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How to Kill a Monster
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The Goosebumps book where two kids have to try and kill a swamp monster.Gretchen and her stepbrother Clark are visiting Gretchen's grandparents in Georgia. It's not much fun for them, especially after Grandma Rose and Grandpa Eddie leave the house one morning... without properly warning the kids that there's a swamp monster locked up in one of their spare rooms, and they've gone to try and find someone who knows how to kill it. Now, Gretchen and Clark must figure out how to kill the monster themselves.It was adapted into the eighteenth episode of the second season of the TV series. | |
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Noisy Nature | |
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Noisy Nature: The swamp is constantly filled with the sounds of creatures within it. The noises consist of moaning, crying, and even howling. Considering the fact that the monster that's trapped in the house has a large family living in the depths of the swamp, these sounds are probably coming from them. | |
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Make Sure He's Dead | |
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Make Sure He's Dead: Gretchen does this twice after two attempts in killing the monster. The first time, she deduces that it is dead, but that turns out not to be the case. The second time, Gretchen doesn't wait long to decide if it really stuck because she wanted to escape the house at last, but she's pretty sure it's definitely dead. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: One of the main themes of the book. The grandparents don't tell the grandkids that they have a monster in their home and that it's in the forbidden room. This results in them accidentally setting it free because they don't know the dangers of the room. The grandparents leave notes on the fridge telling them even though it would be much more efficient to tell them in person before leaving. This results in the kids failing to learn of the other monsters in the swamp until it's too late. It's ultimately revealed that the monster is deathly allergic to humans and can speak, meaning if it had attempted to communicate with the humans or had they mentioned they were humans within earshot of him, both sides may have realized that he shouldn't try to eat them and therefore it would be in everyone's best interest if he simply left the home and returned to the swamp so the humans' monster problem would be solved and he would be reunited with his family. | |
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Creepy Cockroach | |
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Creepy Cockroach: While looking through the massive house to find something to entertain herself, Gretchen looks through some old newspapers. Much to her horror, hundreds of cockroaches come crawling out of there, and onto her body. She uses Clark's comic book to swat at them to go away. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: It's established that there is a certain flight of stairs in the house that is so old that it's easy for someone to fall through it. The kids later use this to try to kill the swamp monster. They also poison one of Grandma's pies to feed to the monster, which was also established earlier. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Clark keeps reading a comic book, "Creatures From the Muck", that tells about swamp monsters that live in the mud and try to capture people. | |
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You Can Talk? | |
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You Can Talk?: After licking Gretchen, the monster speaks English to her, to which Clark voices aloud his surprise that the monster can talk. | |
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Speak of the Devil | |
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Speak of the Devil: Gretchen and Clark escape to the swamp and remember to read the second letter. To their shock, it tells them that the swamp is home to plenty of other monsters just like the one at the house, and they are seeking vengeance for their lost sibling. Just as they read this aloud, they hear whistling sounds that are just as described as the sounds that the monsters make, and they can see moving shadows around them. | |
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Rope Bridge | |
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Rope Bridge: On the journey through the swamp toward her grandparents' place, Gretchen and her family slowly drive across an old narrow bridge. Gretchen is sure that there was no way that this rickety old bridge could hold them. But they seem to near the end of it, causing Gretchen to sigh in relief. But then a flat tire occurs, causing the car to crash into the side of the bridge, and to plunge below. Thankfully, they survive. | |
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Stopped Reading Too Soon | |
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Stopped Reading Too Soon: Throughout the book, the two main characters are trapped inside their grandparent's house with a monster inside. They find a letter from their grandparents telling them they left and warns them about the monster inside. After killing the monster and escaping from the house and into the swamp at night, they continue reading the letter explaining that their grandparents had locked them inside for their protection and to prevent them from leaving the house because there are more monsters in the swamp and they come out at night. After they finish reading, the kids have no idea what they are going to do next. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The protagonists somewhat unintentionally kill a monster and end up trapped in the swamps surrounded by the monster's relatives. | |
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Trash the Set | |
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Trash the Set: When the monster is released from the bedroom he was trapped in, it lays waste to the massive house. It roams throughout the house, finds a piano which it repeatedly throws around the room, destroys plenty of furniture, and in its' rampage the vibration causes plenty of the books, dishware, figurines, and mounted pictures to fall off the walls and shelves and tumble to the ground. And when dying, it stumbles against a locked door that tears open from its' weight, thus providing an exit out of the house for the protagonists. | |
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Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu | |
