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'''''The Blob That Ate Everyone''''' is the fifty-fifth book in the original [[Goosebumps (original series)|''Goosebumps'']] book series. It was first published in [[1997]].
 
'''''The Blob That Ate Everyone''''' is the fifty-fifth book in the original [[Goosebumps (original series)|''Goosebumps'']] book series. It was first published in [[1997]].
   
The illustration on the cover shows [[The Blob]] on a street with various items beneath its tongue.
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The illustration on the cover shows [[The Blob]] on a street with various items such as cars and bicycles beneath its tongue. Tim Jacobus's signature can be found on the front of The Blob's tongue.
   
 
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A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink slimy creature who eats up an entire town! Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned down antique store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there's something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous. Because now every scary word Zackie writes is starting to come true...
 
A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink slimy creature who eats up an entire town! Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned down antique store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there's something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous. Because now every scary word Zackie writes is starting to come true...
 
 
==Plot==
 
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[[Zackie Beauchamp]] loves to write scary stories. His latest one, "Adventures of The Blob Monster", features a scene in which he and his best friend, a girl named [[Alex Iarocci|Alex Larocci]], are eaten by a massive blob creature that looks similar to a human heart. He reads this new story to his friends, and Alex loves it. She says the story is his scariest yet. However, Zackie's other friend [[Adam Levin|Adam]] mocks him and says the story wasn't scary at all. After school, Zackie and Alex walk home and find a block of shops that have been completely destroyed by a lightning storm. Curious, Zackie convinces Alex to take a look in one of the shops, despite the warnings on the front of the store. Alex is reluctant and nervous to be in the shop, and tries to convince Zackie to leave. Zackie ignores her, and finds an old type writer out in the open. He realizes this type writer would be perfect for writing his scary stories. He attempts to grab it, but is electrocuted by a massive shock from the type writer. Zackie becomes encased in some kind of blue flame, and is knocked out briefly for a few seconds.
[[Zackie Beauchamp]] is a young boy who wrote a story about himself and his best friend [[Alex Iarocci]]. Then [[The Blob|the Blob]] attacks Zackie and Alex, but it turns out it is really a story that Zackie wrote to entertain his friends during a boring Spring Break day. Alex likes the story a lot. Zackie's other best friend, [[Adam Levin]], mocks it which earned him a push from Alex. Zackie reveals his goal in life is to be a great horror writer. Adam makes a big deal about how he never gets scared, and then gets horrified by a cat.
 
   
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After waking up, Zackie and Alex realize they are not alone in the store, and try to hide. The store's owner, a woman named Mrs. Carter finds  Mrs. Carter is upset over losing her store, and questions them over what they were doing. The two apologize, saying they only wanted to look around. Zackie tells Mrs. Carter he was greatly interested in the type writer, and that he would be interested in using it for his scary stories. Mrs. Carter replies that he should write a scary story about what happened to the store. Zackie asks if he can buy it for a price, but Mrs. Carter allows him to take it for free.
Later that night, Zackie and Alex stumble upon an entire block of a small shopping center that has been destroyed by lightning. Zackie sees a sign on one of the dilapidated buildings that says "Danger-- Keep Out," and his first instinct is to keep in. He forces Alex to join him inside the abandoned and crumbling storefront. Alex sanely suggests that maybe a flooded and gutted building is not a good place for two twelve-year-old children to go snooping, but before Zackie can nay-say her, he gets shocked by a loose wire. Alex tells him his whole body was encased in a blue flame. Zackie spots an old typewriter in the shop and decides he will take it.
 
   
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Zackie lugs the type writer home and places it in his room. For a brief moment, he sees the type writer encased in blue flame, but by the time his parents arrive to look, it is gone. The following day at school, Zackie talks with Alex about writing his next scary story. Upon opening his locker, a mouse jumps out and scares him. He discovers it was a joke played by Adam. Adam and two twin girls named Emmy and Annie laugh and tease Zackie for getting scared over a mouse. Despite loving to write horror, Zackie is easily frightened. Upset, he storms off, where the rest of the school teases him throughout the day. That night, Alex stays over his house, and Zackie begins to write the new draft of the Blob Monster story on the typewriter. Zackie types in the first line:  "IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT"
A woman enters the abandoned store. The woman shines her light on the two children, who huddle down to hide from her. Upon being hit with the light, Zackie pretends to be a statue and this fools the woman. But then she comes back physically accosts both Zackie and Alex, and angrily asks these two children if they are "doing some late night shopping." She introduces herself as Mrs. Carter, and tells the children that this was her store. Zackie sees this as the perfect time to ask if he can have the typewriter. She gives it to him and also gives him a free pen.
 
