Goosebumps (children's book series)

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Goosebumps , in the English original Goosebumps , is a paperback series with scary stories for children and young people by the American writer RL Stine . The first volume was published in 1992 and to date the series comprises almost 100 volumes. With 350 million copies sold worldwide in 32 languages, Goosebumps is considered the most successful children's book series after Harry Potter .

background

The series is designed for young readers aged 10 to approximately 14 years. The heroes change and are always mixed groups of boys and girls of two to four people. They experience their adventures in places that relate to the reality of the readers' lives. The basic literary principle is the interlocking of youthful everyday life and the supernatural.

Usually monsters play as big a role as ghosts or the undead . Places of action are mostly closed locations such as abandoned haunted mansions or school buildings at night. The heroes mostly live in small western American towns, suburbs, or villages, rarely in large cities. However, fictitious names are always used for the places.

Most volumes have one thing in common: a young first-person narrator tells the story from his perspective . It is also this narrator who is the first, sometimes the only one, to notice the horror ( identification ). The language is adapted to the current youth language, rather relaxed and colloquial . Horror also sometimes shows its comical sides: in the volume Das eheimliche Labor a father who is a clone researcher returns to the children as a daisy.

The following scheme can be seen in many volumes: A young person (usually a young teenager) moves into a somewhat remote house that is haunted or its surroundings are haunted by ghostly figures. Usually the adults do not believe the children when they tell them about the ghosts. Occasionally at the end there is an unexpected twist in the plot, in the course of which the protagonists turn out to be monsters themselves.

The disaster that was defeated at first often seems to return towards the end - but the outcome remains unclear. Occasionally the ending is humorous to ironic. For example in the band Panikpark , in which a dedicated amusement park monster gives the previously terrified family tickets. The young readers should be released from reading with a shudder, but not with a feeling of oppression. Only in rare cases (in the somewhat harder side series Doppelschocker with short stories) does the hero die.

With translations into around 32 languages, Goosebumps is one of the most successful children's book series worldwide. Goosebumps , goosebumps and its logos are registered trademarks of The Parachute Press, Inc. The books are published in German by Omnibus-Verlag , Munich.

TV series and film adaptation

Some of the stories in the series were also filmed for American television as the children's series of the same name, which ran from 1995 to 1998. A few episodes have appeared on VHS . In Germany they were shown on various channels on free TV and pay TV. In 2015, the first season of the series was released on Netflix, with a new dubbing that was recorded in Munich. In June 2015 the complete series was released on DVD. This includes 4 seasons with a total of 74 episodes (season 1: 19 episodes, season 2: 25 episodes, season 3: 22 episodes and season 4: 8 episodes). Season 4 is only available in the original with German subtitles.

Through the filming, the book series achieved an additional gain in popularity and the series became one of the most popular for children and young people between the ages of 10 and 15 years, as well as for many adults. In Disney World Florida specifically goosebumps show was shown with respect to the series.

The film Goosebumps was made in 2015 based on the novel series .

