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Shivers (M. D. Spenser)
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Shivers is a children's horror series by M.D. Spenser with thirty-six books, starting with The Enchanted Attic in May 1996 and ending with Madness at the Mall in 1998. The series follows in the footsteps of Goosebumps, but has the tendency to be much darker. The series began to be re-released as ebooks in 2011, with the first seven having been released as of 2013 and none since.The whole series is reviewed by GnarlyBooks, which also serves as brief recaps to each and every entry.The series consists of the following: #01: The Enchanted Attic #02: A Ghastly Shade of Green #03: Ghost Writer #04: The Animal Rebellion #05: The Locked Room #06: The Haunting House #07: The Awful Apple Orchard #08: Terror on Troll Mountain #09: The Mystic's Spell #10: The Curse of the New Kid #11: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? #12: The Secret of Fern Island #13: The Spider Kingdom #14: The Curse in the Jungle #15: Pool Ghoul #16: The Beast Beneath the Boardwalk #17: The Ghosts of Camp Massacre #18: Your Momma's A Werewolf #19: The Thing in Room 601 #20: Babyface & the Killer Mob #21: A Waking Nightmare #22: Lost in Dreamland #23: Night of the Goat Boy #24: The Ghosts of Devil's Marsh #25: A Ghostly Playmate #26: One Foot in the Grave #27: Camp Fear #28: Watch 'em Kill #29: The Terrible Terror Book #30: Creepy Clothes #31: Shriek Home Chicago #32: Beware the Bog Girl #33: The Forgotten Farmhouse #34: Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum #35: Terror on Tomahawk Island #36: Madness at the Mall | |
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Jacob Marley Apparel | |
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Jacob Marley Apparel: How the ghosts in the farmhouse are described, having the same injuries they sustained while alive in ghost forms. The house's owner notably had half a face missing and still capable of speech, the ghost-boy Daniel is incapable of speech due to being killed by having his throat ripped off, whilst his sister Sara is missing a brain from a hole behind her head. | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom: The title. Unfortunately it turns out to be a case of Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Hulking Out | |
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Hulking Out: The plot of the story revolves around Martin, the narrator, having a condition called "Cholera Metamorphosis", in which his uncontrollable rage turns him into an animal-like monster. The cause is because he's angry at himself, blaming himself for things that aren't his fault — like his parents' divorce — and subconsciously trying to punish himself by making others angry with him by wreaking havoc. He's cured of the change when he's convinced to stop blaming himself. | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: One of Lumpy's first actions in the story is beating up a smaller kid named Tommy, and laughing when Tommy starts to cry. Even the main character Freddy seems unnerved, though not enough to tell Lumpy to cut it out. | |
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Newspaper Backstory | |
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Newspaper Backstory: While investigating the abandoned lighthouse, Kenny and Steph comes across a bunch of old newspaper clippings reporting of the missing boy. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: The giant spiders who abducted Freddy and Lumpy can talk, and condemns the two for killing a normal-sized spider in front of a jury filled with giant arachnids. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Sondra, the wife of the Killer Mob's leader, turns out to be a little tomboy girl named Patty who wants to make it big as a gangster, only to accidentally hit a kerb while trying to chase after the Killer Mob's vehicle on her bike before waking up in an adult woman's body, not unlike Joey / Babyface's predicament. But then the story ends with an All Just a Dream revelation that Joey dreamt he was a mobster named Babyface after tripping and hitting his head. It remains questionable whether Patty actually exists in real life or not. | |
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Alternate Company Equivalent | |
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Alternate Company Equivalent: Has one in the Bone Chillers novella, "Attack of the Killer Ants", considering both series are Goosebumps knockoffs made in the 90s. Two bullies and a victim are dragged underground by giant insects (spiders here instead of ants) who wants them to suffer for killing their regular-sized counterparts, and must figure a way out. The characters here aren't related by blood though (whereas one of the trio from "Ants" is a Big Brother Bully) and unlike the ants, the spiders happens to be sentient. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: The book features a family that is made up of cannibals. People who come to their house for dinner often vanish and at one point they capture a teacher with implied plans to eat her. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: The plot begins with a scene of the main family being trapped in a dungeon made of melting wax, and it goes back to explain how they got that point. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Many of the Keeper's past victims include children as well as adults. | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title: A triple "W" in Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum | |
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Hostile Weather | |
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Hostile Weather: After crossing the bridge leading to Fern Island's lighthouse, and unexpected weather storm strands Kenny and Steph on said island. Which just happened to be haunted by a ghost-boy. | |
