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[[folder: ''Slappyworld'' #14: ''Fifth Grade Zombies'' (5 tropes)]]



[[folder: ''Judy and the Beast'' (4 tropes)]]

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[[folder: ''Slappyworld'' #15: ''Judy and the Beast'' (4 tropes)]]



[[folder: ''Slappy in Dreamland'' (2 tropes)]]

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[[folder: ''Slappyworld'' #16: ''Slappy in Dreamland'' (2 tropes)]]



[[folder: ''Haunting with the Stars'' (2 tropes)]]

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[[folder: ''Slappyworld'' #17: ''Haunting with the Stars'' (2 tropes)]]



[[folder: ''Slappy, Beware!'' (8 tropes)]]

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[[folder: ''Slappyworld'' #SP: ''Slappy, Beware!'' (8 tropes)]]



[[folder: ''Night of the Squawker!'' (3 tropes)]]

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[[folder: ''Slappyworld'' #18: ''Night of the Squawker!'' (3 tropes)]]



[[folder: ''Friiight Night!'' (9 tropes)]]

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[[folder: ''Slappyworld'' #19: ''Friiight Night!'' (9 tropes)]]

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* As of 02/13/23, everything but the later ''Slappyworld'' books has its own page.

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* As of 02/13/23, everything but the later 03/02/24, all extant books up to ''Slappyworld'' books has its #13, plus ''House of Shivers'' #1, have their own page.
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!!''Slappyworld'' books:

[[folder: Fifth ''Fifth Grade Zombies]]Zombies'' (5 tropes)]]



* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Todd spends most of the book trying to avoiding the zombies, even when they try to turn him. [[spoiler: But in the end, he agrees to become a zombie, as long as they let him in their band.]]

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Todd spends most of the book trying to avoiding avoid the zombies, even when they try to turn him. [[spoiler: But in the end, he agrees to become a zombie, as long as they let him in their band.]]



* LostInTheMaize: At one point, Mila drags outside to see the Harvest Moon, and he winds up getting lost in the cornfield, where he starts seeing signs of the zombie kids.

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* LostInTheMaize: At one point, Mila drags Todd outside to see the Harvest Moon, and he winds up getting lost in the cornfield, where he starts seeing signs of the zombie kids.



[[folder: Judy and the Beast]]

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[[folder: Judy ''Judy and the Beast]]Beast'' (4 tropes)]]



* CoversAlwaysLie: The blurb on the back claims the story is set in Winter, when it is actually Spring.

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* CoversAlwaysLie: The blurb on the back claims the story is set in Winter, winter, when it is it's actually Spring.spring.



* ChekhovsHobby: Judy has a bad habit of whistling when she is nervous. [[spoiler: This helps when it turns out the beast hates whistling.]]

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* ChekhovsHobby: Judy has a bad habit of whistling when she is she's nervous. [[spoiler: This helps when it turns out the beast hates whistling.]]



[[folder: Slappy in Dreamland]]

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[[folder: Slappy ''Slappy in Dreamland]]
Dreamland'' (2 tropes)]]



[[folder: Haunting with the Stars]]

* MultipleHeadCase: Every alien on the planet has two heads.

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[[folder: Haunting ''Haunting with the Stars]]

Stars'' (2 tropes)]]

* MultipleHeadCase: Every alien on the planet has two heads.



[[folder: Slappy, Beware!]]

* ContinuityNod: Slappy says he is a "baaaaad boy" a few times, a likely reference to how he said it in [[Literature/GoosebumpsHorrorLand Revenge of the Living Dummy]].
* ChristmasEpisode: Part is set around Christmas time, with someone getting Slappy as a gift.

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[[folder: Slappy, Beware!]]

''Slappy, Beware!'' (8 tropes)]]

* ContinuityNod: Slappy says he is a "baaaaad boy" a few times, a likely reference to how he said it in [[Literature/GoosebumpsHorrorLand ''[[Literature/GoosebumpsHorrorLand Revenge of the Living Dummy]].Dummy]]''.
* ChristmasEpisode: Part the book is set around Christmas time, with someone getting Slappy as a gift.



* OriginsEpisode: The 2nd one for Slappy, with the first part being dedicated to exploring it further.

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* OriginsEpisode: The 2nd second one for Slappy, with the first part being dedicated to exploring it further. further.



[[folder: Night of the Squawker!]]

* AbusiveParents: It turns out that the parents [[spoiler: has been using Power Juice to turn their kids into birds against the will, just because they longed to be birds]].
* ForcedTransformation: A random bite from a bird causes Anna's to start transforming into a bird.

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[[folder: Night ''Night of the Squawker!]]