   
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Out of nowhere, a heavy rain storm begins outside the house. This storm causes the power to go out, and Zackie's father fetches some candles. Zackie then types in the next line of the story: "THE WIND BEGAN TO HOWL." Suddenly, the wind grows loud outside.
Zackie's parents naturally make fun of him upon his return home, though only about the whole wanting a typewriter thing. He sets the machine up in his bedroom and it begins to bathe in a blue glow. This causes him to excitedly utter, "My typewriter!"
 
   
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Zackie then types: "ALEX AND ZACKIE WERE ALONE IN THE DARK HOUSE". The two of them find Zackie's father has seemingly vanished. Alex panics, telling Zackie that there is something wrong with his type writer. She tells him everything he has written on the type writer has become true. Zackie laughs, and brushes off the idea. Alex challenges him to write more, to prove her theory.
At school the next day, Zackie tells Alex about the blue glow and how he is going to retype the Blob story on the creepy typewriter, because then that will make the story even scarier. Zackie opens his locker and a mouse that Adam jokingly placed inside his locker jumps out at him. He gets scared and some people laugh at him. After everyone laughs at him, Alex helpfully picks off the mouse hair from his shoulder.
 
   
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Zackie types the next line: "THEY HEARD A KNOCK ON THE DOOR."
That night, Zackie is still obsessing over his embarrassment. He tells Alex that people were making "mouse faces" at him all day. Zackie starts writing the new draft of the Blob story on the typewriter. Zackie's new first line is "IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT" and this causes the sky outside to suddenly pour down rain all over his red dog house.  The power goes out in the house, but Zackie tells Alex that he is going to keep writing, since all great horror writers should write by candle-light. "Cool" is her response. Zackie's next line is "THE WIND BEGAN TO HOWL."
 
   
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Following that, the two hear a knock on Zackie's door. In disbelief, Zackie goes to check. He opens the door and finds out that nobody is there. Zackie decides the knocking must of been a tree branch. However, Alex stays by her belief, and tells Zackie that the reason nobody was there was because he hadn't written that anybody was at the door. Zackie is annoyed, but types that Adam was the one knocking at the door. To his surprise, Zackie finds a soaked Adam on the porch. Adam tells the two he isn't sure why he came to the house. Alex tells him that Zackie made him come to the house. Now believing the type writer is magic, Zackie tells Adam everything he writes on the typewriter is coming true. Adam simply laughs at Zackie, and sneaks over to the type writer to write a line of his own.
Zackie's next line states that Alex and Zackie were all alone in the darkened house. Zackie forgot about his father down in the basement, who has now disappeared. Alex tries to convince Zackie that everything he is typing is coming true, but Zackie is stubborn. Alex grabs Zackie's handwritten draft and types the next line of the story: "THEY HEARD A KNOCK ON THE DOOR." Then there is a knock on the door.
 
   
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Adam types: “THE BLOB MONSTER HID IN ZACKIE’S BASEMENT, WAITING FOR FRESH MEAT."
When Zackie goes to answer the door, there is no one there, so Zackie sits down at the typewriter and writes that Adam is at the front door. And so he is. Zackie types the storm ending to prove to Adam that his typewriter can control reality. Adam mocks Zackie and grabs hold of the typewriter. Adam writes that the blob monster is waiting in Zackie's basement for some fresh meat, then turns and runs out of the house. The children suddenly hear a series of thuds leading from the basement... the door opens... and it is merely Zackie's father. Alex drags Zackie down into the basement to see whether or not there is in fact a monstrous [[The Blob|blob]] waiting for them. There is not.
 
   
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Adam leaves the house, as Zackie and Alex begin to hear noises coming from the basement. They fear that Adam's words have come true. Upon investigation of the basement, they discover it was simply Zackie's father down there, and upon questioning, tells them that he saw nothing weird down in the basement with him. Zackie and Alex then decide everything must of been a strange coincidence, and brush the events of the night off. Zackie gets rid of his ruined draft and writes a new blob monster story. In this one, the blob attacks the town, eating everyone and anything in sight, including police officers trying to stop it. The following Saturday, Zackie is sent by his mother to the grocery store, and discovers the entire town in a panic. The people are shouting that some kind of monster is attacking.
The following Saturday, Zackie's mother sends him out to pick up some food items. He goes into a local meat market run by friendly Italians. Zackie returns home to work on his book. Zackie's mother interrupts his story and asks him to return to the market for a loaf of bread. Zackie bikes back to the market and sees... a giant blob attacking the whole town. A random woman tells Zackie as she is running away that, "It's a horrible monster!"
 
