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Goosebumps #13
Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
Practice till you drop . . . dead.When Jerry finds a dusty old piano in the attic of his new house, his parents offer to pay for lessons. At first, taking piano seems like a cool idea.But there's something creepy about Jerry's piano teacher, Dr. Shreek. Something really creepy. Something Jerry can't quite put his finger on. Then Jerry hears the stories. Terrifying stories. About the students at Dr. Shreek's music school. Students who went in for a lesson . . . and never came out.
113 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1993
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R.L. Stine
1,668 books18.3k followersRobert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.
R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.
Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.
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R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.
Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.
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September 11, 2022
In Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, Jerry and his parents move into a new house and find an old piano in the attic, left behind by the former homeowner. Jerry starts taking piano lessons from the mysterious and hilariously named Dr. Shreek at his remote piano school, and around the same time also discovers that his piano is haunted. Is there any connection between the woman haunting Jerry's piano and his enigmatic piano teacher? And can Jerry escape the sinister forces that seem to be at play all around him?
This was a decent Goosebumps book, one of the better entries I've reread so far. The danger to Jerry is real in this story, and there is some genuinely terrifying and gruesome imagery relating to the ghost haunting Jerry's piano that is uncommonly mature for a Goosebumps book. I really appreciated that, reading this book as an adult; it felt a bit more "grown up" than your average entry in the series. The writing is also better and a bit less repetitive than in most Goosebumps books I've reread so far.
On the negative side, some of the writing is still very repetitive, with Stine seemingly describing every day as a "blustery, gray day" throughout the course of the book. He must have used that same description at least three times. I mean, I get it, it's winter, and every day pretty much is like that, but it's not hard to find a different way to describe it. This kind of lazy, repetitive writing is unfortunately a staple in the original Goosebumps series, and though not as bad in this book as some others I've reread, it's still unfortunately here as well. There is also some racial stereotyping of characters, this time involving an Asian character, which I've unfortunately also seen in another entry in this series so far (in Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns it involves an African American character). Things like this definitely date the books; you can really tell these were written in the 1990s.
Some issues aside, this is a solid read overall, and one of the better Goosebumps books I've reread so far from the original series. Because of how the CAWPILE rating system works, this gets four stars, but it's really a 3.5-star read for me. Not bad!
CAWPILE rating:
Characters: 6.5
Atmosphere / Setting: 7.5
Writing Style: 6.8
Plot: 7.0
Intrigue: 7.5
Logic / Relationships: 6.8
Enjoyment: 7.0
= 49.1 total
÷ 7 categories = 7.01 out of 10
= 4 stars
This was a decent Goosebumps book, one of the better entries I've reread so far. The danger to Jerry is real in this story, and there is some genuinely terrifying and gruesome imagery relating to the ghost haunting Jerry's piano that is uncommonly mature for a Goosebumps book. I really appreciated that, reading this book as an adult; it felt a bit more "grown up" than your average entry in the series. The writing is also better and a bit less repetitive than in most Goosebumps books I've reread so far.
On the negative side, some of the writing is still very repetitive, with Stine seemingly describing every day as a "blustery, gray day" throughout the course of the book. He must have used that same description at least three times. I mean, I get it, it's winter, and every day pretty much is like that, but it's not hard to find a different way to describe it. This kind of lazy, repetitive writing is unfortunately a staple in the original Goosebumps series, and though not as bad in this book as some others I've reread, it's still unfortunately here as well. There is also some racial stereotyping of characters, this time involving an Asian character, which I've unfortunately also seen in another entry in this series so far (in Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns it involves an African American character). Things like this definitely date the books; you can really tell these were written in the 1990s.
Some issues aside, this is a solid read overall, and one of the better Goosebumps books I've reread so far from the original series. Because of how the CAWPILE rating system works, this gets four stars, but it's really a 3.5-star read for me. Not bad!
CAWPILE rating:
Characters: 6.5
Atmosphere / Setting: 7.5
Writing Style: 6.8
Plot: 7.0
Intrigue: 7.5
Logic / Relationships: 6.8
Enjoyment: 7.0
= 49.1 total
÷ 7 categories = 7.01 out of 10
= 4 stars
October 5, 2018
#13 "Play it again, hands!"
Jerome (Jerry) just moved in and has found a lovely piano in pristine condition in the attic of their new home. Consequently his parents decide to get him piano lessons. Besides having strange dreams about his piano teacher, Jerry also starts seeing the ghost of the piano's previous owner! And this ghost has a warning for Jerry... "Stay away from my piano!" This was a meh for me.
Jerome (Jerry) just moved in and has found a lovely piano in pristine condition in the attic of their new home. Consequently his parents decide to get him piano lessons. Besides having strange dreams about his piano teacher, Jerry also starts seeing the ghost of the piano's previous owner! And this ghost has a warning for Jerry... "Stay away from my piano!" This was a meh for me.
December 17, 2024
Este fue elección de nuestra mayor pero no nos ha gustado mucho.
Bastante flojo. No pasa gran cosa, salvo alguna escena puntual destacable, las situaciones en general son muy repetitivas, el final es muy previsible y le faltó la sorpresa final a la que Stine nos tiene tan acostumbradas.
Espero que el siguiente sea mejor, lo cual tampoco es muy difícil 😂
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Bastante flojo. No pasa gran cosa, salvo alguna escena puntual destacable, las situaciones en general son muy repetitivas, el final es muy previsible y le faltó la sorpresa final a la que Stine nos tiene tan acostumbradas.
Espero que el siguiente sea mejor, lo cual tampoco es muy difícil 😂
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August 31, 2020
RILETTURA DA ADULTO DEI PICCOLI BRIVIDI N.5
Divertente ma campato per aria. Un "Suspiria" per infanti molto scombinato.
Un trasferimento. Una scuola di musica diroccata. Un pianoforte che suona da solo. Un insegnante di musica psicopatico fissato con le mani degli studenti. Una musicista fantasma che suona con i moncherini.
