User:Dun300

Hi, I'm Dun300 and if it wasn't obvious enough, I'm a Goosebumps fan.

How I Became a Goosebumps Fan
The first Goosebumps book I "read" was "It Came from Beneath the Sink!" in the, I think it was fourth grade? Maybe third. Anyway, I use air quotes on read because I never finished it. I used to hate reading as a kid. To me, a book wasn't worth the time if it didn't have pictures. And sadly, "It Came from Beneath the Sink!" didn't convince me otherwise.

Then, fifth grade came and one day, after I finished all my schoolwork early because I was an overachieving teacher's pet, the teacher told me I could go read any book that was in the classroom. And since I was bored, I decided to go along with it, half-heartedly looking through the books on the shelf without any real consideration. I mostly did it for show, I didn't think I was going to pick a book to read.

Then a cover caught my eye. It showed a laboratory and in that lab was a blonde girl in pigtails, hiding behind a counter in terror and gazing up at a hideous monster with a pig-like snout, a missing tooth, huge, hairy limbs and emerald green eyes with a single black point for a pupil, standing next to a puddle of green liquid and a broken beaker. It was issue #14 of the Goosebumps 2000 series, "Jekyll and Heidi" and it was the coolest book I've ever seen in my life.

I read it that day and once I did, I couldn't stop myself. I finished that book before the final bell had rung and loved every sentence of it. I loved the scary moments, I loved the characters, I loved the mystery and I loved the twist ending.

I had to get more, so I started reading every Goosebumps book in the classroom. Then every Goosebumps book in the school library. Finally, I was just reading every book I could find, such as Percy Jackson and Unwind and all sorts of series and stand-alone stories.

Goosebumps helped me love reading, and because of that I love Goosebumps. Which is why when I first heard about the Goosebumps Horrorland series and the new Goosebumps Classics reprint, I made this...

October Goosebumps-athon
Basically, this is a list of 31 Goosebumps book that I read for the month of October, one book a day for 31 days. And this list is so hilariously complex, I wanted to talk about and figured that this would probably be the best place for it. So here we go.

Here are the rules I made for this list: Let's begin.
 * 1) I will only use books from the original Goosebumps series that started in July 1992 and ended in December of 1997.
 * 2) I will not include sequels. Each book should be as unique as possible.
 * 3) I will begin with the book most appropriate to read on Halloween.
 * 4) I will then add the twenty most important Goosebumps books in the Original series.
 * 5) Excluding all the books already on the list, I will include my personal top 10 favorite Goosebumps books.

Now the first book is going to be Attack of the Jack-O'Lanterns, because come on. With it's name and premise, I couldn't choose any other book, even if it isn't the best Goosebumps book that takes place on Halloween

Now for the twenty most important. Twenty is a big number, and it was going to be hard to pick them from a pool of 61 books minus the sequels. Which is actually the first step, finding all Gooseumps books that got a sequel within the original series. That's: Next was looking at the TV show and picking all the episodes that were two-parters. Such as: I was left with four spaces for the most important part of the list and didn't know what to do. Then I decided to dedicate them to the real face of Goosebumps...
 * Monster Blood
 * Say Cheese and Die!
 * The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
 * Night of the Living Dummy
 * The Haunted Mask
 * Deep Trouble
 * Welcome to Camp Nightmare
 * Stay Out of the Basement
 * A Night in Terror Tower
 * The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
 * Attack of the Mutant
 * Welcome to Dead House
 * One Day at Horrorland
 * Werewolf Skin
 * How I Got My Shrunken Head
 * The Ghost Next Door



the Living Dummy himself.

Now the quickest way to do this was to make him the exception to my no sequels rule. So... were included. But that still left two spaces. Until I discovered Slappy's Tales of Horror, a collection of stories from the Goosebumps Graphix series where one story from the three previous books were put together, colored, added Night of the Living Dummy and made Slappy the narrator. This was the coolest thing in the world to me as a kid. And since I already
 * Night of the Living Dummy II
 * Night of the Living Dummy III