History Literature / StillMoreTalesToGiveYouGoosebumps

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The ants that are referred to in the title become this. [[spoiler: They're the size of humans by the end and put the humans inside their own farm]].[[note]]In the tv episode, the character lives in a world where ants are [[Kaiju the size of mountains]] and the dominant species on the planet.[[/note]]

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The ants that are referred to in the title become this. [[spoiler: They're the size of mountains by the end]].

"[[Recap/GoosebumpsS3E6AnOldStory An Old Story]]" and "[[Recap/GoosebumpsS3E15AwesomeAnts Awesome Ants]]" were adapted into episodes of the third season of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].

* LongTitle: The recipe that Charlie and Frank get the titular "Pumpkin Juice" from is jotted down in a book called ''Monster Brews to Bring Out the Best In You For Halloween''.

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!!The episode adaptations provide examples of:

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The ending to "Awesome Ants" is mostly the same, [[spoiler: with the protagonist waking up from his "nightmare" about [[BigCreepyCrawlies supersized ants]] to find that [[PersecutionFlip giant ants keep humans in town-sized vivaria]]. However, in the book this is explicitly meant to be karmic since it resulted from the food pellets that the boy gave them, and the ants kept growing until they took over. In the episode, it's more of a TomatoSurprise since it's indicated that ants have always been the dominant species on Earth, and he was really just dreaming about a role reversal]].
* AdaptationalJobChange: In the short story of "Awesome Ants", Mr. Lantz is a science teacher but in the episode, he's an exterminator.
* AllJustADream: Zigzagged in "Awesome Ants". [[spoiler:The protagonist's experience turns suspiciously nightmarish as the town is suddenly abandoned, there is a storm outside, and the ants are growing to ever-bigger proportions. Just before he gets killed by one, he wakes up at home and all seems fine. Then he gradually remembers the reality of the situation: in the real world ants are actually mountain-sized, and keep humans secluded in the human equivalent of ant farms and force them to survive on small pellets of blue food. In the book the ants just grew that big rather than always having been so.]]
* DemBones: [[spoiler: The result of Dahlia's exposure to her own prune juice in "An Old Story". She turns into a skeleton (a representation of the monster she truly is) an then turns to dust]].
* EccentricExterminator: Mr. Lantz in the episode adaptation of "Awesome Ants" is ''way'' too into his work, hunting bugs with steely determination and gleeful enjoyment, admiring the ants for their craftiness. He calls the protagonist a liar for claiming the ants from his ant farm grew to 3 inches, larger than any real life ants. [[spoiler: Subverted at the end when everything turns out to be a dream, and giant ants rule the Earth. Mr. Lance reflects how things might have been different for humans, and warns the protagonist not to let the ants know that he dreamed that it was Mr. Lantz's job to kill them.]]
* KnowWhentoFoldEm: Once Dahlia bites the dust, her friends are quick to make themselves scarce.
* TransformationDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: In the end, Jon turns back into a baby off screen by eating a jar of baby food, an antidote for Aunt Dahlia's magical prunes.]]

* EccentricExterminator: Mr. Lantz in the episode adaptation of "Awesome Ants" is ''way'' too into his work, hunting bugs with steely determination and gleeful enjoyment, admiring the ants for their craftiness. He calls the protagonist a liar for claiming the ants from his ant farm grew to 3 inches, larger than any real life ants. [[spoiler: Subverted at the end when everything turns out to be a dream, and giant ants rule the Earth. Mr. Lance reflects how things might have been different for humans, and warns the protagonist not to let the ants know that he dreamed that it was Mr. Lantz's job to kill them.]]

* "Pumpkin Juice" - Two boys discover a recipe for a drunk that turns them into hungry beasts.

* BigBrotherBully: Eugene to Max shown here.

* GetOut: A confused Max in keeps going to places in his town, but at first the adults he meets take one look at him and scream, yelling at him to go away. Max is quite dumbfounded by this. [[spoiler: It's actually because he's the only child left on Earth, and the adults haven't seen a child in so long and think he's a freak]].
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Max is being chased down by a crowd of angry adults, and he finally comes across Ms. Greenway's pet store. After much pleading and begging, she soothingly tells him to calm down, and lets him inside to seemingly protect him. But it turns out she was intentionally making him let his guard down so she could let the crowd in and catch him]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Dahlia's own prunes end up causing her own demise when one of the boys douses her in an emergency prune juice]].