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Mysterious Middle Initial | |
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Mysterious Middle Initial: Ignatius J. Rockwell, the protagonist. What the J stands for isn't revealed at any point. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: Billy is one in the sense that he's certainly intelligent and also incredibly smug and vain. The Nedley Family are a more straightforward example, having the stereotypical big glasses and sophisticated vocabulary. | |
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Magical Negro | |
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Magical Negro: Nadina is able to sense Sam has the power to see ghosts and tells her how to exorcise Nana's spirit. | |
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Unnamed Parent | |
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Unnamed Parent: The titular character doesn't have a name for the entire story. Everyone just calls her Miss Rockwell. | |
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Your Tomcat Is Pregnant | |
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Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: During the story, Martin's pet cat Skunk (whom he thinks is a boy) goes missing, and Martin suspects the book's antagonist may have killed him. It turns out Skunk was a girl, and returns at the end with seven kittens. | |
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Mysterious Mist | |
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Mysterious Mist: The titular farmhouse makes an appearance when the protagonists, Nico and Ana, rode into a fog that appeared out of nowhere before stumbling into a mysterious, haunted old farmhouse. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: The story's plot is kickstarted by the Killer Mob threatening to drown 12-year-old Joey alive for trying to rat them out to the Muscle Gang. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Both the Killer Mob and the Muscle Gang have their headquarters in gigantic mansions, and the book's climax is a massive shootout in the latter's. Joey-as-Babyface lampshades on "why does gang leaders always prefer tacky, oversized mansions as residences". | |
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Machete Mayhem | |
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Machete Mayhem: In the final battle as the plants start converging on Jason's family, with Snake Eyes coming to the rescue, Snake Eyes puts his trusty machete to good use hacking away branches and vines trying to grab the family. | |
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Toy Transmutation | |
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Toy Transmutation: The dolls who are actually spirits of dead people that were turned into dolls after a man begged a witch to keep his dead loved ones with him somehow. | |
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Invisible to Adults | |
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Invisible to Adults: How the pranks from the orchard's ghosts works; Daniel and Sara can see their family car loaded with apples, that the cider has somehow turned to blood, and the car is somehow invisible, but their parents couldn't see a damn thing. Daniel instead decides to tell Sara it's not worth trying to convince their parents and deal with the ghosts themselves, which bites them back hard in the ass in the end. | |
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When Trees Attack | |
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When Trees Attack: The very premise of the story, when Jason's botanist mother moves her family to the Florida Everglades to study the plants and harvesting them for creating chemical fertilizers. And then it turns out those plants are sentient and want to eliminate the entire family for their intrusion. | |
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Bully and Wimp Pairing | |
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Bully and Wimp Pairing: The two main characters, protagonist Freddy and his supposed "best friend" Lumpy shares this dynamic, with Lumpy occasionally playing rough on Freddy for no reason. | |
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Dedication | |
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Dedication: Each book has one, although usually with no explanation as to why that person is important. Sometimes they will share a name with one of the characters though. | |
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Wax Museum Morgue | |
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Wax Museum Morgue: The very setting of the story. However, beyond the stereotypical wax displays usually used, the museum in question has multiple displays that demonstrate the history of man's cruelty, including racial and religious persecution, wars, slavery, genocides, and the Holocaust. The families invited to the museum each represent a different stereotype: rich, poor, jock, nerd, religious, and redneck. Their host has done this to demonstrate their unwillingness to cooperate and constant bickering and judgement of one another. At the end, Billy starts smashing open the wax figures around him but is shocked to find most of the older figures only contain human bones, and is told to focus on the most recent victims. | |
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Shoddy Knockoff Product | |
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Shoddy Knockoff Product: The protagonist has a father who is so cheap that he only buys these, with named examples being Darbies, Stony WalkKids, and Game Guys (which have a game called The Luigi Brothers.) | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: The book spares no details in describing the circumstances of the ghost family. Like Daniel whose head constantly flops over due to missing his throat and most of his neck, Sara walking around with a hole behind her head, and so on. | |
