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Goosebumps #8: HorrorLand: Say Cheese - And Die Screaming!

by R.L. Stine (author)

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Suitable for 8 - 12 years

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Someone – or something – is inviting kids to HorrorLand and trapping them there. But they’re not the only guests at the terrifying theme park where nightmares come to life! Slappy the Dummy, Monster Blood and other vile villains have joined the terror trip too. And now an eerie camera is predicting trouble. Somebody might be gone in a flash!

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Series

Goosebumps (book 8)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407107578

Date published

April 6th, 2009

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.1; Middle years; 3.0 points

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  • 160 pages
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Series

Goosebumps

Goosebumps

Author/Illustrator

R.L. Stine

22195 rl stine 1 863461

Goosebumps cast a spell upon children by transforming even the most reluctant students into avid readers. Despite the fact that almost every book has a different collection of characters, the series has one common element that kids can’t get enough of: THE AUTHOR!

However believable his plots seem to his readers, Stine insists he has never lived one of his stories. “I’ve never turned into a bee – I’ve never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. For example, one Halloween my son, Matt, put a mask on and then had trouble pulling it off. That gave me the idea for The Haunted Mask.”

Although he never experienced terror first hand, he did enjoy reading about it. “When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called )Tales From The Crypt_ and The Vault of Horror. They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I wouldn’t miss any of these comic books. I had no hair at all when I was a kid!”

His ideas came from two sources: his memory and his imagination. “When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.” He also keeps a tribal mask and a skeleton hanging in his writing studio to provide eerie surroundings. Although he handles the writing by himself, Stine says he gets “lots of help from my editors, my readers, and my friends.”

Kids reading Goosebumps may be looking for a scare, but the laughs they get are no accident. Before he was R.L., he was Jovial Bob, author of such works as 101 Silly Monster Jokes, and Bozos on Patrol and editor of Bananas magazine. His ability to know what kids will laugh at , as well as what will frighten them, makes the Goosebumps series all the more enjoyable for his readers.

Stine started writing when he was 9 years old! He would write stories and jokes on an old typewriter and hand them out at school. “The teacher would grab them and take them away,” Stine says, “but I kept doing it.” He wrote for his high school newspaper in Columbus Ohio. After graduating from Ohio State University, he moved to New York City, where he worked on a variety of writing jobs.

Although his books are fun and exciting, writing them is serious stuff. He treats writing “…like a job.” To unwind after work he enjoys playing the pinball machine conveniently located in his own apartment.

For aspiring authors, Stine feels reading is as important as writing. He offers this advice: “If you want to be a writer, don’t worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles. You can learn all kinds of ways to say things.” As a boy he read Norse legends, Greek myths, Edgar Allan Poe and baseball stories. “And Mad Magazine changed my life” His favorite thriller? Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury.

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    Goosebumps123
    on 1 July 2012

    I think this book is really good but the ending is not a happy ending because at the end two evil cameras appear!

    4out of 5
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    angelslater
    on 2 March 2012

    i love all goosebumps books and this is not exception. r. l. stine is a great author and his books always make me a bit jumpy.

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    booklover28
    on 24 February 2011

    I loved this book! its filled with horror-thrilling exitement!Its not hard to understand and once you read one page you wouldnt want to stop! I wanted to find out what happened in the end so badly that I finished it in 2 weeks!!! And thats super fast for me! If you do get a chance to read it, i hope you will enjoy it as much as i did. I rate it a 10/10.

    5out of 5