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<big>''He's a Dentist's Nightmare...''</big>
 
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Tough. That's Freddy Martinez and his friend, Cara. They're not aftaid of anything. But that was before they went exploring in Freddy's basement. Before they found the secret room. Before they found the bottle of Vampire Breath. Poor Freddy and Cara. They should have never opened that bottle of Vampire Breath. Because now there's a vampire in Freddy's basement. And he's very, very thirsty....
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Tough. That's Freddy Martinez and his friend, Cara. They're not afraid of anything. But that was before they went exploring in Freddy's basement. Before they found the secret room. Before they found the bottle of Vampire Breath. Poor Freddy and Cara. They should have never opened that bottle of Vampire Breath. Because now there's a vampire in Freddy's basement. And he's very, very thirsty....
   
 
==Plot==
 
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[[Freddy Martinez]] and [[Cara Simonetti]] are babysitting Tyler Brown, a six year old. Freddy enjoys tormenting Tyler with stories of werewolves. Freddy hears someone coming through the front door and convinces Tyler that a werewolf is entering the house, but the werewolf is actually just Tyler's parents. Freddy and Cara get paid for babysitting, and they head back to Freddy's house. Freddy and Cara play air hockey in the basement, and Freddy's parents aren't home. Freddy and Cara begin fighting, which results in Freddy bumping into a wooden cabinet. The cabinet falls over revealing a previously hidden door in the basement wall.
[[Freddy Martinez]] is babysitting his neighbor Tyler Brown, and telling him a spooky story about how werewolves will come up behind you and breathe down your neck. Freddy climaxes his horrifying story, by ruthlessly tickling the poor child. Then Freddy turns to tickle his female best friend, [[Cara Simonetti]], who came over to keep Freddy company. The two wrestle around and then Freddy talks some more about how creepy werewolves are. As Freddy talks about the soft thud of the werewolf's feet, the children hear a soft thud of footsteps from within the house. It is not really a werewolf at all, but Tyler's parents.
 
   
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The kids open the door, and they find a stone walled tunnel. The kids find a flashlight in the basement, so they decide to explore the tunnel. The two friends find another door, and Freddy opens it. Freddy and Cara are shocked to find a coffin. In order to prove their bravery, the kids open the coffin. They find a strange bottle labeled Vampire Breath. Freddy tries to grab the bottle from Cara, causing her to drop the bottle, which results in the stopper flying out. Sour smelling mist pours out of the bottle. Freddy puts the stopper back in, and he notices something has appeared in the coffin: an elderly, bald man dressed in old fashioned clothes. Suddenly, the man opens his eyes.
Back at Freddy's house, he and Cara pass the time by playing some air hockey in the basement. The game quickly devolves into an actual hockey match, as the two children punch and shove each other around the small room. Freddy pushes Cara into the wall and the two playfully wrestle each other. Eventually Cara accidentally knocks over the large china cabinet, revealing a hidden door. Behind the door, the two children discover a dark tunnel. Reasoning that if you find a secret door leading to a secret tunnel in your basement, you are required to investigate where it leads, the two children grab some flashlights and make their way down the damp stone tunnel.
 
   
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The man sits up and reveals himself to be [[Count Nightwing]], a vampire. Count Nightwing complains that he's thirsty. The two kids run back down the tunnel. The kids see the door to the basement slowly close in front of them. The vampire catches Cara. The Count is going to drink Cara's blood until he realizes his fangs are gone. The Count asks for his bottle of Vampire Breath. He says the bottle can take him back to his time. The Count forces the kids to look for the bottle. When they find the bottle, the Count opens it, unleashing a green mist. The vampire quickly disappears, but the kids are startled to find that they aren't in the same room as before. They are now in the room of a castle surrounded by multiple coffins. Cara deduces that Count Nightwing took them back to his time.
At the end of the tunnel, they find a small room holding an empty coffin. Freddy picks up a small glass bottle inside the coffin and the two children struggle to read the label on the bottle: "Vampire Breath." The two children fight over opening the glass bottle, leading them to drop the container. The bottle spills open, spewing out noxious smoke.
 
