History Literature / GiveYourselfGoosebumps

* KarmicTwistEnding: Abandoning your friend to flee to safety will almost always lead to you dying instead. In Escape From Horror House a poltergeist gets you grounded by playing pranks and having your mom blame you. In one ending [[spoiler:A seance will summon the poltergeist's mother who will ground him for his misbehavior]]

* CaptainErsatz: Several of these. Illinois Smith (Indiana Jones), Nasty Kathy (Talky Tina from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll Living Doll]]"), and many more.

* ExactWords: Used in some bad endings; say, you're promised you won't be killed by a blue tornado if you lose. They never said anything about a ''purple'' tornado.

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[[folder: #14: ''The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock'']]

* AcmeProducts: "Acme Cleanup" is mentioned, and there's apparently a battery brand called "Supergizers".
* AIIsACrapshoot: One of the possible scenarios in this adventure have robots created by Professor Shock starting a revolt against humans, and they actually succeed in a few bad endings.
* AndIMustScream: The Mirror World scenario have plenty of situations where you're trapped in said world, with no way to return. One in particular sees you chasing after your fleeing reflection forever.
* BigRedButton: If you take the remote, you'll press the big red button on it (you don't get a choice). Depending on your choices after that, the button does different things. It can be as harmless as a homing beacon, or ending your life by activating an unknown weapon.
* BodyHorror: Stepping through the wrong mirror in the funhouse? You risk becoming as distorted as your reflection, and on the other side you see several of the mirrors' past victims, all of them contorted into abominations.
* CombiningMecha: A junkyard in the robot world have a scenario that wouldn't look out of place in a ''Transformers'' cartoon, where various machinery in the yard suddenly comes to life to form a gigantic mechanical monster, with steamrollers in place of feet, cranes for arms, two backhoes as hands and a [[TVHeadRobot giant TV for a head]].
* HallOfMirrors: Features in the story if you choose the "mirror world" storyline.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: You suffer this fate in one of the bad endings, after going through the wrong mirror in the funhouse. To make things worse, you're then caught in a pinball machine and crushed by the balls.
* MadScientist: The titular character, Professor Shock, whose inventions includes robots with sentience of their own, interdimensional portal generators, and assorted gizmos whatnot. His name kind of gives it away though.
* MirrorMonster: In one particularly nasty ending, you wait for a portal in a mirror to open up for your escape, only for a gigantic, monstrous human hand to emerge from behind the mirror and grab you.
* MixAndMatchCritters: One of your possible encounters is the Loreo, a lion-like beast with a crocodile's head, and said monster attacks you multiple times throughout the mirror path.
* MythologyGag: One to the main series, but there's a bad ending where reflections of yourself, and your friends Jason and Stacy, escapes the mirror-verse and leaves you trapped inside, much like the Goosebumps book ''Literature/LetsGetInvisible''
* PungeonMaster: The book's LemonyNarrator have quite a habit of dropping the ''worst'' puns in several bad endings. It gets old rather quickly.
--> Don't feel too crushed about it! [[note]]When you're about to be squished by a giant hand[[/note]]\\
Oh well. That's the breaks. [[note]]Your reflections broke through a mirror and have you trapped in the mirror-verse[[/note]]\\
''Hang'' in there! [[note]]You're turned into a carving on a pendant[[/note]]\\
You always wanted to fill your room with music... [[note]]you're about to be squashed alive by an enlarging walkman[[/note]]\\
Hope you like ''Heavy Metal''! [[note]]the bad ending where you suffer UnwillingRoboticisation[[/note]]\\
Don't let it give you a ''swell'' head! [[note]]one of the BodyHorror moments when your head becomes freakishly huge[[/note]]
* RoboticReveal: In one ending its reveal that [[spoiler: your best friends Stacey, Jason and their uncle Jack are Cyborgs.]]
* SdrawkcabSpeech: When you use the Universal Remote's REWIND function on Professor Shock.
--> "Etomer eht pu evig! On!" [[note]]No! Give me the remote![[/note]]
* TakenForGranite: A classic bad ending in GYG, this one sees your friends turning into tiny carvings on a pendant. You noticed there's a pendant shaped like your friend Stacy, and then it happens to you. Another implies you'll turn into a pendant in about five minutes, but the story stops right there,
* TimeRewindMechanic: A non video-game example; when you managed to get the Universal Remote and cornered by the Professor, you've given a chance to use the remote, either by pressing "FORWARD" or "BACKWARD". The former leads to a bad ending, while the latter causes time to reverse and you get sent back to page 1.
* UniversalRemoteControl: One of the first gadgets you can find in Professor Shock's garage, which can activate anything. Unfortunately you're not in control of it - one of the first things you test it on is a model plane, who takes flight and immediately dive-bombs you. It's even called the "Universal Remote" in the book.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: What Professor Shock secretly intends to do to the ''world''. One bad ending where you hit a wrong switch labelled "FAST-FORWARD" have this happening to you, which you find out after realizing your skin's metal.
* ThreateningShark: One of the most random and unexpected endings in the book - death via ''[[FlyingSeafoodSPecial flying]]'' sharks!

