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* AfraidOfClowns: In the short story "Afraid of Clowns", a boy named Christopher has a fear of clowns, and it doesn't get any better for him when he's taken to the circus. His fear turns out to be completely justified when the clowns [[{{Clownification}} turn him into one of them]].
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* AfraidOfClowns: In the short story "Afraid of Clowns", a boy named Christopher has a fear of clowns, and it doesn't get any better for him when he's taken to the circus. His fear turns out to be completely justified when the clowns [[{{Clownification}} turn him into one of them]]. He does embrace his new status as a MonsterClown, so at least ''he's'' not afraid anymore.
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** At the beginning of "The Ghostly Stare", Rachel asks Lauren and Mark if they know what to do if they see a ghost, and Mark replies that they run. Rachel tells him that's exactly wrong, and they should instead give the ghost the ghostly stare. [[spoiler: Later that night in the graveyard, Mark is confronted by a ghost. He forgets Rachel's advice, and he instead runs just as he said he would. He is implied to not have survived this encounter]].
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* OhCrap: In “The Ghostly Stare,” after Lauren uses the ghostly stare to get rid of the ghost girl, she runs from the cemetery and back home. [[spoiler: While doing so, she hears another pair of footsteps running behind her, and she assumes that’s her brother following her. But when she reaches home and goes in the living room, she turns around and screams loud. She immediately realizes the pair of footsteps following her were NOT coming from her brother, but from the dead man that was chasing him earlier in the cemetery.]]
* OrWasItADream: "Nightmare Inn" features the protagonist Jillain having a run-in with Priscilla and James who are revealed to be two werewolves and fight over the right to eat her. After escaping with her life, she wakes up to find it was another nightmare. [[spoiler:Then she sees a werewolf claw mark on Priscilla's cheek.]]
* OrWasItADream: "Nightmare Inn" features the protagonist Jillain having a run-in with Priscilla and James who are revealed to be two werewolves and fight over the right to eat her. After escaping with her life, she wakes up to find it was another nightmare. [[spoiler:Then she sees a werewolf claw mark on Priscilla's cheek.]]
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* OhCrap: In “The "The Ghostly Stare,” Stare", [[spoiler: after Lauren uses the ghostly stare to get rid of the ghost girl, she runs from the cemetery and back home. [[spoiler: While doing so, she hears another pair of footsteps running behind her, and she assumes that’s that's her brother following her. But when she reaches home and goes in the living room, she turns around and screams loud. She immediately realizes the pair of footsteps following her were NOT coming from her brother, but from the dead man that was chasing him earlier in the cemetery.]]
* OrWasItADream: "Nightmare Inn" features the protagonistJillain Jillian having a run-in with Priscilla and James who are revealed to be two werewolves and fight over the right to eat her. After escaping with her life, she wakes up to find it was another nightmare. [[spoiler:Then she sees a werewolf claw mark on Priscilla's cheek.]]
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* ThousandYardStare: This is the technique needed to get rid of the dead in “The Ghostly Stare.” You stare deep down in the ghost’s eye sockets, searching for their soul, and they sink beneath the ground as you do this. [[spoiler:For Lauren, it works the first time. For the second time, it does not.]]
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* ThousandYardStare: This is the technique needed to get rid of the dead in “The "The Ghostly Stare.” Stare". You stare deep down in the ghost’s ghost's eye sockets, searching for their soul, and they sink beneath the ground as you do this. [[spoiler:For Lauren, it works the first time. For the second time, it does not.]]
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* AdultFear: Many of the stories involve children being victimized in various ways. "Afraid of Clowns" particularly demonstrates this as a scared child is victimized by clowns essentially beating him and yet [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the audience just continues to laugh despite the child's obviously real pain]].
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* FamousLastWords: Plenty in several of the stories.