   
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The coffins around the kids begin opening, revealing many vampires. Count Nightwing approaches the kids and reveals he doesn't know how to send them home except for by turning them into vampires. Count Nightwing leaves in search of more Vampire Breath. He reveals that vampires must have it to stay alive, and it can bring his fangs back. Cara believes that they need to find the Vampire Breath before the Count. The kids explore the castle. They break a window and crawl onto a ledge with the hope of escaping. Freddy falls, but he is saved by a bat. Once inside, the bat turns back into Count Nightwing. The Count warns them not to try to escape again before leaving again.
As the smoke clears, the two children spy a form inside the coffin: an old man! The bald ghoul blinks his eyes awake and slowly climbs out of the coffin. He announces that he is [[Count Nightwing]], a prominent vampire, and he is very thirsty. The vampire chases the two children down the tunnel, trapping them at the end when the entry door swings shut. Freddy figures ladies first and lets Count Nightwing attack his friend first. But Nightwing quickly recoils from Cara's neck, after he realizes he does not have his fangs. Count Nightwing gets furious and makes the children help him look for the bottle of Vampire Breath they opened.
 
   
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Freddy and Cara find a coffin, which they open. They find a bottle of Vampire Breath inside. The two friends are approached by a young looking girl. The girl says that her name is [[Gwendolyn]], and she says that the Count forces her to do work around the castle. Gwendolyn leads the kids down a long tunnel and into the cellar. She stops suddenly and explains that she is actually a vampire, and she is thirsty. Cara suggests that Freddy use the Vampire Breath to transport them to the future. Freddy opens the bottle, but finds that its empty. Count Nightwing approaches. Gwendolyn and Count Nightwing begin hissing at each other, allowing Freddy and Cara to escape. Still in the cellar, the kids finds a shelf filled with Vampire Breath bottles. Count Nightwing finds the kids and says that only one bottle is full. All three begin searching for the bottle.
The Vampire Breath is a magical potion that brought Count Nightwing into the future from his own time, and if the children help him find the bottle, he will go back to his time and leave them alone. Eventually they find and open the bottle, but the two children are more than a little miffed to discover that they have been brought back in time with Count Nightwing. Once the fumes fade away, Cara and Freddy find themselves in a large room inside what appears to be a castle. At the top of the high ceiling, yellow moonlight pours in, revealing dozens of coffins. Freddy and Cara hide in the shadows, as dozens of vampires emerge from their coffins, turn into bats, and then fly out through the open windows.
 
   
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Freddy says that he found the bottle. Freddy and Cara begin tossing the bottle back and forth, keeping it away from the Count. When the Count retrieves the bottle, he opens it, only to discovers that it is empty. Freddy realizes that he had grabbed the wrong bottle. Freddy grabs another bottle that he thinks is full, and he tosses it to Cara. The Count tries to grab the bottle, but it falls to the floor. Putrid gas pours out. Before long, the kids find themselves back in Freddy's basement. Count Nightwing is frightened to find that he has been transported forward in time with them. Freddy's parents enter the basement, but they don't seem disturbed by the vampire.
The two children try to escape, only to run into Count Nightwing, who is awfully sorry about transporting them back to his time. He tells the children he would be happy to help them by turning them into vampires. Freddy and Cara decline the generous offer, but Count Nightwing is insistent that the two help him find his bottle of Vampire Breath. See, the empty bottle was empty in 1996, but in 1896, it's full of Vampire Breath.
 
   
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Count Nightwing recognizes Freddy's mom, and Mrs. Martinez addresses the Count as her father. She introduces Count Nightwing to Freddy; the Count had slept for so long, that he hadn't met his own grandson. The Count complains that his fangs are gone, but Mrs. Martinez says that his dentures are in a glass in the basement bathroom. Mrs. Martinez retrieves the dentures and hands them to the count. Shocked by all of this news, Freddy asks if he's a vampire. His mother says he is, but his fangs haven't grown in yet. The three adults agree to look for something to drink. They all turn into bats and fly away.
Count Nightwing explains that every vampire must supplement their diet of blood with daily doses of Vampire Breath. A vampire's private dose of Vampire Breath is highly guarded and kept hidden from the other vampires, only Count Nightwing can't remember where he hid his bottle or his fangs. The count forces the children to help him look around the castle for the potion. Freddy and Cara split from the count and reason that if they find his bottle of Vampire Breath first, they can use it to zap themselves back to the future.
 
