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* VampiricWerewolf: Onnoval starts out as a werewolf. After he's shot with a SilverBullet, he comes back to unlife as a vampire. After being killed again, he becomes a ghost who can turn into either of his previous forms at will.
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* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of book 4, Onnoval almost breaks down into tears when his plan actually succeeds, but is then foiled when his manuscript is rewritten on Mister Jacques' computer. He curses the children for defeating him yet again and disappears into the DarkWorld as a puddle of slime.

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* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of book 4, Onnoval almost breaks down into tears when his plan EvilPlan actually succeeds, but is then foiled when his manuscript is rewritten on Mister Jacques' computer. He curses the children for defeating him yet again and disappears into the DarkWorld as a puddle of slime.
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* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of book 4, Onnoval almost breaks down into tears when his plan actually succeeds, but is then foiled when his manuscript is rewritten on Mister Jacques' computer. He curses the children for defeating him yet again and disappears into the DarkWorld as a puddle of slime.
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* AuthorFilibuster: At one point, one of the children asks Onnoval why he doesn't tell ''real'' scary stories, like those movies his brother watches in which "[[{{Gorn}} arms and legs are flying around]]". The author replies, and is presumably channeling the author of the ''book'' here: "That's not scary, that's disgusting!"

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* AuthorFilibuster: At one point, one of the children asks Onnoval why he doesn't tell ''real'' scary stories, like those movies his brother watches in which "[[{{Gorn}} arms and legs body parts are flying around]]". The author replies, and is presumably channeling the author of the ''book'' here: "That's not scary, that's disgusting!"
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* AlternateContinuity: Book 1-5 and book 0 are all set in the same continuity, but book 6 and book 7 follow the storyline of the film.

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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Eddy C. becomes a slave of Onnoval and aids him in his plans, but in book 4 he briefly returns from the DarkWorld to help the heroes defeat Onnoval.]]

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* HeelFaceTurn: HeelFaceTurn:
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[[spoiler:Eddy C. becomes a slave of Onnoval and aids him in his plans, but in book 4 he briefly returns from the DarkWorld to help the heroes defeat Onnoval.]]
** [[spoiler:In book 5, Onnoval himself turns against Ferluci when he realizes that he's fallen in love with the now adult Liselore.
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* DemonicPossession: In book 4, Onnoval starts possessing Mister Jacques from the Other Reality to write and read his stories to his class. He also forces the teacher to change his appearance into Onnoval's step by step so nobody will notice when they switch places later on.
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Eddy C. becomes a slave of Onnoval and aids him in his plans, but in book 4 he briefly returns from the DarkWorld to help the heroes defeat Onnoval.]]


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* YouHaveFailedMe:
** Eddy C. becomes a henchman for Onnoval in the third book, but when he screws up and his four victims escape Onnoval's clutches, Onnoval reaches through the computer screen and drags Eddy C. himself into the DarkWorld in their stead.
** Onnoval himself is on the receiving end of this in the fifth book. Ferluci is so fed up with Onnoval's repeated failures to bring him new souls the past several years that he gives him an ultimatum: either deliver him a fresh batch in three days, or Ferluci will [[DeadlyEuphemism fire him]].
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* MostWritersAreWriters: The BigBad Paul Onnoval is a horror author and something of ADarkerMe of Paul van Loon himself, and several of Onnoval's stories feature similar authors. One story goes for a bit of SelfDeprecation with an author who hires a secretary to handle all his fan mail, who turns out to be a demon that gives his fans a spell that turns them into monsters. In another one, a sinister author invites one of his fans to a fictional town where the creatures in his stories are allowed to live but cannot leave, before revealing that the fan is also fictional.

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* MostWritersAreWriters: The BigBad Paul Onnoval is a horror author and something of ADarkerMe of Paul van Loon himself, and several of Onnoval's stories feature similar authors. One story goes for a bit of SelfDeprecation with an author who hires a secretary to handle all his fan mail, who turns out to be a demon that gives his fans a spell that turns them into monsters. In another one, a sinister author invites one of his fans to a fictional town where the creatures in his stories are allowed to live but cannot leave, before revealing that the fan is [[NoticingTheFourthWall also fictional.fictional]].
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* MostWritersAreWriters: The BigBad Paul Onnoval is a horror author and something of ADarkerMe of Paul van Loon himself, and several of Onnoval's stories feature similar authors. One story goes for a bit of SelfDeprecation with an author who hires a secretary to handle all his fan mail, who turns out to be a demon that gives his fans a spell that turns them into monsters. In another one, a sinister author invites one of his fans to a fictional town where the creatures in his stories are allowed to live but cannot leave, before revealing that the fan is also fictional.

