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The Barking Ghost

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29 feature instances
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The Barking Ghost	type	TVTItem
The Barking Ghost	label	The Barking Ghost
The Barking Ghost	page	TheBarkingGhost
The Barking Ghost	comment	The Goosebumps book with ghost dogs.Cooper Holmes and his family have recently moved from Boston to Maine. Cooper soon hears rumors that the house and woods are haunted, and discovers that the rumors aren't exactly true... but the truth is much stranger.It was adapted into the seventh episode of the third season of the 1995 TV series.
The Barking Ghost	fetched	2023-10-23T03:30:29Z
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The Barking Ghost / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
The Barking Ghost / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: After Mickey scares him in front of Fergie, Cooper retaliates by biting him on the arm. This shuts up Mickey for once.
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The Barking Ghost / int_32e05e5e	type	The Prankster
The Barking Ghost / int_32e05e5e	comment	The Prankster: Mickey, who takes advantage of his younger brother Cooper being easily scared.
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The Barking Ghost / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
The Barking Ghost / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Cooper and Fergie devise a scheme to get back at Mickey for all the times he scared the former. They plan on scaring him in the middle of the night with a rubber rat in his bed and then bursting out of his closet to further scare him. However, Mickey saw them bringing in the supplies for this prank that morning, so he decided to make a fake him in bed and hide in the closet and scare them.
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The Barking Ghost / int_36754cc7	type	"Freaky Friday" Flip
The Barking Ghost / int_36754cc7	comment	"Freaky Friday" Flip: Between a pair of humans and some evil ghost dogs.
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The Barking Ghost / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
The Barking Ghost / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Mickey, who constantly tries to scare his easily-scared brother Cooper.
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The Barking Ghost / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
The Barking Ghost / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: After Mickey tricked him into thinking that he was really hurt by the dogs, Cooper asked him if he didn't have anything better to do than to try and scare him. Mickey smugly replies, "I don't even have to try."
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The Barking Ghost / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
The Barking Ghost / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Mickey to Cooper. He spends most of his free time frightening Cooper every chance he gets.
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The Barking Ghost / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
The Barking Ghost / int_4aa3c552	comment	Animorphism: The story bases its entire plot around this, in which the titular "ghosts" are actually a pair of men who got turned into dogs. Now they want to switch bodies with someone else.
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The Barking Ghost / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
The Barking Ghost / int_56863152	comment	Operation: [Blank]: Cooper at one point refers to his and Fergie's revenge plan toward Mickey as Operation "Scare Mickey."
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The Barking Ghost / int_59196f87	type	Baby Talk
The Barking Ghost / int_59196f87	comment	Baby Talk: After scaring Cooper at the beginning of the book, by hiding under his bed in the middle of the night, Mickey asks him in a baby voice if he wants a night-light for his bed. This causes Cooper to lose it, and attack him.
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The Barking Ghost / int_708cabf8	type	Sleeping Dummy
The Barking Ghost / int_708cabf8	comment	Sleeping Dummy: How Mickey fools Cooper and Fergie in their attempted prank. He planted a bunch of rolled up sheets and towels under the blanket of his bed to make it seem as though he was asleep.
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The Barking Ghost / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
The Barking Ghost / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: At dinner, Mrs. Holmes serves the phony Cooper liver, only for him to be quite disgusted and say he hates it. Mrs. Holmes is shocked at him, saying that he loves liver. This causes the phony Cooper to awkwardly pretend that he was just joking. The real Cooper, in the body of a dog, takes advantage of this by coming in and eating the liver himself, to try and convince them that it's really him. Needless to say, it doesn't work.
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The Barking Ghost / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
The Barking Ghost / int_7f298d3d	comment	Lame Comeback: After Mickey scares Cooper in bed, he gloats to him how he got him good. A stupefied Cooper tries to think of a clever comeback, but just blurts out, "You're a jerk!" Mickey tells him to grow up.