   
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Freddy decides to explore the basement's bathroom further to see if there's anything else strange inside. He finds a bottle labeled as Werewolf Sweat. Freddy accidentally opens the bottle, and a strange liquid pours out onto both Freddy and Cara. Freddy is worried about what the substance will do. Suddenly, he hears Cara beginning to growl.
Cara has an even better idea: leave the vampire castle. Unfortunately, all of the windows are either too high or outfitted with black bars to prevent thieves from stealing the Vampire Breath. As the two children walk through a vast dining room covered in dust, Cara gets an idea. Cara figures that since the vampires don't eat, they would have no need for the kitchen, so they can hide out there and figure out their next move. Cara is quite insistent on not becoming a vampire. Inside the kitchen, they spot a window without bars! Freddy jumps up on the ledge and prepares to jump out when he notices his feet are not making contact with the ground. He looks down and sees that the castle is built high atop a cliff. Freddy is saved from falling to his death by a giant bat, which swoops him up back into the kitchen. The man bat transforms back into Count Nightwing, who chides the children on trying to escape and tells them to get back to work looking for his bottle. The children keep checking room after room in the cavernous castle. Finally they come across another mausoleum lined with empty coffins-- except for one with its lid clamped firmly shut. Inside a hidden pocket in the coffin they find the bottle of Vampire Breath. Before they can make their escape, the two are stopped by a twelve-year-old girl with curly blonde hair. She introduces herself as Gwendolyn. Then she explains that Count Nightwing and the other vampires keep her prisoner in the castle, forcing her to clean their coffins under the threat of turning her into a vampire. Gwendolyn leads the children down a secret passageway in the castle, so they can escape and be spared her ordeal. Once she gets the children deep within the castle walls, the blonde girl reveals her fangs and attempts to feast on the two friends.
 
 
Before Gwendolyn can sink her teeth into Freddy's neck, Count Nightwing, shows up and the twelve-year-old vampire girl and the old man vampire duke it out. Freddy and Cara quietly slink out of the passageway and find themselves in a supply closet loaded with empty bottles of Vampire Breath. Count Nightwing shows up and thanks the children for reminding him where he hid his full bottle: among the empties in the closet. As Nightwing furiously searches for his bottle among the spent vessels, the two children find it first. But then Count Nightwing swipes it. But then Cara swipes it back and the two children play Monkey in the Middle with the vampire. Their game goes back and forth over the vampire's head, until Count Nightwing simply floats up in the air and grabs the bottle. Only that bottle too is empty, as Freddy made a switch.
 
 
Freddy opens the bottle of Vampire Breath and is relieved to see his air hockey table through the thinning smoke. He and Cara are however not relieved to see Count Nightwing came back with them. Nightwing pouts around the basement and complains that he still does not have his fangs and he will starve to death without them. Just then, Freddy's parents barge down the basement stairs. Freddy tells them the old man is a real-life vampire. Freddy's mother tells him to go upstairs to make a sandwich for himself and Cara, because the vampire, Count Nightwing is Freddy's grandfather, who was taking a nap. Freddy's mother tells the old man that his fangs are safe, floating in a glass in the secret basement bathroom. Freddy is surprised that not only does he have a grandfather he never knew about, he has a vampire grandfather that his parents kept buried in a secret passageway behind the china cabinet.
 
 
This would also make him a vampire as well, but he doesn't get his fangs until he's a hundred years older. Freddy and Cara sneak off to the hidden basement bathroom and lock themselves inside. Soon, before the two begin wrestling again, Cara discovers a bottle marked "Werewolf Sweat.” Cara spills the bottle over the both of them and they begin to loudly growl.
 
   
 
==Reprints and rereleases==
 
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* In Portugal, the original release was never published. Strangely, the ''Classic Goosebumps'' reprint for this book was one of the few reprints that were released there.
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* In France, this book is the 39th of the ''[[Goosebumps (original series)|Goosebumps]]'' series. 
   
 
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==Artwork==
 
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Vampire_Breath_-_artwork.jpg|Original 1996 artwork by [[Tim Jacobus]].
 
Vampire_Breath_-_artwork.jpg|Original 1996 artwork by [[Tim Jacobus]].
 
GB_Classic_21-Vampire_Breath_fullcolor_400.jpg|''[[Classic Goosebumps]]'' artwork by [[Brandon Dorman]].
 