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Kids Driving Cars | |
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Kids Driving Cars: After Iggy's mother lose control of herself and becomes feral, attacking everyone in sight, Iggy and Mole makes a run for it by driving away in the Rockwell's family car. Unfortunately Iggy have never driven before and crashes shortly down the road, but luckily he then meets Jesco. | |
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Pyromaniac | |
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Pyromaniac: Chrissy Miser is exposed as a budding pyromaniac. She kills the Keeper at the end by lighting his robes on fire. | |
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New House, New Problems | |
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New House, New Problems: The protagonists move into a new house, which discover is intelligent and has murderous intentions towards its new residents. | |
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The Walls Are Closing In | |
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The Walls Are Closing In: At one point, Lynne has to go into a secret passage to try and find a way out. The house promptly starts trying to shrink the passage and crush her; luckily, she winds up falling down a chute that was inside it instead. | |
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Easy Amnesia | |
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Easy Amnesia: After Iggy's mother returned back to normal, she conveniently forgot everything that happened when she was turning into a werewolf, including feasting on raw bacon, trying to eat Iggy's dog, attempting to maul her son and destroying most of their cabin's interior. Which is probably a good thing. | |
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Green Aesop | |
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Green Aesop: The plot has the protagonist's brother starting a recycling campaign along with a company called Chem Corp, but it turns out that one of the people working for the company has been polluting some caverns with the materials. | |
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Raincoat of Horror | |
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Raincoat of Horror: The mysterious ghost-boy who constantly stalks Kenny and Steph throughout the story is depicted as wearing a raincoat, all the time. | |
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UnwillingRoboticization | |
| Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_58a90952 | comment |
Unwilling Roboticization: The reason why the animatronics are so realistic is because they are made out of people. The roboticization process turns out to be painlessly reversible, though. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: The police are content to blame the initial acts of vandalism that occur throughout the book on Martin, and when he personally calls them later on to report that somebody broke into the house and smashed up the furniture, they do not even bother to dispatch someone to check things out because they just think that he is lying. They do manage to redeem themselves by helping to non-fatally capture and restore the Hulked Out protagonist at the end of the story, though. | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile: Besides killer plants, Jason and his brother also have to contend with crocodiles in the Florida bayou, with a Morton's Fork moment when the two boys are chased by plants and reaching a river full of crocodiles. They escaped by hopping over the crocodile's backs, somehow. | |
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Ominous Music Box Tune | |
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Ominous Music Box Tune: The lighthouse has a gramophone that serves this purpose. When Kenny, Steph and gang tries looking for clues, the gramophone, supposedly unused for ages, suddenly starts playing creepy music scaring everyone - and then Steph deduces it's trying to communicate with them. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: Martin, the narrator, blames himself for his parents' divorce; by blaming himself, he's subconsciously triggered his transformation into a violent monster to wreak havoc and make others punish him for his deeds. | |
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Ground by Gears | |
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Ground by Gears: How Daniel and Sara died - from falling into a grinding machine meant for making apple cider and graphically pulped alive. | |
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Savage Wolves | |
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Savage Wolves: Iggy, with his mother and his friend Mole, spends a weekend camping in an outhouse only to be attacked by a wolf while exploring the woods. And then Iggy's mother gets bitten in the process. | |
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Find the Cure! | |
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Find the Cure!: The protagonist, Iggy, and his bestie Mole needs to find a method to reverse the lycanthropic virus affecting the former's mother before she permanently becomes a were-animal. Said cure involves hunting down the very wolf that bit her, boiling it's fur in water for a potion, and forcing Iggy's mother to drink it. Apparently splashing a few drops down the throat would suffice. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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I Have Your Wife: The Muscle Gang managed to kidnap Sondra, the Killer Mob leader's wife, alongside their chauffer Babyface, as ransom to force the Killer Mob out of hiding. Problem is, the Killer Mob is on their way to raid the Muscle Gang's headquarters, and now both Sondra and Babyface are stuck in the crossfire. | |