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Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: The book ends with the heroes captured by the monster, after their attempts at killing it by making it fall through the stairs and poisoning it failed. Said monster is allergic to humans, and keels over dead (and then exploded in the TV version) after merely licking one. Unfortunately, the monster's friends are pissed off after this and may or may not be allergic to humans. | |
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Staircase Tumble | |
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Staircase Tumble: In her first attempt to have the monster killed, Gretchen tricks it into falling through a hole where a staircase rotted away. Although this briefly knocks it out, this doesn't kill it. | |
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One, Two, Skip a Few | |
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One, Two, Skip a Few: When she is playing hide-and-seek in the big house and is to find Clark, Gretchen counted by fives until she got to a hundred. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: When Gretchen realizes just how boring her time at her grandparents place will be (with no television, working car, or telephone), she gives her parents the angriest look she can muster. She is sure that this will work in changing their minds. But this doesn't, and only makes them give her sheepish and apologetic looks. | |
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Understatement | |
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Understatement: In their first letter that they left behind to Gretchen and Clark, leaving them stuck with a monster to deal with, Rose and Eddie mention that they guess they were wrong to bring them to their house and have them stay there. The two children should have gone to Atlanta with their parents. Gretchen is quite flabbergasted by this measly explanation. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: When opening the door to the locked room, Gretchen and Clark find the monster, and they don't think to just simply close the door and lock it again so it wouldn't escape. They instead run away in terror, with the door wide open for the monster to leave and chase after them. Highly justified, as they were quite terrified by suddenly stumbling upon this large monster, and were too panic struck to think straight at the moment. | |
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Green Around the Gills | |
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Green Around the Gills: When Grandma Rose puts ten blueberry pancakes onto Clark's plate at breakfast, his face turns green. | |
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"Be Quiet!" Nudge | |
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"Be Quiet!" Nudge: Clark starts to laugh at his new grandparents' antics when first arriving there, to which his mother nudges him in the shoulder to discipline him. | |
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Sudden Downer Ending | |
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Sudden Downer Ending: The protagonists somewhat unintentionally kill a monster, with them freed from the house and seemingly safe, but end up trapped in the swamps surrounded by the monster's relatives. | |
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Because I Said So | |
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Because I Said So: At the beginning of the book, this is the explanation that both her parents use to tell Gretchen in the car why she and Clark have to stay at their grandparents during work. Gretchen notes in her narration that once they use those deadly words, there was no use arguing. | |
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Shovel Strike | |
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Shovel Strike: When the monster is closing in on her in the garage, Gretchen grabs a shovel that was by the wall and starts hitting it. After a few strikes, the monster snatched it out of her hands and threw it out the door. Gretchen sees a second shovel near the wall and wants to do it again, but the monster sees what she's trying to do, and gets that one as well to break it in half. | |
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I Need to Go Iron My Dog | |
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I Need to Go Iron My Dog: While making blueberry pie, Grandma Rose asks the children to help her roll out the dough. Not wanting to do this, Clark says that he needs to go read his comic book. Grandma Rose doesn't buy this excuse, and insists that he help out anyway. | |
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Deer in the Headlights | |
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Deer in the Headlights: Clark and Charley are this most of the time when confronted by the monster. It causes Gretchen to have to snap them out of it and get them going. Gretchen herself is originally like this when opening the room door and seeing the monster for the first time. She keeps thinking to herself to run, but she can only stare in horror for a while. | |
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Hurt Foot Hop | |
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Hurt Foot Hop: Gretchen runs from the kitchen to go and kill the monster, and she smacks right into the dining room table, causing her to do this trope as pain shot through her leg. | |
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Cruel Twist Ending | |
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Cruel Twist Ending: Gretchen and Clark have killed the monster by sheer luck, and flee the house. After a few minutes' travel they're all alone in the middle of the swamp at nightfall, and it turns out that there are many more monsters resting there, and these ones possibly aren't allergic to human flesh. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: The grandparents here are arguably the stupidest adults in the entire franchise. They wait until after the kids arrived to go and try to find help to kill the monster they caught and stored in an upstairs room, deciding to lock the kids inside the house and tell them nothing, opting instead to leave notes on the fridge, which the kids find too late, as they let the monster out due to an honest mistake. The grandparents hid the truth because they were "afraid that the parents wouldn't let the kids stay with them if they knew there was a monster in the house". And rather than taking the kids with them, the grandparents genuinely believe the kids are safer locked inside the house with the monster so long as they don't open a door. Main character Gretchen is furious at her grandparents' sheer stupidity, pointing out to stepbrother Clark that the grandparents won't be coming back with help because nobody will believe them about a monster in their house. | |