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[[folder: #22: ''Return to the Carnival of Horrors'']]

* AmusementParkOfDoom: The Carnival of Horrors, as in the first book.
* CalculatorSpelling: Challenging Big Al to the games and you get your final score: 53507 34. Or "HE LOSES" when flipped around.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: This book assumes one of the good endings from its prequel, despite there having been several -- and it's actually a plot point, since one of the first things you do on one story path is try to find the same ride you escaped in the first time.
* ExactWords: The frog-like owner of the road race game promises that if you lose you won't be killed by a blue tornado like the previous loser was. Once you lose the game, you are instead killed by a '''purple''' tornado.
* EyeOfNewt: You can pick up a can of Ghoulie-Cola, but then you check it's ingredients and finds out it contains "Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog..." you immediately decides you're NOT thirsty anymore and chucks the can away.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Playing Q Quest will end badly regardless of what number you pick. This is because A: You're told to pick a number between 8 and 14, but no matter what number you pick, you'll land on the skull image, and B: There's only one page you can go to and it leads to an ending where you're turned into a skeleton.
* FoodEatsYou: One of the worst endings in the book sees you getting devoured by ''hot dogs''.
* GiantSquid: There's a water tank in the carnival containing one such creature, which can drag you in via tentacles if you enter the water.
* HereWeGoAgain: You can escape the Carnival, just like in the previous book, but you'll be rewarded with ''Free Passes'' to re-visit the carnival.
* HollywoodAcid: One ending features acidic slugs that burn "you" to death instantly.
* IntercontinuityCrossover: One of the items you can obtain and use is the cursed camera from ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDie'' - you even lampshade that [[RecursiveCanon this reminds you of one from a Goosebump book you read about a haunted camera]].
* RapidAging: Used as a bad ending -- you don't die, but you become really old within seconds.
* SequelEpisode: To ''Literature/EscapeFromTheCarnivalOfHorrors''. You're even the same character from that very book.
* SeriesContinuityError: This book assumes that you followed one particular storyline of ''Literature/EscapeFromTheCarnivalOfHorrors'' and achieved a certain ending (see CuttingOffTheBranches.) However, ''Return'' also refers to several elements of the first book's ''other'' storyline, which "you" are supposed to have encountered when you visited the carnival before -- even though this would be impossible, if you reached the ending that ''Returns'' takes as canon.
* SnakePit: A botched escape from the roller coaster sees you dropping into a dark pit, which is home of a [[TheGreatSerpent kid-devouring giant python]].
* StrippedToTheBone: Losing the Q Quest and you turn into a living skeleton on the spot.