Gli ingredienti sono stuzzicanti, la storia è un po' un pasticcio e conclusa in modo a dir poco frettoloso. Il finale, poi, è delirante quanto un b-movie horror italiano degli anni '80
(SPOILER: a dieci pagine dalla fine salta fuori che un po' tutti sono robot e il protagonista reagisce tipo "ah, okay". Quindi il cattivone vuole tagliare le mani bellissime del nostro ragazzetto perché "la vera musica la suonano i robot perché non fanno errori, ma le mani devono essere umane". Il cattivone perisce perché la musicista fantasma che abita in casa di cosino gli si rivolta contro, destando le mani umane che suonavano i pianoforti della scuola, che in realtà sono tutti musicisti apprendisti uccisi dal capo della scuola.)
Ah, i genitori di cosino non sono i soliti negligenti, semmai sono giustamente scazzati: il piccolo protagonista è simpatico con un cactus nelle parti basse.
Divertente ma campato per aria. Un "Suspiria" per infanti molto scombinato.
Un trasferimento. Una scuola di musica diroccata. Un pianoforte che suona da solo. Un insegnante di musica psicopatico fissato con le mani degli studenti. Una musicista fantasma che suona con i moncherini.
Gli ingredienti sono stuzzicanti, la storia è un po' un pasticcio e conclusa in modo a dir poco frettoloso. Il finale, poi, è delirante quanto un b-movie horror italiano degli anni '80
(SPOILER: a dieci pagine dalla fine salta fuori che un po' tutti sono robot e il protagonista reagisce tipo "ah, okay". Quindi il cattivone vuole tagliare le mani bellissime del nostro ragazzetto perché "la vera musica la suonano i robot perché non fanno errori, ma le mani devono essere umane". Il cattivone perisce perché la musicista fantasma che abita in casa di cosino gli si rivolta contro, destando le mani umane che suonavano i pianoforti della scuola, che in realtà sono tutti musicisti apprendisti uccisi dal capo della scuola.)
Ah, i genitori di cosino non sono i soliti negligenti, semmai sono giustamente scazzati: il piccolo protagonista è simpatico con un cactus nelle parti basse.
April 29, 2015
O.O <---- My wide eyes and tiny nose after reading this. I thought it was spooky and good.
Jerome, better known as Jerry, has just moved with his mom and dad and evil cat Bonkers to a new house in a new town. The house is completely empty. Except for a piano in the attic.
Jerry hears the piano being played. At night. He knows it's not his parents - they can't play. And frankly, his cat just isn't that skilled.
When his dad finds him, crouched in the attic, claiming he heard piano music, he offers Jerry piano lessons. Jerry accepts.
Piano lessons might be fun, I thought. If they let me learn to play rock piano, not that drippy, boring classical stuff.
After a few lessons, maybe I could get a synthesizer. Get 2 or 3 different keyboards. Hook them up to a computer.
The I could do some composing. Maybe get a group together.
Yeah. It could be really excellent.
Keep dreaming, kid. Everyone knows kids take music lessons and then get bored and beg to quit (except for Nenia Campbell and her flute-playing. She's just awesome like that).
A man who looks just like Santa Claus without a beard comes to the house to teach Jerry piano lessons. His name is Dr. Shreek. I know. Alarm bells are going off already, aren't they?
First, the good doctor starts acting freaky about the piano:
"Don't you wonder who played this piano before you?" he asked softly. "Don't you wonder whose fingers touched these keys?"
"Well..." I really didn't know what to say.
"What a mystery," he said in a whisper.
Then, he starts obsessing over Jerry's hands.
I started to say something, but he grabbed my hands.
"Let me take a look," he said, raising my hands close to his face. He turned them over and studied both sides. Then he carefully examined my fingers.
"What beautiful hands!" he exclaimed breathlessly. "Excellent hands!"
I stared down at my hands. They didn't look like anything special to me. Just normal hands.
"Excellent hands," Dr. Shreek repeated.
This happens more than once. Eventually the Dr. tells Jerry that he won't come to his house anymore, he's graduated to being able to attend Shreek's school. Telling classmates at school that he's taking lesson's at Shreek's makes them literally flee him in terror. Yes, they run away upon hearing this news.
Meanwhile, Jerry is still hearing the ghost playing the piano every night. Eventually, the ghost manifests itself to Jerry in a very scary scene. Really. Well done, Mr. Stine. She screams at him to stay away from her piano.
No one will believe him about the ghost...in fact after his parents determine he hasn't been playing practical jokes on him, they make him see a child psychologist. Of course what's really wrong can't be fixed by a shrunken head...
....
...
All in all, a VERY satisfying read. Very spooky. Especially the ghost, I kept picturing her as The Grudge, or Kayako I guess her name is (we just call her The Grudge in my circle). Super-eerie. Especially the one scene that's in the spoiler! *chills Anyway, I really liked it.
Jerome, better known as Jerry, has just moved with his mom and dad and evil cat Bonkers to a new house in a new town. The house is completely empty. Except for a piano in the attic.
Jerry hears the piano being played. At night. He knows it's not his parents - they can't play. And frankly, his cat just isn't that skilled.
When his dad finds him, crouched in the attic, claiming he heard piano music, he offers Jerry piano lessons. Jerry accepts.
Piano lessons might be fun, I thought. If they let me learn to play rock piano, not that drippy, boring classical stuff.
After a few lessons, maybe I could get a synthesizer. Get 2 or 3 different keyboards. Hook them up to a computer.
The I could do some composing. Maybe get a group together.
Yeah. It could be really excellent.
Keep dreaming, kid. Everyone knows kids take music lessons and then get bored and beg to quit (except for Nenia Campbell and her flute-playing. She's just awesome like that).
A man who looks just like Santa Claus without a beard comes to the house to teach Jerry piano lessons. His name is Dr. Shreek. I know. Alarm bells are going off already, aren't they?
First, the good doctor starts acting freaky about the piano:
"Don't you wonder who played this piano before you?" he asked softly. "Don't you wonder whose fingers touched these keys?"
"Well..." I really didn't know what to say.
"What a mystery," he said in a whisper.
Then, he starts obsessing over Jerry's hands.
I started to say something, but he grabbed my hands.
"Let me take a look," he said, raising my hands close to his face. He turned them over and studied both sides. Then he carefully examined my fingers.
"What beautiful hands!" he exclaimed breathlessly. "Excellent hands!"
