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Ghosts of Fear Street #25
Halloween Bugs Me
The unluckiest kid in the world, Greg Romer cannot beat his best friend, Paul, at anything, until he picks up a magical bag on Fear Street, one that not only produces more Halloween candy than anyone can eat but also trouble for whomever owns it. Simultaneous.
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First published September 1, 1997
About the author
R.L. Stine
1,741 books19k 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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October 2, 2017
Como la gran mayoría de las historias de RL Stine, "Halloween me pudre" es un librito muy divertido, e ideal para Octubre. Es una lectura ligerísima, entretenida y viene bien para cortar un poco con lecturas más pesadas. Lo único que no comprendo es por qué tiene este título, cuando el Halloween no tiene tanta relevancia en la trama, sino que es más bien el marco donde transcurre, pero no el verdadero conflicto. Es una simple observación que no afecta en la calidad del libro, pero honestamente me quedé pensando en eso tras terminarlo.
October 24, 2023
It's pretty wild to me that Scarlett Johansson performed for the audiobook of this book (that allegedly can still be found somewhere online). This was a fun read, though I think the Halloween vibes were phoned in at the last minute because this didn't feel like much of a Halloween read at all. The story follows Greg who always gets one-upped by his friend Derek, and he finds a trick-or-treat bag that doubles everything that goes inside it. I wanted to give this a higher rating but I hated how author Barbara Joyce (who writes an awful lot like the real R.L. Stine) abandoned the Halloween vibes midway through. The references to other Shadyside/Fear Street stuff were really cool, and I loved the ending. This was overall pretty decent so I'll give it a high 3/5.
July 10, 2021
On Halloween night, Greg comes into possession of a bewitched bag, that multiplies anything put inside tenfold. He's so pumped to have way more candy than his nemesis, Derek! However over the course of the next couple days, Greg experiments with putting way more than candy into the bag: money, animals, comics... but it turns out the copies aren't *exactly* the same as the originals.
November 1, 2009
A little worse than average. Characters are almost completely flat and the plot is predictable. Goes with the standard "I must one-up my rival" motivator, but this has been done much better in the Goosebumps book How I Learned to Fly.
The prose is lacklustre, though there is some nice atmosphere in the first half.
As horrific as some of the events are (I did find the roaches pretty nasty), the characters are not nearly as shocked and disgusted as they should be -- especially the mom. If the characters don't feel emotional involvement, it's unlikely the reader will, either.
Contains the golden line, "My beak quivered." Physics don't exist on Fear Street.
The prose is lacklustre, though there is some nice atmosphere in the first half.
As horrific as some of the events are (I did find the roaches pretty nasty), the characters are not nearly as shocked and disgusted as they should be -- especially the mom. If the characters don't feel emotional involvement, it's unlikely the reader will, either.
Contains the golden line, "My beak quivered." Physics don't exist on Fear Street.
August 31, 2023
R. L. Stine's 'Der Fluch der Kuscheltiere' is book thirty-one of the year.
I've lost track of the number I'm at for German book reads now, but that's good. When asked, 'How many books in German have you read?' I can now answer: 'Several.'
As usual, I had a blast with Stine's kid-focused horror. This book follows Greg and his friend Liv as they go trick-or-treating on Halloween. My favourite time of year! Greg leads Liv into the dreaded Shadyside to one-up his nemesis in the candy collection. There, they find a house with a strange young boy and an even stranger older woman, who turns out to be a witch. They walk away with an enchanted bag that copies whatever you put inside tenfold. Dreams of money and candy float around the kids' heads, but chaos isn't far away.
Like most of Stine's work, the horror is tame because of its target audience. Yet, one section in this book gave me the creeps: the cockroach section! It was pretty terrifying. I can only imagine how much that would freak little kids out—well, got to give them a genuine scare now and then, right? Great stuff.
On to the following children's book in German!
#bookreview #bookrecommendations #goosebumps #kidsbooks #horrorfan
I've lost track of the number I'm at for German book reads now, but that's good. When asked, 'How many books in German have you read?' I can now answer: 'Several.'
As usual, I had a blast with Stine's kid-focused horror. This book follows Greg and his friend Liv as they go trick-or-treating on Halloween. My favourite time of year! Greg leads Liv into the dreaded Shadyside to one-up his nemesis in the candy collection. There, they find a house with a strange young boy and an even stranger older woman, who turns out to be a witch. They walk away with an enchanted bag that copies whatever you put inside tenfold. Dreams of money and candy float around the kids' heads, but chaos isn't far away.
Like most of Stine's work, the horror is tame because of its target audience. Yet, one section in this book gave me the creeps: the cockroach section! It was pretty terrifying. I can only imagine how much that would freak little kids out—well, got to give them a genuine scare now and then, right? Great stuff.
On to the following children's book in German!
#bookreview #bookrecommendations #goosebumps #kidsbooks #horrorfan
December 30, 2023
Ziemlich lustiges Kinderbuch, auch wenn die Handlung sehr einfach gehalten ist - ist aber ja auch für Kinder geschrieben.
October 19, 2025
Halloween Bugs Me is the final entry of this series to abide the original GoFS style; the bindings had a drastic shift for two books after this, before landing on the god-forbid 3-D covers. It’s also (obviously) a Halloween story, so I had some hopes this would’ve been great… yet it really sucked. I do like the writing in this one, being I believe the only book of this series written by author Barbara Joyce. The final battle of this book was kinda neat, with some interesting witch hijinks. There’s a solid premise (though rather fit for a far shorter book, as I’ll discuss) and some clear potential here, and… that’s really it? Legitimately, there’s not a lot to like here. Now for the bashening. The book is a meandering waste of time. By the end of the book, the protagonist—Greg Dreamer—learns absolutely nothing, and it’s played off as a joke. Not that the characters usually have much growth in these, but Greg would’ve hella sufficed had he stopped being a bet-making neanderthal. The ending itself sucks, too. The concept didn’t merit a whole book in my opinion, as it was really basic: a magic bag multiples items by ten; chaos ensues. It throws all the expected ideas in here and not much else, and to reach past page one-hundred, there was filler and drug on scenes, such as: the dump scene, the final battle, random banter, useless meandering, and bottom-of-the-barrel entertainment from the casual antics that do nothing for the “plot.” The book is messy and ditches the Halloween vibes almost immediately, making way for an early-November story—which is arguably false-advertising, as the title is HALLOWEEN bugs me. Even still… I’m disappointed in that regard. The betting stuff in itself was annoying, most of the characters weren’t likable at all, and the book really just didn’t do it for me AT ALL. Overall, 3/10. I’m sorry, but this was a massive let-down. One of the worse Ghosts of Fear Street books for sure. Cock(roache)s aren’t gonna cut it.
October 4, 2018
The story was absolutely ridiculous. I was laughing out loud all the way through the book.
September 27, 2020
Gross, spooky, fascinating and fun!
January 3, 2021
cuốn này là kinh tởm chứ không phải kinh dị...
March 7, 2022
can't figure out if i read this one as a child or if stine is just predictable because. it's for children.
October 6, 2023
Sadly an accurate title.
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November 1, 2024
Pobre Liv, re pesado Greg compitiendo con Derek todo el tiempo.
Y yo también quiero un gato negro como la noche 🖤
Happy Halloween 🎃 para todxs!!! Lean a R. L. Stine!!!!
Y yo también quiero un gato negro como la noche 🖤
Happy Halloween 🎃 para todxs!!! Lean a R. L. Stine!!!!
December 25, 2012
As much as I love teenage drama, este no fue el caso. Típica americaneada de niños compitiendo. Move on.
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