History Literature / EvenMoreTalesToGiveYouGoosebumps

* ShoutOut: The plot of ''Aliens in the Garden'' is likely inspired by the Twilight Zone Episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E51TheInvaders The Invaders]]. [[spoiler: Both involve someone dealing with tiny aliens that turn out to be humans]].

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Jonathan notes that there are three things that he really hates, which are happening right now: thunder, lightning, and him babysitting his twin brother and sister.

"[[Recap/GoosebumpsS2E22DontWakeMummy Don't Wake Mummy]]" was adapted into the twenty-second episode of the second season of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], while "[[Recap/GoosebumpsS3E10TheHauntedHouseGame The Haunted House Game]]" and "[[Recap/GoosebumpsS3E11E12PerfectSchool The Perfect School]]" were adapted into episodes of the show's third season.

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!!The episode adaptations provide examples of:

* AdaptationalJerkass: Brian in "The Perfect School" was sent to the school due to simply not being the ideal kid in the story, while in the episode it's because of a cruel prank he played on his brother.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Likewise, his parents go from sending him to the school because he doesn't live up to their standards to hoping he learns his lesson. Additionally, in the short story they were expecting a robot, while in the TV episode they're none the wiser to any intended switch.
* AdaptationDistillation: The plot of "The Haunted House Game" retains the "haunted board game" plot, but the TV episode turns the story into a ''Film/{{Jumanji}}''-esque adventure as the two kids are sucked into the board game and forced to play for their lives against ghosts planning to add them to their collection.
* AdaptationExpansion: "The Perfect School", a ten-page short story, gets expanded into a ''two-part'' TV episode.
* AndIMustScream: In "The Haunted House Game", any player who [[TheGamePlaysYou dies inside the game]] becomes a new game piece.
* EndlessCorridor: In "The Haunted House Game", the protagonists have to escape the haunted house itself to win the game with their lives. The corridor to the front door stretches out into infinity before them, requiring them to pull it towards them with a fishing rod.
* EvilOldFolks: In "The Haunted House Game", one of the spots the two kids land on takes them to a house where two old women are playing a game. They're supposed to ask them for something, which turns out to be an amulet that saps the life out of the girl's arm.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''The Perfect School,'', Brian suspects Joe of working with the school because he seems to get along with the staff. Joe tells him this isn't the case, as he is just acting so that he can be on their good side. The ending has [[spoiler: Brian using this idea, pretending to be a perfect clone so he can be sent home.]]
* TheGamePlaysYou: The show adapted "The Haunted House Game", but changed almost everything. Instead the Haunted House Game is a ''Film/{{Jumanji}}''-esque boardgame that two kids are sucked inside of and have to find the exit of the haunted house to escape alive.
* InNameOnly: "The Haunted House Game" retains the basic concept of the original short story, but otherwise goes in a completely different direction with it.
* ShutUpScaryThing: In "Don't Wake Mummy", Jeff thinks the mummy is Kim trying to scare him again, until he saw [[OhCrap she was behind him]].
* SoreLoser: In "The Haunted House Game", the two villains refuse to let the two protagonists leave the house even after they won the game fair and square.
* WinToExit: In "The Haunted House Game" episode, two kids are sucked into a magical board game inside a creepy abandoned house. The only way to get out is to win the game while [[TheGamePlaysYou not getting killed]].
* WoundedGazelleGambit: In "The Haunted House Game" episode, a little girl lures older kids to the abandoned house by claiming that she lost her cat there so that they'll find and play [[TheGamePlaysYou the deadly board game]]. At the end of the episode [[HereWeGoAgain she performs the same trick with another set of victims]].

* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: As part of the revenge that Mr. Dove has planned for Kim's family, he transforms all of the Peterson's into animals. He turns her parents into lovebirds, because of them being constantly being romantic to each other throughout the vacation. He then turns her older brothers into mockingbirds, because they constantly tease Kim. As for her, Mr. Dove turns her into a ''cat'', presumably so she can attack her family for making her stay at this place]].

* BlindingBangs: One of Kim's brothers, Andy, has his hair hanging down over his eyes. This makes Kim unsure if he's ever looking at her or not.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''The Perfect School,'', Brian suspects Joe of working with the school because he seems to get along with the staff. Joe tells him this isn't the case, as he is just acting so that the can be on their good side. The ending has [[spoiler: Brian using this idea, pretending to be a perfect clone so he can be sent home.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Unlike the other short stories in this book (and the series altogether), this one ends up lacking supernatural elements.