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* SinisterCar: In one of the stories, a brother and sister are on holiday with their family when they are menaced by a pitch black Rolls Royce in a parking lot. Apparently, the car itself is malevolent and was involved in so many vehicular deaths that it was put in permanent storage. The souls of the children it killed, still trapped in the car, are lonely and want new people to join them.

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* SinisterCar: SinisterCar:
** The Griezelbus itself is a converted schoolbus used by Onnoval to tell his stories and lure in groups of victims. The artwork usually depicts it in a very ominous manner, with a skull and cross bones above the front window.
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In one of the stories, a brother and sister are on holiday with their family when they are menaced by a pitch black Rolls Royce in a parking lot. Apparently, the car itself is malevolent and was involved in so many vehicular deaths that it was put in permanent storage. The souls of the children it killed, still trapped in the car, are lonely and want new people to join them.
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* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: In one of the stories, a SadistTeacher punishes his students by sitting them down in a big, soft chair and hitting the chair with a ruler since he cannot physically punish them. Eventually, the chair [[TheDogBitesBack becomes so fed up]] with the teacher that it eats him.


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* SinisterCar: In one of the stories, a brother and sister are on holiday with their family when they are menaced by a pitch black Rolls Royce in a parking lot. Apparently, the car itself is malevolent and was involved in so many vehicular deaths that it was put in permanent storage. The souls of the children it killed, still trapped in the car, are lonely and want new people to join them.
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* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Throughout the books, oblique references are made to the organization ''G.G.G.'' aka ''Geesten, Geraamten, en ander Gespuis'' (Ghost, Skeletons, and other Ghoulies).

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* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Throughout the books, oblique references are made to the organization ''G.G.G.'' aka ''Geesten, Geraamten, en ander Gespuis'' (Ghost, (Ghosts, Skeletons, and other Ghoulies).
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* BaldOfEvil: After returning as a vampire, Onnoval loses all his hair. He retains this appearance after he becomes a ghost.
* BigBad: Onnoval is the main villain in each book, telling stories and either trying to devour children or drag their souls into the DarkWorld. [[spoiler:At least, until he experiences a HeelFaceTurn.]]


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* ADayInTheLimelight: One of Paul van Loon's short stories focuses entirely on [[TheDragon Beentjes]], who picks up the wrong set of passengers and transports them into a miniature town.


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* TheDragon: Beentjes is Onnoval's right-hand [[DemBones skeleton]] and the driver of the Griezelbus.


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* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Throughout the books, oblique references are made to the organization ''G.G.G.'' aka ''Geesten, Geraamten, en ander Gespuis'' (Ghost, Skeletons, and other Ghoulies).


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* SilentAntagonist: Beentjes does not talk at all in the first two books.
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* BadSamaritan: In one of the stories, a girl who survives a car accident finds herself in a hospital room being cared for by a friendly nurse. When her condition keeps getting worse, it turns out that the nurse is actually some sort of vampiric creature with a syringe-like sucker in her tongue that has been feeding on her while she was asleep. Another girl who is already near death sacrifices herself and uses her last ounce of strength to expose the vampire to sunlight, killing it.

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* BadSamaritan: In one of the stories, a girl who survives a car accident finds herself in a hospital room being cared for by a friendly kind and pretty nurse. When her condition keeps getting worse, it turns out she discovers that the nurse is actually some sort of vampiric creature with a syringe-like sucker in her tongue that has been feeding on her while she was asleep. Another girl victim who is already near death dying sacrifices herself and uses her last ounce of strength to help her expose the vampire to sunlight, killing it.

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* BadassTeacher: In the third book, Mister Jacques is initially a DistressedDude after he's captured by Beentjes. When he hits his RageBreakingPoint, he breaks free, smashes Beentjes, and destroys the computers that are keeping his students captive.
* BadSamaritan: In one of the stories, a girl who survives a car accident finds herself in a hospital room being cared for by a friendly nurse. When her condition keeps getting worse, it turns out that the nurse is actually some sort of vampiric creature with a syringe-like sucker in her tongue that has been feeding on her while she was asleep. Another girl who is already near death sacrifices herself and uses her last ounce of strength to expose the vampire to sunlight, killing it.



* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: In one of the stories, a girl buys grass for her cat from a mysterious shop that turns into a ManEatingPlant, nearly eating her and her pet. After her father kills the plant, they return to the shop only to find that it's a derelict. One of the locals tells them that the former owner was a MadScientist who died years ago after trying to feed people to his plants.



* RewritingReality: From the second book onwards, Onnoval's magic increases to the point where the monsters in his stories come to life and consider him their "father".

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From the second book onwards, Onnoval's magic increases to the point where the monsters in his stories come to life and consider him their "father"."father".
** This proves to be the key to defeating Onnoval in the fourth book. His book writes itself in real time on Mister Jacques' computer. After dragging most of the class into the Other Reality, the main heroes rewrite the ending to make sure Onnoval loses.