GB_Classic_21-Vampire_Breath_fullcolor_400.jpg|''[[Classic Goosebumps]]'' artwork by [[Brandon Dorman]].
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The original printings of the book included bookmark and trading card [[Goosebumps (original series)/Tear-outs|tear-outs]]. Some printings also included metallic stickers.
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Goosebumps_49_Vampire_Breath_metallic_stickers.jpg|Cover and Curly Metallic Stickers
 
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
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*Tim Jacobus says that Count Nightwing's face on the cover of this book was based on the face of his reference photographer, Michael.<ref>[http://www.timjacobus.com/vampiresbreath.lrg.html Tim Jacobus's webpage for ''Vampire Breath'']</ref>
*Their family name is a reference to the butler from Dracula.
 
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*Prior to this book's release, the ''[[Goosebumps (franchise)/Merchandise#Goosebumps Fan Club|Goosebumps]]''[[Goosebumps (franchise)/Merchandise#Goosebumps Fan Club| Fan Club]]'s newsletter reported that the protagonist would be named Eddie.
 
* Freddy's mother was mentioned by name in the book: Cynthia Martinez.
 
* Freddy's mother was mentioned by name in the book: Cynthia Martinez.
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* Both the episode and book were released in November of 1996
* In Portugal, the original release was never published. Strangely, the ''Classic Goosebumps'' reprint for this book was one of the few reprints that were released there.
 
 
===References in other ''Goosebumps'' media===
 
===References in other ''Goosebumps'' media===
 
*[[Count Nightwing]] appears as a background monster in the [[Goosebumps (film)|''Goosebumps'' film]].
 
*[[Count Nightwing]] appears as a background monster in the [[Goosebumps (film)|''Goosebumps'' film]].
 
*The title is seen on a book on the cover to the first issue of ''[[Monsters at Midnight]]''.
 
*The title is seen on a book on the cover to the first issue of ''[[Monsters at Midnight]]''.
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* Count Nightwing is mentioned in ''[[Goosebumps HorrorTown]]''.
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Vampire Breath is the forty-ninth book in the original Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1996.

The original cover illustration shows Count Nightwing briefly emerged from his coffin with dead flowers in his left hand and a bottle of Vampire Breath in front of his coffin.

Blurb

He's a Dentist's Nightmare...

Tough. That's Freddy Martinez and his friend, Cara. They're not afraid of anything. But that was before they went exploring in Freddy's basement. Before they found the secret room. Before they found the bottle of Vampire Breath. Poor Freddy and Cara. They should have never opened that bottle of Vampire Breath. Because now there's a vampire in Freddy's basement. And he's very, very thirsty....

Plot

Freddy Martinez and Cara Simonetti are babysitting Tyler Brown, a six year old. Freddy enjoys tormenting Tyler with stories of werewolves. Freddy hears someone coming through the front door and convinces Tyler that a werewolf is entering the house, but the werewolf is actually just Tyler's parents. Freddy and Cara get paid for babysitting, and they head back to Freddy's house. Freddy and Cara play air hockey in the basement, and Freddy's parents aren't home. Freddy and Cara begin fighting, which results in Freddy bumping into a wooden cabinet. The cabinet falls over revealing a previously hidden door in the basement wall.

The kids open the door, and they find a stone walled tunnel. The kids find a flashlight in the basement, so they decide to explore the tunnel. The two friends find another door, and Freddy opens it. Freddy and Cara are shocked to find a coffin. In order to prove their bravery, the kids open the coffin. They find a strange bottle labeled Vampire Breath. Freddy tries to grab the bottle from Cara, causing her to drop the bottle, which results in the stopper flying out. Sour smelling mist pours out of the bottle. Freddy puts the stopper back in, and he notices something has appeared in the coffin: an elderly, bald man dressed in old fashioned clothes. Suddenly, the man opens his eyes.

The man sits up and reveals himself to be Count Nightwing, a vampire. Count Nightwing complains that he's thirsty. The two kids run back down the tunnel. The kids see the door to the basement slowly close in front of them. The vampire catches Cara. The Count is going to drink Cara's blood until he realizes his fangs are gone. The Count asks for his bottle of Vampire Breath. He says the bottle can take him back to his time. The Count forces the kids to look for the bottle. When they find the bottle, the Count opens it, unleashing a green mist. The vampire quickly disappears, but the kids are startled to find that they aren't in the same room as before. They are now in the room of a castle surrounded by multiple coffins. Cara deduces that Count Nightwing took them back to his time.