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[[folder: #33: ''It Came from the Internet'']]

* AdmiringTheAbomination: One of the endings sees you, alongside Rachel the hacker girl, capturing the Spyder alive and returning to reality. But then Rachel thinks the Spyder is cute and decides to adopt it.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The Spyder originates as a web program before coming to life, and now intends to infect all humans before helping computers take over the world. In several bad endings, he actually succeeds.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: More than one bad ending have you and your friend Mark turning into Spyders yourself, where you're then assimilated into the Internet to infect more people.
* ComputerVirus: The Spyder, a web-crawler, originates as a sentient, hyper-intelligent virus before gaining a mind of it's own and invading your world through your computer.
* {{Cyberspace}}: One of the sub-plots is set in there, after the Spyder drags you in. You'll need to obtain help from a hacker named Rachel to guide you along; lose her and you'll be stuck in cyberspace with no way out.
* CuttingTheKnot: Defied; you can choose to leave cyberspace by ripping off your virtual reality goggles, but that will just trap you in cyberspace. ''Forever''.
* DigitalAbomination: Spyder, a living computer virus that manifests itself as a spider/octopus hybrid in the real world that leaves toxic slime all around. It bites the main character, causing them to have amnesia.
* EmptyShell: Spending too much time on the Internet will have the Spyder's infection on you completing it's course, turning you into a human-shaped shell. Even if you escape, you won't have your memory, or the ability to move about, and can only spend the rest of your life looking into a monitor screen and drooling like an idiot.
* FourOneNineScam: One ending has you getting a messaging saying the sender can help you win the lottery, if they what they say. Despite this being framed very much like one of these, this ending is presented as good.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The Spyder, for starters, escapes from the Internet and emerged using your computer's monitor as a portal to infect humans with a virus. There's also a bad ending where you accidentally let loose a virtual dog from the Internet who then comes out your monitor and devours you.
* {{Hackette}}: You enlist the help of a hacker girl named Rachel to navigate the web and defeat the Spyder.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** The first of several side-effects from getting bitten by the crawler. You'll lose your memory at a rapid pace, either turning into an EmptyShell or devolving into another sentient virus.
** One of the (ambiguous) endings sees you destroying your computer in a last-ditch attempt at containing the Spyder. It works, but then your mother caught you destroying the computer she just bought you, at which point she declares YouAreGrounded... just as she suddenly hits her head and conveniently forgets everything, right up to the part about destroyed computers.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The best cure of the Spyder virus turns out to be soup made of pig's knuckles, fish heads, sheep's eyeballs, Brussels sprouts, and computer chips. Wait, what's the last one again?
* MadScientist: Dr. Bronstein, the scientist who developed the Spyder program, and unfortunately you'll need to enlist his help in one of the paths. His alignment is ambiguous though - Bronstein could be evil or neutral, depending on the choices you make.
* OctopoidAliens: Variant, but the Spyder is an octopoid sentient virus monster.
* RecursiveCanon: Your character apparently have multiple GYG books in his room, as seen on the front cover (on the right side next to the monitor). A poster depicting the cover of ''Literature/ItsOnlyANightmare'' is also visible behind the monitor.
* SchrodingersGun: When you get infected by a computer virus, you can turn for help either to doctor Bronstein or to a [[GamerChick hacker girl called Rachel]]. In one subplot, they genuinely want to help you, while in another they just want to use you for their evil purposes. In one more subplot, it turns out that the monster that infected you is not actually evil, and the virus can be cured with just a hot bath.
* TooGoodToBeTrue: As it turns out, the Spyder originates from a program you installed for ''free''. Your bestie Mark lampshades that it's "too shady" for a free program, there must be some catch to it.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The first of several side-effects from getting bitten by the crawler. You'll lose your memory at a rapid pace, either turning into an EmptyShell or devolving into another sentient virus.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: One of the items you can obtain and use is the cursed camera from ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDie''

''Hang'' in there! [[note]]You're turned into a craving on a pendant[[/note]]\\

Hope you like ''Heavy Metal''! [''the bad ending where you suffer UnwillingRoboticisation'']\\
Don't let it give you a ''swell'' head! [''one of the BodyHorror moments when your head becomes freakishly huge[[/note]]]