I'm currently reading the Fear Street books and some Christopher Pike novels and I plan to start reading some Goosebumps books soon. I plan on writing some teenaged horror/supernatural books which I plan on releasing to KDP soon. In fact. I've already plotted out the first book. But these kind of videos have inspired me to go back to my roots with some 90s favorites.
I think what made the old Goosebumps books so much better than anything coming today is because most of us read them when we were kids so we fit the age range and could relate to the characters. Reading them as an adult isn't the same, but still enjoyable. I'm loving these throwback videos. I also can't help but notice your Buffy the Vampire Slayer books in the background! I grew up with the show and the books and recently started collecting the books too.
No joke, my first elementary school had a weird rule where you had to be in the 3rd grade before the librarians let you read Goosebumps (weirdly enough, a parent would read a ' you choose the scare' Goosebumps every Friday.) When I changed schools, the school library didn't have Goosebumps but they had 5 Minute Chillers and 5 Minute Frights. Those two unnerved me like crazy and I definitely recommend them. One story in particular that scared me was a story about Scarecrows that gouged the eyes out of a kid and stuffed him full of straw for his dad to find in a cornfield.
@@LibraryMacabre I haven't read them in almost 20 years and I still get the shivers thinking about them. XD The fact that these were marketed for kids and had stories like cannibal monster babies, teachers that turned into giant cobras, a kid who finds out he's actually a robot....yeah they'd never get away with this nowadays.
@@LibraryMacabre Good luck! I just took a look on Ebay and I couldn't find Chillers. Hopefully you have better luck than I did. The cover for 5 Minute Chillers has a creepy alien on it wearing a Halloween costume. Gotta love that. XD
Hey, Cameron. I just saw this. Thank you so much for the FRIGHTVILLE shout out. I'm so happy that you enjoyed them. I don't know if there will be more of them, but there's a standalone horror novel coming from Scholastic in 2022.
Thanks for the Twisted Books to Leave You Shook shoutout, Cameron! Side note: I can confirm Don’t Call At All is a lot of fun! And that cover is sooo good.
Cameron, thanks for reading MonsterStreet! I loved your review and am glad you enjoyed the books. All the best to you-from one Halloweener to another 🎃
wow I just read spine shivers A grin in the Dark that was so scary thanks for the suggestion since I watch your show my list of book is bigger now keep the good work
Another great video! Believe it or not I was never into Goosebumps... or that much R.L. Stine. Gasp I know! I was just loyal to Christopher Pike and back then I thought his books were scarier. But I'm definitely trying to read more R.L. Stine now and see what I missed. Stitchers I've had on my TBR since I saw your review. Can't wait to read that. And now I'll also have to add The Grin in the Dark. Sold! 😄 And add The Halloweeners too! Awww it made you cry?! That says a lot. I better not cry. 😄
Thank you, Mark! I hope you enjoy them. The MonsterStreet series has enough for adult readers to enjoy, and the writing (while still simple) is very immersive. :)
Good to know I'm not the only one who's been feeling massive pangs of nostalgia lately! I found a big, coffee table style book called Paperback Dreams on Book Outlet recently and it goes through the history of the adolescent paperback book craze and the specific genres that were popular from the 80's onward. There's huge sections on Babysitter's Club, SVH & Twins, and yes, horror (Christopher Pike, Stine, etc)! It's amazing!
I picked up the first two Monsterstreet books on your recommendation, and I loved them! I can't wait to read the other two. Thanks as always for a great rec!
Looooooooved this video. I am reading some of the Goosebumps and FearStreet books for the first time and I still love to read them despite my old age LOL Time for me also to collect them all. Hahahaha I started really collecting books not long ago so I have a lot to catch up with. Still so thankful I heard about Monsterstreet from you. I absolutely loved them specially Carnevil: DARK 🤣
Apart from Goosebumps I didn’t read much children’s fiction, though I’ve been thinking of looking at some of the stuff you recommend, especially Kelly O’Rourke’s Halloween novels, which sound like so much fun. By the way, are you a self-published writer, Cameron? If so, I don’t know about your other viewers, but I’d love to see a video about how you physically produce and market your work.
Excellent recommendations and you have a wonderful vibe! I've read and really enjoyed the first in the Fright Watch series but the others were new to me. Thanks for all you do!
