Having been traumatized by clips of Child’s Play (1988) at an early age, I was already predisposed to petrification by the hands of dolls big or small, so the thought of an otherworldly animated ventriloquist dummy had me in shivers well before I ever opened the book.
He’s a wise-cracking, prank-prone and rather well dressed dummy who is far more intelligent than his empty wooden head might suggest, and with two books under his belt and a third on the way, it was only natural that Slappy the ventriloquist doll would finally make his way to the screen in 1996. The series adaptation later aired on Friday, Janu(runtime: 22 minutes).ĭespite its iconic cavalcade of creepers, crawlers and creatures which almost always go bump in the night, there is one formidable foe who consistently stands atop the swollen hoard of Goosebumps scoundrels. (Apr.Night of the Living Dummy II was originally p ublished in May 1995 (Spine #31). Combined with the promise of an ongoing story, this series should easily garner a new crop of scare-addicts. In Part Two, the same characters embark on another petrifying adventure to a mysterious theme park advertised as “HorrorLand: Where Nightmares Come to Life.” All the essential tricks of the trade to keep readers up at night are front and center: the ominous noises at just the right moments, the grisly visual descriptions and the cliffhangers around every corner. Badboy,” an evil ventriloquist’s dummy with a mind of its own, and a Mumban doll with a shrunken human head that steals minds when touched, before the two dolls can do any major damage. In the same tried-and-true style as the older Goosebumps stories, the standalone involves two smart yet vulnerable kids as they try to bury “Mr. As is planned for the other titles, this suspenseful opener is broken into two equally enjoyable sections-a standalone story and the first installment of what already reads like a ghostly serial at its spookiest. After eight years, the bestselling master of middle-grade horror returns, this time with the first book of a new, deliciously chilling 12-book series.
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