   
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In horror, Zackie sees his story has come true, and[[The Blob| the blob monster]] has come to life.
The blob begins to eat various police officers and citizens in the manner which Zackie has already written. As the carnage is unfolding, Zackie tries to remember exactly what he had written so as to predict what occurs next. Naturally, Zackie had already typed that the blob monster followed him home. Zackie races home but then he remembers that he wrote himself falling off his bike. Alex and Adam see the blob monster chasing Zackie. Adam thinks the creature is some sort of balloon. The Blob Monster eats Adam.
 
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Like his story, the blob swallows up all the people in its path. At the store, Zackie once again encounters Adam, who teases him about the type writer some more. Zackie discovers the blob inside the store. Adam walks up to it, believing it to be some kind of balloon. The blob then swallows Adam whole, and Zackie rushes back to his house, grabbing Alex along with him.
   
Alex and Zackie continue to run from the monster towards Zackie's house. Once inside, the two race towards the typewriter as the sound of the blob monster entering the house fills the living room where Zackie fails to get the typewriter to function. The Blob bursts in and swallows the typewriter, before Zackie can type a word. Zackie suddenly remembers the pen the woman gave him. Maybe it has the same powers as the typewriter! But the Blob eats it too.
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He tells Alex what happened, and she tells him that he needs to write an ending if he wants to stop the monster. Zackie attempts to type, but the keys are stuck, and the blob enters the room. Zackie realizes that it is him, and not the type writer, that has the power to defeat the monster. He thinks long and hard, wishing that the monster was gone, and all the people it ate would be back. After several seconds, the blob monster finally vanishes as Adam and the others are brought back.
   
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Zackie and his friends begin to celebrate, but it is revealed this was all a story made by an actual blob monster who is reading the story to his monster friends. They like it, but one says the ending is too sad, and that he must change it to a happy ending where the blob successfully eats everyone. The monster decides this is a great idea, and changes the ending of the story.
Zackie and Alex are trapped. Zackie remembers how when Adam wrote something on the typewriter it did not come true. Maybe Zackie does not need the typewriter at all, maybe the power to change things is within him? And so the story ends with Zackie using the power to destroy the Blob Monster and bring back Adam. The three laughed happily ever after.
 
 
Then the surprise is revealed. The story reveals that a Pink blob was reading the story to his Green friend. The Green blob thinks it's great, especially when they eat Adam. But then Green suggests that Pink changes the ending to a happy ending. So Pink change the ending to have the blob eat everyone.
 
   
 
==Reprints and rereleases==
 
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theblobthatateeveryone-uk.png|UK
 
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theblobthatateeveryone-spanish.png|Spanish (''El Monstruo Baboso'' - The Slimy Monster)
theblobthatateveryone-italian.jpg|Italian
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theblobthatateveryone-italian.jpg|Italian (''L'avventura del Mostruoso Blob'' - The Adventure of the Monstrous Blob)
theblobthatateeveryone-dutch.jpg|Dutch
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theblobthatateeveryone-dutch.jpg|Dutch (''Het Kloddermonster'' - The Blob Monster)
theblobthatateeveryone-french.gif|French
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theblobthatateeveryone-french.gif|French (''Le Mangeur D'hommes'' - The Man-Eater)
 
theblobthatateeveryone-french2.jpg|French (Ver. 2)
 
theblobthatateeveryone-french2.jpg|French (Ver. 2)
 
theblobthatateeveryone-arabic.jpg|Arabic
 
theblobthatateeveryone-arabic.jpg|Arabic
 
theblobthatateeveryone-chinese.png|Chinese
 
theblobthatateeveryone-chinese.png|Chinese
The Blob That Ate Everyone - Korean Cover - 인간 사냥꾼 블랍.jpg|Korean
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The Blob That Ate Everyone Chinese Ver 2.jpg|Chinese Ver. 2 (Bundled With ''[[Go Eat Worms!]]'')
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OS 55 Blob that Ate Everyone Persian cover Peydayesh.jpg|Persian (Peydayesh)
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The Blob That Ate Everyone - Korean Cover - 인간 사냥꾼 블랍.jpg|Korean (''인간 사냥꾼 블랍'' - Human Hunter Blob)
 
theblobthatateeveryone-uk-classicreprint.jpg|UK (''Classic Goosebumps'')
 
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theblobthatateeveryone-spanish-classicreprint.jpg|Spanish (''Classic Goosebumps'')
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theblobthatateeveryone-spanish-classicreprint.jpg|Spanish (''Classic Goosebumps'') (''La Masa que se Comió a todos'' - The Mass that Ate All)
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Piccoli Brividi - Invasione Mostruosa0001.jpg|Italian (Bundled with ''[[The Girl Who Cried Monster]]'' and ''[[You Can't Scare Me!]]'')
 