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Avenging the Villain | |
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Avenging the Villain: This might be the case with the relatives of the monster that had been terrorizing the protagonists, once they find out that they killed it. | |
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Big Fancy Castle | |
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Big Fancy Castle: Clark and Gretchen's grandparents apparently live in a literal castle in the middle of the Georgia swamp, with a fancy exterior and a large number of absurdly spacious rooms. Gretchen's bedroom is described as the size of a gym but contains only a bed and a small desk lamp. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
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Tap on the Head: Gretchen is running towards the kitchen where Clark is calling her name, to which she then trips over a footstool, with her head hitting the floor hard. Gretchen narrates how her hearing Clark's voice sounded so distant, her head throbbed with pain, and her vision was spinning around her as she struggled to stand. But she eventually recovers quite quickly. | |
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Run or Die | |
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Run or Die: Alluded to in the tagline of the book, which says: "Step One: Run. Step Two: Run Faster." | |
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Doomed New Clothes | |
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Doomed New Clothes: Gretchen just got brand new white high top sneakers and a new pink shirt that is her favorite color. The former sinks in the swamp mud and the latter gets smeared by blueberry pancake batter when her grandmother gives her a hug, much to her dismay. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Rose is making breakfast of blueberry pancakes the morning after the children arrive, and she greets them both with a big hug, smearing them with pancake batter that was on the front of her apron. Gretchen points and giggles at the stains on Clark's shirt, but she then sees that her shirt has stains as well, and she tries to find something to clean it off. | |
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Child Eater | |
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Child Eater: The titular swamp monster tries to eat the protagonists. It backfires, because they're humans — and it's allergic to humans. | |
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"Ray of Hope" Ending | |
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"Ray of Hope" Ending: The book ends with the two step siblings, along with Charley, about to be surrounded by the monster's vengeful siblings. However, that monster was allergic to humans, so perhaps this could be the same for the others. If that's the case, then the protagonists wouldn't have to put up much of a fight, and can escape. There is a possibility they could simply run out of the swamp if they are fast enough, and that the story being narrated in past-tense first-person perspective by Gretchen is a good sign. | |
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Covered in Mud | |
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Covered in Mud: While outside in the swamp after the family car broke down, Charley runs at Gretchen and knocks her down, getting her covered in mud all over from the swamp ground. | |
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Instructional Title: How to Kill a Monster is all about... how to kill a monster. | |
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The Load | |
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The Load: Charley. Though he does detect the monster and try to protect Gretchen and Clark from it near the end, he proves to be quite a handful. He isn't very useful for most of the book, and the kids have to lock him in different rooms to protect him from the monster. | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The book ends with the heroes captured by the monster, even after their attempts at killing it by making it fall through the stairs and poisoning it. Said monster is allergic to humans, and keels over dead after merely licking one. Unfortunately, the monster's friends are pissed off after this. Cue the chills, as the book ends with the heroes alone, far away from town, and in a marsh filled with these hungry, soon to awaken creatures. Hopefully the other monsters are allergic to humans too. | |
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Swamps Are Evil | |
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Swamps Are Evil: The swamp in the book is home to the eponymous reptilian swamp monster. And its friends. | |
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Swamp Monster | |
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Swamp Monster: Played for Black Comedy. A brother and sister are left alone in their odd grandparents' house... and discover a green-furred swamp creature has roosted in a room. When the monster attacks them, it suddenly reveals that it's allergic to humans and dies of an asthmatic attack. The kids triumphantly leave the house and travel through the swamp to find help. Too bad it turns out the monster has plenty of siblings of its own out there. | |
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Trapped-with-Monster Plot | |
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Trapped-with-Monster Plot: The book is about a a girl and her stepbrother whom are sent off to stay with their backwoods relatives in the countryside for a while, their enormous house located in a swamp. Then their caretakers take an unannounced trip to town after they discover that a swamp monster was sleeping in the basement, which they accidentally woke up, leaving the kids alone and locked inside the house with it. | |
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Up Close with the Monster | |
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Up Close with the Monster: When she is cornered by the monster, Gretchen finds herself uncomfortably close to it and seeing it's face in close detail, and then it licks her. However, this turns out to be the monster's own undoing, when it realizes too late that it's allergic to the very thing it's licking. | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog: When Charley is in the living room, he starts growling after smelling the air around him. He realizes that there is a creature in the house that Eddie and Rose are keeping a secret from the rest. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The monster is based off of the Honey Island Swamp Monster, a real life cryptid. | |
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