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I See Dead People | |
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I See Dead People: Samantha gets the power to see ghosts after being near a tree that was struck by lightning. | |
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Amusement Park of Doom | |
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Amusement Park of Doom: Dreamland is home to where park attendants are kidnapped and sealed inside robotic shells so they can perform the same task perfectly over and over again. | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different: The ones on this book still looks like human, can interact with Nico and Ana, and seems like normal people until they have a closer look. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: This is how the heroes manage to defeat the Haunting House — the house only wants to be loved, so by feeling love towards it, saying it's a wonderful place and that they want to stay there, Caitlin and Lynne are able to tame it and make it safe for their family. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The main family has a father who tries to spend as little as money as possible, and their last name is "Miser". | |
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Magic A Is Magic A | |
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Magic A Is Magic A: The house has clearly defined rules about what it can and can't do: It can't use the owners' belongings for violence, but it can make them move. Anything that's part of the house is fair game as a weapon. | |
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Human Ladder | |
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Human Ladder: At one point, Lynne stands on Caitlin's back to try and grab a box that the house has moved out of their reach. It doesn't work. | |
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Man-Eating Plant | |
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Man-Eating Plant: The plants attack humans who harm the environment. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The artists for the Shivers books seems to have a skeleton fetish, somehow. There are no horse-riding skeletons in the book, just deformed ghosts. | |
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Recursive Canon | |
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Recursive Canon: The book mentions that the protagonists read the Shivers books. | |
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In-Series Nickname | |
| Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_7360806f | comment |
In-Series Nickname: The book's protagonist is named Ignatius J. Rockwell, but everyone - including his mother - calls him Iggy. His bestie who tags along on the other hand has an all-too-generic name, John, and goes along with the name "Mole" because of his nearsightedness. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Can you Swim?" spoken by a spooky gramophone which activates itself when Kenny and gang are exploring the lighthouse, and in the final page when the ghostly little boy asks them that very question. | |
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All Myths Are True | |
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All Myths Are True: As Jason and Snake Eyes are on their way out of the Florida bayou, the former having accidentally lost his way (while trying to flee from Snake Eyes whom he mistook to be a murderer) Snake Eyes then narrates an old Indian legend about a platoon of British soldiers who entered the Everglades during the War, and disturbed an old Indian Curse about the forest coming to life and were never seen again. While historians speculate it's either the local Indians or French soldiers who did them in, Snake Eyes claims the Everglades' plants is alive and the missing soldiers must've disturbed the local vegetation. Turns out Snake Eyes was right, the plants are indeed sentient and royally pissed that Jason's botanist mother is intending to convert the Everglades into a fertilizer research facility. | |
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Out-of-Character Alert | |
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Out-of-Character Alert: Iggy's usually calm, level-headed rockstar mother suddenly raises her voice on him and Mole for trying to show concern over her wounded arm foreshadows her turning into a werewolf. | |
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Smart People Play Chess | |
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Smart People Play Chess: Michael, the brains to Josh's brawn, is introduced playing chess by himself. Josh tries joining him and the duo starts hanging out, and later on Michael would constantly reference his chess skills in coversation. | |
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Potty Failure | |
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Potty Failure: Jason's kid brother suffers this fate when the two of them are pursued by killer plants in the Everglades. The first thing Jason does once he's in the comfort of his cabin is to change his brother's shorts. | |
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You Can See That, Right? | |
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You Can See That, Right?: When Daniel comes back to his family's car and saw that it's somehow loaded with apples, he asks Sara this question. | |
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Sapient House | |
| Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_84545521 | comment |
Sapient House: The titular Haunting House. The book explains that while a haunted house has ghosts that don't intentionally harm the inhabitants, a haunting house, which the protagonists move into, has the house itself hate anyone who comes into it due to having been abandoned for so long and want to kill them, which it then attempts to do to the protagonists. They're ultimately able to tame it through expressing love towards it. | |