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: In ''The Thumbprint Of Doom'', among the superstitions that Carla annoys Trisha with, the one that she finds the most infuriating is when Carla runs onto the field while Trisha is playing baseball and is about to swing. According to her, it's thirteen minutes after one o'clock on Friday the 13th, which means that she can't hit a ball right then and there, as it would be a disaster.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The Fox Kids magazine version of "The Haunted House Game" features a different ending submitted by a fan. Instead of the twist being [[spoiler: the kids died back in the 1940s and have been reliving their game of "Haunted House" for decades, Annie and Noah get briefly trapped in the game and have to be saved by Jonathan and Nadine only for it to be implied the two were replaced by ghosts.]]
* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted in "Don't Wake Mummy", where mom sees the mummy and locks it in the basement. [[spoiler: It turns out to be Kim playing a prank though.]]
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Travis in ''The Chalk Closet'' has a major problem with this trope, [[NeverMyFault which he casually always uses as an excuse for not doing his work]].
* BatterUp: When Flip in ''Aliens in the Garden'' comes back in retaliation, he brings his cousin Drake along, who is wielding a bat. He used it to try whacking two of the aliens on the ground.
* BigSisterBully: Kim in "Don't Wake Mummy", who enjoys scaring her brother Jeff. Until the mummy came to life.
* BlindingBangs: In ''For The Birds'', one of Kim's brothers, Andy, has hair hanging down over his eyes. This makes Kim unsure if he's ever looking at her.
* BystanderSyndrome: In "The Chalk Closet," none of Travis's classmates are willing to help him when it's his turn to be sent to the titular closet as they don't want to suffer the same fate.

* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: In ''The Perfect School'', Brian is desperate to get out of his room and escape before he's replaced by a robot. So he knocks on the door and tells a Guardian that he needs to go to the bathroom. This is what he needs to get a folded paper into the lock behind the closing door so the door wouldn't lock afterwards.
* CreepyCrows: Kim is trying to get to sleep, but she hears cawwing outside her window, so she looks out to see a shocking amount of birds circling overhead. One of them, an enormous crow, landed on the window ledge, and started staring at Kim and pecking at the glass. Kim is left wondering what it could be trying to tell her. [[spoiler: It was probably warning her about the revenge plan that Mr. Dove had in store for her family]].
* DeadAllAlong: "The Haunted House Game" ends with the reveal that [[spoiler: the players are four ghosts who've been stuck in the game for years]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Mr. Grimsley in "The Chalk Closet" [[spoiler: sends failing/misbehaving students into a room where they'll spend the rest of eternity listening to the screech of chalk on a board, even after they've died.]]
* DramaticIrony: Kurt and Jenna in "Aliens In The Garden" [[spoiler:find part of the alien's spacesuit ripped off after it left, and they examine it through a magnifing glass. They see that the scrap of clothing contains a rectangle. With red and stripes going across it. And the upper left-hand corner is blue. And it has fifty white stars on it. The two wonder what it means, correctly believing that it is a symbol flag from the alien's planet, but they guess they'll never know]].