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*In France, this book is the 41st of the ''[[Goosebumps (original series)|Goosebumps]]'' series, and its title is "Le mangeur d'homme", which translates to "The man-eater". 
   
 
==Television adaptation==
 
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Theblobthatateeveryone-classicgoosebumps-fullart.jpg|''[[Classic Goosebumps]]'' artwork by [[Brandon Dorman]].
 
Theblobthatateeveryone-classicgoosebumps-fullart.jpg|''[[Classic Goosebumps]]'' artwork by [[Brandon Dorman]].
 
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The Blob That Ate Everyone - Concept.jpg|Sketch by Tim Jacobus.
 
The Blob That Ate Everyone - Concept.jpg|Sketch by Tim Jacobus.
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Goosebumps_55_Blob_Ate_Everyone_trading_card_front_and_back.jpg|This book's trading card found in [[Don't Go to Sleep!]]
 
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
*The concept of the monster in the story is an obvious reference and/or tribute to the 1958 movie ''The Blob'' and the 1988 remake of the same name.
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*The concept of the monster in this story is an obvious homage to the 1958 movie ''The Blob'' and the 1988 remake of the same name.
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*Illustrator Tim Jacobus cited the cover of this book as being in his "top ten all time" favorites list.<ref>[http://www.timjacobus.com/theblob.lrg.html Tim Jacobus's webpage for ''The Blob That Ate Everyone'']</ref>
**''The Blob'' movie was actually referenced in the [[Goosebumps (film)|''Goosebumps'' film]].
 
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*This is the first original series ''Goosebumps'' book to feature the Parachute Press logo on the cover.
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*This book references Pop-Tarts.
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===References in other ''Goosebumps'' media===
 
===References in other ''Goosebumps'' media===
*[[The Blob]] appears as an antagonist in the ''Goosebumps'' film.
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*[[The Blob]] appears as an antagonist in the [[Goosebumps (film)|Goosebumps]] film.
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*There is a quest named after this book in ''[[Goosebumps HorrorTown]]''. However, the blob does not appear.
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The Blob That Ate Everyone is the fifty-fifth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1997.

The illustration on the cover shows The Blob on a street with various items such as cars and bicycles beneath its tongue. Tim Jacobus's signature can be found on the front of The Blob's tongue.

Blurb

Read it and Scream!

A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink slimy creature who eats up an entire town! Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned down antique store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there's something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous. Because now every scary word Zackie writes is starting to come true...

Plot

Zackie Beauchamp loves to write scary stories. His latest one, "Adventures of The Blob Monster", features a scene in which he and his best friend, a girl named Alex Larocci, are eaten by a massive blob creature that looks similar to a human heart. He reads this new story to his friends, and Alex loves it. She says the story is his scariest yet. However, Zackie's other friend Adam mocks him and says the story wasn't scary at all. After school, Zackie and Alex walk home and find a block of shops that have been completely destroyed by a lightning storm. Curious, Zackie convinces Alex to take a look in one of the shops, despite the warnings on the front of the store. Alex is reluctant and nervous to be in the shop, and tries to convince Zackie to leave. Zackie ignores her, and finds an old type writer out in the open. He realizes this type writer would be perfect for writing his scary stories. He attempts to grab it, but is electrocuted by a massive shock from the type writer. Zackie becomes encased in some kind of blue flame, and is knocked out briefly for a few seconds.

After waking up, Zackie and Alex realize they are not alone in the store, and try to hide. The store's owner, a woman named Mrs. Carter finds  Mrs. Carter is upset over losing her store, and questions them over what they were doing. The two apologize, saying they only wanted to look around. Zackie tells Mrs. Carter he was greatly interested in the type writer, and that he would be interested in using it for his scary stories. Mrs. Carter replies that he should write a scary story about what happened to the store. Zackie asks if he can buy it for a price, but Mrs. Carter allows him to take it for free.