Volumes published so far

  1. The mirror of horror ( ISBN 9783570201497 )
  2. Welcome to the House of the Dead ( ISBN 9783570201503 )
  3. The Eerie Laboratory ( ISBN 9783570201510 )
  4. It grows and grows and grows ... ( ISBN 9783570240151 )
  5. The curse of the mummy tomb ( ISBN 9783570201534 )
  6. The ghost next door ( ISBN 9783570202364 )
  7. It hums and hums - and stings! ( ISBN 9783570203088 )
  8. The doll with the staring gaze ( ISBN 9783570202623 )
  9. At night when everyone is asleep ... ( ISBN 9783570202630 )
  10. The horror magician ( ISBN 9783570240298 )
  11. The eerie cuckoo clock ( ISBN 9783570203569 )
  12. The night in the Tower of Terror ( ISBN 9783570200230 )
  13. Master of the Mutants ( ISBN 9783570203965 )
  14. The ghost mask ( ISBN 9783570203972 )
  15. The Eerie Camera ( ISBN 9783570203989 )
  16. ... and the snowman goes around ( ISBN 9783570203996 )
  17. The horror that came from below ( ISBN 9783570204177 )
  18. End stop horror ( ISBN 9783570240335 )
  19. The revenge of the garden gnomes ( ISBN 9783570240342 )
  20. The ghost dog ( ISBN 9783570204320 )
  21. The Scary Doll's Fury ( ISBN 9783570204634 )
  22. My hairiest adventure ( ISBN 9783570204641 )
  23. Be careful the mummy awakens ( ISBN 9783570204658 )
  24. Who wears the ghost mask ( ISBN 9783570204603 )
  25. The werewolf from the fever swamps ( ISBN 9783570204610 )
  26. The Scary Doll Returns ( ISBN 9783570204627 )
  27. It keeps growing ( ISBN 9783570205372 )
  28. The head with the glowing eyes ( ISBN 9783570205389 )
  29. Chicken Magic ( ISBN 9783570205396 )
  30. When Dawn Comes ( ISBN 9783570240465 )
  31. I can fly! ( ISBN 9783570205624 )
  32. My Invisible Friend ( ISBN 9783570205938 )
  33. The Dread Fish ( ISBN 9783570205969 )
  34. The Ghost School ( ISBN 9783570205983 )
  35. The haunted wolf skin ( ISBN 9783570206041 )
  36. At midnight when the scarecrow awakens ( ISBN 9783570206553 )
  37. The vampire from the bottle ( ISBN 9783865360816 )
  38. The Snowman Is Around (ISBN)
  39. The Ghost Cave ( ISBN 9783570206591 )
  40. Panic Park ( ISBN 9783570206959 )
  41. Call Monster ( ISBN 9783570206966 )
  42. The monsters from the river ( ISBN 9783570206973 )
  43. Five x i ( ISBN 9783570207116 )
  44. Vengeance is ... ( ISBN 9783570207192 )
  45. Do you feel the fear ( ISBN 9783570207222 )
  46. The Ring of Evil ( ISBN 9783570207284 )
  47. The werewolf is among us ( ISBN 9783570204580 )
  48. The hiding place of the mummy ( ISBN 9783570207321 )
  49. Please smile! ( ISBN 9783570240267 )
  50. The ghost car ( ISBN 9783570209264 )
  51. The Mind Without a Head ( ISBN 9783570240373 )
  52. The ghost piano ( ISBN 9783570209325 )
  53. It breathes ( ISBN 9783570209370 )
  54. Be very afraid! ( ISBN 9783570209417 )
  55. The ghost in the mirror ( ISBN 9783570240519 )
  56. The beast comes in the night ( ISBN 9783570209820 )
  57. The phantom in the auditorium ( ISBN 9783570216811 )
  58. The swamp monster ( ISBN 9783570211359 )
  59. Full moon fever ( ISBN 9783570211403 )
  60. The night of the glowing pumpkins ( ISBN 9783570211434 )
  61. Be careful what you wish for! ( ISBN 9783570217832 )
  62. The monster from the egg ( ISBN 9783570217849 )
  63. A legend to fear ( ISBN 9783570217856 )
  64. The School of Secrets ( ISBN 9783570217863 )
  65. Alien Alert ( ISBN 9783570217870 )
  66. Revenge of the Scary Doll ( ISBN 9783570217887 )
  67. The Return of the Monsters ( ISBN 9783570220122 )
  68. Surprise for the creepy doll ( ISBN 9783570220139 )
  69. Guardian of Terror
  70. Monster blood ( ISBN 9783570132951 )
  71. Goosebumps the book about the film ( ISBN 9783570172230 )

Goosebumps HorrorLand

In 2008 the first book of the spin-off series Goosebumps HorrorLand (In the original Goosebumps HorrorLand ) was published. In it, Stine draws on older goosebumps novels and lets old friends and enemies, but also new characters, meet. Each novel is divided into two parts. The first is like a classic goosebumps novel and ends with an invitation to HorrorLand. In the second part, the protagonist accepts the invitation and finds himself in an eerie amusement park. Usually he meets the monster he escaped in the first part. At the end of the book he meets a group of children who have also received an invitation and are trying to solve the mystery of the creepy events.

  1. Welcome to Horrorland ( ISBN 9783570219348 )
  2. The horror from the depths ( ISBN 9783570219355 )
  3. The Box of Doom ( ISBN 9783570219720 )
  4. The House of Eerie Masks ( ISBN 9783570219829 )
  5. Who's Afraid of Dr. Crazy? ( ISBN 9783570220160 )
  6. The Return of the Mummy ( ISBN 9783570220177 )
  7. A monster rarely comes alone ( ISBN 9783570220184 )
  8. The camera of horror ( ISBN 9783570220191 )
  9. The horror camp ( ISBN 9783570220207 )
  10. The Telepathic Twins ( ISBN 9783570220214 )
  11. Escape from Horrorland ( ISBN 9783570220221 )
  12. The horror returns ( ISBN 9783570220238 )
  13. That wasn't the end!

Goosebumps adventure game books

The goosebumps adventure play books are about stories that keep breaking off at very exciting points. In order to determine the course of the story for themselves, the reader is then asked to make a decision, with various options available to him.

Volumes published so far

  1. The ghost train of horror ( ISBN 9783570204665 )
  2. Under the spell of the magician ( ISBN 9783570204672 )
  3. Secret meeting place: Villa Fledermaus ( ISBN 9783570205419 )
  4. Deep in the jungle of doom ( ISBN 9783570205952 )
  5. Who disturbs the mummy ( ISBN 9783570206010 )
  6. Among werewolves ( ISBN 9783570206560 )
  7. The Scream of Evil ( ISBN 9783570206584 )
  8. A Limitless Nightmare ( ISBN 9783570209257 )
  9. In the house of the poltergeister ( ISBN 9783570209592 )
  10. The Curse of the Rattlesnake ( ISBN 9783570209813 )
  11. Revenge of the Werewolves ( ISBN 9783570209837 )
  12. The Curse of the Restless ( ISBN 9783570210659 )
  13. House of a Hundred Horrors ( ISBN 9783570210666 )
  14. Room free - horror included ( ISBN 9783570210673 )
  15. The Isle of Terror ( ISBN 9783570211441 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rob Watt: Goosebumps: 10 things you didn't know about RL Stine - in pictures in The Guardian . Article dated May 16, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2020
  2. ↑ Goosebumps ™ Television Series Arrives on iTunes Across Canada, the UK and Australia | Scholastic Media Room. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .