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{{quote|''"Reader beware -- you're in for a scare..."''}}
In the 1990s, [[R.L. Stine]] had an idea, "Why not write scary books for children?"
It was through this simple idea that one of the most successful and controversial pre-[[Harry Potter]]-era book series began.
The original '''''Goosebumps''''' series lasted for all of 62 books, including such famous ones as ''The Haunted Mask'', ''Welcome to Camp Nightmare'', ''A Night in Terror Tower'', the ''Night of the Living Dummy'' series, and the ''Monster Blood'' series.<ref>the last of which was the final book in the original series</ref> It was ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' for preadolescents, with a twist at the end of every book. Stine cites the horror comics published by [[EC Comics]] as a source of inspiration.
The book series also spawned a successful TV series, which ran for four seasons on the Fox Kids programming block and reran for two years on [[Cartoon Network]] (usually around Halloween time, but it lasted a bit longer in 2007 due to the Writers' Guild going on strike and producers scrambling for filler programming until the strike ended), and an unsuccessful stage show that closed after only a few months.
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The television series is currently in repeats on [[The Hub]].
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* [[The Ace]] / [[Always Someone Better]] / [[The Rival]]: Wilson in ''How I Learned To Fly''.
** In fact, a lot of the Goosebumps stories usually have the antagonist as someone who is better than the protagonist at almost everything (cf. Judith in "Be Careful What You Wish For" and Courtney in "You Can't Scare Me!")
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* [[Defictionalization]]: They make real Slappy dummies
* [[Demonic Dummy]]: Quite a few throughout the ''Night of the Living Dummy'' books.
* [[Deus Ex 'Scuse Me]]: Several. In "The Haunted Mask," it happens twice—once with the mask shop owner, and once with Carly-Beth's mom.
* [[Died Happily Ever After]]: {{spoiler|The Ghost Next Door}}
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]:
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* [[Ret-Gone]] - In ''The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'', when Mike {{spoiler|accidentally erases his bratty little sister from the universe...then decides that it wasn't a bad thing.}} Also, one of the Give Yourself Goosebumps books was based around the reader trying to recover his/her brother from a time-travel experiment before he vanishes from existence forever.
* [[Revival]]: The new ''HorrorLand'' books.
** And apparently, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130926173629/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45026 a movie is coming too.] [[Franchise Zombie]] indeed.
*** And, according to the same article, a new video game. There were already two, you know.
** The ''[[The Haunting Hour the Series]]'' is also seen as that.
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** If that's not enough, he believes Tara disappeared and everyone's memories of her have been erased (and believes it'll happen to him to) rather than not being born yet.
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** One short story from "More Tales to Give You Goosebumps" actually uses the trope name as its title.{{context|reason=Which trope?}}
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