Squawker!'' (3 tropes)]]

* AbusiveParents: It turns out that the parents [[spoiler: has have been using Power Juice to turn their kids into birds against the will, just because they longed ''they'' long to be birds]].
* ForcedTransformation: A random bite from a bird causes Anna's Anna to start transforming into a bird. bird.






[[folder: Friiight Night!]]

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[[folder: Friiight Night!]]
''Friiight Night!'' (9 tropes)]]



* WeirdTradeUnion: While it's not directly confirms, Charlene's Mom says at one point that she thinks the school monsters have a union.

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* WeirdTradeUnion: While it's not directly confirms, confirmed, Charlene's Mom says at one point that she thinks the school monsters have a union.
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* MultipleHeadCase: Every alien on the planet has two heads.



* ContinuityNod: Slappy says he is a "baaaaad boy" a few times, a likely reference to how he said it in [[Literature/GoosebumpsHorrorLand Revenge of the Living Dummy]].
* ChristmasEpisode: Part is set around Christmas time, with someone getting Slappy as a gift.



* {{Dedication}}: This marks the first ''Goosebumps'' book to have one. It's dedicated to Joan Waricha, Susan Lurie and R.L. Stine's wife, Jane Stine.



* TheEndOrIsIt: The trope name is said word for word after what seems to the end. [[spoiler: Slappy is seemingly to put to sleep forever, before it is revealed that he's still alive.]]

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* MythologyGag: Slappy pretends to be a different dummy for most of it. The name of it is Mr. Wood, a callback to the true villain of the very first [[Literature/NightOfTheLivingDummy Dummy book]].
* OriginsEpisode: The 2nd one for Slappy, with the first part being dedicated to exploring it further.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The trope name is said word for word after what seems to the end. [[spoiler: Slappy is seemingly to put to sleep forever, before it is revealed that he's still alive.]]




* AbusiveParents: It turns out that the parents [[spoiler: has been using Power Juice to turn their kids into birds against the will, just because they longed to be birds]].
* ForcedTransformation: A random bite from a bird causes Anna's to start transforming into a bird.
* RedHerring: Oggie the bird [[spoiler: who turn out to not behind Anna's transformation. In reality, the parents had caused it as part of an experiment.]]



* AssholeVictim: Gordo ends up being a jerk to Kelly and eventually gets eaten by Burrph. Kelly makes the monster spit him up though.



* FormulaBreakingEpisode: While most ''Goosebumps'' stories are set in a fairly normal world where people generally don't know about the monsters, this one is set in one where it is known at least one state has a monster in every school.



* HighSchoolDance: The titular ''Friiight Night'' event acts at one. It's a normal dance, but one kid is selected to be the school monster's date.




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* SwitchingPOV: There are a couple chapters told through Charlene's POV, as she tries to get her mom to take her to Kelly's school.
* WeirdTradeUnion: While it's not directly confirms, Charlene's Mom says at one point that she thinks the school monsters have a union.
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* AdultsAreUsless: The parents do believe Kelly about the monster, but they see him being picked as the monster's date as an honor despite the chance of him being eaten.

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* AdultsAreUsless: AdultsAreUseless: The parents do believe Kelly about the monster, but they see him being picked as the monster's date as an honor despite the chance of him being eaten.
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* AdultsAreUsless: The parents do believe Kelly about the monster, but they see him being picked as the monster's date as an honor despite the chance of him being eaten.
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[[folder: Friight Night!]]

* ChekhovsHobby: Kelly is shown to be into juggling. He later uses that skill to distract a monster.
* HereWeGoAgain: Kelly deals with the monster i the school moment. But at the end, [[spoiler; Mrs. Waxman says now he has to deal with the monster in the music room.]]

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[[folder: Friight Friiight Night!]]

* ChekhovsHobby: Kelly is shown to be into juggling. He later uses that skill to distract a monster.
the monster Burrrph.
* HereWeGoAgain: Kelly deals with the monster i in the school moment. But at basement. At the end, [[spoiler; [[spoiler: Mrs. Waxman says now he has to deal with the monster in the music room.]]


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[[folder: Night of the Squawker!]]
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[[folder: Friight Night!]]

*ChekhovsHobby: Kelly is shown to be into juggling. He later uses that skill to distract a monster.
* HereWeGoAgain: Kelly deals with the monster i the school moment. But at the end, [[spoiler; Mrs. Waxman says now he has to deal with the monster in the music room.]]
* LampshadeHanging: During one of Slappy's interludes, he acknowledges that plans never work out for the kids in these stories.

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* As of 02/13/23, everything but the later ''Slappyworld'' books has its own page.