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Free-Range Children | |
| Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_84c5ec0b | comment |
Free-Range Children: A particular note-worthy instance. The main characters, Stephanie and Kenny, are grade-school, and Stephanie's sisters who tagged along the trip are younger than her, yet the whole gang gets to cross the restricted bridge to Fern Island without raising any alarms, what with the bridge's guardhouse abandoned and the entrance unlocked. It bites them back hard once they reached said island. | |
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You and What Army? | |
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You and What Army?: When the Killer Mob pranks Joey with a water pistol, Joey swears he'll get back at them for their trick, prompting one of the mob's members to respond with this phrase. Joey's answer? He may not have an army, but he can still rat them out to the local Muscle Gang. It ends as realistically well as expected. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: During Sam's dream she hears a woman arguing with the spirit that takes on the form of a snake and begins haunting her. In the dream, the snake is attacked by a jewel bird trying to protect Sam, and is later revealed to be the spirit of Sam's father while the snake is Nana. It's never revealed who the other woman was arguing with Nana, though it's implied to be another deceased relative buried in their family's plot. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
| Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: The story implies Iggy's mother, over fifty percent through her werewolf transformation process, had devoured Iggy's new dog, what with Iggy finding the kennel destroyed and a bloodied, torn collar that belonged to said dog. In the final chapter after Iggy successfully fed his werewolf-mom the potion that reverts her to human, Mole and Jesco then shows up, bringing with them Iggy's dog, still quite alive. | |
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Vanity Is Feminine | |
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Vanity Is Feminine: Louise Miser is a former beauty queen and apparently rather vain, as she's vocally unhappy by the lack of attractive people in the wax museum tour group. Her son Billy inherited this trait. | |
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Stab the Scorpion | |
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Stab the Scorpion: When Jason sees Snake Eyes for the second time — as he is fleeing from him (believing Snake Eyes to be a murderer after his family) Snake Eyes have a machete with him, which he swings at Jason... past his ear, killing a poisonous snake about to bite Jason and pulling him away. At this point Jason realize Snake Eyes is actually an ally. | |
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Creepy Good | |
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Creepy Good: Snake Eyes, the hermit Jason meets at the side of the cabin. He has one eye and rotten teeth, talks with a sneer in his voice, looks and sounds like a stereotypical Serial Killer... and is a good man who saved Jason's life later on, besides helping him out of the jungle after he got lost. | |
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Lovable Jock | |
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Lovable Jock: The protagonist, Josh Jennings, is an athlete and captain of the school's soccer team, but also a friendly and sociable fellow who tries befriending the school's loner Michael Sturdevant. | |
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Lighthouse Point | |
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Lighthouse Point: The plot is kicked off when the daredevil protagonist Kenny and his tomboy best friend, Steph, decides to challenge each other to investigate an abandoned lighthouse on the edge of the titular island, reputedly haunted by a young boy who drowned while fishing years ago, accessible only by riding their bikes over a pier. And then a storm hits and strands them inside that lighthouse. | |
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Giant Spider | |
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Giant Spider: Freddy and his friend Lumpy gets captured alive by sentient, gigantic talking spiders who decide to teach the boys a lesson after they saw Lumpy killing one of their (ordinary-sized) brethren by pulling out its legs. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: One of the first chapters have Daniel delivering this line, which speaks massive volumes once you got to the final chapter. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: One of the attractions is based on the "famous story" of The Haunting House, and it comes complete with animatronic duplicates of the book's protagonists, Caitlyn and Lynne. | |
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Accomplice by Inaction | |
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Accomplice by Inaction: While Lumpy slowly killing a spider by pulling out its legs is the catalyst behind the spider empire abducting the two protagonists, the main character Freddy gets part of the blame as well because he didn't stop Lumpy. | |
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Nervous Wreck | |
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Nervous Wreck: Babyface the getaway driver, who's the only member of the Killer Mob who's Prone to Tears. Justified because he's a kid trapped in an adult's body. | |
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Vine Tentacles | |
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Vine Tentacles: The living plants uses these to assault Jason and his family, trying to grab them for their intrusion, and the final battle have Snake Eyes hacking those vines aside while saving them. | |