* LateForSchool: Darleen and her two friends in run into this problem at the beginning of the story. They end up late, and have to be held after school.

* AllJustADream: Most of the events in "The Goblin's Glare" turns out to be [[spoiler: the Goblin's dream]].

* SinisterScrapingSound: And in "The Space Suit Snatcher", Laura hears a scratching sound at her bedroom window, and looks to see an ugly alien scratching the window and staring back at her. [[spoiler: It was actually her sister in disguise for a prank]].

* AdultFear: This short story presents readers with the premise of an elderly witch disguised as a loving, yet eccentric spinster aunt who physically ages her two young nephews with prunes to pimp them out to her equally elderly female friends for marriage.

* AdultFear: This story has one when Sarah is nearly an hour late to meet her parents for lunch while they're in a theme park. They chide her for making them wait, but it's obviously AngerBornOfWorry despite her parents saying they were having trouble entertaining her spoiled little sister Katie. Sarah wisely decides not to tell them that the Cuddle Bear employees nearly kidnapped her [[spoiler: and wanted her to become a bear]].

* AdultFear:
** "An Old Story" presents readers with the premise of an elderly witch disguised as a loving, yet eccentric spinster aunt who physically ages her two young nephews with prunes to pimp them out to her equally elderly female friends for marriage.
** "Please Don't Feed The Bears" has one when Sarah is nearly an hour late to meet her parents for lunch while they're in a theme park. They chide her for making them wait, but it's obviously AngerBornOfWorry despite her parents saying they were having trouble entertaining her spoiled little sister Katie. Sarah wisely decides not to tell them that the Cuddle Bear employees nearly kidnapped her [[spoiler: and wanted her to become a bear]].
* AdultsAreUseless: The parents in "The Wish" do nothing about Eugene's bullying.
* AllJustADream: "The Goblin's Glare" turns out to be [[spoiler: the Goblin's dream]].
* AnimatedTattoo: The short story "Attack of the Tattoo" has a kid dealing with an evil one, naturally.
* AndCallHimGeorge: When Tom and Jon's mother finds out that a woman pretended to be the boys' aunt and she left them in her care, she tearfully hugs her sons so tight, she almost choked them to death.
* BatterUp: A clerk at a grocery store in "The Wish" grabs a bat when he sees Max and chases him down with it in his hand.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The short story "The Wish" has Max wishing he was an only child. [[spoiler: He becomes the only child ''on Earth''.]]
* BigBrotherBully: Eugene to Max in "The Wish".
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The ants become this in "Awesome Ants". [[spoiler: They're the size of mountains by the end]].
* BilingualBonus: In-Universe example. Laura in "The Space Suit Snatcher" signs off every space broadcast with "Peace to all" in different languages, so the aliens can figure it out for themselves. In her final one, she says it in Spanish.
* CrackOhMyBack: Jon in "An Old Story" says along the lines of this when he walks into the kitchen the first day after eating prune cookies.
* CruelTwistEnding: "The Wish" ends when Max wishes he was an only child, due to his abusive older brother. [[spoiler: He becomes the only child on Earth.]]
* DoubleTake: In "Attack Of The Tattoo", a boy in Jeannie's class does this when he looks at her snake tattoo. He even does a DramaticDrop with the ball he was playing with when he sees the tattoo.
* EccentricExterminator: Mr. Lantz in "Awesome Ants" is ''way'' too into his work, hunting bugs with steely determination and gleeful enjoyment, admiring the ants for their craftiness. He calls the protagonist a liar for claiming the ants from his ant farm grew to 3 inches, larger than any real life ants. [[spoiler: Subverted at the end when everything turns out to be a dream, and giant ants rule the Earth. Mr. Lance reflects how things might have been different for humans, and warns the protagonist not to let the ants know that he dreamed that it was Mr. Lantz's job to kill them.]]
* EvilOldFolks: "An Old Story" is about an older woman that's actually a witch who ages up and kidnaps children to sell into marriage to other old people who ''know'' they're getting married to children.
* ExactWords:
** "The Wish" features Max not wishing his brother Eugene was gone, but that Max was an only child. [[spoiler:He's now literally the ONLY child on Earth.]]
** "Bats About Bats" features a girl who repeatedly mentions she plans to be a bat scientist just like her parents. [[spoiler:As in, she plans to be like her parents who are scientists that are also bats.]]
* FightForTheLastBite: When Tom in "An Old Story" sees his brother eating the last of the the Oreos, he fights him for it and snatches it away. Even though he's disgusted to find that it's half-eaten and has slobber over it, he ''still eats it'' because he was so hungry.
* FingerWag: [[spoiler: At the end of "The Wish", Max is being carried away by a crowd of adults, and he sees that one of them is the old woman from yesterday who gave him the rock. She had it in her hand, and she was doing this trope as they locked eyes, which was her way of telling him IWarnedYou]].
* GetOut: A confused Max in "The Wish" keeps going to places, but at first the adults he meets take one look at him and scream, yelling at him to go away. Max is quite dumbfounded by this. [[spoiler: It's actually because he's the only child left on Earth, and the adults haven't seen a child in so long and think he's a freak]].

