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The Haunted School

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The Haunted School	comment	The Goosebumps book where a school has a strange secret.Tommy Frazer's just moved to a new town, and a new school. A school that's so big, it's easy to get lost in. One day, Tommy does indeed get lost, and stumbles upon a room dedicated to the Class of 1947, who all disappeared mysteriously after getting their class picture taken. Later, the night of a school dance, he and his friend Ben find an elevator that goes sideways, leading them to the truth about the missing students.It is one of the nineteen original series books that was not adapted into the 1995 TV series. There was an event based on it in Goosebumps HorrorTown.
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The Haunted School / int_10cb9a31	comment	Axes at School: Tommy brings a lighter, one that his grandfather gave him right before he died, to school. He knows he's not supposed to have one there, but he keeps it around as a good luck charm. It proves to be important later on.
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The Haunted School / int_139e8618	type	Magical Camera
The Haunted School / int_139e8618	comment	Magical Camera: Mr. Chameleon's camera acts as a portal to another dimension.
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The Haunted School / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
The Haunted School / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: When warding off the deranged students of the Grayworld class, Tommy uses his lighter to burn some leaves on the ground, in which the colorful flames distracted the children and caused the rest to escape. However, when he tries this again to provide a passage out of Grayworld, it only causes the flame to come out grey like almost everything else in this world.
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The Haunted School / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Haunted School / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Tommy's lighter and Thalia's lipstick, which help them escape Grayworld.
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The Haunted School / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Haunted School / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The picture of the skull on the back of the locker as seen in the cover is Curly the Skeleton.
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The Haunted School / int_38072b53	type	Wrong Assumption
The Haunted School / int_38072b53	comment	Wrong Assumption: When he hears that one of the class of 1947, a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was Greta, the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has almost white hair, steel-gray eyes, and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. It turns out that this girl wasn't Greta all along, it was Thalia.
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The Haunted School / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Haunted School / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ben Jackson, one of the main characters in the book, may be a bit of a prankster who likes making jokes and can be serious when he needs to be but he means well and is, for the most part, fairly friendly.
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The Haunted School / int_4c6e3b05	type	Uncanny Valley Makeup
The Haunted School / int_4c6e3b05	comment	Uncanny Valley Makeup: Thalia wears such heavy makeup that she looks completely unnatural and even creepy (she is only twelve years old), leading to bullying from her classmates. It turns out this is because she escaped from the colorless world and her skin is completely gray.
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The Haunted School / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Haunted School / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The protagonists escape Grayworld with help from Thalia, but can't save her and the other trapped students. They return to the school dance in time for a class picture, where they discover way too late that the photographer is the same one who sent the class of 1947 to Grayworld. He snaps the picture, presumably trapping them for good and stealing Bellwood's children all over again.
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The Haunted School / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Haunted School / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Mr. Chameleon, the only photographer in town, was heavily annoyed because the class that he was supposed to be taking a picture of were messing around and wouldn't stand still. This prompts him to send them all to an obscure place in another dimension seemingly for all eternity.
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The Haunted School / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Haunted School / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Most of the kids from the original class of Bell Valley Middle School have gone insane from being trapped in Grayworld.
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The Haunted School / int_6f4ddd0a	type	Old School Building
The Haunted School / int_6f4ddd0a	comment	Old School Building: The titular school, which dates back to at least 1947 and hides some pretty dark secrets, as Tommy finds out after taking the wrong elevator.
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The Haunted School / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Haunted School / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: If one were to think about it, what Greta did at the school dance was most likely the direct cause of the serious events of this book. She accidentally broke the party banner, which caused Tommy and Ben to go look for tape to patch it back up. But they then stumble upon the elevator that transports them to Grayworld. And it's their disappearance that causes Thalia to go looking for them, which brings her back to Grayworld, and she gets them back to the normal world. But it's then that the principal finds them, leads them back to the dance, and gets them in the group shot to have everyone dance worker's picture taken. And Mr. Chameleon, annoyed yet again that the photo shoot was held up because of Tommy and Ben's abscence, is heavily implied to send yet another class to Grayworld. None of these events would have happened if a banner hadn't been broken.
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The Haunted School / int_7c203f21	type	This Is No Time to Panic
The Haunted School / int_7c203f21	comment	This Is No Time to Panic: When Tommy and Ben get into the old school elevator, only for the doors to initially not open while they're inside, the former tries to reassure the latter this trope.
