Josh Benson

Josh Benson
General information
Alignment	Good
Status	Alive
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Male

Josh "Joshua" Benson is one of the main heroes in the Goosebumps book Welcome to Dead House. He is the younger brother of Amanda Benson.

History

Josh and his family move to a ghost town called Dark Falls, much to his and his older sister Amanda's displeasure. Josh had brought along the family dog Petey.

While his older sister Amanda is looking at her new bedroom, he was outside with Petey, who bolted for some strange reason. He had went after him and later came up at the cemetery. He suddenly got very uneasy, but continued looking for the dog. Later he was seen running by his family and Mr. Dawes, he would later comment that it felt as if eyes were on him the entire time.

Later he and his older sister and he had discovered their dog Petey, only now the dog was dead. When his older sister claims to keep seeing the dead children in their new house, he becomes uneasy again. When his older sister Amanda goes off on her own, he later finds about to be attacked by one of the newly discovered undead children named Ray. Without thinking he aims his flashlight at him as both he and his older sister watch in amazement as Ray turns to dust and bones.

Personality

Josh is headstrong, impatient, stubborn, and can be rather immature to a point. He can also be a little spoiled according to his older sister, as he can be pretty fussy and whenever he makes a big fuss about something, he usually gets his way. And when Josh makes his mind up about something, he sticks to it. And he always has a need to know the day's plans so that he can argue with it. His spoiled behavior does annoy his parents and sometimes they would threaten him in order to get him to cooperate with things. There are moments though, when Josh has been quite thoughtful, especially when something was not right. He also has some agreements with Amanda and like her, he loved Petey as well. Josh also likes to make jokes, which he is sometimes scolded for and he is often payed back by Amanda when he does play a trick on her. And Josh loves his family and he does get along on occasion with Amanda. And they always do things together, even when Josh is not happy to do it.

Appearance

Josh is eleven years old, Caucasian boy, tall and thin with curly brown hair and dark brown eyes along with a serious face.

Appearances

Books Edit

• Goosebumps
  • Welcome to Dead House
• Classic Goosebumps
  • Welcome to Dead House

It is unknown if Josh was going to appear in the Goosebumps Gold book, Happy Holidays from Dead House, due to the expiration of R. L. Stine's contract with Scholastic.

Television and Film Edit

• Television series:
  • Season 2 - Welcome to Dead House Part I and Welcome to Dead House Part II

Actor

• Ben Cook (television series)

Trivia

• Josh is the first character of many things:
  • He had the honor of being the first male character introduced in the series.
  • He is the first male protagonist in the beginning of the Goosebumps series.
  • He is the first male protagonist to have a sibling and a pet.
• He was the one to accidentally figure out that the thing to stop the citizens of Dark Falls was light due to shining his flashlight into Ray's face, ultimately or some form killing him.
• In the book, Josh had curly brown hair, but in the television series, his hair was straight and dirty blonde which came down to his neck.

• Josh's actor, Ben Cook also played Jerry Hawkins in Piano Lessons Can Be Murder and Marty in A Shocker on Shock Street.

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