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* SoulJar: Onnoval's book is tied to his lifeforce. One of the heroes figures this out at the end of the second book and lights it on fire, causing the vampiric Onnoval to burst into flames.
* StayingAlive: No matter how many times he's killed, Onnoval keeps coming back as a different type of monster. Apparently, this is part of the deal he made with Ferluci.


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* VirtualReality: In the third book, the characters put on virtual headsets to go into Onnoval's dimension.
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* LouisCyphre: Ferluci is obviously Satan.

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* LouisCyphre: Ferluci is obviously Satan.Satan, being an anagram for "Lucifer".
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* FramingDevice: The main story is basically an excuse for a horror anthology.

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* FramingDevice: The main story is basically an excuse for a horror anthology. The short stories comprise the bulk of each book.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: In one of the stories, a boy's father and mother become vampires and want him to join them. He plans to stake them while they are asleep, but cannot go through with it because they are still his family. He decides to wait until they wake up and can bite him.

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: In one of the stories, a boy's father and mother become vampires and want him to join them. He plans to stake them while they are asleep, but cannot go through with it because they are still his family. He decides to wait until they wake up and can bite turn him.
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* ShoutOut: The character Eddy C. from the second, third, and fourth books is named after Eddy C. Bertin, a friend of Paul van Loon and a fellow writer.


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* WouldHurtAChild: Onnoval, and by extension his master Ferluci, always go after children.
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* PrecociousCrush: Zigzagged in the fifth book. Paul Onnoval, an immortal combination between a werewolf and vampire has a crush on the mortal school teacher Liselore, making this a MayflyDecemberRomance. However, after defeating [[{{Satan}} Ferluci]], Onnoval asks Ferluci to allow him to become a mortal human again, so he can spend time with his love Liselore. Ferluci does so, but reincarnates Onnoval into the body of a child and one of Liselore's pupils, essentially making it a strange version of this trope.

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* PrecociousCrush: Zigzagged in the fifth book. Paul Onnoval, an immortal combination between a werewolf and vampire has a crush on the mortal school teacher Liselore, making this a MayflyDecemberRomance. However, after defeating [[{{Satan}} Ferluci]], Onnoval asks Ferluci to allow him to become a mortal human again, so he can spend time with his love Liselore. Ferluci does so, but reincarnates Onnoval into the body of a child and one of Liselore's pupils, essentially making it students. Onnoval accepts that he is now too young for Liselore and decides to wait until he's become a strange version of this trope.grown-up again.
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* FreudianExcuse: Onnoval wasn't born evil, he was made that way. Ferluci stole him as a baby, paid two abusive foster parents to raise him, then turned him into a werewolf as a teenager so he would kill them. By the time Onnoval is a grown man, he has been traveling on the dark side long enough that he willingly signs a DealWithTheDevil to collect souls for Ferluci.

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* FreudianExcuse: Onnoval wasn't born evil, he was made that way. Ferluci stole him as a baby, paid two abusive foster parents to raise him, then turned him into a werewolf as a teenager so he would kill them. By the time Onnoval is a grown man, he has been traveling on the dark side path long enough that he willingly signs a DealWithTheDevil to collect souls for Ferluci.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: In one of the stories, a boy's father and mother become vampires and want him to join them. He plans to stake them while they are asleep, but cannot go through with it because they are still his family. He decides to wait until they wake up and can bite him.


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* EvilOldFolks: In one of the stories, a girl begins a friendship with a sweet old lady who listens to all her woes. Eventually, one of the girl's bullies goes missing. It turns out the old woman [[AxCrazy killed her with a butcher's knife]] and used her fingers to make a birthday pie.
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* DragonTheirFeet: Subverted. Beentjes survives the demise of Onnoval in the second book, but he decides not to go after the protagonists and jumps into a grave. Of course, that doesn't stop him from returning in the next book to continue serving his master.

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* DragonTheirFeet: Subverted. Beentjes survives the demise of Onnoval in the second book, but he decides not to go after the protagonists heroes and jumps into a grave. Of course, that doesn't stop him from returning in the next book to continue serving his master.
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* DragonTheirFeet: Subverted. Beentjes survives the demise of Onnoval in the second book, but he decides not to go after the protagonists and jumps into a grave. Of course, that doesn't stop him from returning in the next book to continue serving his master.


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* VillainousFriendship: Beentjes was once Onnoval's best friend, who killed him when he figured out his friend was secretly a werewolf. Beentjes becomes a skeleton and tries to kill him years later, but Onnoval is so happy to see his former friend that he refuses to destroy him. They continue their friendship even after both of them become undead monsters.

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* DarkWorld: The Other Reality is an alternate dimension controlled by Onnoval, filled with monsters from his imagination.



