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Beware, the Snowman

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Beware, the Snowman	comment	The Goosebumps book with an evil snowman.Jaclyn DeForest lives with her aunt Greta in Chicago, until Greta insists on moving them to the town of Sherpia, a village near the Arctic Circle. It's a strange place, with a menacing mountain nearby said to be home to a monster snowman. And all the houses have identical ones in front of them, to ward him off. Despite all warnings, Jaclyn's determined to figure out the truth about the snowman, and the strange childhood memories that are suddenly cropping up in her head.It is one of the nineteen original series books that was not adapted into the 1995 TV series. It would later have a questline in Goosebumps HorrorTown.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Beware, the Snowman / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The advertisement for this book gives away the part where the snowman claims to be her father.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_14ee9ce	type	Dream Melody
Beware, the Snowman / int_14ee9ce	comment	Dream Melody: After moving to her new town, Jaclyn suddenly remembers the opening lyrics to a nursery rhyme from her childhood. Unfortunately, she doesn't know the meaning of the lyrics or the second half of the poem. She eventually finds out the rest:
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Beware, the Snowman / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
Beware, the Snowman / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: When the snowman tells Jaclyn that the only way to free it from it's snowy exterior body is if she reads the second verse from the poem that she had heard from her childhood, she tells the snowman that she's going back to her house to get the nursery book from her Aunt Greta. But as she whips around to head down the hill, she comes face to face with Aunt Greta herself, who is defiantly holding the poetry book.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_2cf5eb14	type	Endless Winter
Beware, the Snowman / int_2cf5eb14	comment	Endless Winter: The village of Sherpia is constantly filled with snow. Jaclyn asks Rosalyn if it ever stops snowing here, and she replies that it stopped once for ten minutes, and jokes that the village took a summer vacation during that time.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_31d6fd00	type	Legend Fades to Myth
Beware, the Snowman / int_31d6fd00	comment	Legend Fades to Myth: Greta claims, while trying to prevent Jaclyn from learning the truth, that this is why everyone's afraid of the mountaintop — because something bad happened up there and in time, as the story changed in the retelling, the true story was forgotten and now everyone believes the changed story about an evil snowman is what really occurred.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_3ae63c5d	type	I Just Like Saying the Word
Beware, the Snowman / int_3ae63c5d	comment	I Just Like Saying the Word: Jaclyn in the beginning of the story narrates how she likes to say "weird" a lot, as it is her favorite word. She then notes how this causes her aunt Greta to tell her she needs a bigger vocabulary.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Beware, the Snowman / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: When Jaclyn first meets Eli and Rolanda and says she's going up the mountain, they panic and try to stop her. Eli finally comes up with the flimsy excuse of "You can't go because it's closed for repairs." Jaclyn immediately sees through it. Jaclyn's aunt Greta claims to not to know anything about any rhyme about a snowman. Jaclyn can again tell she isn't being honest, just from her reaction.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_46eb0f90	type	Supernatural Repellent
Beware, the Snowman / int_46eb0f90	comment	Supernatural Repellent: According to Rolanda and Eli, all the snowmen in the village are a version of this. They're duplicates of the snowman on the top of the mountain, and as long as everyone has one, he'll think they're honoring him and so stay away from them.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Beware, the Snowman / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The evil snowman's final fate — it's pushed inside the icy walls of the ice cave, trapped for good (and supposedly dead as a result).
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Beware, the Snowman / int_4dc35c7	type	Snowlems
Beware, the Snowman / int_4dc35c7	comment	Snowlems: The book features an animated snowman that lives on the mountain. Supposedly. He turns out to be a monster trapped in the form of a snowman. Played straight with the army of real snowmen who come to defeat him.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_56563927	type	Noble Wolf
Beware, the Snowman / int_56563927	comment	Noble Wolf: Conrad has a tamed white wolf named Wolfbane, who serves as a guard animal for him.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_57631098	type	Tear-Apart Tug-of-War
Beware, the Snowman / int_57631098	comment	Tear-Apart Tug-of-War: This happens to the storybook, when Jaclyn and Aunt Greta are fighting over it for the snowman, only for it to collapse. The specific page that contains the poem to free the monster falls out.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Beware, the Snowman / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Jaclyn has one in which dozens of fluffy snow-white kittens with sky-blue eyes are climbing over one another. They started hissing and screeching, and suddenly wore red scarves around their necks just like the village snowmen.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_64f55e69	type	False Innocence Trick
Beware, the Snowman / int_64f55e69	comment	False Innocence Trick: Jaclyn runs into the living snowman in a mountain cave. The snowman claims he is her long lost father who was trapped in that form and trapped on the mountain by an evil witch. He gets her to recite a special song to free him. It turns out he is not her father, he is an evil demon whom the benevolent witch trapped.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_6566a884	type	My God, You Are Serious!