Cameron, I LOVE that you read Goosebumps and nostalgic reads (and new ones). I'm on board to reading these recommendations you've given because I LOVE me some classic Halloween/Autumnal/Spooky/Creepy books! Specifically, when you recommended the Spine Shivers "A Grin in the Dark" I RAN to put it in my TBR! Ran! LOL!
I hope you enjoy them all as much as I did! The great thing is that most of them are free on Kindle Unlimited which I forgot to mention. I’m not an ereader, but so cool that they’re so easy to download and read. :)
@@LibraryMacabre Yes! That’s one thing I noticed right away is that some are free reads because I have Kindle Unlimited (I prefer hard copies but like free reads too). 🙂 Thanks Cameron!
Love Goosebumps since I was a kid in the late 90’s and the 2000’s. Also the Nightmare Room and other series by R.L. Stine. I still do as a 30 year old. Now I’m going to check these other book series that you recommend!! Btw, have you heard of and/or read Spinechillers by Fred E. Katz? Also Disney Chills? Yes, Disney can do horror too.
Wild shot, but around the time of goosebumps there was another similar series…might have been Australian (?). It was much darker, I recall a book where a family goes on a holiday to a beach side resort where a giant black widow in a cave wraps them up in webs and eats the step mother or fathers head off? Honestly my brain says the mum was the black widow…anyone? It’s been driving me crazy for years! It was one of those books floating around the classroom for reading time.
@@LibraryMacabre Oh my goodness it's the Shivers series! The book is called 'The Spider Kindgom'. Now I'm off to try and find the full collection. I can't thank you enough! I look forward to the new content :)
Super fun!!! :D The book with the clown seems very creepy, and as I am scared of clowns of all types, this book will for sure give me the heebie-jeebies!?!?! Keep being spooktacular and cheers to you, sensational Mr. Cameron!!!!! :D
Have you ever read the Bunnicula series? They were a favorite as a kid. It's about a family cat that tries to convince the dog that the new bunny the family just bought is a vampire. They are great!
This list of recommendations was fantastic! I needed this as an aspiring middle grade horror writer. Thanks for sharing your passion, knowledge and good opinions, Cameron! (Just reserved copies of "Carnevil" and "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf." Can't wait to read them!)
Your summary of “Twisted books to leave you shook” kind of reminds me of an episode of this show on Netflix Creepes Out. It’s an anthology show like Goosebumps, my daughter use to watch it about a year or two ago and I caught a couple of episodes. It reminded me of some of my favorite tv series growing up “Goosebumps” and “Are you Afraid of her Dark”
All of these books sound amazing! I became a reader because of Goosebumps, so this really speaks to me. Thank you! I tried re-reading some of the Goosebumps books, unfortunately, they didn't have the same impact. However, "Welcome to Dead House" spooked me a little. lol
Loved this video! Extremely useful too since I've been thinking of doing a nostalgia/nineties theme for Hallowe'en this year. I've already gotten a couple of Spine Tinglers books that I found out through one of your previous videos, so this just adds more to the TBR pile. As for Monster Street! I've had those on my wishlist for a while because they just seem charming. Your impassioned review at the end made them convinced me to get them soon.
Heck yeah! I am so here for this video! First off the beginning you had me cracking up laughing so hard. You mentioned so many incredible spooky middlegrade books/series. This is just awesome! Oh I loved Are You Afraid of The Dark!!!! Miss those shows. Well some of these that I have not read I need to! Like MONSTERSTREET! I do have the first couple books in one binding on my shelf to read with Logan. VIBookcrate (a past Canadian middlegrade book box) talked about them a bit while they were coming out and then she ended up sending logan her arc copies to me for logan super sweet. Thanks for this video Cameron!!
I think you and Logan will LOVE the MonsterStreet books! Please let me know what you think when you read them. You’re welcome! Thank you for watching 😁
The Mike Ford/Spine Tinglers trivia is half right. He was AN author for it. Much like Ghosts of Fear Street, the books were written by multiple authors.
Correction: Mike Ford only write some of the Spinetinglers, that series has a whole bunch of ghostwriters with MT Coffin being the fake name ala Carolyn Keene and whatnot. JA Drake of Spine Shivers is the same actually, does not exist and they are done by credited ghostwriters. Anyway, I read one of the Fright Visions and really liked it, so I'll look into these others. I've got access to some Monster Streets so I'll read them later this year, I'm looking forward to them. Especially with Stine have the critic quote on them, and the cover artists worked on some of the IDW Goosebumps comics, so that bodes well for me.