** [[spoiler:Mike]] in “Pumpkin Head”: “Mr. Palmer will never sell these!”
** [[spoiler:Walter]] in “Alien Candy”: “You didn’t really want me to be your president.”
** [[spoiler:Lauren]] in “The Ghostly Stare”: “W-Why did you do that?”
** [[spoiler:Mike]] in “Pumpkin Head”: “Mr. Palmer will never sell these!”
** [[spoiler:Walter]] in “Alien Candy”: “You didn’t really want me to be your president.”
** [[spoiler:Lauren]] in “The Ghostly Stare”: “W-Why did you do that?”
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:In “The Dead Body”, Willy asks his Uncle Jake to pretend to be a living corpse as part of a prank. After it happens, he gets back home, only for his mother to tell him that his Uncle Jake died last night. That means that Uncle Jake WAS a living corpse at the time, and did the prank all too well.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:In “The Dead Body”, Willy asks his Uncle Jake to pretend to be a living corpse as part of a prank.prank to get back at some bullies. After it happens, he gets back home, only for his mother to tell him that his Uncle Jake died last night. That means that Uncle Jake WAS a living corpse at the time, and did the prank all too well.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:In “The Dead Body”, Willy asks his Uncle Jake to pretend to be a living corpse as part of a prank. After it happens, he gets back home, only for his mother to tell him that his Uncle Jake died last night. That means that Uncle Jake WAS a living corpse at the time, and did the prank all too well.]]
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* DeathOfAChild: In [[spoiler:"Alien Candy" and "The Black Mask"]]. Heck this is R.L. Stine we're talking about; the ''King'' of killing off kid heroes.
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* ThousandYardStare: This is the technique needed to get rid of the dead in “The Ghostly Stare.” You look stare deep down in the ghost’s eye sockets, searching for their soul, and they sink beneath the ground. [[spoiler:For Lauren, it works the first time. For the second time, it does not.]]
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* FamousLastWords: Plenty in several of the stories.
**[[spoiler:Mike]] in “Pumpkin Head”: “Mr. Palmer will never sell these!”
**[[spoiler:Walter]] in “Alien Candy”: “You didn’t really want me to be your president.”
**[[spoiler:Lauren]] in “The Ghostly Stare”: “W-Why did you do that?”
**[[spoiler:Mike]] in “Pumpkin Head”: “Mr. Palmer will never sell these!”
**[[spoiler:Walter]] in “Alien Candy”: “You didn’t really want me to be your president.”
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* CruelTwistEnding: Most of the stories have one, naturally. Just one example is ''Make Me a Witch'', where a girl asks a witch to have some of her power so she can finally get some respect. The witch agrees to switch bodies but [[spoiler: Stephanie's baby brother takes the pill they were supposed to use and the witch ends up switching with the baby. Shen then swears revenge on both of them.]]
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* AdultFear: Many of the stories involve children being victimized in various ways. "Afraid of Clowns" particularly demonstrates this as a scared child is victimized by clowns essentially beating him and yet [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the audience just continues to laugh despite the child's obviously real pain]]. In the TV version, the scared child is turned into a clown, with his parents explaining to him that it's a part of his growing up, as they're demon clowns who pose as humans. Either way, the child is scared shitless and everyone has fun at his expense.
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* AdultFear: Many of the stories involve children being victimized in various ways. "Afraid of Clowns" particularly demonstrates this as a scared child is victimized by clowns essentially beating him and yet [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the audience just continues to laugh despite the child's obviously real pain]]. In the TV version, the scared child is turned into a clown, with his parents explaining to him that it's a part of his growing up, as they're demon clowns who pose as humans. Either way, the child is scared shitless and everyone has fun at his expense.
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** The kids in "Alien Candy" are shown with many sci-fi touches to their club, which makes sense given it's the Alien Club. However, one finds a ''[[Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse Star Trek]]'' novel amusing, which the newly elected club president finds odd. [[spoiler:Turns out they're aliens.]]
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* AllHallowsEve: The setting of "Pumpkinhead" and "I'm Not Martin" both take place on Halloween day.
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It was followed by a sequel collection of sorts called ''Literature/TheHauntingHour'', which really has nothing much to do with the [[Series/TheHauntingHour TV series of the same name]], though stories from this and ''The Haunting Hour'' were used as episodes.
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It was followed by a sequel collection of sorts called ''Literature/TheHauntingHour'', which really has nothing much to do with the [[Series/TheHauntingHour TV series ''Literature/TheHauntingHour'' in 2001. Some of the same name]], though stories from this and ''The Haunting Hour'' both books were used later adapted as episodes.
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** "Alien Candy" ends with [[spoiler: the club members revealing that they're real aliens who gain new recruits to eat as they murder their victim of the week Walter with nobody none the wiser to their killing sprees.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The club in "Alien Candy" pretended to be Walter's friends [[spoiler: only so he could come with them as their dinner at the club meeting.]]