I stared down at my hands. They didn't look like anything special to me. Just normal hands.
"Excellent hands," Dr. Shreek repeated.
This happens more than once. Eventually the Dr. tells Jerry that he won't come to his house anymore, he's graduated to being able to attend Shreek's school. Telling classmates at school that he's taking lesson's at Shreek's makes them literally flee him in terror. Yes, they run away upon hearing this news.
Meanwhile, Jerry is still hearing the ghost playing the piano every night. Eventually, the ghost manifests itself to Jerry in a very scary scene. Really. Well done, Mr. Stine. She screams at him to stay away from her piano.
No one will believe him about the ghost...in fact after his parents determine he hasn't been playing practical jokes on him, they make him see a child psychologist. Of course what's really wrong can't be fixed by a shrunken head...
....
...
All in all, a VERY satisfying read. Very spooky. Especially the ghost, I kept picturing her as The Grudge, or Kayako I guess her name is (we just call her The Grudge in my circle). Super-eerie. Especially the one scene that's in the spoiler! *chills Anyway, I really liked it.
August 30, 2022
Piano Lessons Can Be Murder by R. L. Stine is pretty scary for a goosebumps book; ghosts, dismemberment, and creepy teachers make this one scary. This book is number 13 in the original goosebumps series. The story is pretty creepy from the start a family buys a new home, and finds a fairly new piano in the attic, but it is very haunted and only plays a sad melody that their young son Jerry can hear. This story is focused, and narrative driven. The ending is crazy, and only one that R.L. Stine could come up with. I remembered this episode from the TV show and I usually say the TV show was better, but this story is pretty good, and it let my mind go to some scary places. I liked this book better than the TV episode.
The Plot: Jerry or Jerome is 12 and just moved to a new home just before winter. The home is a big two floor with a giant attic. Jerome explores and finds a piano that looks pretty new despite being found in the dusty attic. His dad wants to bring it down to the family room, where Jerome can take lessons. Before the piano can be moved Jerome hears a sad melody from up in the attic. The piano is moved downstairs to the family room. Jerome still hears the same sad melody coming from the piano, he investigates but finds nothing. Jerome starts is own lessons form a Mr. Shreek who despite the name is nice but something is not quite right with him. He has nightmares about Mr. Shreek and wakes up to the piano playing, when he goes down this time he finds a ghost playing, and gives a warning or a threat he can't tell. "don't play anymore!"
What I Liked: This is a very plot driven story, there is one scene where Jerry goes to a shrink because he keeps seeing the ghost, that could've been cut but everything else really flows. The horror is more of the mind, but works really well. A sad melody that keeps getting played in darkness, get me out of that house. I also found the hallways of the school that all look the same pretty terrifying. The climax is totally bonkers and outrageous but it fits well with the theme of the story. I didn't mind the jump scares they all sort of fit.
What I Disliked: The floor cleaner monster was kind of a stretch. I did feel like the end would have been better if it was sort of a cult then what it turned out to be.
Recommendations: If you want a good scary Goosebumps book than this is the one for you. If you also want to scare your kid about asking for piano lessons then this is the book for you. For some reason this is the only Goosebumps book not on Amazon kindle for some reason, so tracking it down will be a little hard but so worth it. I rated Piano Lessons Can Be Murder by R. L. Stine 5 out of 5. Here's my full ranking of the 13 Goosebumps books that I have read in order to my favorite to least favorite: Stay Out of the Basement, Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, The Haunted Mask, Night of the Living Dummy, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Say Cheese and Die, Let's Get Invisible, Welcome to Dead House, The Girl who Cried Monster, The Ghost Next Door, Be Careful What You Wish For... , and Monster Blood.
The Plot: Jerry or Jerome is 12 and just moved to a new home just before winter. The home is a big two floor with a giant attic. Jerome explores and finds a piano that looks pretty new despite being found in the dusty attic. His dad wants to bring it down to the family room, where Jerome can take lessons. Before the piano can be moved Jerome hears a sad melody from up in the attic. The piano is moved downstairs to the family room. Jerome still hears the same sad melody coming from the piano, he investigates but finds nothing. Jerome starts is own lessons form a Mr. Shreek who despite the name is nice but something is not quite right with him. He has nightmares about Mr. Shreek and wakes up to the piano playing, when he goes down this time he finds a ghost playing, and gives a warning or a threat he can't tell. "don't play anymore!"
What I Liked: This is a very plot driven story, there is one scene where Jerry goes to a shrink because he keeps seeing the ghost, that could've been cut but everything else really flows. The horror is more of the mind, but works really well. A sad melody that keeps getting played in darkness, get me out of that house. I also found the hallways of the school that all look the same pretty terrifying. The climax is totally bonkers and outrageous but it fits well with the theme of the story. I didn't mind the jump scares they all sort of fit.
What I Disliked: The floor cleaner monster was kind of a stretch. I did feel like the end would have been better if it was sort of a cult then what it turned out to be.
Recommendations: If you want a good scary Goosebumps book than this is the one for you. If you also want to scare your kid about asking for piano lessons then this is the book for you. For some reason this is the only Goosebumps book not on Amazon kindle for some reason, so tracking it down will be a little hard but so worth it. I rated Piano Lessons Can Be Murder by R. L. Stine 5 out of 5. Here's my full ranking of the 13 Goosebumps books that I have read in order to my favorite to least favorite: Stay Out of the Basement, Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, The Haunted Mask, Night of the Living Dummy, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Say Cheese and Die, Let's Get Invisible, Welcome to Dead House, The Girl who Cried Monster, The Ghost Next Door, Be Careful What You Wish For... , and Monster Blood.
December 31, 2021
I spent a month re-reading all 62 original Goosebumps books to see if they still hold up today, you can check out my 3.5 hour vlog here: https://youtu.be/2C73xc1FS5o
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You can also check out my entire ranking of the original Goosebumps books from worst to best here: https://youtu.be/lBfaxCOwAnA
November 16, 2017
I wasn’t a huge fan of this one as a kid, but loved re-reading it now! One of the best titles for sure and a thrilling plot to match.
July 31, 2018
3.5 but rounding up to 4 stars because this would have definitely freaked me out reading this as a kid! Full review to come
June 17, 2020
The new kid in town has just talked himself into taking piano lessons...but is the piano haunted?
