History Literature / GhostBeach

* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler: After escaping from the ghost kids, Jerry and Terri find out their uncle and aunt are ghosts too, and it is heavily implied that Brad and Agatha will kill them to keep their secret]].

* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler: After escaping from the ghost kids, the kids find out their uncle and aunt are ghosts too. Ghosts that will do anything to keep their secret...]]

* BolivianArmyEnding: The book ends with the only characters left alive (aside from Harrison's dog) being cornered by Brad and Agatha with no way out. Though when asked about the ending in an author interview years later in the Classic series reprint about what happened to them, R. L. Stine replied [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow "Yuck. Let's not talk about it. I'm getting ready to eat lunch!"]]. Suffice to say, it wasn't pretty.

* BolivianArmyEnding: The book ends with the only characters left alive (aside from Harrison's dog) being cornered by Brad and Agatha with no way out.

* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler: The kids find out their uncle and aunt are ghosts too.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Immediately following the more campy ''Go Eat Worms'', this book is far bleaker with a gloomy setting and outlook of tragedy, as well as [[spoiler:a truly dire ending for everyone, with Jerry and Terri betrayed and cornered by their undead relatives, the ghostly Sadlers sealed away in a cave, and Old Harrison dying in a vain attempt to trap them.]]

It was adapted into [[Recap/GoosebumpsS2E9GhostBeach the ninth episode of the second season]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 13 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.

The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book where ghosts haunt a beach.

* TickleTorture: Terri does this to Jerry one night as part of teasing him. He manages to restrain her and [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine give her the same treatment]], and he actually wins.

It was adapted into the ninth episode of the second season of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 13 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.

!!The TV episode provides examples of:

* AdaptedOut: Nat is removed.
* DutchAngle: The TV episode uses this filming method extensively, notably towards the ending [[spoiler: when Brad and Agatha reveal themselves to be ghosts]].
* JacobMarleyApparel / AntiquatedLinguistics: Both averted. [[spoiler: Sam and Louisa were dead for 300-some years but they wear contemporary 1990s-style attire rather than whatever they wore while they were alive. They also speak contemporary English, too. Perhaps they learned to blend in by observing other kids who had visited over the years]].
* WhamShot: Jerry and Terri saw something creepy while walking up a beach, with the camera closing in on Jerry's ReactionShot, before panning down to reveal a half-buried dog skeleton in the sand.

* KillEmAll: Possibly, given that the book ends with the only characters left alive (aside from Harrison's dog) being cornered by Brad and Agatha with no way out.

* DreamIntro: A slight variation as the opening with them in a graveyard turns out to be a [[spoiler: daydream of him reflecting on a dream he had a while ago.]]
* EverybodyDiesEnding: Yes, really.[[spoiler: The Sadler cousins have been DeadAllAlong, Harrison is buried in the cave along with them, Agatha and Brad are ghosts as well, and the ending strongly implies Jerry and Terri are about to join them.]]
* EvilDetectingDog: Dogs are killed by ghosts because they reveal their nature, and in the ending [[spoiler: the protagonists' dog gives it away that their aunt and uncle are ghosts too.]]
* ExactWords: The Sadler cousins confront Jerry and Terri if they killed the ghost in the cave. They tell them they didn't, to which Sam suspiciously asks them how they got away. Terri replies that she and him ran away. Jerry notes that was almost the truth, omitting the fact that they only did so because [[spoiler: Harrison actually let them run away without attacking them and revealing the truth about the Sadler ghost]].

* JacobMarleyApparel / AntiquatedLinguistics: Both averted. Sam and Louisa were dead for 300-some years but they wear contemporary 1990s-style attire rather than whatever they wore while they were alive. They also speak contemporary English, too. Perhaps they learned to blend in by observing other kids who had visited over the years.