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Inconvenient Itch | |
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Inconvenient Itch: When Iggy and Mole gets cornered by a wolf, for some baffling reason Iggy suggests they stand still, and the wolf would ignore them. Somehow it works, until a random mosquito lands on Iggy's nose. | |
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Worm in an Apple | |
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Worm in an Apple: One of the first pranks from the ghosts haunting said orchard involves having Sara take a bite from an apple taken from the titular orchard and see a worm in it, causing her to freak out and dropping the apple. Upon closer inspection, the worm has somehow disappeared — it's later revealed to be part of the illusions caused by the ghosts haunting the orchard. | |
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Cruel Twist Ending | |
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Cruel Twist Ending: Kenny, Steph and Steph's sisters managed to escape the lighthouse and cross the bridge leading out of Fern Island. Once they made it to the other end, they realize the ghost-boy stalking them had followed the gang, all the way, and doesn't want them to leave Fern Island. The story ends right there, resulting in an Uncertain Doom situation. | |
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Written Sound Effect | |
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Written Sound Effect: How the shootout in the Muscle Gang's headquarters is depicted, as narrated by Joey where the action is seen from his POV. Apparently machine-guns sounds like "kpap-kpap-kpap" while shotguns goes "PHUT! PHUT! PHUT!" | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Averted to hell and back where the protagonists' parents immediately went to the police when their kids went missing and were instrumental in taking down the kidnappers running the amusement park for good. | |
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Mob War | |
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Mob War: The Killer Mob and Muscle Gang appears to be in one involving territorial dispute over control of Miami, with the kid protagonist Joey trying to get himself involved. | |
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The Most Dangerous Video Game | |
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The Most Dangerous Video Game: The book features a cursed (...or something, it's never really explained) computer game that causes all animals in the immediate vicinity to go violently insane. In order to reverse the effects of the game (which was purposely Unwinnable, being the kind where you just have try and survive for as long as possible) the main characters had to wipe it from the hard drive and destroy the physical copy. | |
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Summer Campy | |
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Summer Campy: The setting of the book is in a summer camp. Expectedly for mid-90s kids' horror literature, things goes wrong. | |
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Goth Girls Know Magic | |
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Goth Girls Know Magic: Subverted — the goth girl claims to know white magic, and uses it to try and summon the ghosts that are haunting Camp Wil-He-Waha. While the ghosts do appear, it is made clear that they came on their own and were not summoned by the goth girl babbling nonsense and throwing some kind of sparkly dust around in the hope that something would happen (nothing does, since the ghosts were only capable of interacting with the protagonist). | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come: Iggy had a nightmare where he sees a werewolf wearing his mother's clothing bursting into his room and attacking him, the night after his mother gets bitten by a wolf. Upon waking up, he caught his mother feasting on raw bacon... turns out his mother's human-to-werewolf conversion has started. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: The story has a kid who wants to be a gangster, but the local mobs won't let him in. After a blow to his head, he finds himself in the body of an adult mobster and discovers the gangster life is way too dangerous and it makes him realize being a normal kid isn't so bad. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: It's about two kids learning their dad and aunt grew up with a physically abusive stepfather. | |
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Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death | |
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Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death: All of the video games that get mentioned have names like Death Commandos, Terrible Battle II and Dogfights to the Death. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Twelve-year-old Joey threatening to rat out the Killer Mob's goons to the local Muscle Gang, never mind the fact that he's alone against a group of thugs. Things could've gotten real ugly if the Muscle Gang didn't suddenly interrupt - Joey's subsequent escape and accidentally knocking himself unconscious segues into the main plot of him waking up as a getaway driver. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
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My Beloved Smother: Nana was a grandmother with an abandonment complex. She tried to keep her grandchildren, Sylvie and Sam's dad, with her even as adults and pretty much disowned them when they left to have lives and families of their own. Not helped in that she raised them from childhood and pretty much was their only mother figure. | |
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Villain in a White Suit | |
