History Literature / MoreAndMoreTalesToGiveYouGoosebumps

* "Something Strange About Marci" - Marci, a strange new girl, has been watching the narrator and his friends at play for some time. He doesn't understand why, and vows to find out just what she's really up to.

* "Fun With Spelling" - Kari discovers a book of spells, and starts using it to make bad things to happen to her enemies.

* "What's Cooking?" - Two kids discover their new summer school is haunted by the ghost of an insane cleaver-wielding lunch lady.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jeffrey decided to use a vacuum cleaner to deweed his front lawn. It worked great for the most part, it sucked the weeds right out, along with the rest of the tulips and dirt in the garden. His best friend, Beth, even points out how stupid that was.

* TomatoSurprise: The story ends with one. The narrator spends the whole story wonder what's up with Marci, why she carries around a strange briefcase, and why she doesn't look like any of his friends. [[spoiler: The twist is that Marci is a human scientist and the narrator and his friends are orangutans.]]

* MagicMirror: This story is about a mirror that lets a reflection switch places with their original.

* BewareOfViciousDog: The final episode of ''Looking Toward Tomorrow'' that Elizabeth watches involves Elinor opening a door and coming face-to-face with a vicious rottweiler, who pounces on her just as the episode ends. Elizabeth almost immediately then hears barking coming from the front door, and she goes to answer it. [[spoiler:That's when the story cuts to the actual main character of the story, with her friend Lisa commenting that she should ''know'' that this trope is about to happen to Elizabeth]].
* EasyAmnesia: Parodied, where someone in a TV show Elizabeth is watching loses her memory, and Elizabeth comments that this only happens on TV.

* BigNo: Tim in lets one out when he is about to be swallowed by a gigantic fish.
* EyeScream: Duke in bothers Tim at the beginning of the story by taking a dead fish and ''plucking it's eye out''. Not only that, but he then '''''puts it into his mouth'''''. Tim is understandably horrified and almost throws up.

* BerserkButton: Shanna in "Stuck in 1957" takes her hair very seriously, and is outraged when her 1957!mom ruins her new look. [[spoiler:Shanna decides she'd rather stay in 1957 since other girls will have hair like her's and she won't seem weird.]]

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* VanityIsFeminine:
** Bonnie-Sue in "Mirror Mirror on the Wall".
** "Stuck in 1957" features a very vain girl who [[spoiler: chooses to return to being trapped in the past, rather than face returning to school with an unflattering haircut]].
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In "Fun With Spelling", Lisa ends up being cursed to the point that she starts burping loudly in class. Even though the teacher, Mr. Pratt, tries to get all the laughing classmates to quiet down, she continues burping so much that he ends up starting to laugh as well.
* AnAesop: "The Haunted Guitar" has one about how cutting corners is bad.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: While fishing with Duke after the old man lets them, Tim is exasperated that they can't find any fish, but then the biggest fish in the lake pops up right in front of them.
-->'''Tim:''' I'm bored. Let's go back. There are no fish out here. That old man doesn't anything about -- FIIIISSSHHH!
* BerserkButton: Shanna in "Stuck in 1957" takes her hair very seriously, and is outraged when her 1957!mom ruins her new look. [[spoiler:Shanna decides she'd rather stay in 1957 since other girls will have hair like her's and she won't seem weird.]]

* BigNo: Tim in "Live Bait" lets one out when he is about to be swallowed by a gigantic fish.
* ContagiousLaughter: The protagonist in "Something Strange About Marci" points out this trope practically by name. When one of his friends starts screeching with laughter, he and the others joined in with her, laughing so hard.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''What's Cooking'' is much more intense than the rest of the stories, as it is basically a slasher movie but toned down a bit for kids.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jeffrey in "The Haunted Guitar" decided to use a vacuum cleaner to deweed his front lawn. It worked great for the most part, it sucked the weeds right out, along with the rest of the tulips and dirt in the garden. His best friend, Beth, even points out how stupid that was.
* DoubleTake: Kari is reading through a spell book that her Aunt Vera had given her as a parting gift, and she looks through the Table of Contents. She reads, "Weather Spells, Love Spells, Beauty Spells, Enemy Spells..." She then stops to reread the "Enemy Spells" part, and she immediately thinks that's cool and focuses on that to try.
* EasyAmnesia: Parodied in "Tune in Tomorrow", where someone in a TV show Elizabeth is watching loses her memory, and Elizabeth comments that this only happens on TV.
* ExactWords: In "The Haunted Guitar", [[spoiler: Jeffrey asks Willy if he can play with his guitar all the time. Willy replies that he can - as he is unable to stop by the time the story ends]].
* EyeScream: Duke in "Live Bait" bothers Tim at the beginning of the story by taking a dead fish and ''plucking it's eye out''. Not only that, but he then '''''puts it into his mouth'''''. Tim is understandably horrified and almost throws up.
* FadeToBlack: "In-universe" on the show ''Looking Toward Tomorrow'' in "Tune In Tomorrow", this happens when Elinor tries to revive her mother and she wakes up, asking who she is.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The narrator of "Something Strange About Marci" says at one point that their friend was "screeching". [[spoiler: Because they are all orangutans]].
* GarlicIsAbhorrent: Kari's Aunt Vera wears a garlic necklace. She says it's to ward off evil spirits.
* {{Ghostwriter}}: Real-life example -- "Fun with Spelling" is confirmed to have been ghostwritten by Carloyn Crimi, who also ghostwrote the ''Literature/GhostsOfFearStreet'' books ''Go To Your Tomb -- Right Now!'' and ''Three Evil Wishes''.
* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of "Matt's Lunch Box", [[spoiler: after Matt gets rid of his monster-occupied lunchbox, he's very unhappy to receive a similarly monster-occupied thermos]].
* InsistentTerminology: Tim in "Live Bait" is constantly teased by Duke that he's afraid of fish. But Tim keeps insisting that he just ''really'' doesn't like fish, that's all.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kari uses the spell book to torment Lisa [=McFly=]. However, even though we have only Kari's insistence that Lisa's awful she never acts ''that'' bad to justify Kari's harassment.
* MagicMirror: "Mirror Mirror On The Wall" is about a mirror that lets a reflection switch places with their original.
* MentalTimeTravel: "Stuck in 1957" is about a girl who finds a pair of glasses that send her to the eponymous year. Only for some reason the girl appears to have a completely separate life in this year, including another family, so it's more like she's been sent into another universe.
* MockingSingSong: When Lisa starts flapping her arms trying to fly (just like the curse Kari had put on her the night before), the class once again laughs and starts chanting, "Lisa [=McFly=] thinks she can fly!"
* NeglectedGarden: The Hodges house in "The Ghost Sitter" has this, with overgrown weeds, which Ray and Mike take as a sign that the house is haunted. [[spoiler: It actually isn't - the Hodge residents are just bad gardeners. It's the house that's right ''next'' to theirs that's haunted]].
* PeopleFallOffChairs: Toby, Kari's best friend, was laughing so hard at Lisa's burping that he fell out of his chair.