I knew J.A. Darke wasn’t real (I believe they’re a collaboration of two authors), but I read that Mike Ford was at the helm of Spinetinglers so I assumed he at least wrote most of them. My bad! I hope you enjoy the MonsterStreet series!
Definitely checking some of these out especially the MonsterStreet ones! Thanks for the recs! 🤘🏼 P.s. I started rewatching Goosebumps last weekend - so much nostalgic goodness 🎃🖤
Was just on Amazon reading samples and see that The Grin in the Dark takes place here in the Twin Cities. Looks like at least one of the authors lives here. Not sure why, but I always get a weird little thrill whenever I randomly find a book that's set nearby ...
I wasn’t paying attention to the location when I read it, so I can’t recall, but I feel the same way when books are set in Ohio, especially in a town I know well. Always a nice treat :-)
There are some other Goosebumps-like book series: Other than Goosebumps, R. L. Stine also wrote Fear Street Ghost of Fear Street The Nightmare Room There’s also American Chillers Michigan Chillers By Johnathan Rand Shadow Zone Written by J. R. Black Betsy Hanes with her Bone Chillers series AG Cascone and Deadtime Stories M.D. Spenser and his Shivers books Jim Razzi: Spine Chillers J. A. Darke and his Spine Shivers. And James Lee who wrote the Mr. Midnight books. Honestly, I hope to write a Goosebumps-like series of my own.
Yes, I plan on doing another video about Goosebumps knock-offs from the 90s. This was just about the newer series. :) I talked about Spine Shivers in this one haha Thank you, and good luck on your own series!
Thanks to you I just picked up the first 3 books in the Monster Street series! I never even heard of them before you recommended them. They sound right up my alley. The Halloweeners is such an awesome title that it surprises me no one used that title before Mr. Reynolds. Great premise too. A slight twist on some old standards as you said. Recently picked up some in the Spine Shivers series. Grin in the Dark sounds terrific! BTW, for old school GB inspired series back in the day, what do you think of Graveyard School, Bone Chillers, Deadtime Stories and Shivers? There’s also the lesser known Shadow Zone by J.R. Black that my childhood best friend and I always kind of enjoyed.
Very nice recommendation, I will be looking forward to reading some of these, and the spine shivers "The Grin in the dark" the story you said I have seen the animated version of it in many horror Animation channel but let's see how the story continues from there.
Also the creepshow books are like goosebumps, so far I believe there is only 1 out “The Taker” but the 2nd book is coming the end of the month called “The Cursed”, the first book was silly but would be fun for 8 and up.
The Frightville books intrigue me to read them, because of what you mentioned about the objects. It reminds me of the TV show series called Friday the 13th, which was supposed to called The 13th Hour. The Proprietors of the store had sold all the objects, and each episode was about them trying to retrieve all the cursed objects that were hurting people. Are you familiar with this TV show Cameron? The very first episode was my favorite, because a little girl's father buys a doll from the curiosity goods store and the doll's alive.
Hey Cameron I recently discovered a book series called Haunted by Joel A. Sutherland kind of goosebumpish vibe. I think you like Fields of Screams. So far only 3 books in the series.
Thanks for all these recommendations! I’m definitely going to try out the Spine Shivers series. The Grin in the Dark sounds so good and creepy! My great aunt collects those creepy clown dolls too. I slept over at her house once when I was younger and it totally freaked me out! 😂 🤡
Bool covers suck nowadays because of the exact reason you stated. I miss the days you could look at a book cover and actually know what genre the book was P.S. I'm definitely checking out the Monster Street books. I've always been a little hesitant to read other middle grade horror though because none ever seem to hold a candle to OG Goosebumps.
For once I'm the 1st person to comment. These are some great book recommendations Cam! 📚🌠 I loved Goosebumps as a kid the original ones were the best. I'm digging the T-shirt.
@@LibraryMacabre It's all good. I'm up late reading The haunting of blackwood house as it is now 1am here in Australia. It is really good so far. My favourite Goosebumps book would have to have been The Haunted Mask.
