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Baleful Polymorph was renamed per TRS


* HorrorHunger: The protagonists [[BalefulPolymorph turn into wolf-like monsters]] who are constantly hungry, eating anything they come across.

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* HorrorHunger: The protagonists [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation turn into wolf-like monsters]] who are constantly hungry, eating anything they come across.
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* NotUsingTheZWord: The book pulls this despite a full moon seemingly being the cause of the fever. Grandpa John even calls this out but the book still insists they aren't werewolves.

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* NotUsingTheZWord: The book pulls this despite a full moon seemingly being the cause of the fever. Grandpa John even calls this out but the book still insists they aren't werewolves. However, Robbie and Alesha differ from traditional werewolves in that they remain transformed and don't turn back into humans at daylight.
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* ChekhovsGun: The "Best Bars."

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* ChekhovsGun: The "Best "Be[[spoiler:a]]st Bars."
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: In one chapter, Robbie and Alesha hide in one.
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* MonstrousCannibalism: At one point, Robbie bites a man's arm in self-defense and admits that he liked the taste. He and Alesha also come perilously close to eating several other humans, including ''their own Grandpa John'', when in thrall to their hunger.

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* MonstrousCannibalism: At one point, Robbie bites a man's arm in self-defense and admits that he liked the taste. He and Alesha also come perilously close to eating several other humans, including ''their own Grandpa John'', when while in thrall to their hunger. hunger.

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* ChekhovsGun: The "Best Bars."



* TheHermit: The book actually gives us two: the old woman who told Grandpa John the Full Moon Fever story, and Dr. Thorne.

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* TheHermit: The book actually gives us two: the old woman who told Grandpa John the Full Moon Fever story, and Dr. Thorne.Thorne, both of whom live alone deep in the Canadian wilderness.


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* MonstrousCannibalism: At one point, Robbie bites a man's arm in self-defense and admits that he liked the taste. He and Alesha also come perilously close to eating several other humans, including ''their own Grandpa John'', when in thrall to their hunger.

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* TheHermit: The book actually gives us two: the old woman who told Grandpa John the Full Moon Fever story, and Dr. Wolf.

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* TheHermit: The book actually gives us two: the old woman who told Grandpa John the Full Moon Fever story, and Dr. Wolf.Thorne.


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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Robbie and Alesha suffer through a horrible transformation, narrowly escape being killed or captured several times and travel all the way to Canada to find a cure...[[spoiler:only to discover that the whole thing was a legend made up by an old lady. And then, when they finally discover the real culprit, they're almost immediately victimized by another curse, with little hope for recovery.]]

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* HorrorHunger: The protagonists [[BalefulPolymorph turn into wolf-like monsters]] who are constantly hungry, eating anything they come across.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The book pulls this despite a full moon seemingly being the cause of the fever. Grandpa John even calls this out but the book still insists they aren't werewolves.

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* TheHermit: The book actually gives us two: the old woman who told Grandpa John the Full Moon Fever story, and Dr. Wolf.
* HorrorHunger: The protagonists [[BalefulPolymorph turn into wolf-like monsters]] who are constantly hungry, eating anything they come across.
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* InsistentTerminology: The book really wants us to understand that the kids are ''beasts'', not werewolves or animals or anything else.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The book pulls this despite a full moon seemingly being the cause of the fever. Grandpa John even calls this out but the book still insists they aren't werewolves.



* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Played with, the transformation seems to rip them out of their clothes but they get to keep their shoes. Although this isn't mentioned until the very end.

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* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Played with, the transformation seems to rip them out of their clothes but they get to keep their shoes. Although this isn't mentioned until the very end.end.
* VerbalTic: Robbie and Alesha's mom tells the kids "you two are as funny as chapped lips" multiple times.
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The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}} Series 2000'' book where kids are turned into monsters by candy.

Robbie and his sister Alesha visit their Grandpa John at his cabin in the woods, where he always tells them scary stories, which they hate. One such story is about Full Moon Fever, an illness that turns its victims into snarling, ravenous beasts when they look at the full moon. The day after Halloween though, they discover they've apparently caught the illness, which has turned them into monsters, forcing them to go on the run to seek a cure... which may be closer to home than they thought.

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!!This book provides examples of:

* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted with Grandpa John, who at least tries to help the kids out when he discovers they have been turned into monsters.
* {{Animorphism}}: The entire plot revolves around this, as kids are transformed into monsters.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Despite her reputation, Mrs. Eakins is actually nice to the kids. [[spoiler: Turns out she is flat out evil and was only pretending.]]
* CrankyNeighbor: Mrs. Eakins, who is infamous for being mean to kids. Eventually to the extreme when she [[spoiler: turns the kids into beasts]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: An equally extreme example to ''Literature/ChickenChicken''. The protagonists are turned into wolf-like monsters by [[spoiler: Mrs. Eakins, their grouchy neighbor]]. Their crime? [[spoiler: Kicking a soccer ball through her living room window.]]
* TheFreakshow: The kids in monster form get captured by someone who puts them in one of these.
* HalloweenEpisode: It starts out as one, although only the inciting incident is set on Halloween.
* HorrorHunger: The protagonists [[BalefulPolymorph turn into wolf-like monsters]] who are constantly hungry, eating anything they come across.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The book pulls this despite a full moon seemingly being the cause of the fever. Grandpa John even calls this out but the book still insists they aren't werewolves.
* ParanormalMundaneItem: There are chocolate bars called "Best" (actually "Beast"; turns people into werewolves) and "Cure" (actually "Curse"; makes people shrink in size) that look like your everyday shop merchandise.
* RedHerring: The titular "Full Moon Fever" itself. It was actually the candy they ate on Halloween, which was cursed, that caused the transformation.
* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Played with, the transformation seems to rip them out of their clothes but they get to keep their shoes. Although this isn't mentioned until the very end.

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