* DownInTheDumps: The second book takes place in a car scrapyard. A group of kids end up in the Griezelbus after it's been condemned as scrap, hearing Onnoval's stories over the radio as a pack of SavageWolves prevent them from leaving.



* VillainBasedFranchise: Onnoval and Beentjes are the only characters to appear in every book. The main protagonists are different groups of children.

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* SilverBullet: At the end of the first book, [[spoiler:Onnoval transforms into a werewolf and is about to eat the entire class when Liselore suddenly produces a silver gun from her handbag and shoots Onnoval with it.]]
* VillainBasedFranchise: Onnoval and Beentjes are the only characters to appear in every book. The main protagonists are different groups of children. A few characters like Eddy C. and Liselore do reappear in later books.
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* {{Prequel}}: ''De Griezelbus 0'' was the fifth book written, but covers the origins of P. Onnoval.

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* {{Prequel}}: ''De Griezelbus 0'' was the fifth book written, but covers the origins of P. Paul Onnoval.
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* FreudianExcuse: Onnoval wasn't born evil, he was made that way. Ferluci stole him as a baby, paid two abusive foster parents to raise him, then turned him into a werewolf as a teenager so he would kill them. By the time Onnoval is a grown man, he has been on the dark side long enough that he willingly signs a DealWithTheDevil to collect souls for Ferluci.

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* FreudianExcuse: Onnoval wasn't born evil, he was made that way. Ferluci stole him as a baby, paid two abusive foster parents to raise him, then turned him into a werewolf as a teenager so he would kill them. By the time Onnoval is a grown man, he has been traveling on the dark side long enough that he willingly signs a DealWithTheDevil to collect souls for Ferluci.
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* VillainBasedFranchise: Onnoval and Beentjes are the only characters to appear in every book. The main protagonists are different groups of young teens.

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* VillainBasedFranchise: Onnoval and Beentjes are the only characters to appear in every book. The main protagonists are different groups of young teens.children.
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''De Griezelbus'' (The Spooky Bus) is a Dutch series of DefangedHorrors children's books written by Paul van Loon.

In each book, a group of children listen to stories written by the enigmatic author [[AuthorAvatar P. Onnoval]] in his horror-themed school bus, which get creepier and more ominous until they realize that Onnoval has lured them into a trap and they have to fight to survive.

It was loosely adapted into a movie in 2005.

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* AuthorFilibuster: At one point, one of the children asks Onnoval why he doesn't tell ''real'' scary stories, like those movies his brother watches in which "[[{{Gorn}} arms and legs are flying around]]". The author replies, and is presumably channeling the author of the ''book'' here: "That's not scary, that's disgusting!"
* DefangedHorrors: Almost every installment deals with a group of kids who are forced to listen to the stories of the werewolf, and later vampire/undead writer P. Onnoval, with a climax at the end of each book. The stories are a combination of horror clichés like vampires, werewolves, etc. and a great deal of suspense and most stories leave the end open, leaving you to wonder what happened.
* DemBones: The driver of the Griezelbus is a skeleton named ''Beentjes''. While initially he appeared to be a creation of Onnoval, he is later revealed to be his formerly living best friend.
* FramingDevice: The main story is basically an excuse for a horror anthology.
* FightUnscene: The film did this with the final fight, only showing the shadows and people's reactions (actually, the evil monster involved in this is never shown at any point in the film).
* FreudianExcuse: Onnoval wasn't born evil, he was made that way. Ferluci stole him as a baby, paid two abusive foster parents to raise him, then turned him into a werewolf as a teenager so he would kill them. By the time Onnoval is a grown man, he has been on the dark side long enough that he willingly signs a DealWithTheDevil to collect souls for Ferluci.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While Onnoval is the BigBad and the main threat of most books, his benefactor is none other than {{Satan}}.
* LouisCyphre: Ferluci is obviously Satan.
* PrecociousCrush: Zigzagged in the fifth book. Paul Onnoval, an immortal combination between a werewolf and vampire has a crush on the mortal school teacher Liselore, making this a MayflyDecemberRomance. However, after defeating [[{{Satan}} Ferluci]], Onnoval asks Ferluci to allow him to become a mortal human again, so he can spend time with his love Liselore. Ferluci does so, but reincarnates Onnoval into the body of a child and one of Liselore's pupils, essentially making it a strange version of this trope.
* RewritingReality: From the second book onwards, Onnoval's magic increases to the point where the monsters in his stories come to life and consider him their "father".
* {{Prequel}}: ''De Griezelbus 0'' was the fifth book written, but covers the origins of P. Onnoval.
* VillainBasedFranchise: Onnoval and Beentjes are the only characters to appear in every book. The main protagonists are different groups of young teens.
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