This Goosebumps book doesn't hang together as tightly as previous ones, but it seems to have also wandered the furthest off the trail of common horror tropes of the books so far. I have mixed feelings. I liked it; it didn't wow me; it was different.
Recommended if you're a kid on summer break or an adult reading on thier phone while standing in line and getting interrupted all the time.
This Goosebumps book doesn't hang together as tightly as previous ones, but it seems to have also wandered the furthest off the trail of common horror tropes of the books so far. I have mixed feelings. I liked it; it didn't wow me; it was different.
Recommended if you're a kid on summer break or an adult reading on thier phone while standing in line and getting interrupted all the time.
July 16, 2024
Αν και είναι ένα βιβλίο που δεν ξεκινάς να το διαβάζεις έχοντας πολύ υψηλές προσδοκίες, καταλήγεις να ενθουσιαστείς, όχι για την πρωτοτυπία του, αλλά για τον τρόπο που χειρίζεται ο συγγραφέας ένα τόσο -θεωρητικά- κοινότυπο υλικό, χτίζοντας ατμόσφαιρα που σου προκαλεί ανατριχίλα και σου κόβει την ανάσα, ακονίζοντας τα πιο ακραία σου ένστικτα.
January 27, 2022
This was fun. I believe I read it as a child but I didn't remember what happened. 3.5
April 30, 2024
3.5⭐️
Well, it was actually pretty scary. One thing that I disliked - the floor cleaner monster seemed a bit comical and somewhat far-fetched.
Well, it was actually pretty scary. One thing that I disliked - the floor cleaner monster seemed a bit comical and somewhat far-fetched.
April 9, 2015
I'm not sure how R.L. Stine came up with so many ideas for Fear street and his goosebump series. He definitely has a vast imagination, filled with either creative plots from something that makes sense - or something like this, taking the mundane to make it bizarre. The writing is catered to young children, but even then the italics get irritating. Some of the chapters end on the false cliffhangers, but not as badly as some of the other goosebumps. The story was a little silly, even if the robotics were convenient. Not enough is explained so this one comes off emptier than it should. I did chuckle at Bonkers the cat; reminded me of my own mean cat, Malz, who randomly attacks unsuspecting people.
October 9, 2023
What a creepy and a decent Goosebumps book!
Lots of dark implications on this one that I thought it went off rails with it's themes for a kids book, for instance, it has suggestive dismemberments, disturbing imageries that was spoiled in the book's cover and what it looks like, suggestive pedophile.
Very psycopathic.
But before all those, it introduces also a subplot with supernatural mysteries involving the piano from the attic and that was really creepy, I also loved how that subplot tied in with the main conflict of the book.
An overall enjoyable entry in the Goosebumps series and in this case, really is creepy, It does have a slow start but as the story goes along, it is a more intriguing story to follow.
Lots of dark implications on this one that I thought it went off rails with it's themes for a kids book, for instance, it has suggestive dismemberments, disturbing imageries that was spoiled in the book's cover and what it looks like, suggestive pedophile.
Very psycopathic.
But before all those, it introduces also a subplot with supernatural mysteries involving the piano from the attic and that was really creepy, I also loved how that subplot tied in with the main conflict of the book.
An overall enjoyable entry in the Goosebumps series and in this case, really is creepy, It does have a slow start but as the story goes along, it is a more intriguing story to follow.
September 8, 2021
When Jerry discovers a piano in the new house that he’s family had just recently moved into.
He’s parents convince him to take up piano lessons, but when he’s teacher Dr. Shreek stars behaving weirdly, Jerry starts to question if these piano lessons are a good idea after all.
An enjoyable entry in the series, piano music is always a great stable in the horror genre.
I can vividly remember this one as a kid, it held up pretty well on a nostalgic re-read.
He’s parents convince him to take up piano lessons, but when he’s teacher Dr. Shreek stars behaving weirdly, Jerry starts to question if these piano lessons are a good idea after all.
An enjoyable entry in the series, piano music is always a great stable in the horror genre.
I can vividly remember this one as a kid, it held up pretty well on a nostalgic re-read.
March 31, 2024
I instantly despised the kid, Jerry, from the first chapter. A cat hating prankster. Even if the cat is a bit of a menace, I did not like the way he was talking about the cat. Being an animal lover, call me extra sensitive I guess. I think Stine needs to stick to dogs for pets for his books, if he's this opinionated about cats. I seem to recall any family with a cat in his stories so far, the cat is described poorly and the kid hates it.
Overlooking that though? I actually didn't mind the story as much as I thought I would. Soon as I got over how much I disliked Jerry, and just focused on the paranormal elements, things got better. It was actually spooky! I loved the direction it went, the ending, but I won't talk more about that. It also thankfully got straight to the point, instead of padding out nonsense in between. Unlike the previous book.
Overlooking that though? I actually didn't mind the story as much as I thought I would. Soon as I got over how much I disliked Jerry, and just focused on the paranormal elements, things got better. It was actually spooky! I loved the direction it went, the ending, but I won't talk more about that. It also thankfully got straight to the point, instead of padding out nonsense in between. Unlike the previous book.
December 27, 2019
A imaginação deste autor é inexplicável.
September 14, 2017
***Rated by my daughter***
December 26, 2024
Solid 4/5. Tää oli aika paljon synkempi kuin aiemmat kirjat 👀 mutta juoni oli creepy edelleen 13 vuotta myöhemmin
November 27, 2024
This one was really uneven. The scenes with the ghost and the piano playing itself were genuinely creepy. The first two thirds of the book told a subtle, atmospheric horror story. Then in the last thirty pages, the book skyrocketed into WTF territory. I was reminded of Monster Blood, which had a similar problem of combining two ideas that didn’t really fit. Both books also have villains that defy all kinds of logic. The ending felt less like a plot twist and more like a fever dream. On the plus side, having a villain who makes some truly baffling life choices does go a long way towards making this book more memorable. I also think this could be considered Goosebumps first serial killer story depending on how much you read into certain parts of it. Overall, it was messy but it gave me a lot to write about.
Score: 1.5 stars.
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Score: 1.5 stars.
