Danger Time

Danger Time is the forty-first book in the Give Yourself Goosebumps gamebook series. It was published in 2000.

The cover illustration depicts an old grandfather clock with an angry face on a green-and-white striped wall. On the right of the grandfather clock is an oval picture of the cover of You're Plant Food!.

Blurb
NOT A SECOND TO LOSE!

There's a new store at the mall and it looks pretty cool. It's About Time is filled with all sorts of clocks - and a mysterious storekeeper named Chronos. He's a wizard who says he needs your help defusing a "time" bomb. If it explodes it'll stop time...forever.

But you'd better watch out! A bunch of thugs called the Time Police just burst in with some nasty-looking weapons. Do you try to help Chronos or run away? If you stick with the wizard you'll be transported to another time warp—where creatures from the zodiac are on the prowl. If you bolt you'll face the fierce-looking Time Police who look pretty ticked off—at you!

The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!

Plot
You and your brother Pat and friend Arnie have gone to the mall to watch a movie, but you're late and now the movie is sold out. You instead enter a creepy-looking clock store called It's About Time, that wasn't there before. Chronos, the store owner, asks for your help in defusing a "time bomb" which, if it explodes, will stop time forever.

Story A
You choose to help Chronos, so you have to search for the bomb and destroy it before it goes off. But you face a number of dangers including the "Zodiacs", personifications of the various star signs.

Story B
You don't believe Chronos about the time bomb, so you run away from the store, but are then pursued by the sinister Time Police. You have to team up with Chronos, who is leading a rebellion against them; and you can choose to fight them in the past, present or future.

List of endings
There are nineteen bad endings, one ambiguous ending and seven good endings.

Trivia

 * "Chronos" is the name of the Greek Titan who ruled time.
 * In Greek, Chronos (χρόνος) means "time."
 * In addition to references to Greek mythology, this book references Betsy Ross and Gerald Ford.
 * Some choices in Story A depend on the reader's real-life horoscope. If the reader does not have the "right" star sign, they must cheat in order to complete the storyline successfully.
 * Chronos and the Time Police can either be good or evil depending on the reader's choices.
 * Page 78 contains a typo. The word "mission" is misspelled as "misson".
 * Page 83 contains the erroneous sentence, "That's looks like a research lab."
 * Page 98 contains the erroneous sentence, "But what you can you do?"

Reference in other Goosebumps media

 * An achievement in Goosebumps: The Game is called "Danger Time", which is earned by completing the game after draining the cell phone battery.