[[folder: Trope counts]]

!!Trope counts for the ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' books, as currently listed on that page:

* #14: ''The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock'' - 3 tropes

* #22: ''Return to the Carnival of Horrors'' - 7 tropes
* #33: ''It Came from the Internet'' - 7 tropes

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!!The folders below contain introductions to individual pages for each of the GYB books:

[[folder: #14: ''The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock'']]
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The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you mess with a scientist's inventions.

"You" and your friends have been invited to clean the garage of an inventor. One room holds two inventions -- a strange robot, and a pinball machine. Choosing either one will send you on an adventure where you must either save the world from a robot revolution, or escape from a strange mirror world.

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[[folder: #22: ''Return to the Carnival of Horrors'']]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gyg_022.jpg]]
The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you revisit the carnival of horrors.

"You" are being taken to a carnival once more... only discovering too late that it's the Carnival of Horrors you faced before! Now, you must once again face the carnival rides or its midway in order to escape before midnight, lest you be trapped forever.

It was the first and only book of the GYB series to be a direct sequel to [[Literature/EscapeFromTheCarnivalOfHorrors another book in the same series]], and the first GYB book to be a sequel to ''any'' other ''Goosebumps'' book.

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[[folder: #33: ''It Came from the Internet'']]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gyg_033.jpg]]
The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where a computer virus affects the real world.

"You" have been given a new web crawler, Spyder, which turns out to be a real monster. Now it's bitten and infected you with a memory-erasing bug, and you must hurry up and find a cure.

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!!The folders below contain introductions to individual pages for each of the GYB books:

[[folder: #14: ''The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock'']]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_creepy_creations_of_professor_shock.jpg]]
The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you mess with a scientist's inventions.

"You" and your friends have been invited to clean the garage of an inventor. One room holds two inventions -- a strange robot, and a pinball machine. Choosing either one will send you on an adventure where you must either save the world from a robot revolution, or escape from a strange mirror world.

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[[folder: #22: ''Return to the Carnival of Horrors'']]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gyg_022.jpg]]
The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you revisit the carnival of horrors.

"You" are being taken to a carnival once more... only discovering too late that it's the Carnival of Horrors you faced before! Now, you must once again face the carnival rides or its midway in order to escape before midnight, lest you be trapped forever.

It was the first and only book of the GYB series to be a direct sequel to [[Literature/EscapeFromTheCarnivalOfHorrors another book in the same series]], and the first GYB book to be a sequel to ''any'' other ''Goosebumps'' book.

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[[folder: #33: ''It Came from the Internet'']]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gyg_033.jpg]]
The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where a computer virus affects the real world.

"You" have been given a new web crawler, Spyder, which turns out to be a real monster. Now it's bitten and infected you with a memory-erasing bug, and you must hurry up and find a cure.

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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Much like ''Literature/SlappysNightmare'', one part of this book is in Slappy's POV. In this case, he struggles to commit an evil dead and it becomes more of a comedy of errors.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The trope name is said word for word after what seems to the end. [[spoiler: Slappy is seemingly to put to sleep forever, before it is revealed that he's still alive]]

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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Much like ''Literature/SlappysNightmare'', one part of this book is in Slappy's POV. In this case, he struggles to commit an evil dead deed and it becomes more of a comedy of errors.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The trope name is said word for word after what seems to the end. [[spoiler: Slappy is seemingly to put to sleep forever, before it is revealed that he's still alive]]alive.]]
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[[folder: Slappy, Beware!]]

* ChekhovsGun: Slappy is given some earbuds by Bryce, which he later uses to [[spoiler: not hear a spell that Darkwell says out loud]].
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Much like ''Literature/SlappysNightmare'', one part of this book is in Slappy's POV. In this case, he struggles to commit an evil dead and it becomes more of a comedy of errors.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The trope name is said word for word after what seems to the end. [[spoiler: Slappy is seemingly to put to sleep forever, before it is revealed that he's still alive]]
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[[folder: Haunting with the Stars]]

* NeverTrustATitle: There are actually no ghosts in this book or hauntings of any kind.
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* #33: ''It Came from the Internet'' - 3 tropes

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* #33: ''It Came from the Internet'' - 3 tropes




* #28: ''Night of a Thousand Claws'' - 9 tropes

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\n* #28: ''Night of a Thousand Claws'' #33: ''It Came from the Internet'' - 9 7 tropes



[[folder: #28: ''Night of a Thousand Claws'']]
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The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you visit an island full of cats.

Cat Cay Island is inhabited by strange cat-like creatures, and your visit there takes a scary turn when one of your younger brothers go missing, and a rescue mission to find him turns into one of two scary paths, one of which leads to the "Keeper of the Cats" and one of which leads into a lighthouse under siege by an army of cats.