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June 22, 2018
This book wasn't anything memorable. It's basically a rip-off from every other goosebumps books.
The plot was cliche and totally predictable. Here,
- The MC and his family moves to an creepy and old house.
- He finds a piano in the attic, and obviously brings it down.
- He hears the piano playing by itself at night. (Every. Piano. Cliche. Ever)
- His parents insists he should learn to play, so they put him under the tutor of a creepy old guy.
- The neighborhood girl and a ghost warns him away from his new teacher and his school.
- The stories turn out to be true.
And the ending? Uh, no one saw that coming! *eye rolls* Like, it was basically any child's guess.
DUH
All in all, I wasn't very impressed with this book, even if it was my second time reading it.
The plot was cliche and totally predictable. Here,
- The MC and his family moves to an creepy and old house.
- He finds a piano in the attic, and obviously brings it down.
- He hears the piano playing by itself at night. (Every. Piano. Cliche. Ever)
- His parents insists he should learn to play, so they put him under the tutor of a creepy old guy.
- The neighborhood girl and a ghost warns him away from his new teacher and his school.
- The stories turn out to be true.
And the ending? Uh, no one saw that coming! *eye rolls* Like, it was basically any child's guess.
DUH
All in all, I wasn't very impressed with this book, even if it was my second time reading it.
January 8, 2025
I’m doing a full series reread and this one had me laughing so hard. The humor was great and the storyline was beyond creepy!
Imagine taking Piano lessons and discovering the piano that came with your new house is haunted by a ghost who formerly lived in your house. This might be crazy but then you get a teacher who’s obsessed with your hands and insists you must not quit playing. Jerry learns from a classmate that this music store he’s been getting lessons at is also haunted and filled with monsters. This is some scary shit for a kid! lol nightmare fuel😂
Imagine taking Piano lessons and discovering the piano that came with your new house is haunted by a ghost who formerly lived in your house. This might be crazy but then you get a teacher who’s obsessed with your hands and insists you must not quit playing. Jerry learns from a classmate that this music store he’s been getting lessons at is also haunted and filled with monsters. This is some scary shit for a kid! lol nightmare fuel😂
August 19, 2008
What's not to love about a Goosebumps book about a crazy piano teacher who replaces kids' hands with robot hands so they never make mistakes? I keep this on my studio bookshelf just for fun. Oops...guess that was a spoiler, huh? Sorry I spoiled it for all of you planning to run out and read it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 11, 2016
Jerry or Jerome or Jer or whatever people call him in this book is a 12 year old asshole who's just moved to a new town. I call him that because he is a total dick to his parents. He thinks he is hilarious, and plays all sorts of pranks and jokes on his parents. These great "jokes" include falling down a lot, and scaring his dad to make him drop a full kettle on his foot. What a swell kid.
Jerry is busy exploring his new house, having dreams of making the extra bedrooms into a "Nintendo room" and a state of the art gym. As he climbs up to the creepy old attic, he finds something mysterious hidden under a big blanket. If you're excited that we're about to Let's Get Invisible again, I have some disappointing news. Under the blanket is a nice piano. Joy! They decide the previous owners just left it for them, and are going to bring it downstairs.
Late at night, Jerry can't sleep. He starts to hear piano music coming from upstairs. Of course he decides to go up into the attic and investigate, but there's nobody in there. Spooky! The old haunted piano gag. His parents find him up in the attic and he claims he heard the piano playing but they think he's pulling one of his "classic" jokes. Then Jerry's dad decides to get him some piano lessons, which sets up fantasies of playing "rock piano" and synthesizers because Jerry is a massive nerd.
Jerry has a piano lesson with a creepy guy named Dr. Shreek, who apparently looks like Santa Claus. He doesn't really teach him much the first time around, and just obsesses about how wonderful Jerry's hands are. This continues throughout the book and comes off as extremely uncomfortable. Anyhow, Jerry gets one lesson and not much else happens. We are then treated to about half a dozen incidences of Jerry hearing the piano play itself at night, only for him to get caught up by his parents. They don't believe his BS because he's always pulling stupid shit on them.
Finally Jerry manages to see a ghost woman playing the piano one night. The ghost tries to scare him, and says it's her piano. This is probably when I would stop using the piano. Jerry of course wakes up his parents and they think he might need some professional help. At school Jerry meets a girl named Kim who happens to live across the street from him. She can play violin, and when Jerry mentions he's going to Dr. Shreek's music school she freaks out and runs away. Odd.
Back at his lessons, Jerry starts to get a little weirded out by Dr. Shreek and his hand obsession. Dr. Shreek explains that he wants Jerry to come take lessons at his school, instead of at Jerry's house. This can't go badly at all. Jerry arrives at the creepy school one day, and gets scared by a monster in the hallway. Oh wait it's just a robot floor sweeper invented by the genius janitor Mr. Toggle (yes that is his name). Jerry has his lesson, feeling silly that a little floor sweeper scared him so much. He meets the illustrious MR. TOGGLE, who shows him his crazy workshop with inventions like the self blowing saxophone. While talking about Dr. Shreek's school, Mr. Toggle drops the mother of all foreshadowings (which I won't spoil here) for Jerry, and astute (i.e. not 10 year old) readers will know how this one ends. In the end Jerry decides Mr. Toggle is a pretty cool dude, and heads home.
He tells his new friend Kim about the school, and she says there are all sorts of scary stories about it. Monsters living in the basement, kids going missing. The whole creepy shebang. Jerry thinks there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for everything, and that is there's a genius scientist janitor who creates monster floor sweepers. Nothing odd about that. That night the ghost returns to the piano, and Jerry goes to investigate (yet again). The ghost tells him the stories about the school are true, and she shows him her amputated hands. Scary! Jerry passes out in fear, and his parents find him on the floor screaming. They decide it's time to see a psychologist. Maybe Jerry can get some nice little pills to make everything all better.
At the psychologist the doctor tells Jerry he is basically delusional because he's stressed out about his new house. Jerry decides he wants to quit piano lessons because the place is creepy as all hell. His mom says that's fine, but he has to go to his last lesson because damn it, they already paid for the thing.
