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2 | The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book where the Haunted Mask gets a new origin story, and one kid has to deal with it while another encounters an evil spirit. |
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4 | Lu-Ann and her friend Devin love Halloween. However, it's going to be ruined for both of them this year. Lu-Ann has to attend a party held by a classmate named Polly whom she dislikes and Devin has to spend the week on a pumpkin farm his parents recently bought. Come Halloween, things get more spiced up than they expected. Lu-Ann finds a familiar creepy mask while Devin suspects something is going on with the vines on the farm. Can they escape the horrors they are both about to face? |
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6 | It was the first ''Goosebumps'' book to have its first release be in hardcover, and serves as a prelude to the ''Goosebumps: Most Wanted'' series. |
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9 | !!This book provides examples of: |
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11 | * AbsurdPhobia: Devin is afraid of ''pumpkins'', even before ending up on a farm where ghosts are animating the pumpkin vines. |
12 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Both Mrs. Barnes and Haywood. Mrs. Barnes, despite initially coming off as very friendly and kind, turns out to be The Gravemaster. Haywood, her son, is actually a zombie and in the finale they both try to murder Devin by pushing him to a grave against his will so he'll be Haywood's friend forever.]] |
13 | * CainAndAbel: William and Randolph in the prologue. Randolph resents that he is the less liked sibling and when William rejects his masks, he forces the Haunted Mask onto him and leaves. |
14 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Not the entire book but certainly the prologue which has a [[spoiler: stretched out, bloody death scene]]. |
15 | * DistantPrologue: The first part is a prologue set some decades prior to set up the backstory with the mask's creator. |
16 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The prologue contains one of the most gruesome moments in the series. [[spoiler: William tears the mask off of him, only for his face to come with it. He dies from all the bleeding.]] |
17 | * GenderBlenderName: Devin O'Brian has a little sister with the traditionally male name of Dale. |
18 | * HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: The ending has Polly putting on one of the masks.]] |
19 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler: Haywood, the ghost boy, is lonely and wants a friend his own age, even if they have to die first.]] |
20 | * IndianBurialGround: Variant -- the farm is said to have been built over a graveyard of soldiers who died during the American Civil War, rather than Native Americans, but it's still supposedly the cause of the hauntings. |
21 | * RedHerring: It's teased that the cat Zeus is the Gravemaster but in reality it's [[spoiler: Mrs. Barnes]]. |
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