Hey man good morning! Love this video, I’m actually going to pick up that series, sounds beyond awesome. By the way I messaged you on Instagram, I know you’re not doing social media at the moment ha ha but I did get a bunch of awesome books for free at my local library and I was interested if you were interested. Some cool horror books, some goofy book about a vampire rabbit ha ha
Thanks so much!! You can email me at bookmovieguy@gmail.com. I’d love to see what you found. I’m guessing the vampire bunny book is Bunnicula? That’s a fave of mine haha
Do you have a book it has a cowboy skeleton or zombie on the front I thought it was apart of the shivers books but it's not but I don't know what the book is called
Hey! My recent Goosebumps collection video was my complete collection, so there’s no part two. I will do an updated collection video once I’ve added a decent amount more, but until then I’ll be doing other kinds of Goosebumps-related videos such as this. I hope you enjoy them!
I’m so mad it took me 22 years to find out there was a FEAR STREET I’ve been reading goosebumps watched the show and movies all this time and I didn’t even know about fear street till now lol so now guess what my 22 year old ass is gonna do, I’m gonna read them all till I’m done and if I gotten read it in the kids section I’m the library I will lol
I don’t know what it is but your videos make me feel like a kid in the 90’s on Halloween again.
Thank you for this comment 😁
I’m 46 and I absolutely loved the Fear Street Saga series. I wish I had held onto those books.
Those were the best! I’m going to be rereading them soon. :)
@@LibraryMacabre My absolute favorite was “The Hidden Evil”
Goosebumps is what got me into reading so they’ll always have a soft spot in my heart.
Same! Also other books in the 90’s like Magic Treehouse. They’re some of the books that got me into reading back in elementary in the late 90’s.
I'm currently reading the Fear Street books and some Christopher Pike novels and I plan to start reading some Goosebumps books soon. I plan on writing some teenaged horror/supernatural books which I plan on releasing to KDP soon. In fact. I've already plotted out the first book. But these kind of videos have inspired me to go back to my roots with some 90s favorites.
I think what made the old Goosebumps books so much better than anything coming today is because most of us read them when we were kids so we fit the age range and could relate to the characters. Reading them as an adult isn't the same, but still enjoyable. I'm loving these throwback videos. I also can't help but notice your Buffy the Vampire Slayer books in the background! I grew up with the show and the books and recently started collecting the books too.
I’m a huge Buffy fan! I have most of the books. I’ll show them in a video sometime :)
No joke, my first elementary school had a weird rule where you had to be in the 3rd grade before the librarians let you read Goosebumps (weirdly enough, a parent would read a ' you choose the scare' Goosebumps every Friday.) When I changed schools, the school library didn't have Goosebumps but they had 5 Minute Chillers and 5 Minute Frights. Those two unnerved me like crazy and I definitely recommend them. One story in particular that scared me was a story about Scarecrows that gouged the eyes out of a kid and stuffed him full of straw for his dad to find in a cornfield.
Yep, I’mma need to look those books up right now 😂😂 Those sound awesome! I don’t recall ever seeing them.
@@LibraryMacabre I haven't read them in almost 20 years and I still get the shivers thinking about them. XD The fact that these were marketed for kids and had stories like cannibal monster babies, teachers that turned into giant cobras, a kid who finds out he's actually a robot....yeah they'd never get away with this nowadays.
I’m sold sold sold. I just ordered a copy of Five Minute Frights on eBay (hopefully they send the right book), and I’m looking up Chillers now!
@@LibraryMacabre Good luck! I just took a look on Ebay and I couldn't find Chillers. Hopefully you have better luck than I did. The cover for 5 Minute Chillers has a creepy alien on it wearing a Halloween costume. Gotta love that. XD
I haven’t found Chillers yet, but I Googled the cover and I have to have it! 😂
Hey, Cameron. I just saw this. Thank you so much for the FRIGHTVILLE shout out. I'm so happy that you enjoyed them. I don't know if there will be more of them, but there's a standalone horror novel coming from Scholastic in 2022.
Thanks for the Twisted Books to Leave You Shook shoutout, Cameron!
Side note: I can confirm Don’t Call At All is a lot of fun! And that cover is sooo good.
You’re welcome, man! I’m glad to help, and I’m excited to read the next!
Me at 3:34: oh yeah, for the KIDS, of course 👀👀📚 I’m getting those for the KIDS 🤣🤣🤣
Bwahaha 😂🤣
All of these books look so good! If I was to chose, I would start with Don't Call At All. Thanks for the reccomendations!