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Villain in a White Suit: While Joey is in his "Babyface" persona, he meets the bosses of both the Killer Mob and Muscle Gang, both of them which are described as wearing white suits. Their underlings in comparison either wears black or casual outfits. | |
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The Bluebeard | |
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The Bluebeard: Bill killed all his previous wives before marrying the protagonists' mother, which is discovered by pictures of his wives in the titular locked room. His full name is Bill Beard, which might be a deliberate reference. | |
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Cement Shoes | |
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Cement Shoes: After Joey threatens to rat out the Killer Mob, their thugs threatens to do this on him and dump his body into a waterfront. But they're interrupted when mobsters from a rival gang attacks them. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Josh Jennings, the protagonist, and Bessie Butler, a character who mysteriously vanished prior to the story. | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Joey-as-Babyface finally meets the Killer Mob's boss for the first time, realizing him to be an overweight, pockmarked, and badly-scarred gangster. And then he meets the boss' wife, Sondra, and is actually surprised that Sondra is a slim, beautiful, and surprisingly polite Nice Girl. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain: The second-to-last chapter ends with Daniel successfully rescuing Sarah from being pulped by the factory's machines, and escaping back to their parents, where they then had a celebratory dinner for surviving their vacation. Then, the last chapter have Sarah waking Daniel in the dead of night, to tell him she discovered something else and asks him to follow her to the mill. Where their bodies are located, having failed to escape the mill after all. | |
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Mum Looks Like a Sister | |
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Mum Looks Like a Sister: Iggy's mother. It helps that she's a singer for a punk rock band (named "We Hate You" [!!!]) with a stereotypical spiky rockstar hairdo. | |
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Ghostly Chill | |
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Ghostly Chill: The last chapter where Daniel takes Sarah's hand have him realizing how weirdly cold her hand is. Then he reach the orchard and finds out they're ghosts. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: A rather obvious, not-to-subtle one, but this book is a gangster homage and the Killer Mob's thugs are named Lou, Rocco, Jimmy, Jackie, and Mikey. The Muscle Gang's leader is even named Tony. | |
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Undead Child | |
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Undead Child: The main characters are stalked by a ghost-boy haunting the Fern Island lighthouse. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Iggy's mother isn't given a name in the story, for reasons unknown despite being the titular character. | |
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Monochrome Casting | |
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Monochrome Casting: The only non-white protagonists were Colombian siblings Nico and Ana from The Forgotten Farmhouse. The series as a whole is rather white bread, only having a Token Minority (like Martin Littlefeather in Pool Ghoul and Nadina in The Ghosts of Devil's Marsh) every so often, though a notable exception is Beware the Bog Girl, which prominently features the Gullah subculture of African Americans. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Being the only book without supernatural elements, serial killers, monsters or any actual threats, and that the protagonist is a gangster-wannabe with the whole adventure being his daydreams. | |
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Getaway Driver | |
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Getaway Driver: Babyface serves as one to the Killer Mob. Problem is, he sucks at driving because he's Joey the 12-year-old stuck in an adult body. | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: Most of the story seems to mislead Jason — and the readers — that the creepy one-eyed hermit, Snake Eyes, who lives in a cabin at the edge of the forest and is often seen with a machete is a murderer out to get Jason's family. Nope — Snake Eyes is a good man, and it's the plants which want them dead for destroying the environment. | |
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Hell Hotel | |
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Hell Hotel: An interesting case as the hotel itself is mostly fine, the protagonist's mother has even been there before. The danger comes from the titular room, where a hotel maid murdered their children and their ghost haunts the room. | |
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Cat Scare | |
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Cat Scare: While Paul and his cousin Anthony are exploring and find an old cabin on the mountain, Paul peers in... and freaks out, falling backwards, when he sees a pair of eyes looking back out at him. It turns out to just be the pet cat of the cabin's owner. | |
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Barbaric Bully | |
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Barbaric Bully: Freddy mentions a Noodle Incident where Lumpy tries pranking Tommy with firecrackers. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Iggy's mother, who tackles a wolf about to pounce on her son. She gets bitten in the process while the wolf runs off, and unfortunately said wolf turns out to carry a lycanthropic virus. | |
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Family Theme Naming | |
