Obtain Immediately The Headless Ghost (Goosebumps, #37) Formulated By R.L. Stine Shared As Electronic Format

This is the series that kept me reading through my childhood, More than any other series, Goosebumps kept me interested in reading, and R, L. Stein is a wonderful children's writer, I applaud his efforts, and can't express enough my gratitude for the series, This was my first ever Goosebumps book!

I got it through book club when I was in year, I guess, based on the year of publication I would have been, and this is it, THE book that got me started down the horror road followed by many a Goosebumps book thereafter Ghost Beach sticks in my memory and lots of grownup horror that I was WAY too young for.


Today I saw it at a book fair for, and I had been thinking about it recently, after seeing a booktubers journey through the books she read as a child.
So I am the proud owner of it once again, and will be reading it soon,

Fingers crossed it holds up to my fond memories!

I used to love the Goosebumps books when I was in elementary school.
I mean I seriously loved them, They used to scare the crap out of me, I remember having to keep 'Welcome to Dead House' in my nightstand drawer because looking at it gave me the creeps, I eventually graduated to the Fear Street books, and I loved those too,

Reading this book as an adult makes me miss being a kid, If I was in elementary school I would have read this at night snuggled under my comforter, and I would have gotten chills flipping through the pages as fast as I could read them.
As an adult, it's chills and thrills are lost on me, So sad. Still creepy as ever! It's a little cheesy, but it doesn't hurt the story, And that ending was quite unexpected! The trouble started a few weeks ago when Stephanie got bored,

Idle hands are the devil's workshop!
, . .

This book has an awesome opening chapter,

Stephanie Alpert and I haunt our neighborhood,

We got the idea last Halloween,

There are a lot of kids in our neighborhood, and we like to haunt them and give them a little scare.


Sometimes we sneak out late at night in masks and stare into kids' windows, Sometimes we leave rubber hands and rubber fingers on windowsills, Sometimes we hide disgusting things in mailboxes,

Soemtimes Stephanie and I duck down behind bushes or trees and make the most frightening sounds animal howls or ghastly moans.
Stephanie can do a terrifying werewolf howl, And I can toss my head back and shriek loud enough to shake the leaves on the trees,

We keep almost all the kids on our block pretty frightened,

The best friends toss fake spiders into kids' beds from open windows, and put chicken bones in mailboxes, The only problem is, after doing all this for a year, Stephanie is bored, Duane isn't unlike Stephanie, he's not a daredevil and doesn't really enjoy being frightened although he spends a lot of time frightening others.


Stephanie thinks of a great idea to alleviate their boredom explore the Hill House, Everyone knows that the Hill House is the site of many deaths, most noticeably one of ayearold boy whose head was ripped off by a sea captain's ghost.
Yeah.

Stephanie and Duane being the "Twin Terrors of Wheeler Falls" have taken the tour literally hundreds of times, They actually have the tour memorized and they don't even have to pay to get in anymore because they've come so many times.


But Stephanie is determined to find out where the boy's head is hidden in Hill House, It must be somewhere, right Everyone knows the headless body of the boy wanders the house every night in search of it, She wants to sneak away from the tour group and find it once and for all,

Duane doesn't think this idea is so hot, but of course he can't let her think he's chicken! So they sneak away from the tour group but not before Duane notices a boy staring at them.
A boy who wasn't there when the tour started, . .


This book is great, a fun rollicking ride full of scares real and imagined and replete with twists and turns, The ending is a little, . . iffy, but compared to some of Stine's more nutty stuff I'll take it,

The boy is Seth, who claims to be the ghost and says he wants Duane's head.
In fleeing from him, Duane and Stephanie find the actual head, and the real headless ghost swoops down to take it, Seth was just Otto the tour guide's nephew, But then, in a bizarre twist ending, Stephanie and Duane who haven't been on a Hill House tour in months decide to go back and take a tour for old times sake.
After the tour, on their way out, they are stopped by the cops who ask them, "What were you doing up at Hill House" They tell the cops they were taking a tour and the cops laugh.
Turns out Hill House was shut down three months ago, The panicked kids look back at the house to see that the two tour guides are ghosts, staring at them,

Okay, at first that seems really scary, But then I was like, "Well, were they always ghosts Or were they giving tours for years and then were murdered And what about Seth He's Otto's nephew.
Is he a ghost Obviously not, right So, . . Otto MUST have died recently, because Seth wouldn't be acting normal around a ghost

uncle! I don't know, there were too many plot holes in this ending that I wanted explained.


Tldr Even though the ending was a bit questionable, this is a solid Goosebumps entry that is sure to pack thrills and chills for the younger set.
Gotta love a good ghost story! : We can all agree that night of the living dummy is the scariest goosebumps book, however this has always been my favorite.
I like the different stories told about each room in the house and the story about the haunted dumbwaiter is legit scary even as an adult.
Eleonora, aanni circa, scriveva sotto il titolo: "La storia la conoscevo già"

Sorrido, . . ma quanto mi piace spulciare tra i libri altrui Ahhh, the Goosebump days, I would borrow so many of these from the library they seriously considered extending my limit of books checked out at one time.
R. L. Stine you were a reprieve from a harsh and dreary childhood in which my mind wandered far away from the troubles of the day.
I stole books into my bed and read far into the night by the faintest of lights, I might have better eyesight were it not for you however, I regret not one page or line, Λίγο κοινότυπο και κάπως βαρετό. Αρκετά προβλέψιμο και χωρίς κάποια ιδιαίτερη ανατροπή, ενώ θα έλεγα πως στερούταν δράσης ενώ θα μπορούσε να μας έχει προσφέρει το κάτι παραπάνω. Παρ' όλα ταύτα, διαβάζεται αρκετά ευχάριστα, ενώ δεν παύει να είναι ένα εύκολο κι ανάλαφρο ανάγνωσμα που πετυχαίνει το στόχο του σε επίπεδο ψυχαγωγίας. .