I hope you enjoy it! 😁
Cameron, thanks for reading MonsterStreet! I loved your review and am glad you enjoyed the books. All the best to you-from one Halloweener to another 🎃
Thank *you* for writing such an amazing series! I really hope there are more. I’m glad you saw my video. 😁🎃👻
@@LibraryMacabre Lorien Lawrence of the Fright Watch series sent me your video-amazing work and fantastic channel, Cameron! 🎃
this video absolutely deserves more views, the quality
wow I just read spine shivers A grin in the Dark that was so scary thanks for the suggestion since I watch your show my list of book is bigger now keep the good work
Another great video! Believe it or not I was never into Goosebumps... or that much R.L. Stine. Gasp I know! I was just loyal to Christopher Pike and back then I thought his books were scarier. But I'm definitely trying to read more R.L. Stine now and see what I missed.
Stitchers I've had on my TBR since I saw your review. Can't wait to read that. And now I'll also have to add The Grin in the Dark. Sold! 😄
And add The Halloweeners too! Awww it made you cry?! That says a lot. I better not cry. 😄
Cry! Let it all out! 😂😂 I hope you enjoy them, Nakia! 😁
@@LibraryMacabre Hahaha! Thank you!
Your sheer enthusiasm has persuaded me to check out the MonsterStreet series! And 'The Grin in the Dark' sounds great too. Perfect Halloween reading.
Thank you, Mark! I hope you enjoy them. The MonsterStreet series has enough for adult readers to enjoy, and the writing (while still simple) is very immersive. :)
Good to know I'm not the only one who's been feeling massive pangs of nostalgia lately! I found a big, coffee table style book called Paperback Dreams on Book Outlet recently and it goes through the history of the adolescent paperback book craze and the specific genres that were popular from the 80's onward. There's huge sections on Babysitter's Club, SVH & Twins, and yes, horror (Christopher Pike, Stine, etc)! It's amazing!
Do you mean Paperback Crush? I’ve read that one and mostly really enjoyed it, especially all the covers. 😁
"The Grin in the Dark" sounds AWESOME! I'm buying it now!
I hope you enjoy it, Lou! 🤡👻
Ahhh thank you so much for shouting out The Stitchers! 🥰 Happy to be in such spooky company with those other amazing series.
You’re welcome, Lorien! I can’t wait for book 2. And lemme just say, the cover for the second book is AMAZING!!
@@LibraryMacabre THANK YOU! 💚🖤
It wouldn’t be a macabre episode without a little goosebumps
Here’s to the days of goosebumps 🍻
Really great episode
You’ve done it again 🥇
Thanks so much! Every video needs at least a nod to Goosebumps 😁
I picked up the first two Monsterstreet books on your recommendation, and I loved them! I can't wait to read the other two. Thanks as always for a great rec!
Oh great! I’m glad you hear you enjoyed them. That makes me happy! I like setting people up with books, especially when it works out 😂
Fright filter sounds cool for halloween. Thank you, for the monsterstreet book recommendation!
Looooooooved this video. I am reading some of the Goosebumps and FearStreet books for the first time and I still love to read them despite my old age LOL
Time for me also to collect them all. Hahahaha I started really collecting books not long ago so I have a lot to catch up with.
Still so thankful I heard about Monsterstreet from you. I absolutely loved them specially Carnevil: DARK 🤣
I'm reading the Monsterstreet series and am shocked at how much I like it so far.
Apart from Goosebumps I didn’t read much children’s fiction, though I’ve been thinking of looking at some of the stuff you recommend, especially Kelly O’Rourke’s Halloween novels, which sound like so much fun.
By the way, are you a self-published writer, Cameron? If so, I don’t know about your other viewers, but I’d love to see a video about how you physically produce and market your work.
I am self-published, and I can absolutely do a video like that. :-)
Excellent recommendations and you have a wonderful vibe! I've read and really enjoyed the first in the Fright Watch series but the others were new to me. Thanks for all you do!
Cameron, I LOVE that you read Goosebumps and nostalgic reads (and new ones). I'm on board to reading these recommendations you've given because I LOVE me some classic Halloween/Autumnal/Spooky/Creepy books! Specifically, when you recommended the Spine Shivers "A Grin in the Dark" I RAN to put it in my TBR! Ran! LOL!