This is where the story flips into a new dimension. Jerry decides to tell Dr. Shreek he plans on quitting piano. This causes him to flip his shit, and try to attack Jerry so he can get his hands on those sweet pre-pubescent hands. He chases Jerry down the hall, and he enters the auditorium. In the concert hall is row upon row of pianos, all playing music. The music is of course being played by disembodied hands, floating in the air somehow. While Dr. Shreek is trying to murder Jerry, Mr. Toggle shows up to save the day. He pushes a button on the wall and Dr. Shreek deactivates. Yes, he was a robot.
Jerry is incredibly thankful, and figures out that all of the piano playing hands are robots too. Mr. Toggle explains that even though he's a genius, he can't figure out how to make nice looking hands so he just cuts them off of people and programs them to play piano. He explains that Jerry is the next in line to join the piano party. Suddenly the scary ghost from Jerry's house appears and attacks Mr. Toggle. All of the hands come to life and give Mr. Toggle a serious beatdown. Jerry rushes out of there and hopefully calls the police or something.
The family sells the piano and picks up a big screen TV. Jerry decides to play baseball because he's got pretty good hands....get it? LOL
Random Thoughts: Wowee wow. This story is all over the place. Half of it is boring as hell because we get about 4-5 scenes of Jerry walking in on a the haunted piano. The last bit is next level crazy, as we go from a typical ghost story to mad scientist murderer story. Who saw that one coming? The ghost explains she was trying to scare Jerry away from going to the school by haunting his house. She was a victim of the school's hand cutting off policy, and thus wanted to save him. I don't know why she didn't just explain everything like she does at the end of the book instead of trying to scare the piss out of Jerry the whole time but hey, who am I to judge a haunting?
Jerry is probably one of the most unlikable protagonists so far. He's a huge dick to his parents, and he reminds me of the "funny" kid in your school who really wasn't funny so much as he was an obnoxious asshole. He uses the phrase "the looked like they dropped their teeth!" several times in reference to his parents shocked faces. He's lucky his parents didn't drop his ass in boarding school.
Jerry is busy exploring his new house, having dreams of making the extra bedrooms into a "Nintendo room" and a state of the art gym. As he climbs up to the creepy old attic, he finds something mysterious hidden under a big blanket. If you're excited that we're about to Let's Get Invisible again, I have some disappointing news. Under the blanket is a nice piano. Joy! They decide the previous owners just left it for them, and are going to bring it downstairs.
Late at night, Jerry can't sleep. He starts to hear piano music coming from upstairs. Of course he decides to go up into the attic and investigate, but there's nobody in there. Spooky! The old haunted piano gag. His parents find him up in the attic and he claims he heard the piano playing but they think he's pulling one of his "classic" jokes. Then Jerry's dad decides to get him some piano lessons, which sets up fantasies of playing "rock piano" and synthesizers because Jerry is a massive nerd.
Jerry has a piano lesson with a creepy guy named Dr. Shreek, who apparently looks like Santa Claus. He doesn't really teach him much the first time around, and just obsesses about how wonderful Jerry's hands are. This continues throughout the book and comes off as extremely uncomfortable. Anyhow, Jerry gets one lesson and not much else happens. We are then treated to about half a dozen incidences of Jerry hearing the piano play itself at night, only for him to get caught up by his parents. They don't believe his BS because he's always pulling stupid shit on them.
Finally Jerry manages to see a ghost woman playing the piano one night. The ghost tries to scare him, and says it's her piano. This is probably when I would stop using the piano. Jerry of course wakes up his parents and they think he might need some professional help. At school Jerry meets a girl named Kim who happens to live across the street from him. She can play violin, and when Jerry mentions he's going to Dr. Shreek's music school she freaks out and runs away. Odd.
Back at his lessons, Jerry starts to get a little weirded out by Dr. Shreek and his hand obsession. Dr. Shreek explains that he wants Jerry to come take lessons at his school, instead of at Jerry's house. This can't go badly at all. Jerry arrives at the creepy school one day, and gets scared by a monster in the hallway. Oh wait it's just a robot floor sweeper invented by the genius janitor Mr. Toggle (yes that is his name). Jerry has his lesson, feeling silly that a little floor sweeper scared him so much. He meets the illustrious MR. TOGGLE, who shows him his crazy workshop with inventions like the self blowing saxophone. While talking about Dr. Shreek's school, Mr. Toggle drops the mother of all foreshadowings (which I won't spoil here) for Jerry, and astute (i.e. not 10 year old) readers will know how this one ends. In the end Jerry decides Mr. Toggle is a pretty cool dude, and heads home.
He tells his new friend Kim about the school, and she says there are all sorts of scary stories about it. Monsters living in the basement, kids going missing. The whole creepy shebang. Jerry thinks there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for everything, and that is there's a genius scientist janitor who creates monster floor sweepers. Nothing odd about that. That night the ghost returns to the piano, and Jerry goes to investigate (yet again). The ghost tells him the stories about the school are true, and she shows him her amputated hands. Scary! Jerry passes out in fear, and his parents find him on the floor screaming. They decide it's time to see a psychologist. Maybe Jerry can get some nice little pills to make everything all better.
At the psychologist the doctor tells Jerry he is basically delusional because he's stressed out about his new house. Jerry decides he wants to quit piano lessons because the place is creepy as all hell. His mom says that's fine, but he has to go to his last lesson because damn it, they already paid for the thing.
This is where the story flips into a new dimension. Jerry decides to tell Dr. Shreek he plans on quitting piano. This causes him to flip his shit, and try to attack Jerry so he can get his hands on those sweet pre-pubescent hands. He chases Jerry down the hall, and he enters the auditorium. In the concert hall is row upon row of pianos, all playing music. The music is of course being played by disembodied hands, floating in the air somehow. While Dr. Shreek is trying to murder Jerry, Mr. Toggle shows up to save the day. He pushes a button on the wall and Dr. Shreek deactivates. Yes, he was a robot.
Jerry is incredibly thankful, and figures out that all of the piano playing hands are robots too. Mr. Toggle explains that even though he's a genius, he can't figure out how to make nice looking hands so he just cuts them off of people and programs them to play piano. He explains that Jerry is the next in line to join the piano party. Suddenly the scary ghost from Jerry's house appears and attacks Mr. Toggle. All of the hands come to life and give Mr. Toggle a serious beatdown. Jerry rushes out of there and hopefully calls the police or something.
