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The Haunted Mask II

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The Haunted Mask II	comment	The sequel to the Goosebumps book about the haunted mask, which is about a different mask.Steve Boswell tormented Carly Beth last year, but after her scary experience she's no longer scared of anything. Steve was so scared by her mask that he has to know where she got it from. She eventually confesses and he and his friend Chuck visit the party store. Steve finds a creepy mask of an old man and steals it. But sure enough, when he puts it on he has a hard time getting it off. And he starts feeling a lot older...It was loosely adapted into the 11th and 12th episodes of Season 2 of the TV series.It was reissued in the Classic Goosebumps line in 2018 as a tie-in to the movie Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Haunted Mask II / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: When Steve goes to Carly Beth for help, she immediately tells him to find a symbol of love. Too bad this mask is haunted differently, so that doesn't work.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_23330a99	type	Immediate Self-Contradiction
The Haunted Mask II / int_23330a99	comment	Immediate Self-Contradiction: When discussing with Chuck about pranking the first grade soccer team, Steve tells him that he doesn't want to do anything mean to them. But then he opens his notebook to find it covered with glued-on feathers, to which he replies that maybe he should do something mean to them.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Haunted Mask II / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: At one point Chuck tells Steve he looks like a "Mud Monster or something."
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The Haunted Mask II / int_3687d605	type	Rapid Aging
The Haunted Mask II / int_3687d605	comment	Rapid Aging: The Old Man mask does this to Steve, as he has a hard time getting around and has cravings for oatmeal.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Haunted Mask II / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: As part of their pranks against Steve, the first graders make a ball of concrete look like a soccer ball, and dare Steve to kick it. When he does, he screams in agony, and the next chapter shows him limping.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_39ff7ffb	type	Change the Uncomfortable Subject
The Haunted Mask II / int_39ff7ffb	comment	Change the Uncomfortable Subject: When Carly Beth scares Steve and Chuck and laughs about it with Sabrina, Steve does this trope by asking her about the scary mask she wore last Halloween.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_517d2eb8	type	Contrasting Sequel Main Character
The Haunted Mask II / int_517d2eb8	comment	Contrasting Sequel Main Character: While the first book was about a bullied girl, this one is all about that bully.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
The Haunted Mask II / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks: Steve finds this out the hard way when wearing his mask. He feels weak just by simply walking, he can't eat his favorite cereal with his weakened teeth, and he constantly gets out of breath from talking.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_60af5e4	type	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard
The Haunted Mask II / int_60af5e4	comment	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: When Steve is dismayed to see the party store closed, meaning he can't buy a scary mask to terrify the first-graders, Chuck tries to cheer him up by saying that they could make a scary mask out of papier-mache. Steve thinks to himself that this was the dumbest idea ever thought up by a human, and believes the kids would just mock him if he tried to scare them with a mask like that.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Haunted Mask II / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Weirdly played with. Jerkass Steve is punished by being made manager of a first grade soccer team. All the kids on the team treat Steve like crap, so much so that, even after the old man mask bonds to his face, he still plans on scaring them as badly as he can. But the kids think Steve actually is an old man and instead of being grossed out or acting mean, they try to be as legitimately helpful and kind as they can be.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Haunted Mask II / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Steve gets the mask off, but it ends with Chuck popping up with one he got, and he can't get it off.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_70d53103	type	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment
The Haunted Mask II / int_70d53103	comment	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment: When Steve is caught trying to sneak a squirrel in the girls' locker room at school, he is given a choice as a punishment. He can either stay after school every day in the gym and inflate basketballs by mouth, or he could coach the first-grade soccer team. He chose the latter because he thought that would be easier. But then he added that it was the wrong choice, as the first graders acted like animals.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_7ff52319	type	Blinding Camera Flash
The Haunted Mask II / int_7ff52319	comment	Blinding Camera Flash: Before going outside on Halloween, Steve's parents want to take his picture in his "costume". They do so, and because he was wearing a mask that made him feeble and weak, the camera flash gives him spots in his eyes momentarily.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Haunted Mask II / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Steve Boswell, a bully who ends up wearing the mask.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