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Family Theme Naming: Samantha's cousins are named Adam, Andy, Allen and Alfie. | |
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Goth | |
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Goth: Satin which may or may not be her real name. Despite being a preadolescent, she is described as being unhealthily pale, with dark mascara and lipstick, multiple piercings in both ears, and Boyish Short Hair that is dyed jet black. She also claims to be proficient in magic, but her attempt at using it left a lot to be desired. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: The endings of The Spider Kingdom, The Curse of the New Kid, and Babyface and the Killer Mob. | |
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Sequel Episode | |
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Sequel Episode: The story is a direct sequel to the eighth book Terror on Troll Mountain. | |
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Slow Transformation | |
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Slow Transformation: How the werewolf virus affecting Iggy's mother works. A day after she's bitten, Iggy catches her eating raw bacon, shaving mysterious hair that started sprouting all over her face, and then she starts developing a mood swing and shouting at her son for showing concern over her, at which point Iggy and Mole realize something's wrong. She's close to becoming an actual werewolf by the last few chapters, but luckily the potion Iggy and Mole brewed in the last minute works. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Moments before Jason and his brother can be swarmed alive by the killer plants, Snake Eyes suddenly shows up, machete in hand, and slices away at the plants. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
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Spotting the Thread: Sondra is able to tell that "Babyface", her chauffer, isn't himself. Because Babyface is an excellent driver while Joey-as-Babyface couldn't even reverse without hitting something, as well as Joey-as-Babyface calling Sondra "Ma'am" - the actual Babyface is nowhere as polite. | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: Joey, the 12-year-old protagonist, certainly thinks so, and frequently pesters the local thugs from the Killer Mob to take him in only for them to laugh him off. | |
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Prefers Going Barefoot | |
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Prefers Going Barefoot: One of Stephanie's younger sisters, Becky, has the habit of removing her shoes everytime she's indoors, just to "feel the floor of a new environment". Even if said indoors happens to be a dusty, junk-filled room of an abandoned lighthouse untouched for decades. It gets the gang into trouble when they realize something's amiss and attempts to flee - but Becky whines that she left her shoes behind and need to go back. | |
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A Dog Named "Cat" | |
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A Dog Named "Cat": Martin's pet black-and-white cat is named Skunk, for their fur color. | |
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Impostor-Exposing Test | |
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Impostor-Exposing Test: Joey-as-Babyface is subjected to one by the Killer Mob after they suspect something is amiss about their getaway driver, by quizzing Babyface what's his favorite drink. Joey made a lucky guess, "Root Beer", and that turns out to be correct. | |
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Identical Stranger | |
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Identical Stranger: Joey, in the last chapter, sees a policewoman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Sondra waking him up. Note that Sondra allegedly exists only in Joey's daydream. | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: In the climax, when the Killer Mob launches a direct assault on the Muscle Gang's mansion. Problem is, Joey-as-Babyface is caught right in all that mess. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: Like the title states, werewolves figures into the plot, when Iggy's mother gets bitten by a wolf who turns out to carry a lycanthropic virus. Her conversion from human to werewolf comes under the Slow Transformation variety, and it's up to Iggy and his friend Mole to figure out how to reverse the process - turns out they need to track down the wolf that bit her, mix it's hair with water, and force Iggy's mother to drink the concoction before her transformation becomes permanent. | |
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Weakened by the Light | |
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Weakened by the Light: The dolls become motionless when even the tiniest bit of light hits them, and come to life in complete darkness. | |
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Tranquillizer Dart | |
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Tranquillizer Dart: Iggy needs to re-capture the lycanthropic wolf who bit his mother and turned her into a werewolf to recover some of the wolf's hair. Luckily, the wolf hunter, Jesco, has a tranquilizer rifle they can use. | |
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Real After All | |
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Real After All: For most of the story, the Goat Boy is depicted as a prank from the seniors, based on a local urban legend of a boy suffering from a curse. But the story ends with the discovery of a chewed-up sandal, implied to be the Goat Boy's return. | |
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Never Trust a Title | |
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Never Trust a Title: The owner of the titular Wax Museum is actually named Mad Mac, not Weirdo Waldo. | |
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