Zackie lugs the type writer home and places it in his room. For a brief moment, he sees the type writer encased in blue flame, but by the time his parents arrive to look, it is gone. The following day at school, Zackie talks with Alex about writing his next scary story. Upon opening his locker, a mouse jumps out and scares him. He discovers it was a joke played by Adam. Adam and two twin girls named Emmy and Annie laugh and tease Zackie for getting scared over a mouse. Despite loving to write horror, Zackie is easily frightened. Upset, he storms off, where the rest of the school teases him throughout the day. That night, Alex stays over his house, and Zackie begins to write the new draft of the Blob Monster story on the typewriter. Zackie types in the first line:  "IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT"

Out of nowhere, a heavy rain storm begins outside the house. This storm causes the power to go out, and Zackie's father fetches some candles. Zackie then types in the next line of the story: "THE WIND BEGAN TO HOWL." Suddenly, the wind grows loud outside.

Zackie then types: "ALEX AND ZACKIE WERE ALONE IN THE DARK HOUSE". The two of them find Zackie's father has seemingly vanished. Alex panics, telling Zackie that there is something wrong with his type writer. She tells him everything he has written on the type writer has become true. Zackie laughs, and brushes off the idea. Alex challenges him to write more, to prove her theory.

Zackie types the next line: "THEY HEARD A KNOCK ON THE DOOR."

Following that, the two hear a knock on Zackie's door. In disbelief, Zackie goes to check. He opens the door and finds out that nobody is there. Zackie decides the knocking must of been a tree branch. However, Alex stays by her belief, and tells Zackie that the reason nobody was there was because he hadn't written that anybody was at the door. Zackie is annoyed, but types that Adam was the one knocking at the door. To his surprise, Zackie finds a soaked Adam on the porch. Adam tells the two he isn't sure why he came to the house. Alex tells him that Zackie made him come to the house. Now believing the type writer is magic, Zackie tells Adam everything he writes on the typewriter is coming true. Adam simply laughs at Zackie, and sneaks over to the type writer to write a line of his own.

Adam types: “THE BLOB MONSTER HID IN ZACKIE’S BASEMENT, WAITING FOR FRESH MEAT."

Adam leaves the house, as Zackie and Alex begin to hear noises coming from the basement. They fear that Adam's words have come true. Upon investigation of the basement, they discover it was simply Zackie's father down there, and upon questioning, tells them that he saw nothing weird down in the basement with him. Zackie and Alex then decide everything must of been a strange coincidence, and brush the events of the night off. Zackie gets rid of his ruined draft and writes a new blob monster story. In this one, the blob attacks the town, eating everyone and anything in sight, including police officers trying to stop it. The following Saturday, Zackie is sent by his mother to the grocery store, and discovers the entire town in a panic. The people are shouting that some kind of monster is attacking.

In horror, Zackie sees his story has come true, and the blob monster has come to life. Like his story, the blob swallows up all the people in its path. At the store, Zackie once again encounters Adam, who teases him about the type writer some more. Zackie discovers the blob inside the store. Adam walks up to it, believing it to be some kind of balloon. The blob then swallows Adam whole, and Zackie rushes back to his house, grabbing Alex along with him.

He tells Alex what happened, and she tells him that he needs to write an ending if he wants to stop the monster. Zackie attempts to type, but the keys are stuck, and the blob enters the room. Zackie realizes that it is him, and not the type writer, that has the power to defeat the monster. He thinks long and hard, wishing that the monster was gone, and all the people it ate would be back. After several seconds, the blob monster finally vanishes as Adam and the others are brought back.

Zackie and his friends begin to celebrate, but it is revealed this was all a story made by an actual blob monster who is reading the story to his monster friends. They like it, but one says the ending is too sad, and that he must change it to a happy ending where the blob successfully eats everyone. The monster decides this is a great idea, and changes the ending of the story.

Reprints and rereleases

Book Release date Type Media

2003 - 2007 reprint series


Theblobthatateeveryone-reprint
February 2006 Standalone Paperback

Classic Goosebumps


Theblobthatateeveryone-classicreprint
April 28, 2015 Standalone Paperback

Differences

  • The Classic Goosebumps reprint was released as a tie-in to the Goosebumps film.

International releases

Differences

  • In France, this book is the 41st of the Goosebumps series, and its title is "Le mangeur d'homme", which translates to "The man-eater". 

Television adaptation

The Blob That Ate Everyone was adapted into an episode of the Goosebumps TV series. It is the twenty-third episode of season two, and the forty-second episode overall.

Artwork

Conceptual

Tear-outs

Trivia

  • The concept of the monster in this story is an obvious homage to the 1958 movie The Blob and the 1988 remake of the same name.
  • Illustrator Tim Jacobus cited the cover of this book as being in his "top ten all time" favorites list.[1]
  • This is the first original series Goosebumps book to feature the Parachute Press logo on the cover.
  • This book references Pop-Tarts.

References in other Goosebumps media

References