The Haunted Mask II / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: The party store that Steve and Chuck go to in order to get a mask has this. There is a mysterious dripping noise of water, the wind makes echoes down there, and it's dark.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Haunted Mask II / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: After the events of the first book, Carly Beth is no longer scared of anything and even gets to prank Steve at one point.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Haunted Mask II / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: When Carly Beth tells Steve that the mask can be removed with a symbol of love, providing the sculpted head her mother made her to get hers off as an example, Steve quickly asks her to get the head. But she points out to him that he needs his own symbol of love.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_ac546cd4	type	Worth It
The Haunted Mask II / int_ac546cd4	comment	Worth It: On the way to the party store to get a mask, Chuck grumbles to Steve that he'll be in major trouble for missing dinner for this. Steve replies with this trope by name, as he thinks that a new mask would terrify the young soccer team. But when he actually puts the mask on and feels what it does to him, he soon changes his mind.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
The Haunted Mask II / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: Carly Beth gives Steve a big one when finding out that he ignored her warnings to not buy a cursed mask and got one anyway.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Haunted Mask II / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Chuck may be a bully who tends to break the rules, but when his best friend Steve wants to break into the party store to steal a mask, Chuck is hesitant to do so. He points out that breaking into someplace and stealing something are illegal.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_b4fb00f6	type	Mistaken for Pedophile
The Haunted Mask II / int_b4fb00f6	comment	Mistaken for Pedophile: When Steve tries to call Carly Beth, her dad picks up and thinks that Steve is a Dirty Old Man who wants to groom his daughter.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_c260f881	type	Gum In Hair
The Haunted Mask II / int_c260f881	comment	Gum In Hair: One of the players in the first-grade soccer team, Marnie Rosen, jumped on Steve's back and spit her bubble gum in his hair near his ear. It took him a while to scrape it out.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Haunted Mask II / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Steve lets out two in a row as he falls into a mud puddle, ruining the new sweater his mother made him wear for Picture Day.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
The Haunted Mask II / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: The cover depicts a horrific-looking mask looking directly at the reader.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_d83454f8	type	Keep Away
The Haunted Mask II / int_d83454f8	comment	Keep Away: Steve asks Carly Beth where she got the scary mask from, but she refuses to tell. So, he and Chuck maek her by taking her plaster of Paris head sculpture of her that her mother made her and tossing it away from her. Steve even calls this by the trope name.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Haunted Mask II / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: When Steve goes down the store basement, he goads Chuck into following him. When Chuck points out that it isn't right to break into basements, Steve replies that they're not "breaking in", as the basement doors were already open. But when the store owner comes downstairs and catches Steve in the act, he tries to use the same excuse about the open door, but isn't believed.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_e57965c6	type	Covered in Mud
The Haunted Mask II / int_e57965c6	comment	Covered in Mud: After a heavy rain and the sky clearing up, Steve is forced to act as the captain to the first-grade Hogs soccer team. They all end up this way, even Steve himself. He had to explain and apologize to their parents and babysitters about it.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Haunted Mask II / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When his parents finally see Steve's mask on him, they ask him where he got it. He replies that he got it at a party store. He notes to himself that it was almost the truth, leaving out the fact that it was closed down and he stole it instead of buying it.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
The Haunted Mask II / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: When Steve goes outside on Halloween night, he stumbles and limps out the door. His parents are watching this and think it's all part of an act to stay in character as part of his "costume", and laugh. Steve notes that he himself feels like crying.
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The Haunted Mask II / int_ff5b39d0	type	Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!
The Haunted Mask II / int_ff5b39d0	comment	Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: When Steve tells the first-graders that they should meet him at a supposedly haunted house on Halloween night, they are hesitant to do so. But when he adds that they shouldn't come if they're too wimpy, they all angrily deny this and want to go.
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