goosebumps the scarecrow walks at midnight book

When, through an ad in the school newspaper, he invites creeps to call his nemesis after midnight, the tables are turned and the creeps call him.

Except their uncle (who's a bit touched-in-the-head) is acting strange, grandma and grandpa are all nervous, and the scarecrows keep hopping off their perches - at midnight of course.ĭon't Go To Sleep (1997) finds a young lad swamped with increasingly perilous, over-his-head situations, while evading sinister Matrix-like 'Reality Police.' As the boy attempts to figure things out, viewers marvel at prescient plot-points that eerily foreshadow Guantanamo Bay.Ĭalling All Creeps (1996) takes into account a revenge scheme gone awry for a kid bullied at school. A brother/ sister pair of city-slicker kids visit their grandma, grandpa and cousins at the country farm for some fun and chocolate chip pancakes. The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (1996) follows the Goosebumps pattern to a tee, as weirdness and menace intrudes within the first three minutes of the episode. In fact most of today's kids have seen stronger stuff during primetime network TV, but for your budding horror aficionado, (or Generation Y nostalgia buffs) these DVDs can provide a fun jumping off point. Yes, from an adult perspective, these stories are corny, and scares are non-existent. Horror fiction, juvenile or otherwise, was a staple of my early reading library, I'm all for it and for television and cinematic efforts as well. Stine's popular juvenile horror fiction books.

Scholastic DVD collects three 22-minute episodes from this mid-nineteen-nineties cable TV series based on R.L. Goosebumps: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight:

Goosebumps the scarecrow walks at midnight book