Beware, the Snowman / int_6566a884	comment	My God, You Are Serious!: When Rolanda finally tells Jaclyn about the snowman and how the village fears it, Jaclyn bursts out laughing thinking it's one big joke. But then she sees the serious look in her face, and realizes that Rolanda truly believes in it.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_67b0bd0e	type	An Ice Person
Beware, the Snowman / int_67b0bd0e	comment	An Ice Person: Conrad, a sorcerer who can bring snowmen to life, and uses his ability to trap a red monster in a snowman.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Beware, the Snowman / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: When Jaclyn tells Rolanda and Eli to distract Conrad, the two insist that first they build a snowman for her house just like the rest of the village. Jaclyn is annoyed by this, but goes along with it so they can do what she wants.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Beware, the Snowman / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Subverted. At the end, after the evil snowman has been defeated, Jaclyn sees the army of snowmen surrounding she and her family and friends, and looking unfriendly... and then it turns out they don't mean any harm, they just want to ask a question.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_816c63d4	type	Dramatic Wind
Beware, the Snowman / int_816c63d4	comment	Dramatic Wind: When Jaclyn wrestles with Greta over the poetry book to free the snowman, it rips apart and the pages fall out. Greta then finds the page that contains the rhyme that Jaclyn was looking for and tossed it over the edge. But then, to Jaclyn's amazement, the swirling wind carried the page back up through the air for her to grab.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Beware, the Snowman / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The ice cave, at the top of the nearby mountain, is a cave cut out of ice.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_8bfe8aea	type	Creepy Cave
Beware, the Snowman / int_8bfe8aea	comment	Creepy Cave: The ice cave, the lair of the living snowman. Eli, when telling Jaclyn about it, admits that it is sort of pretty. Yet he makes it clear that it is also sort of scary high up in a dark mountain with icicles hanging around it, not to mention the beastly snowman whom lives in there.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
Beware, the Snowman / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Jaclyn meets Conrad at the mountain, and both of them think that this is their first interaction towards each other. However, Jaclyn did not know her father since she was a baby long ago, and Conrad had not seen her daughter for so long that she didn't recognize her at that moment.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Beware, the Snowman / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Aunt Greta does this when Jaclyn says aloud the second verse of the poem, which is what frees the snowman from his icy exterior.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_b50580f7	type	Don't Look Down
Beware, the Snowman / int_b50580f7	comment	Don't Look Down: Jaclyn says this to herself as she's climbing up the ice ledge to the ice cave.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
Beware, the Snowman / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": Right after Jaclyn inadvertently frees the monster disguised as a snowman, the latter tries to throw the former and her aunt off the edge of the mountaintop to their death. Jaclyn incredulously asks the monster if this is her reward for saving him, to which the monster smugly answers, "Yes. That is your reward."
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Beware, the Snowman / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Beware, the Snowman / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": The snowman yells this when Greta is accusing it of lying to Jaclyn about actually being her father. He is lying, in order to trick her into releasing him from his snowy form.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Beware, the Snowman / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: The titular snowman claims this to Jaclyn. It's lying — it's a monster trapped by her real parents, and only said this so it could trick her into freeing it. After it's beaten for good, she finds out that Conrad, the sorcerer who came to save her, is her real father.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_cb3adcb7	type	Kill It with Ice
Beware, the Snowman / int_cb3adcb7	comment	Kill It with Ice: When the army of enchanted snowmen reach the original snowman, they overpower it and encase it into the side of the mountain with ice, which they then leave it for dead.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_cddc1b7	type	MacGuffin Melee
Beware, the Snowman / int_cddc1b7	comment	MacGuffin Melee: Jaclyn and her aunt Greta are fighting over the poetry book, with the former wanting to find the poem to free the nearby snowman, while the latter is trying to prevent the other from doing so. The book breaks apart in their hands, sending pages scattering around, and Greta gets ahold of the one containg the freeing poem. She tries to throw it away, only for the wind to blow it back for Jaclyn to get. She starts to read it, but Greta snatches the page out of her hands, and rips it apart with her convinced that she succeeded. However, it is revealed that Jacyn quickly looked it over, and she says it aloud anyway.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Beware, the Snowman / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: While staying in her bed in the attic at night, Jaclyn hears an ominous whisper telling her to beware the snowman, which frightens her yet also makes her curious, making her constantly wonder if she can hear ghosts now. But it turns out that it was Aunt Greta who was doing a voice behind the attic door to try to scare her away from investigating the snowman.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
Beware, the Snowman / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: Jaclyn wants to investigate the titular snowman she's heard so much about, but the path up to his lair is guarded by Conrad and Wolfsbane. So, she enlists Rolanda and Eli to go up to Conrad and start a conversation with him, which would capture his attention because he hardly gets any visitors. Then, the two would cause him and Wolfsbane to chase after them and allowing Jaclyn to get past them. Sure enough, it works.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Beware, the Snowman / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Conrad's army of snowmen, which come to save Jaclyn from the evil snowman at his command.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_f265445e	type	Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin
Beware, the Snowman / int_f265445e	comment	Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin: The storybook, the item that has hidden spells in them along with nursery rhymes, ends up being brought up the mountain by Greta to the snowman's lair. She plans to use it to trap the snowman in his snowy body forever. But Jaclyn, wanting to have the snowman freed to find out the truth for herself, grabs the book out of her aunt's hands to find the poem that she was struggling to fully remember throughout the story (and would also free the snowman). But when they wrestle over it, the fragile storybook tears apart, and the page containing the specific poem ends up in the hands of Aunt Greta. However, Jaclyn gets ahold of it and memorizes the second verse just in time.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_f566c6dc	type	Why Isn't It Attacking?
Beware, the Snowman / int_f566c6dc	comment	Why Isn't It Attacking?: Jaclyn is running from Wolfsbane after she first comes across Conrad's cabin and is caught breaking in there, she trips on a rock in the road and falls to the ground, leaving her to be cornered by the wolf. Yet the creature just stands there staring at her. She waits there expecting it to pounce on her, but after a few moments, she decides to just get up and continue running. She wonders why she wasn't killed.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Beware, the Snowman / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The story ends with local hermit Conrad using his magical powers to direct an army of snowmen to attack and seal the evil monster that was about to kill the protagonist, Jaclyn, after it tricked her into releasing him, then Jaclyn's aunt Greta reveals that Conrad and Jaclyn are father and daughter, and they're thrilled to finally meet each other.
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Beware, the Snowman / int_f6b1c9f3	type	"You!" Exclamation
Beware, the Snowman / int_f6b1c9f3	comment	"You!" Exclamation: Greta does this when she recognizes Conrad after he has her and Jaclyn rescued from the snowman.
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