* HopeSpot: In "The Wish", [[spoiler: Max is being chased down by a crowd of angry adults, and he finally comes across Ms. Greenway's pet store. After much pleading and begging, she soothingly tells him to calm down, and lets him inside to seemingly protect him. But it turns out she was intentionally making him let his guard down so she could let the crowd in and catch him]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "An Old Story", Dahlia's own prunes end up causing her own demise when one of the boys douses her in an emergency prune juice.
* ICantHearYou: When Tom in "An Old Story" notices a bald spot appearing on Jon's head, he tries to tell him about it, but Jon replies that he can't hear him and cups his ear to hear better.
* IGotARock: In "Pumpkin Juice", Charlie in his monstrous state goes to a house while trick-or-treating, and is outraged that the person at the front door is handing him a lollipop. So he pushes him aside to break in the house to eat raw eggs.
** And in "The Wish", the old woman gives Max an actual rock, but he's so frightened by her appearance and behavior that he just accepts it. It actually turns out to be much more than that.
* ImprobableAntidote: In "An Old Story", the boys discover by chance that the only thing that reverses the effects of Dahlia's prunes is baby food. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, in the TV episode twist, one of the boys overindulged and became a baby, so his brother has to use a little of the magic prune to age him back up to normal]].
* JawDrop: Jeannie in "Attack Of The Tattoo" has this reaction when she goes to school the morning after she got rid of the tattoo and [[spoiler: sees that all the students there have tattoos like her own]].
* KarmicTwistEnding: The short story "Please Don't Feed the Bears" has this for the main character's bratty little sister. At Cuddle Bear Land, Sarah was nearly turned into a Cuddle Bear when a cast member gives her enchanted graham crackers. When she freaks out on finding some in her bag, [[spoiler: she decides to keep it in case a lab can analyze it. After she and her family return home, Katie sneaks into her room and gobbles up the whole bag. Sarah, realizing there's nothing to be done, decides to enjoy her new Cuddle Bear]].
* LateForSchool: Darleen and her two friends in "The Scarecrow" run into this problem at the beginning of the story. They end up late, and have to be held after school.