The coffins around the kids begin opening, revealing many vampires. Count Nightwing approaches the kids and reveals he doesn't know how to send them home except for by turning them into vampires. Count Nightwing leaves in search of more Vampire Breath. He reveals that vampires must have it to stay alive, and it can bring his fangs back. Cara believes that they need to find the Vampire Breath before the Count. The kids explore the castle. They break a window and crawl onto a ledge with the hope of escaping. Freddy falls, but he is saved by a bat. Once inside, the bat turns back into Count Nightwing. The Count warns them not to try to escape again before leaving again.

Freddy and Cara find a coffin, which they open. They find a bottle of Vampire Breath inside. The two friends are approached by a young looking girl. The girl says that her name is Gwendolyn, and she says that the Count forces her to do work around the castle. Gwendolyn leads the kids down a long tunnel and into the cellar. She stops suddenly and explains that she is actually a vampire, and she is thirsty. Cara suggests that Freddy use the Vampire Breath to transport them to the future. Freddy opens the bottle, but finds that its empty. Count Nightwing approaches. Gwendolyn and Count Nightwing begin hissing at each other, allowing Freddy and Cara to escape. Still in the cellar, the kids finds a shelf filled with Vampire Breath bottles. Count Nightwing finds the kids and says that only one bottle is full. All three begin searching for the bottle.

Freddy says that he found the bottle. Freddy and Cara begin tossing the bottle back and forth, keeping it away from the Count. When the Count retrieves the bottle, he opens it, only to discovers that it is empty. Freddy realizes that he had grabbed the wrong bottle. Freddy grabs another bottle that he thinks is full, and he tosses it to Cara. The Count tries to grab the bottle, but it falls to the floor. Putrid gas pours out. Before long, the kids find themselves back in Freddy's basement. Count Nightwing is frightened to find that he has been transported forward in time with them. Freddy's parents enter the basement, but they don't seem disturbed by the vampire.

Count Nightwing recognizes Freddy's mom, and Mrs. Martinez addresses the Count as her father. She introduces Count Nightwing to Freddy; the Count had slept for so long, that he hadn't met his own grandson. The Count complains that his fangs are gone, but Mrs. Martinez says that his dentures are in a glass in the basement bathroom. Mrs. Martinez retrieves the dentures and hands them to the count. Shocked by all of this news, Freddy asks if he's a vampire. His mother says he is, but his fangs haven't grown in yet. The three adults agree to look for something to drink. They all turn into bats and fly away.

Freddy decides to explore the basement's bathroom further to see if there's anything else strange inside. He finds a bottle labeled as Werewolf Sweat. Freddy accidentally opens the bottle, and a strange liquid pours out onto both Freddy and Cara. Freddy is worried about what the substance will do. Suddenly, he hears Cara beginning to growl.

Reprints and rereleases

Book Release date Type Media

2003 - 2007 reprint series


Vampirebreath-2005reprint
August 2005 Standalone Paperback

Classic Goosebumps


Vampirebreath-classicreprint
August 2011 Standalone Paperback

International releases

Difference

  • In Portugal, the original release was never published. Strangely, the Classic Goosebumps reprint for this book was one of the few reprints that were released there.
  • In France, this book is the 39th of the Goosebumps series. 

Adaptations

TV series

Vampire Breath was adapted into an episode of the Goosebumps TV series. It is the seventeenth episode of season two, and the thirty-sixth episode overall.

Audiobook

Audiobook Release date Length Narrated by Published by
Vampirebreath-audiobook
April 2015 2 hours, 34 minutes Vikas Adam Scholastic Inc.

Artwork

Tear-outs

The original printings of the book included bookmark and trading card tear-outs. Some printings also included metallic stickers.

Trivia

  • Tim Jacobus says that Count Nightwing's face on the cover of this book was based on the face of his reference photographer, Michael.[1]
  • Prior to this book's release, the Goosebumps Fan Club's newsletter reported that the protagonist would be named Eddie.
  • Freddy's mother was mentioned by name in the book: Cynthia Martinez.
  • Both the episode and book were released in November of 1996

References in other Goosebumps media

References