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The Haunted Mask

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The Goosebumps book about a haunted mask... kind of.Carly Beth is a scaredy cat and is tormented by the bullies Steve and Chuck as a result. One day she gets sick of it and decides to visit a creepy mask shop to find a scary Halloween mask. In a the back room, she finds the perfect fit, but the Shopkeeper refuses to sell it to her. However, she eventually convinces him and brings it home. After she puts on, she starts acting a lot more monstrous. Is the mask doing this to her, and will she be able to put it off?It recieved two direct sequels. The Haunted Mask II is part of the original series, and follows Steve when he finds a different haunted mask. The Scream of the Haunted Mask, part of the Goosebumps HorrorLand spinoff, continues Carly Beth's story, ignoring the events of The Haunted Mask II.It was adapted into the very first episode of the 1995 TV series.It was later reissued in the Classic Goosebumps line in 2008 as a companion to The Scream of the Haunted Mask.
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Annoying Younger Sibling
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Carly Beth's younger brother Noah, who likes to play pranks on her.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: After she gets home with her mask off, she runs into her mother, who asks her what happened. Carly Beth says she'll explain, but everything is fine now. But then Noah immediately comes into the kitchen wearing her mask.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: One of the Collector's Caps books reveals the backstory of the Shopkeeper, although a different one was used for the TV episode.
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Becoming the Costume
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Becoming the Costume: The basis for the story, as the mask basically becomes Carly Beth's skin and makes her act like a monster.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Carly Beth's mom makes a plaster of Paris head of Carly Beth, and says she made it because she loves her. Carly Beth later uses it as her symbol of love to defeat the mask.
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Halloween Episode
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Halloween Episode: The first of naturally quite a few in the franchise.
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The Prankster
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The Prankster: Chuck and Steve from (who also take advantage of Carly Beth being easily scared despite supposedly being her friends)
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Menacing Mask
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Menacing Mask: Carly Beth purchased the titular mask that attaches to her face and changes her personality.
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Latex Perfection
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Latex Perfection: They might not be latex, but when they're on someone's face, the wearers are mistaken for real monsters.
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My God, You Are Serious!
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My God, You Are Serious!: When Carly Beth is at Sabrina's house and she tries to get the mask off, she tells her about this. Sabrina thinks it's another one of her pranks she's pulling tonight. But she stops joking when she hears how desperate Carly Beth sounds, and especially when she tries to take the mask off herself and sees the mask blending in with her real skin.
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The Power of Love
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The Power of Love: The Haunted Mask can only be vanquished by a symbol of love. While it does come back time and again, a symbol of love is enough to keep it at bay for a while.
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Here We Go Again!
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Here We Go Again!: Carly Beth gets the mask off... but her little brother Noah puts it on.
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Definitely shades of this in Carly-Beth and Steve's relationship in The Haunted Mask, made more explicit in the TV adaptation.
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Clingy MacGuffin
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Clingy MacGuffin: The eponymous mask from The Haunted Mask. It won't come off without external help.
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Rejected Apology: After the prank he pulled on her at the science fair, Steve called Carly Beth and apologized to her. But she tells Sabrina in a later phone call that she doesn't think an apology is good enough. So, she decides to scare him.
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Actually Pretty Funny
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Actually Pretty Funny: At the Science Fair, Steve pretended that a spider from his project escaped, and put a pinching hand on Carly Beth's back. This caused her to scream and knock over her model solar system that she and Sabrina had made. When talking to Carly Beth on Halloween morning, Sabrina admits that it was a dirty trick, but also that it was kind of funny. This prompts an outraged response from Carly Beth.
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Deus ex 'Scuse Me
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Deus ex 'Scuse Me: It happens twice, once with Carly Beth's mom when she is trying to sneak on, and again earlier on with the shopkeeper so she can find the back room.
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Reed Richards Is Useless
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Reed Richards Is Useless: The Shopkeeper could've revolutionized surgery and ended permanent disfigurement, if he improved on his "mask making" skills.
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Our Homunculi Are Different
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Our Homunculi Are Different: The Haunted Mask and its kind are disembodied homunculi. Basically, they're artificially grown living faces that desire human hosts, and are said to be created from human faults and sins, similar to the more renowned Homunculi.
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Rapid-Fire "Shut Up!"
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Rapid-Fire "Shut Up!": When Sabrina makes an Innocently Insensitive comment about the mask, saying that she must be sweating like a pig under there, Carly Beth gets angry while under the mask's influence. She responds with this trope, then starts to strangle Sabrina. Luckily, she realizes what she's doing, and releases Sabrina, claiming that she just did that as a joke.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Early on, Carly Beth tells Sabrina maybe she'll scare her someday, to which Sabrina says "No way!". Later on, Carly Beth indeed gets to scare Sabrina with the mask.
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Cruel Twist Ending: Carly Beth finally gets the eponymous mask off... only for her brother to try it on for himself.
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I Ate WHAT?!
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I Ate WHAT?!: At the lunch room in the beginning of the book, Carly Beth eats a sandwich and is shocked to find a bitten worm. Chuck assures her that it's rubber, but she pulls it out to find out that it's real, much to her horror. She ends up running out of the lunch room in disgust and humiliation.
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Finger Wag
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Finger Wag: A mother angrily does this to Carly Beth after she scares her son and a friend of his while wearing the mask.
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Razor Apples
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Razor Apples: Lampshaded. Sabrina's mom instructs her every year to throw away any candies that are not in their original wrappers for fear of poisons and sharp objects.
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Blunt "Yes": In the lunchroom, Carly Beth tells Sabrina that she might go as a witch for Halloween, but Sabrina replies that she thought she was afraid of witches. When Carly Beth accused her of thinking that she's a scaredy-cat, Sabrina replies with this trope.
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: The party store where Carly Beth gets the mask.
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Nightmare Face
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Nightmare Face: The cover of The Haunted Mask depicts a horrific-looking mask looking directly at the reader.
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Puppy Love
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Puppy Love: Steve and Carly-Beth, though any romantic tension between the two is at best distantly implied in the book but made into a major plot point in the TV series.
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Evil Feels Good
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Evil Feels Good: The mask makes Carly-Beth feel good about hurting people.
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I Got a Rock
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I Got a Rock: At one house while trick-or-treating, Carly Beth is disappointed and outraged that she and Sabrina got green apples. Because she was under the influence of the mask, she waits until she's out on the sidewalk to throw the apples at the house. They hit the house, causing the owner who gave them out to poke his out the front door. This prompts the two girls to run away until the house is no longer in sight.
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Never Trust a Title
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Never Trust a Title: The mask isn't actually haunted, as far as the reader knows.
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With Friends Like These...
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With Friends Like These...: Apparently Steve and Chuck are supposed to be friends to Sabrina and Carly Beth but given their cruel pranks directed at the latter, it's hard to believe that. Sabrina isn't immune to this trope either since she laughs at some of the pranks and upsets Carly Beth.
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