The family sells the piano and picks up a big screen TV. Jerry decides to play baseball because he's got pretty good hands....get it? LOL
Random Thoughts: Wowee wow. This story is all over the place. Half of it is boring as hell because we get about 4-5 scenes of Jerry walking in on a the haunted piano. The last bit is next level crazy, as we go from a typical ghost story to mad scientist murderer story. Who saw that one coming? The ghost explains she was trying to scare Jerry away from going to the school by haunting his house. She was a victim of the school's hand cutting off policy, and thus wanted to save him. I don't know why she didn't just explain everything like she does at the end of the book instead of trying to scare the piss out of Jerry the whole time but hey, who am I to judge a haunting?
Jerry is probably one of the most unlikable protagonists so far. He's a huge dick to his parents, and he reminds me of the "funny" kid in your school who really wasn't funny so much as he was an obnoxious asshole. He uses the phrase "the looked like they dropped their teeth!" several times in reference to his parents shocked faces. He's lucky his parents didn't drop his ass in boarding school.
December 28, 2016
I've got to say this was an odd book. A seriously old book, no doubt it was interesting enough , I read it in three hours straight (with a lot of distractions). The story is good, the piano setting and the beginning and how the story progresses is also good. But something is very funny and weird and odd in the book. I mean its got a somewhat haunted school, a haunted piano which is associated with a warning ghost, mechanical horrifying teachers and robots, selfish parents, troublesome cats and hands that type on their own. And its surprising how these characters connect together and form a sophisticated and a reasonable plot. There could be improvements of course. I didn't like the mechanism, the hand musicians, the large robots, the entire musical school was a disaster but just on the other side the piano ghost and the cat was awesome. Its not a surprise that parents do not believe that their child saw something paranormal. (ALWAYS HAPPENS IN GOOSEBUMPS BOOK SERIES) This time try introduce thee kid to a doctor. The ghost that our protagonist sees is trying to help him but he doesn't understand this and keeps freaking out. 30℅ of the book involves Jerry waking up, visiting the piano room and freaking out and then trying to explain his parents what he saw. It was good to involve a secondary character from the school (Girl who plays violin, though she doesn't play a major role). Overall it was a nice and quick read. It could be much better if the setting of the musical school and mechanism weren't involved and if the inventor had a strong back story. I reviewed two Goosebumps today so I'm gonna see my day off. But I'll be reading 25℅ of the next. This series is really interesting.
Plot
Jerry and his parents have just moved into a new house. Jerry starts out the book by forming clumps of dust into mouse-shapes and then crying that there are mice in the new house, which scares his parents. While exploring the new house, Jerry finds an old piano in the attic. Later that night, Jerry hears piano music playing from the ceiling, but when he goes to investigate, there is no one playing. The next night, he hears the music again, goes to investigate, and discovers nothing. Eventually, Jerry sees a ghost of a woman playing the piano, which has been moved down into the family room. She looks up at him and then her face melts off, revealing a bare skull. He screams hysterically for his parents.
Picking up on Jerry's interest in the piano, Jerry's parents enroll him in private lessons taught by Dr. Shreek. Dr. Shreek is a friendly, Santa Claus-looking old man. Dr. Shreek dwells on Jerry’s hands, constantly telling him how wonderful they are. Eventually, Jerry gets invited to take private lessons at Dr. Shreek's private school at the edge of town. When Jerry tells Kim, the Asian girl whose locker is next to his, about his lessons, she freaks out and runs away. Jerry is dropped off at the large, scary looking music school for his lesson. He immediately goes inside and sees a monster in the hall, except, it is a robotic floor sweeper that looks like a monster. Dr. Shreek tells Jerry that the maintenance man, Mr. Toggle, is a wiz at robotics.
Dr. Shreek then leads Jerry down the long, winding corridors to the private rehearsal room. Jerry hears piano music coming from every room in the building. As he walks down the halls, he can see the instructors hunched over the pianos, guiding unseen students. After his lesson, Jerry gets lost in the building again and Mr. Toggle comes to his rescue and leads him back to the entrance. He also promises to show Jerry his "private workroom", the next time he visits.
Jerry returns home and continues to hear the ghost playing her music. Eventually, he goes down to confront her again, and she raises her arms and reveals bloody stumps where her hands used to be. Jerry screams so hard that he passes out and when he wakes up, his parents tell him they're taking him to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist tells Jerry that he is imagining the ghost, but that he is not "crazy." Jerry is outside shoveling snow when he runs into Kim again. He tries to tell her about the ghost he saw, but she also thinks he is crazy. He asks why she freaked out and she tells him that she heard a lot of spooky stories about the school and that's why she ran away, because she heard some stories. Jerry decides that he does not want to take lessons again.
But his parents tell him that since they've already paid for his last lesson, he can go in and tell Dr. Shreek in person that he is quitting. Jerry is dropped off at the school and wastes no time in telling Dr. Shreek that he is quitting his lessons. Dr. Shreek goes berserk and insists that he needs Jerry's hands, grabbing his wrists to force him to stay. Jerry escapes his grasp and scrambles through the school building until he reaches the auditorium, where there is a crushing cacophony of piano-playing. Jerry runs inside and sees row after row of black pianos, each with a head-nodding instructor, and each piano being played by human hands, but only human hands. Dr. Shreek dives through the air and tackles Jerry, grabbing onto his ankles.
Mr. Toggle bursts into the room and saves Jerry, by turning off Dr. Shreek with a remote. It turns out Dr. Shreek was a robot. Jerry asks Mr. Toggle to turn off the pianos and he does that as well. Jerry thanks him for saving his life. But as he turns to leave, Mr. Toggle stops him. Mr. Toggle is the one who needs Jerry's hands, he explains. Mr. Toggle is apparently a brilliant “robotician,” but he can't make human hands correctly. So he uses human specimens and using computer technology, makes the severed hands play beautiful music all the time.
