If You Like ‘Goosebumps’ by R. L. Stine Add These Adult Books To Your TBR!
Since the 90s, Goosebumps by R. L. Stine introduced pre-teens to the supernatural and fantastical. Thanks to Stine, his stories were the perfect balance of horror and thriller. The story in each book often mirrored a situation the protagonist was going through. Whether it was grief, trauma or loneliness, the character’s pain would parallel the supernatural events.
Even though it is masked as a horror adventure, readers can resonate with some of the characters and what they are going through. 28 years later, Goosebumps returns as a television series that is the perfect combination of Stine’s books, the original television series from 1997, and director Rob Letterman’s visions from the 2015 film.
This new series has an over-arching story that involves the five teens and their parent’s past while having individual episodes with monsters of the week. If you’re looking for other young adult spooky novels, we have some recommendations!
A group of five high schoolers unleash supernatural forces upon their town, now they must work together in order to save it.
Series Premiere: Friday, October 13th
R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps Series
If you grew up reading Goosebumps, you have a genuine love for the supernatural worlds. Here are some adult novels that keep with the same tone and themes of Stine’s series.
A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers died one after another of heart failure.
Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece’s inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan Tokyo teeming with modern society’s fears to a rural Japan — a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic — haunted by the past.
It is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted — and still wants — to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself.
It’s the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year-old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes. Soon, the group discovers stories of other children who once disappeared from Elm Haven. And there are other strange things happening in town: unexplained holes in the ground, a stranger dressed as a World War l soldier, and a rendering-plant truck that seems to be following the five boys. The friends realize that there is a terrible evil lurking in Elm Haven…and they must be the ones to stop it.
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn’t thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she’d claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well he heavy cost of wishes… and the stuff of nightmares.
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