History Literature / MoreAndMoreAndMoreTalesToGiveYouGoosebumps

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Generally, one should not let your older siblings be taken into unsafe and unfair working conditions where you will never see them again. However, Spenser and Beth have spent the whole story bullying Diana and making her miserable. They also found out Santa Claus was real, even though they told her he wasn't. [[spoiler: Diana finds them with Santa's elves, with the elf asking if she's their sister. Diana parrots their words that the twins have always said she's not their sister, and doesn't even need a DeathGlare to sell it. To top it all off, she cheerfully tells the elves to mention to Santa she was good this year. Isn't karma a bitch?]]

* FauxHorrific: Beth finds the Susie Snowflake antics, along with her family starting to talk like her, to be terrifyingly unbearable. However, considering that her family is starting to ''transform'' like Susie Snowflake, the horror is quite understandable.

* BullyingADragon:[[spoiler: Mrs. Spooner thought that she was the one with the dark secret, she discovers too late just how wrong she really is]]

* BullyinADragon:[[spoiler: Mrs. Spooner thought that she was the one with the dark secret, she was very much wrong]]

* GotMeDoingIt: Beth is not pleased to find that the enchanted Holly Jolly Holiday videotape is affecting her as well; when she resists her father's sugar cookies, she says, "Oh, dearie me!" She then gasps as she realized what she had said, and then sees herself in the mirror to realize that she's changing, too.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Jack Frost doesn't seem to care that he's freezing Jared up with their incessant playtime in the snow. Then again, Jared every time he returns to Jack Frost's realm doesn't seem to be the worse for wear.

* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Rachel and Wynona are identical twins whom have been hired as skiing instructors. They decide to lie that Wynona was sick and couldn't make it, so they can alternate teaching the kids as the other twin gets to ski for free rather than the two of them getting a free skiing day just once. It backfires when someone starts playing pranks on them, and they suspect an obnoxious camper named Bobby Judd. [[spoiler: It turns out Bobby is a ghost who lures identical twins into dangerous, usually fatal skiing races]].

* KickTheDog: Bobby Judd runs on this. He spends most of the skiing class harassing Rachel and Wynonna, and nearly getting them killed with his stunts. [[spoiler: The camp director reveals he's a ghost that tries to murder twins, due to the fact that he spent his last moments racing his twin sister]].

* AdultFear: It's revealed that Sam's parents are away while an intruder is trying to break into their house. Said intruder nearly grabs his older sister.

* AdultFear: Jared's mother has this reaction when she notices that he's dressed in thick layers in the middle of Arizona summer. She takes his temperature and sends him to bed. [[spoiler: Then we learn that she wasn't even real]].

* AdultFear: Spenser and Beth's mother comes to take Diana home while they're sledding, and she says they can stay out for a little longer. As it gets dark, they end up kidnapped. Who knows what she thought when they never made it home.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Susie Snowflake on the videocassette. While she does brainwash the family and compel them to watch her holiday special on loop, they don't actually do anything evil. Part of the humor of the story is that Beth finds her parents and sister calling each other "dearie" to be more horrifying than anything else.

* BadSanta: Santa Claus is no jolly man that is NiceToTheWaiter. He sentences the kids, mistaking them for runaway elves, to eighteen-hour shifts for two years as punishment, and then maybe they'll have vacation if they behave. Beth and Spenser have to point out that they are real kids and they have a home with loving parents for him to even consider that they might be telling the truth. Even then, Santa tells the elves holding Beth and Spenser captive that the kids get one chance to prove their real identity but if they're lying? It's back to the North Pole, for life. [[spoiler: This is what happens.]]

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: When checking on her father, whom she sent into the den to try and snap her mther and daughter out of their trance, Beth hears him say, "In hear, dearie." Upon hearing him call him "dearie", which is what Susie and her brainwashed family called each other, Beth immediately realizes that he's been changed by the movie as well.

* EasilyForgiven: PlayedWith. While under the influence of the skates that turned him into a monster, Max gets very physical with his friend Steve during a game. Max slams him hard to the ground and shakes him while on the ground, which angers and upsets Steve. After he managed to leave the rink and take the skates off, turning him back to normal, Max goes back to Steve to apologize. Even though Steve accepts it and offers to skate with him more later, he still seems quite taken aback from him, an Max seriously wonders if he had just lost his best friend forever.

* BaitTheDog: Zigzagged with Jack Frost. On the one hand, he does start with harmless snow fun with Jared, and always lets him return to the cabin to rest if he needs it. Then the games become more dangerous, with Jack trying to bury Jared alive in the snow and sledding off steep cliffs. [[spoiler: Jack reveals at the end of the story that this is just normal with him and Jared, and says pityingly that their new ornament must have given him bad dreams to make him forget]]

* CutAndPasteSuburb: Jared notes that his house as well as all the others in his new neighborhood in Arizona have flat roofs , are painted pale pink. and look like ugly shoe boxes. Jared thinks that this looks wrong.

* MindScrew: [[spoiler: It is revealed that Jared wasn't a boy in Arizona dreaming about Jack Frost; Jack reveals that Jared is his roommate and was dreaming about Arizona. the ornament in his tree was the house in Arizona where Jared dreamed about moving]].

* GoshDangItToHeck: When demanding to her brainwashed family to get the Susie Snowflake videocassette out of the VCR and destroy, Beth's family says they will if she can tell them what are the magic words, and Beth struggles to remember what it is[[note]]the correct answer is "Pretty-bitty please with Christmas trees!"[[/note]]. After a few failed attempts with wrong answers, Beth tries to curse, but only can say, "Oh, sugar cookies!" The text lampshades that she didn't intend to utter it.

* BaitTheDog: Zigzagged with Jack Frost. On the one hand, he does start with harmless snow fun with Jared, and always lets him return to the cabin to rest if he needs it. Then the games become more dangerous, with Jack trying to bury Jared alive in the snow and sledding off steep cliffs. Jack reveals at the end of the story that this is just normal with him and Jared, and says pityingly that their new ornament must have given him bad dreams to make him forget.

* AdultFear: It's revealed that Sam's parents are away while an intruder is trying to break into their house. Said intruder nearly grabs his little sister.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Sam finds out the ice vampire is attacking his older sister. He pulls her inside and bars the door while making sure she's not frostbitten.

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: Beth gets a tape of The Krusher that Jodie says is from the Christmas Shoppe, implying the family will turn into wrestlers]].

* GotMeDoingIt: Beth is not pleased to find that the enchanted Holly Jolly Holiday videotape is affecting her as well; she tries cursing and says, "Oh sugar cookies!" The text lampshades that she didn't intend to utter it.

* AdultFear: Jared's mother has this reaction when she notices that he's dressed in thick layers in the middle of Arizona summer. She takes his temperature and sends him to bed. Then we learn that she wasn't even real.