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The Barking Ghost / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Barking Ghost / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Cooper and Fergie in dog form are cornered by his angry family, the two try to stand on their hind legs to convince them that they're actually human. This only causes them to fall over while doing so, which makes his family laugh, despite wanting them to leave.
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The Barking Ghost / int_80c45784	type	Beware of Vicious Dog
The Barking Ghost / int_80c45784	comment	Beware of Vicious Dog: Especially ones that are ghosts!
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The Barking Ghost / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Barking Ghost / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: How Cooper's first two attempts in dog form to prove to his family that he was really him work out. Firstly, he goes into his father's office and attempts to write a letter saying that he and Fergie are actually them in the bodies of dogs. But because dogs don't have opposable thumbs, he tries to grab a pen with his paw, but is unable to hold onto it, let alone write with it. Secondly, at dinner when the fake in his original body shows a dislike for liver (his favorite), Cooper goes in and starts eating it to show that it's really him because he loves liver. This does not work at all, and simply looks to his family as though a stray dog came in and starts eating his food, just like any typical dog would do.
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The Barking Ghost / int_939de546	type	Copycat Mockery
The Barking Ghost / int_939de546	comment	Copycat Mockery: Cooper sees Mickey fall unconscious with ripped clothing and fake blood on, and he worriedly asks him if he's alright. Mickey then stopped pretending and gloatingly copies Cooper's ramblings.
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The Barking Ghost / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Barking Ghost / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Cooper gets into a fight with Mickey at night for scaring him. His parents wake up and break the two up whilst scolding him, and Cooper defends himself by doing the typical immature "He started it!"
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The Barking Ghost / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Barking Ghost / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After Cooper and Fergie leave embarrassed in their failed attempt at scaring, Mickey calls after them to run away with their tails between their legs. Later in the story, the two would end up in the bodies of two dogs.
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The Barking Ghost / int_a23b07cd	type	Ordered Apology
The Barking Ghost / int_a23b07cd	comment	Ordered Apology: At breakfast, Mickey pours salt all over Cooper's french toast. His mother demanded that he apologize. Mickey is reluctant, but eventually does so. But as soon as their mother turns away, Mickey silently teases Cooper. This causes Cooper to leave the table in protest.
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The Barking Ghost / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
The Barking Ghost / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: In the climax, the two human protagonists return the two former-dogs that stole their bodies into the log that swapped their minds, only to get their bodies swapped with chipmunks instead.
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The Barking Ghost / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Barking Ghost / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: The heroes end up trapped in the bodies of chipmunks.
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The Barking Ghost / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Barking Ghost / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: One time at summer camp, Cooper got lost in the woods on his way back to the bathroom cabin. He became so scared, he just stood there shaking in fright. Then his bunkmates found him and pointed out that he was merely standing a few feet away from the dining hall the whole time.
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The Barking Ghost / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Barking Ghost / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Cooper is nervous about moving to his wooded Maine home because he's only read two horror novels, both of which take place in the woods of Maine.
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The Barking Ghost / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
The Barking Ghost / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: The evil, snarling, red-eyed dog on the cover.
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The Barking Ghost / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
The Barking Ghost / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: The book ends with the protagonists stuck in the bodies of chipmunks while the chipmunks are now in the bodies of the dogs and the dogs still have the bodies of the protagonists. However, if they can lure the chipmunks in the bodies of the dogs (or another pair of stronger animals) back into the Changing Room, they can get stronger bodies and once again try to swap bodies with the ghost dogs who stole their bodies. Most notably, Cooper describes his physical appearance of his human form in the present-tense, implying that he got it back.
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The Barking Ghost / int_e6456343	type	Animals See in Monochrome
The Barking Ghost / int_e6456343	comment	Animals See in Monochrome: While Cooper is stuck in the body of a dog, he can only see in black and white vision.
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The Barking Ghost / int_f6b1c9f3	type	"You!" Exclamation
The Barking Ghost / int_f6b1c9f3	comment	"You!" Exclamation: Cooper says this when he finds out that the person that scared him and Fergie in the closet was none other than Mickey.
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