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 had The Werewolf of Fever Swamp and Night of the Living Dummy on the list, I just had to include: Now I got to include my top ten, which wasn't as easy as you'd think since so many of the great Goosebumps books were taken. But in the end I included: And that's all 31 books but hold on, because we're still not done. I arranged these books for each day I was going to read them. So first, I put Attack of the Jack-O'lanterns in last for Halloween. Then I took the books from the first half and put them next to their corresponding number. Meaning the fifth book would be #5, the seventh book would be #7 but there's be no sixth book to take #6. Yet.
 * Night of the Living Dummy II
 * Night of the Living Dummy III
 * A Shocker on Shock Street
 * Ghost Beach
 * The Girl Who Cried Monster
 * Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
 * The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
 * It Came from Beneath the Sink!
 * The Headless Ghost
 * The Beast from the East
 * Calling All Creeps!
 * How I Learned to Fly
 * The Haunted School
 * I Live in Your Basement!

Then I took all the remaining spaces, added 31 to them and that corresponding book would take that spot. For instance, remember that empty #6 spot? Well, it's not empty anymore since The Headless Ghost moved in. And the reason for that is because it 's the 37th Goosebumps book ever realeased. 6+31=37 ergo, the 37th book is now #6 and the same rule applies to all the other empty spots.

Finally for whatever spots were left, I just put the remaining books in chronological order.

And that's October Goosebumps-athon list. If you want to try something like this, I'd reccomend it. Maybe not in much detail as I have, but it is a nice way to spend October.