* FailedASpotCheck: When Missy in ''I'm Telling!'' arrives in the woods to scold Adam, she apparently fails to notice the ''enormous tree nearby that Adam had just turned to stone with the gargoyle's liquid''. This makes her become quite off guard when Adam decides to use the gargoyle liquid on ''her''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** While Adam is examining the gargoyle, he notices its' huge wings which makes him surmise that if the creature flew at him, he could never outrun it. [[spoiler: Indeed, when the gargoyle comes back to life, it flies over Adam and catches him quickly]].
** When Brian is looking at the graduates from the Perfect School in astonishment, he thinks to himself that they're like robots. It turns out that they ''are'' robots, to replace their counterparts in the real world.
* TheGamePlaysYou: In the story "The Haunted House Game", a group of children play a board game of the same name where each command they land on becomes true. [[spoiler: It turns out that they're all ghosts who died playing the original game and are reliving the same events over and over again.]].
* HeadlockOfDominance: Duke does this to Kurt, which hurts. Luckily for him, the aliens fire their ray guns at Duke, saving Kurt.
* HedgeMaze: The main attraction at Bird Haven Lodge is a large hedge maze, which Kim and her family go through, [[spoiler: and quickly come across a giant cage, where Mr. Dove traps them in for their transformation]].
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: Adam has turned the gargoyle back to stone, and caused Missy to turn back to her normal state. But she is furious with her brother about this, and vows to tell their mother about this. To stop her from doing this, Adam sneaks behind her and sprays her again with the gargoyle liquid in his spray gun]].
* HumanAliens: Used as TwistEnding in "Aliens in the Garden". [[spoiler: The titular aliens are human astronauts.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: "The Chalk Closet" shows this trope in full effect when Travis makes it clear he doesn't care when class joker Dooley gets sent to the Chalk Closet, figuring Dooley brought it on himself. But once it's Travis's turn and his classmates are ignoring his plight, he's screaming at any of them to care.
* ImagineSpot: The beginning of "Change For The Strange" has Jane imagining herself at a massive stadium with thousands of cheering fans as she's about to start her track. But then her friend Lizzy calls her out of her darydream.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: [[spoiler: In "Home Sweet Home", Sharon is shrunk to the size of a doll by a spell from Mrs. Forster, and she is in the peril of her spider. By the end of the story, she has to hide out in her sister's dollhouse]].
* ItsProbablyNothing: While playing "The Haunted House Game", they come across a part that involves [[MindYourStep hearing creaking footsteps on the stairs]]. And then exactly what the game said just happened. The twins wonder if it's the cat, to which Jonathan points out that they don't have a cat.
* JawDrop: Flip and Drake do this while staring at the aliens' spaceship as it blasts off back into space. And according to Kurt, they're ''still'' doing it as he and Jenna are leaving the park.
* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: As part of the revenge that Mr. Dove has planned for Kim's family, he transforms all of the Peterson's into animals. He turns her parents into lovebirds, because of them being constantly being romantic to each toher throughout the vacation. He then turns her older brothers into mockingbirds, because they constantly tease Kim. As for her, Mr. Dove turns her into a cat]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Adam feels terrible when he accidentally turns Missy into stone with the gargoyle liquid, and assures her that he'll bring her back into the basement to turn her back.
* NailsOnABlackboard: [[spoiler: This is what anyone banished to the "The Chalk Closet" is forced to listen to for all eternity]].
* OurGargoylesRock: "I'm Telling!" has a gargoyle that spits out green goo which turns people into stone.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: While shrieking at her brother Ivan to get a snake (who was actually Jane who was transformed by enchanted clothing that she bought), Lizzy screams, "Get... it... out... of... here. NOW!"
* RageBreakingPoint: Trisha is annoyed with Carla's superstitious ramblings, but she tries to ignore them at first. But when Carla comes running up to her during a baseball game of hers whilst screaming one, causing her to lose an inning and be out, Trisha is livid and gathers her friends to plan a scheme against her.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The scam run by the school in "The Perfect School" to "fix" problem children -- they lock up the originals and send back identical robotic duplicates in their place.

* ShutUpScaryThing: In "Don't Wake Mummy", Jeff thinks the mummy is Kim trying to scare him again, until he saw [[OhCrap she was behind him]].
* SureLetsGoWithThat: While bringing Missy (who has at this point been turned to stone) back to their house to turn her back, Adam's art teacher comes by and is highly impressed. She thinks that this is his project for the art contest, and is bringing it to the school. Since Adam didn't actually ''do'' his art project, he goes along with this notion and brings the Missy statue to the show. Sure enough, he wins first prize, with other people remarking that it looks so lifelike.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "The Thumbprint of Doom" ends up lacking supernatural elements.
* SwitchingPOV: [[spoiler: Happens at the end of "Don't Wake Mummy!", between Jeff and Kim]].
* TakenForGranite: Happens to anything that is touched by the gargoyle's liquid, including a tree, Missy, [[spoiler: and [[HoistByHisOwnPertard the gargoyle itself when sprayed with it]]. However, spraying the subject matter a second time turns them into their original form]].

* TomatoSurprise: "Aliens in the Garden" ends with the reveal that [[spoiler: the story is actually set on another planet and the titular aliens were actually humans]].

* CreepyCrows: Kim is trying to get to sleep, but she hears cawwing outside her window, and ooks out to see a shocking amount of birds circling overhead. One of them, an enormous crow, landed on the window ledge, and started staring at Kim and pecking at the glass. Kim is left wondering what it could be trying to tell her. [[spoiler: It was probably warning her about the revenge plan that Mr. Dove had in store for her family]].

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* NailsOnABlackboard: This is what anyone banished to the "The Chalk Closet" is forced to listen to for all eternity.

* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted in "Don't Wake Mummy", where mom sees the mummy and locks it in the basement. [[spoiler; It turns out to be Kim playing a prank though.]]