنها ممتعة ومسلية

تدور أحداث القصة حول مجموعة من الاصدقاء الذين يشعرون بالملل فيقرورون ان يقتحموا بيتا مهجورا وهناك يعثروا على كاميرا ملعونة تلتقط صور للمستقبل وتكون غالبيتها مأساوية وتحدث واقعيا مع من تصوره
وتبدأ الأحداث مشوقة ومرعبة في نفس الوقت وتنتهي نهاية مفتوحة كغالبية قصص الرعب ، وأن الرعب مازال مستمرا :) !؟

[Jenni · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 - 3.5 stars

What does the camera see?

Say Cheese and Die! is the fourth book in the Goosebumps series. It is a little fun, a lot creepy, with a little mystery. Loved it.

I am re-reading this series for nostalgic reasons.

The Goosebumps series was a staple in our house. My kids absolutely loved them, and to say I read these books with them once is an understatement. We read them many times as each of my three kids became old enough to read them. They still have them and are getting to read them with their kids.

The book is well written, and the narrative is engaging.

[Gavin Hetherington · Rating 4 out of 5]

I spent a month re-reading all 62 original Goosebumps books to see if they still hold up today, you can check out my 3.5 hour vlog here: https://youtu.be/2C73xc1FS5o

You can also check out my entire ranking of the original Goosebumps books from worst to best here: https://youtu.be/lBfaxCOwAnA

[AlAli · Rating 3 out of 5]

بداية مبَشِره لأول كتاب في السلسلة.

[Ravenous Raven of Mordor · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the very best goosebumps... so far and I am only 4 books in, very exciting.
It was actually adrenaline (epinephrine, for my american people) pumping in a lot of parts. At one point I actually got goosebumps.
The story reminded me a whole lot of 'Final Destination 3', the one with the camera haha which leads you to no explanation at all.
But the one thing that makes goosebumps so great, as I found in the tv series (Again with the tv show, I know, and I am sorry), is that the characters never win... EVER.
ALWAYS LEAVE A TWIST... R.L Stines mind when it hits that 128th page.
As always,
All in all...
5 Stars

[megs_bookrack · Rating 3 out of 5]

**3.5-stars**

This was a pretty enjoyed Goosebumps story. The kids worked together somewhat and the concept of the camera, initially, was pretty creepy.

The reveal was a little lame and lackluster, but what can you do? 😝

Full review to come...stay tuned!!!

[Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a fantastic short book