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Nightmare Fuel / Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps

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The book provides examples of:

  • "The Chalk Closet" has a ridiculous title, sure, but then comes the moment where Travis realizes he did poorly on the exam and is going to be the sent to the aforementioned room by Mr. Grimsley. The scary part comes from the fact that Travis's classmates are all equally scared for him, but they're even more scared that they might get sent in as well, so they act as if nothing is happening, even as Travis is pleading for help.
  • In "The Perfect School", troublesome kids are sent to a reform school. Turns out the school kidnaps the students and replaces them with "perfect" robots to send back to the parents. The Stepford Wives, anyone? The protagonist succeeds in going back home. Oh sure, he managed to not get captured and replaced by a robot, but his parents expect a perfect robot, so now he has to spend the rest of his life — or until he can move out — being absolutely perfect, for fear he'll get found out and sent back... In the TV show it's a bit better, because his parents weren't expecting a robot, so he can act at least decent, and he's trying to break the other kids out.

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  • "The Haunted House Game". Two children, Nadine and Johnathan, become trapped inside a Jumanji-esque haunted game after investigating a haunted house for a girl's missing cat. When they narrowly avoid various tarps and deaths inside the game, they are blocked by two evil ghosts who try to stop them from winning and escaping. They brag that any player who dies inside the game becomes a new game piece. And them show them 20 whole game set pieces that are previous child victims of the game. Luckily, Johnathan and Nadine survive and escape but then the episode's Here We Go Again! ending shows the haunted board game appearing set up once again inside the house awaiting new victims and the little girl telling two new children that her cat has gone missing inside the haunted house. All while smiling evilly while the children go inside to look...

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