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The Haunted School / int_8816272b	type	Blinded by the Light
The Haunted School / int_8816272b	comment	Blinded by the Light: To distract the wild children in Grayworld, Tommy flicks open his lighter, which shoots up a yellow flame. Because they hadn't seen such a bright color in a long time, the others are anguished by the sight of it, complaining that it hurts to see it and shielding their eyes. And then Tommy uses the flame to torch a pile of leaves nearby, which exacerbates the children's horror.
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The Haunted School / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
The Haunted School / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: The outside surroundings of Grayworld is full of this.
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The Haunted School / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Haunted School / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Mr. Chameleon, the sinister photographer who sent the children to Grayworld in the first place. Even worse, he's still alive in the present day.
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The Haunted School / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Haunted School / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Tommy reads a Ray Bradbury story about "these kids who live on a planet where it never stops raining," and are miserable because they can't go outside in the sun. This general idea of kids being sad they can't experience sunshine becomes similar to the Grey kids, who are stuck in the grey world with no natural sunlight, and are sad about it.
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The Haunted School / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
The Haunted School / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: The kids escape Grayworld, only to find out that their class photo will be taken by Mr. Chameleon, whom they realize too late was the photographer who sent the Class of '47 to Grayworld in the first place.
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The Haunted School / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Haunted School / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: An entire class has been teleported to a strange black and white world where they never age. When Tommy and Ben arrive here years later, most of the students have devolved into insane, bloodthirsty savages, and want to keep them there forever.
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The Haunted School / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Haunted School / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: The main characters end up trapped in an alternate dimension with no color, where you never age.
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The Haunted School / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
The Haunted School / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: When thinking of how he and Ben can escape from the savage class of 1947, Tommy tells him that he and him can just spontaneously run away in different directions, to which Ben then replied with this trope. Tommy didn't want to answer that question, and didn’t know the answer itself, but just tells him to do it. Indeed, it doesn't work.
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The Haunted School / int_b9561236	type	A Good Name for a Rock Band
The Haunted School / int_b9561236	comment	A Good Name for a Rock Band: A band that is scheduled to perform at the school dance, which was formed by some students, is called Grunt. It have five guitar players (whom were all boys) and one drummer (who was Greta). Tommy heard rumors that three of the guitar players didn't really know how to play.
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The Haunted School / int_c675d08c	type	Compliment Backfire
The Haunted School / int_c675d08c	comment	Compliment Backfire: Tommy's new stepmother, who tries to relate to him, tells him that maybe he will grow out of his "baby fat" and become handsome later in life. Tommy does NOT appreciate this comment.
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The Haunted School / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
The Haunted School / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: When Greta steals Thalia's lipstick, she fights with it and even starts crying while trying to get it back, yet none of the students around her attempt to help her. Heck, some of them are even cheering Greta on. It takes Tommy the courage to stand up to her and try to take the lipstick back.
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The Haunted School / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Haunted School / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Mr. Chameleon is, judging by the impact of his actions, one of the most horrific characters in the series. We never actually meet him, or learn who or what he is or why he's sending children to the Grayworld.
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The Haunted School / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Haunted School / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The Grayworld is a dimension without color.
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The Haunted School / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
The Haunted School / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: The ending implies that Tommy and the kids in his class will be sent to Grayworld by Mr. Chameleon and trapped like the 1947 class was. However, Thalia can just as easily open another doorway into the color world using her lipstick if it still has its color by the time Tommy and the others show up. And even if it doesn't, Tommy can most likely burn open a doorway using his lighter, or any of the many other kids in their class can easily have an object that can allow them to open a doorway.
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The Haunted School / int_e1223d07	type	Evil Elevator
The Haunted School / int_e1223d07	comment	Evil Elevator: Tommy and Ben run into this trope when using the old school elevator to get to the third floor for art supplies. Instead of going there, it breaks down for a bit, and then sends them sideways to Grayworld.
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The Haunted School / int_f63e468f	type	Terrible Artist
The Haunted School / int_f63e468f	comment	Terrible Artist: Tommy and Thalia turn out to be not great at painting. They tried to make a big poster of a bison (the school mascot) for the dance, but it didn't look much like a real life bison. Ben said it looked more like a cow that had been sick for a long time.
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The Haunted School / int_fb7bc4a8	type	Never Trust a Title
The Haunted School / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: Despite having the word "haunted" in the title, the book doesn't involve ghosts of any kind.
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