History AndIMustScream / Gamebooks

AndIMustScream in Gamebooks.

* In the book ''The Wicked Wax Museum'' of ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' you can end up as scattered body parts alive and aware.
** in ''The Curse of the Creeping Coffin'', you can end up being turned into a statue. A man sees you, sells you to a gardening store and your grandma sees you and takes you home because you look so much like her disappeared grandchild. She returns you to her backyard/haunted graveyard where two of the ghosts turn you into their plaything forever.
** A particularily cruel one in ''Diary of a Mad Mummy'' has you being turned into a mummy, stolen from the museum and then returned. Unable to speak, you write a note at the curator that you're actually a kid. The curator then wraps you in fresh bandages and takes you to a backroom full of other mummies who are implied to also be cursed people. The curator says you'll see your family again... when he sends them tickets for the exhibition.
* From ''The Time Raider'' of the "Twistaplot" series:
** "Oh, no! You're stuck in a time warp! (turn to page -number-, quick!)" *flip* "Nothing warps the human brain faster than a time warp. (turn to page -number-)" *flip back* "Oh, no! You're stuck in a time warp! ..."

* ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' goes really creative with these endings. While NonStandardGameOver scenarios where the player hero turns into [[BalefulPolymorph an animal]] are common, there are also several endings where you get turned into inanimate objects, but are fully aware of your surroundings, including...

** Being transformed by a forest witch into a tree ''blind and without losing your consciousness''.

* ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' goes really creative with these endings. While NonStandardGameOvers where the player hero turns into [[BalefulPolymorph an animal]] are common, there are also several endings where you get turned into inanimate objects, but are fully aware of your surroundings, including...

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* The ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' books have a share of endings that follow this trope:

** In ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'', being turned into a mouse (after eating cheese and crackers laced with a magic spell) or -- after cast with a spell -- being forced to pick up the pieces of a Chinese cat the protagonist accidentally broke ... only to find he'll never finish the job. There are also endings where the main protagonist's cousin, Jane, is left to suffer a horrifying (unknown) fate.
** Being transformed by a forest witch into a tree ''blind and without losing your consciousness''.
** In ''War with the Mutant Spider Ants'', you can investigate a nest of said spider ants. Suddenly, a swarm of them attacks you and your crew, [[AllWebbedUp wrapping you up in their webs until none of you can move more than "mummies in a tomb."]].
** Being in ''Secret of the Pyramids'', possessed by ''something'' that forces you to step into a sarcophagus and buries you alive.
* In the book ''The Wicked Wax Museum'' of ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' you can end up as scattered body parts alive and aware.
** in ''The Curse of the Creeping Coffin'', you can end up being turned into a statue. A man sees you, sells you to a gardening store and your grandma sees you and takes you home because you look so much like her disappeared grandchild. She returns you to her backyard/haunted graveyard where two of the ghosts turn you into their plaything forever.
* From ''The Time Raider'' of the "Twistaplot" series:
** "Oh, no! You're stuck in a time warp! (turn to page -number-, quick!)" *flip* "Nothing warps the human brain faster than a time warp. (turn to page -number-)" *flip back* "Oh, no! You're stuck in a time warp! ..."
* The ''Literature/StarChallenge'' series has some AndIMustScream moments, too:
** Falling into bottomless pits.
** Being converted into a mutant freak to be used as a park attraction.
** Stranded in orbit around a planet on a ship will all of its controls destroyed.
** Living forever in the inside of a... thing that feeds on stars and being unable to leave it.
** Trapped [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds between]] two universes.
** Jailed and having as guardian a robot that will not even feed you until its captain orders so -captain that will not exist for decades-.
** Your mind swapped by the one of the sole alien living in an alternate dimension, and being condemned to remain there forever.
** Having your brains and eyes removed from your body and inserted into an armor by an alien who collects heroes (or rather their brains, as they're far easier to maintain).
** Becoming a kind of living flame and being unable to leave the planet, as that would kill you.
** Being converted into a plant-like alien of the Andromeda Galaxy and being unable to depart to the Milky Way.
** Your body disappearing, rendering you invisible.

* In the book ''The Wicked Wax Museum'' of ''GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' you can end up as scattered body parts alive and aware.
** in ''The Curse of the Creeping Coffin'', you can end up being turned into a statue. A man sees you, sells you to a gardening store and your grandma sees you and takes you home because you look so much like her dissapeared grandchild. She returns you to her backyard/haunted graveyard where two of the ghosts turn you into their plaything forever.

** Having your brains and eyes removed from your body and inserted into an armor by an alien who collects heroes (rather their brains, as they're far easier to maintain).

** in ''The Curse of the Creeping Coffin'', you can end up being turned into a statue. A man sees you, sells you in his garednind store and your grandma sees you and takes you home because you look so much like her dissapeared grandson. She returns you to her backyard/haunted graveyard where two of the ghosts turn you into their plaything forever.

* The ''Literature/StarChallenge'' series have some AndIMustScream-ish moments, too:

* The ''Star Challenge'' series have some AndIMustScream-ish moments, too:

** Being -in ''Secret of the Pyramids''- possessed by ''something'' that forces you to step into a sarcophagus and buries you alive.

* The ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' books have a share of endings that follow this trope:

** Being transformed into a lost soul and being forced to revisit, ''and take part in'', moments of great violence from the past — Pearl Harbor, Gettysburg, etc. — '''forever'''.

** Your body disappearing, rendering you invisible.

** In ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'', breaking the china cat of the witch that lives in the house of the book means being punished to be picking up its pieces ''forever'' (punctuated with '''[[NonstandardGameOver There Is No End]]''').

** "Oh, no! You're stuck in a time warp! (turn to page -number-, quick!)" *flip* "Nothing warps the human brain faster than a time warp. (turn to page -number-)" *flip back* "Oh, no! You're stuck in a time warp! ..."

** In ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'', breaking the china cat of the witch that lives in the house of the book means being punished to be picking up its pieces ''forever'' (punctuated with '''[[NonstandardGameOver There Is No End]]'''.

** In ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'', breaking the china cat of the witch that lives in the house of the book means being punished to be picking up its pieces ''forever''.

** Being transformed into a lost soul and being forced to revisit, ''and take part'' in, moments of great violence from the past — Pearl Harbor, Gettysburg, etc. — '''forever'''.

** Stranded in orbit around a planet on a ship will all its controls destroyed.

* The ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' books have a good share of endings that follow this trope:

* In ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'' Breaking the china cat of the witch that lives in the house of the book and being punished to be picking up its pieces ''forever''.

* "Oh, no! You're stuck in a time warp! (turn to page -number-, quick!)" *flip* "Nothing warps the human brain faster than a time warp. (turn to page -number-)" *flip back* "Oh, no! You're stuck in a time warp! ..."