* NothingButSkinAndBones: The sinister woman in "The Wish" has this appearance. Max describes it in detail, and he's pretty unnerved by the sight of it all.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: "The Goblin's Glare" features a papier-mâché goblin coming to life.
* PajamaCladHero: Jeannie in "Attack Of The Tattoo" disposes of all the snake monsters at night while only wearing her nightgown.
* ParentalNeglect: The parents in "An Old Story" are so busy that they often leave their kids at home alone, which gives Dahlia the chance to come in pretending to be their aunt and enact her plan. Unlike some of the other examples, they do at least show regret once they figure out what happened.
* PassingNotesInClass: Students in Laura's class in "The Space Suit Snatcher" do this to let each other know what costumes they're wearing for Halloween.
* PersecutionFlip: The short story "Awesome Ants" is about a boy who wins an ant vivaria in a contest but starts overfeeding them, which results in the ants growing to massive sizes. At the end, he wakes up to find that ants have taken over the earth and secluded humans in their own vivaria. The TV episode based on this story was even weirder; it's said that ants have *always* been the dominant species, so the boy was really dreaming about a Persecution Flip [[InvertedTrope inversion]].
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: In "The Wish", when Max is grabbed by the old woman he's visiting and he demands she let go, to which she replies, "You-Are-Not-Going-Anywhere."
* RapidAging: The plot of "An Old Story" involves two boys being rapidly aged via magical prune juice so they can be sold as bridegrooms to elderly women.
* ScaryScarecrows: "The Scarecrow" features a mysterious scarecrow that apparently comes to life.
* SinisterScrapingSound: Dave in "Awesome Ants" arrives at his classroom, only to find the whole room empty except him. He then hears a mysterious scratching sound coming from a closet in the back. He opens it to find a gigantic ant.
** And in "The Space Suit Snatcher", Laura hears a scratching sound at her bedroom window, and looks to see an ugly alien scratching the window and staring back at her. [[spoiler: It was actually her sister in disguise for a prank]].

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The ending to "Awesome Ants" is mostly the same, with the protagonist waking up from his "nightmare" about [[BigCreepyCrawlies supersized ants]] to find that [[PersecutionFlip giant ants keep humans in town-sized vivaria]]. However, in the book this is explicitly meant to be karmic since it resulted from the food pellets that the boy gave them, and the ants kept growing until they took over. In the episode, it's more of a TomatoSurprise since it's indicated that ants have always been the dominant species on Earth, and he was really just dreaming about a role reversal.

* DemBones: The result of Dahlia's exposure to her own prune juice in "An Old Story". She turns into a skeleton (a representation of the monster she truly is) an then turns to dust.

* AndCallHimGeorge: When Tom and Jon's mother finds out that a woman pretended to be the boys' aunt and she left them in her care, she hugs her sons so tight, she practically choked theme to death.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The short story "The Wish" has someone wishing they were an only child. [[spoiler: They become the only child ''on Earth''.]]

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The ants become this in "Awesome Ants". They're the size of mountains by the end.

* ImprobableAntidote: In "An Old Story", the boys discover by chance that the only thing that reverses the effects of Dahlia's prunes is baby food. Unfortunately, in the twist, one of the boys overindulged and became a baby.

* DemBones: The result of Dahlia's exposure to her own prune juice in "An Old Story". Then she turns to ash.

* AllJustADream: Zigzagged in "Awesome Ants". [[spoiler:The protagonist's experience turns suspiciously nightmarish as the town is suddenly abandoned, there is a storm outside, and the ants are growing to ever-bigger proportions. Just before he gets killed by one, he wakes up at home and all seems fine. Then he gradually remembers the reality of the situation: in the real world ants are actually mountain-sized, and keep humans secluded in the human equivalent of ant farms and force them to survive on small pellets of blue food. In the book the ants just grew that big rather than always having been so.]]

* DemBones: The result of Dahlia's exposure to her own prune juice. Then she turns to ash.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dahlia's own prunes end up causing her own demise when one of the boys douses her in an emergency prune juice.
* ImprobableAntidote: In ''An Old Story'', the boys discover by chance that the only thing that reverses the effects of Dahlia's prunes is baby food. Unfortunately, in the twist, one of the boys overindulged and became a baby.

* HalloweenEpisode: All of the short stories in this book are set around Halloween, or at least mention it. The only that doesn't is ''An Old Story''.

* EccentricExterminator: Mr. Lance in "Awesome Ants" is ''way'' too into his work, hunting bugs with steely determination and gleeful enjoyment, admiring the ants for their craftiness. He calls the protagonist a liar for claiming the ants from his ant farm grew to 3 inches, larger than any real life ants. [[spoiler: Subverted at the end when everything turns out to be a dream, and giant ants rule the Earth. Mr. Lance reflects how things might have been different for humans, and warns the protagonist not to let the ants know that he dreamed that it was Mr. Lance's job to kill them.]]
* HalloweenEpisode: All of the short stories in this book are set around Halloween.