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* #34: ''Elevator to Nowhere'' - 6 tropes



* #31: ''The Werewolf of Twisted Tree Lodge'' - 8 tropes



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[[folder: #31: ''The Werewolf of Twisted Tree Lodge'']]
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The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you attend a convention for horror writers.

"You" won a writing competition via cheating, submitting an unsigned story you found elsewhere. But at the convention, it's discovered that the monsters are escaping from the stories to take revenge on their creators for how they were portrayed, including the werewolves from the story you took. Now, it's a race to survive the night...

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[[folder: #34: ''Elevator to Nowhere'']]
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The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you ride an elevator into other dimensions.

On a visit to your friend's eccentric uncle Darius, who happens to be an inventor, you discover his newest creation -- an elevator that takes you into other dimensions! Unfortunately, Darius has been switched with an evil duplicate from an alternate universe, and you must figure out how to rescue him.

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[[folder: Slappy in Dreamland]]

* DreamWeaver: Slappy gains the power to invade and control people's dreams. As expected, he uses it to terrorize his victims.
* FreakyFridayFlip: [[spoiler: The book ends with Richard accidentally switching bodies with Slappy after linking their minds up.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. Todd has a lighter that he got from his grandfather. Later, he tries to use only for [[spoiler: it to not light.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. Todd has a lighter that he got from his grandfather. Later, he tries to use it only for [[spoiler: it to not light.]]


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* CoversAlwaysLie: The blurb on the back claims the story is set in Winter, when it is actually Spring.
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* #26: ''Alone in Snakebite Canyon'' - 3 tropes



[[folder: #26: ''Alone in Snakebite Canyon'']]
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The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you have a desert adventure.

"You" and your family are visiting Lonestar National Park. There, you find a souvenir shop where you can buy one of two items. One leads to an old gold mine. The other lets you turn into various animals. Either way, each item leads you into a danger-filled adventure in the desert.

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* #41: ''Danger Time'' - 5 tropes



* #37: ''Escape from Horror House'' - 7 tropes

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* #37: ''Escape from Horror House'' - 7 tropes



* Special Edition #2: ''Return to Terror Tower'' - 8 tropes

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* Special Edition #2: ''Return to Terror Tower'' - 8 tropes




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[[folder: #37: ''Escape from Horror House'']]

The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where your house is now haunted by noisy ghosts.

Strange things have been happening at your house all week, mischief caused by poltergeists. Now you just figure out how to expel them and turn things back to normal.

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[[folder: #41: ''Danger Time'']]

The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book with a spooky clock store.

A trip to the movies doesn't go as planned, so you end up visiting "It's About Time", a creepy clock store. Now the owner wants your help in stopping a bomb that's set to destroy all time forever, or defeating the Time Police, a group of time travelers with uncertain goals.

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[[folder:Special Edition #2: ''Return to Terror Tower'']]

The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where your friends Sue and Eddie Morgan ask for your help in regaining their thrones.

Sue and Eddie Morgan attend your school and are friends with you. Now they want your help to return to their original time period and overthrow their evil uncle, who rules their old village with an iron fist. The dangers in the path to defeating him are worse than before, and so is the king's evil servant, the Lord High Executioner.

It was the first and only book of the GYB series to be a direct sequel to [[Literature/ANightInTerrorTower another book in the original series]].

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* #24: ''Lost in Stinkeye Swamp'' - 3 tropes



* #27: ''Checkout Time at the Dead-End Hotel'' - 7 tropes
* #32: ''It's Only a Nightmare!'' - 7 tropes



[[folder: #24: ''Lost in Stinkeye Swamp'']]

The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you move into a house near a swamp.

"You" have recently moved into a new home -- Swamp House, which is ugly, run-down and rumored to be haunted. But the rumors also tell of a hidden treasure, and two items in the basement lead you along two paths, one in the house and one in the swamp, on your quest for the treasure.

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[[folder: #27: ''Checkout Time at the Dead-End Hotel'']]

The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you visit a hotel full of ghosts.

A class trip to Washington D.C. takes a scary turn when the car breaks down and "you" stop at a hotel for the night... but it turns out to be full of ghosts, and the only way to survive is to find the only human resident.

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[[folder: #32: ''It's Only a Nightmare!'']]

The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where nightmares come to life.

You're spending the night in a very strange inn. Unfortunately, it soon turns out to be the hole of the mysterious Sleep Master, and when you fall asleep, your dreams take a turn for the very, very strange, and now you must escape them to survive.

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* ThePrankster: Skipper plays the role this time, but he actually apologies for it later on as he thinks it's causing Todd to be on edge.

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* #33: ''It Came from the Internet'' - 2 tropes




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* #33: ''It Came from the Internet'' - 3 tropes

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