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** [[spoiler:"I'm Not Martin" ends with Martin switching the charts so Sean is taken away for a foot-removal operation Martin had to undergo....though when FridgeLogic kicks in, you realize the real Martin is going to get caught eventually and Sean will be set for life from the enormous lawsuit the hospital will get slapped with.]]
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* GenreAdultery: "The Most Evil Sorcerer" is a dark fantasy work in a DungAges setting in a collection of modern day horror stories (the TV show adaptation is the same way, though the [[spoiler:end where the sorceress is found centuries later in the woods by a jogger takes place in the present]]). Lampshaded by Stine in the story's intro when he relates it was the result of a bet that he could write a story outside of his usual setting and type.
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''Nightmare Hour'' is a 1999 collection of ten short stories by ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' author RLStine. Unlike many of his works, these stories aren't tied to a particular series, but stand on their own as disturbing tales. They range from an encounter with a ghost that wants human skin to a group of suspicious kids arranging an "Alien Club" to spending a night in the hospital on Halloween and being mistaken for an amputation patient.
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''Nightmare Hour'' is a 1999 collection of ten short stories by ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' author RLStine.Creator/RLStine. Unlike many of his works, these stories aren't tied to a particular series, but stand on their own as disturbing tales. They range from an encounter with a ghost that wants human skin to a group of suspicious kids arranging an "Alien Club" to spending a night in the hospital on Halloween and being mistaken for an amputation patient.
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''Nightmare Hour'' is a 1999 collection of ten short stories by ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' author RLStine. Unlike many of his works, these stories aren't tied to a particular series, but stand on their own as disturbing tales. They range from an encounter with a ghost that wants human skin to a group of suspicious kids arranging an "Alien Club" to spending a night in the hospital on Halloween.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:"I'm Not Martin" ends with Martin switching the charts so Sean is taken away for a foot-removal operation Martin had to undergo....though when FridgeLogic kicks in, you realize the real Martin is going to get caught eventually and Sean will be set for life from the enormous lawsuit the hospital will get slapped with.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: TheBadGuyWins:
** [[spoiler:"I'm Not Martin" ends with Martin switching the charts so Sean is taken away for a foot-removal operation Martin had to undergo....though when FridgeLogic kicks in, you realize the real Martin is going to get caught eventually and Sean will be set for life from the enormous lawsuit the hospital will get slapped with.]]
** [[spoiler:"I'm Not Martin" ends with Martin switching the charts so Sean is taken away for a foot-removal operation Martin had to undergo....though when FridgeLogic kicks in, you realize the real Martin is going to get caught eventually and Sean will be set for life from the enormous lawsuit the hospital will get slapped with.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The kids in "Alien Candy" are shown with many sci-fi touches to their club, which makes sense given it's the Alien Club. However, one finds a ''[[Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse Star Trek]]'' novel amusing, which the newly elected club president finds odd. [[spoiler:Turns out they're aliens.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The kids in "Alien Candy" are shown with many sci-fi touches to their club, which makes sense given it's the Alien Club. However, one finds a ''[[Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse Star Trek]]'' novel amusing, which the newly elected club president finds odd. [[spoiler:Turns out they're aliens.]]
** The kids in "Alien Candy" are shown with many sci-fi touches to their club, which makes sense given it's the Alien Club. However, one finds a ''[[Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse Star Trek]]'' novel amusing, which the newly elected club president finds odd. [[spoiler:Turns out they're aliens.]]
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In the introduction to "The Most Evil Sorcerer", Stine comments that the evil sorcerer took over his body and finished the story for him.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou:
** In the introduction to "The Most Evil Sorcerer", Stine comments that the evil sorcerer took over his body and finished the story for him.
** In the introduction to "The Most Evil Sorcerer", Stine comments that the evil sorcerer took over his body and finished the story for him.
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* WouldHurtAChild: ''Oh yes.''
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* WouldHurtAChild: ''Oh yes.''''
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:"I'm Not Martin" ends with Martin switching the charts so Sean is taken away for a foot-removal operation Martin had to undergo.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:"I'm Not Martin" ends with Martin switching the charts so Sean is taken away for a foot-removal operation Martin had to undergo.undergo....though when FridgeLogic kicks in, you realize the real Martin is going to get caught eventually and Sean will be set for life from the enormous lawsuit the hospital will get slapped with.]]
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--'''Mom''': If you tried harder, you would look almost pretty
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