Goosebumps Collection #3

by R.L. Stine

Includes:
- The Girl Who Cried Monster
- Welcome to Camp Nightmare
- The Ghost Next Door

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Robert 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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Reviews

[Ken · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another three early Goosebumps books collected together in which I would constantly re-read.
It's probably a happy coincidence that this trio of tales all had memorable twist endings.

There's also a sense that the young reader can associate with the setting of these stories.

I remember my old local library being quite dark and dingy, so the idea of a librarian being an actual monster would easily appeal to kids.

At the same token there was an urban legend that the campsite that I'd stay at with the cubs was stalked by the 'Parkwood Sparrow' at night.
The camp leaders even made footprints to perpetuate the myth, it's certainly one way to keep kids in their tents at night!
Sabre at Camp Nightmoon always reminded me of this.

Lastly the idea of a familiar location being haunted was always a topic of conversation at school, the idea of ghosts always seem to be a popular scare for us young kids at the time.

Goosebumps were such a perfect gateway into horror and Stine's numours tales are partly the reason why I love reading so much.