* ShowWithinAShow: "Tune in Tomorrow" ends with the reveal that [[spoiler: it's about a girl watching a TV show called "Life with Elizabeth"]].
* SoftGlass: In "Tune In Tomorrow", Elinor from ''Looking Toward Tomorrow'' is startled by the chime of a clock and drops her glass cup on the ground, sending shards of glass flying everywhere. The narration even points out that Elinor somehow wasn't hurt. Elizabeth immediately responds the same way right afterwards, even touching glass shards on the floor, but also is unhurt.
* SoMuchForStealth: Marci is trying to follow the protagonist, but he's alerted to her when she steps on a twig and coughs behind him.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: In "What's Cooking?", saying the evil ghost's cruel nickname -- Chop Suey -- three times is enough to summon her. [[spoiler: Then inverted by saying it in reverse (as "Suey Chop") three times, which sends her back away]].
* SpitefulSpit: Part of the ritual in "Fun With Spelling" is spitting into a jar with a note expressing your hatred for the victim you are about to curse.

* TomatoSurprise: "Something Strange About Marci" ends with one. The narrator spends the whole story wonder what's up with Marci, why she carries around a strange briefcase, and why she doesn't look like any of his friends. [[spoiler: The twist is that Marci is a human scientist and the narrator and his friends are orangutans.]]
* TotallyRadical: Shanna's 90s lingo puts her at odds with 1950s sensibilities during "Stuck in 1957," though she thankfully doesn't overdo it.
* VanityIsFeminine:
** Bonnie-Sue in "Mirror Mirror on the Wall".
** "Stuck in 1957" features a very vain girl who [[spoiler: chooses to return to being trapped in the past, rather than face returning to school with an unflattering haircut]].
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Tim says this almost word for word when he sees that the only boat he and Duke can use in the lake is very conspicuous looking.

* EyeScream: Duke in "Live Bait" bothers Tim at the beginning of the story by taking a dead fish and ''plucking it's eye out''. Not only that, but he then '''''puts it into his mouth'''''. Tim is understandibly horrified and almost throws up.

* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: While fishing with Duke after the old man lets them, and they can't find any fish, but then the biggest fish in the lake pops up right in front of them.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Tim says this almost word for word when the only boat that he and Duke can use in the lake is very conspicuous looking.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In "Fun With Spelling", Lisa ends up being cursed to the point that she starts burping loudly in class. Even though the teacher, Mr. Pratt, tries to get all the laughing classmates to quiet down, she continues burping so much that he ends uo starting to laugh as well.

* BigScaryDog: The final episode of ''Looking Toward Tomorrow'' that Elizabeth watches involves Elinor opening a door and coming face-to-face with a vicious rottweiler, who pounces on her just as the episode ends. Elizabeth almost immediately then hears barking coming from the front door, and she goes to answer it. [[spoiler:That's when the story cuts to the actual main character of the story, with her friend Lisa commenting taht she should ''know'' that this trope is about to happen to Elizabeth]].

* ExactWords: In "The Haunted Guitar", [[spoiler: Jeffrey asks Willy if he can play with his guitar all the time. Willy replies that he can- as he is unable to stop by the time the story ends]].

* InsistentTerminology: Tim in "Live Bait" is constantly teased by Duke that he's afraid of fish. But Tim keeps insisting that he just ''really'' doesn't like fish, hat's all.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Tim says this almost word for word when the only boat that eh and Duke can use in the lake is very conspicuous looking.

** "Stuck in 1957" features a very vain girl who [[spoiler: chooses to return to being trapped in the past, rather than face returning to school with an unflattering haircut]].

* "The Haunted Guitar" - When Jeffry steals a guitar from a burned-out store, he discovers too late that it's haunted.

* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of "Matt's Lunch Box", after Matt gets rid of his monster-occupied lunchbox, he's very unhappy to receive a similarly monster-occupied thermos.

* ShowWithinAShow: "Tune in Tomorrow" ends with the reveals that [[spoiler: it's about a girl watching a TV show called "Life with Elizabeth"]].
* SpeakOfTheDevil: In "What's Cooking?", saying the evil ghost's cruel nickname -- Chop Suey -- three times is enough to summon her. Then inverted by saying it in reverse (as "Suey Chop") three times, which sends her back away.

* TimeTravelEpisode: "Stuck in 1957" is exactly what it sounds like -- a girl who gets sent back in time to 1957.

** Bonnie-Sue in the short story "Mirror Mirror on the Wall".