Shop Till You Drop...Dead!

 Shop Til You Drop... Dead! was the twenty-fifth book in the Give Yourself Goosebumps gamebook series. It was preceded by Lost in Stinkeye Swamp and followed by Alone in Snakebite Canyon.

The tagline was, Midnight monster sale.

The artwork on the cover featured a hairy purple monster carrying bags with the words "Mayfield's Bazaar" on them. The beast was riding down an escalator in a mall with black and white tiles. It was released in January 1998 and was 133 pages long.

Plot
Reggie Mayfield tells you that there are monsters in his father's department store. You and you friend, Julie, try to prove that Reggie is lying by going to the department store at midnight and spending an hour there. This is the first book in the series to have a largely non-linear storyline. It also uses an item collection system. Although previous GYG books have contained at least one page that use an item check, it is the first time that one has been used as the main theme in the book's storyline.

Bad Endings

 * An evil backpack cuts off your circulation and you die from a heart attack. Before you die, your friend Julie falls under the same spell of the backpack.

Trivia

 * Craig White illustrated this cover and continued to do so throughout the series and its special editions.
 * Although many Give Yourself Goosebumps books have had at least one "have you got this item?" style choice since the very first book in the series, this is the first time that an item check has been used as a key factor in the game play. On Story B, each room can be visited in any order, but you may need an item from one of the other rooms to survive, or at least to get a better ending later on. Some of the Special Edition books were essentially less forgiving versions of this format.