Jerry tries to escape the auditorium, but he runs right into the ghost girl from his house. She screams at Jerry, telling him that she tried to warn him, to scare him away from taking lessons from the school. The ghost holds up her bloody stumps and then conjures up all of the ghostly spirits from the disembodied hands playing at the pianos in the auditorium. A swarm of ghosts attached to their human hands attack Mr. Toggle in front of Jerry, carrying the robotician off into the forest behind the school, never to be seen again...
Months later, Jerry decides to give up on the piano ambition and signs up for the baseball team, after going to a new school and making new friends. He is not only a good batter and runner, but also a good field man. He ends the story with him saying that his friends say he has "great hands.
Plot
Jerry and his parents have just moved into a new house. Jerry starts out the book by forming clumps of dust into mouse-shapes and then crying that there are mice in the new house, which scares his parents. While exploring the new house, Jerry finds an old piano in the attic. Later that night, Jerry hears piano music playing from the ceiling, but when he goes to investigate, there is no one playing. The next night, he hears the music again, goes to investigate, and discovers nothing. Eventually, Jerry sees a ghost of a woman playing the piano, which has been moved down into the family room. She looks up at him and then her face melts off, revealing a bare skull. He screams hysterically for his parents.
Picking up on Jerry's interest in the piano, Jerry's parents enroll him in private lessons taught by Dr. Shreek. Dr. Shreek is a friendly, Santa Claus-looking old man. Dr. Shreek dwells on Jerry’s hands, constantly telling him how wonderful they are. Eventually, Jerry gets invited to take private lessons at Dr. Shreek's private school at the edge of town. When Jerry tells Kim, the Asian girl whose locker is next to his, about his lessons, she freaks out and runs away. Jerry is dropped off at the large, scary looking music school for his lesson. He immediately goes inside and sees a monster in the hall, except, it is a robotic floor sweeper that looks like a monster. Dr. Shreek tells Jerry that the maintenance man, Mr. Toggle, is a wiz at robotics.
Dr. Shreek then leads Jerry down the long, winding corridors to the private rehearsal room. Jerry hears piano music coming from every room in the building. As he walks down the halls, he can see the instructors hunched over the pianos, guiding unseen students. After his lesson, Jerry gets lost in the building again and Mr. Toggle comes to his rescue and leads him back to the entrance. He also promises to show Jerry his "private workroom", the next time he visits.
Jerry returns home and continues to hear the ghost playing her music. Eventually, he goes down to confront her again, and she raises her arms and reveals bloody stumps where her hands used to be. Jerry screams so hard that he passes out and when he wakes up, his parents tell him they're taking him to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist tells Jerry that he is imagining the ghost, but that he is not "crazy." Jerry is outside shoveling snow when he runs into Kim again. He tries to tell her about the ghost he saw, but she also thinks he is crazy. He asks why she freaked out and she tells him that she heard a lot of spooky stories about the school and that's why she ran away, because she heard some stories. Jerry decides that he does not want to take lessons again.
But his parents tell him that since they've already paid for his last lesson, he can go in and tell Dr. Shreek in person that he is quitting. Jerry is dropped off at the school and wastes no time in telling Dr. Shreek that he is quitting his lessons. Dr. Shreek goes berserk and insists that he needs Jerry's hands, grabbing his wrists to force him to stay. Jerry escapes his grasp and scrambles through the school building until he reaches the auditorium, where there is a crushing cacophony of piano-playing. Jerry runs inside and sees row after row of black pianos, each with a head-nodding instructor, and each piano being played by human hands, but only human hands. Dr. Shreek dives through the air and tackles Jerry, grabbing onto his ankles.
Mr. Toggle bursts into the room and saves Jerry, by turning off Dr. Shreek with a remote. It turns out Dr. Shreek was a robot. Jerry asks Mr. Toggle to turn off the pianos and he does that as well. Jerry thanks him for saving his life. But as he turns to leave, Mr. Toggle stops him. Mr. Toggle is the one who needs Jerry's hands, he explains. Mr. Toggle is apparently a brilliant “robotician,” but he can't make human hands correctly. So he uses human specimens and using computer technology, makes the severed hands play beautiful music all the time.
Jerry tries to escape the auditorium, but he runs right into the ghost girl from his house. She screams at Jerry, telling him that she tried to warn him, to scare him away from taking lessons from the school. The ghost holds up her bloody stumps and then conjures up all of the ghostly spirits from the disembodied hands playing at the pianos in the auditorium. A swarm of ghosts attached to their human hands attack Mr. Toggle in front of Jerry, carrying the robotician off into the forest behind the school, never to be seen again...
Months later, Jerry decides to give up on the piano ambition and signs up for the baseball team, after going to a new school and making new friends. He is not only a good batter and runner, but also a good field man. He ends the story with him saying that his friends say he has "great hands.
February 3, 2022
Maybe because I was imagining the MC "Jerry" as Jerry Seinfeld and all the other characters as respective Seinfeld actors/actresses this story was insanely fun to read. 😂 Seriously, it couldn’t have been a more perfect coincidence. Dr. Shreek/Newman was a riot, and I was half expecting a Kramer character to come barging through the door so I could applaud. “These hands are the best, Jerry. The best!"
I’ve definitely been watching too much Seinfeld lately…
You might enjoy this story if you like books that include:
• sad piano music
• melting ghosts
• floor sweeper monsters
• Joe Davola (just kidding…but equally creepy musicians)
I’ve definitely been watching too much Seinfeld lately…
You might enjoy this story if you like books that include:
• sad piano music
• melting ghosts
• floor sweeper monsters
• Joe Davola (just kidding…but equally creepy musicians)
September 17, 2018
درست به خاطرش ندارم چون خیلی وقت پیش خوندم و اگر ریویو مینویسم براش برای اینه که بگم از ترسناکها بود:))
March 25, 2025
3.5 stars
ladies and gentlemen and gentle crows- can I say that I finally finally enjoyed a Goosebumps book.
so many good things happened-
-the main character wasn't annoying
-there were actually some good scenes
-the setting was lowkey spooky
here's hoping the following books also deliver.
ladies and gentlemen and gentle crows- can I say that I finally finally enjoyed a Goosebumps book.
so many good things happened-
-the main character wasn't annoying
-there were actually some good scenes
-the setting was lowkey spooky
here's hoping the following books also deliver.
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