I hope you enjoy them all as much as I did! The great thing is that most of them are free on Kindle Unlimited which I forgot to mention. I’m not an ereader, but so cool that they’re so easy to download and read. :)
@@LibraryMacabre Yes! That’s one thing I noticed right away is that some are free reads because I have Kindle Unlimited (I prefer hard copies but like free reads too). 🙂 Thanks Cameron!
Love Goosebumps since I was a kid in the late 90’s and the 2000’s. Also the Nightmare Room and other series by R.L. Stine. I still do as a 30 year old.
Now I’m going to check these other book series that you recommend!!
Btw, have you heard of and/or read Spinechillers by Fred E. Katz?
Also Disney Chills?
Yes, Disney can do horror too.
Wild shot, but around the time of goosebumps there was another similar series…might have been Australian (?).
It was much darker, I recall a book where a family goes on a holiday to a beach side resort where a giant black widow in a cave wraps them up in webs and eats the step mother or fathers head off? Honestly my brain says the mum was the black widow…anyone? It’s been driving me crazy for years!
It was one of those books floating around the classroom for reading time.
Maybe the Creepers or Shivers series by Edgar J. Hyde?
@@LibraryMacabre Oh my goodness it's the Shivers series! The book is called 'The Spider Kindgom'. Now I'm off to try and find the full collection. I can't thank you enough!
I look forward to the new content :)
I love Goosebumps books a whole too and I'm definitely going to have check out these other series that you're mentioning here.
I hope you enjoy them! Have a spooky day 👻
Super fun!!! :D The book with the clown seems very creepy, and as I am scared of clowns of all types, this book will for sure give me the heebie-jeebies!?!?! Keep being spooktacular and cheers to you, sensational Mr. Cameron!!!!! :D
Have you ever read the Bunnicula series? They were a favorite as a kid. It's about a family cat that tries to convince the dog that the new bunny the family just bought is a vampire. They are great!
I loved Bunnicula! That was one of my favorite books as a kid as well.😁
Thanks for mentioning FrightVision! It's awesome to be in such great, spooky company!
You’re welcome, and thank you for sending these awesome books to me! 😄
This list of recommendations was fantastic! I needed this as an aspiring middle grade horror writer. Thanks for sharing your passion, knowledge and good opinions, Cameron! (Just reserved copies of "Carnevil" and "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf." Can't wait to read them!)
Your summary of “Twisted books to leave you shook” kind of reminds me of an episode of this show on Netflix Creepes Out. It’s an anthology show like Goosebumps, my daughter use to watch it about a year or two ago and I caught a couple of episodes. It reminded me of some of my favorite tv series growing up “Goosebumps” and “Are you Afraid of her Dark”
Totally! That’s a pretty fun little show. Have you watched The Haunting Hour series?
@@LibraryMacabre of’course..that one had some pretty creepy epidodes
I'm reading Nighttime Frights series and they are amazing.
Oooh, nice! I need to get to those soon, a phrase I'll take to my grave. xD
❤@@LibraryMacabre
All of these books sound amazing! I became a reader because of Goosebumps, so this really speaks to me. Thank you!
I tried re-reading some of the Goosebumps books, unfortunately, they didn't have the same impact. However, "Welcome to Dead House" spooked me a little. lol
Thanks for all the recommendations. Can't wait to get these books and read them. Keep up the great content. Love this channel and videos.
I love the the spine shiver books
Loved this video! Extremely useful too since I've been thinking of doing a nostalgia/nineties theme for Hallowe'en this year. I've already gotten a couple of Spine Tinglers books that I found out through one of your previous videos, so this just adds more to the TBR pile. As for Monster Street! I've had those on my wishlist for a while because they just seem charming. Your impassioned review at the end made them convinced me to get them soon.
Heck yeah! I am so here for this video!
First off the beginning you had me cracking up laughing so hard.
You mentioned so many incredible spooky middlegrade books/series. This is just awesome!
Oh I loved Are You Afraid of The Dark!!!! Miss those shows.
Well some of these that I have not read I need to!
Like MONSTERSTREET! I do have the first couple books in one binding on my shelf to read with Logan. VIBookcrate (a past Canadian middlegrade book box) talked about them a bit while they were coming out and then she ended up sending logan her arc copies to me for logan super sweet.
Thanks for this video Cameron!!
I think you and Logan will LOVE the MonsterStreet books! Please let me know what you think when you read them. You’re welcome! Thank you for watching 😁
@@LibraryMacabre Absolutely! :)
Awesome video always looking forward to your videos !! I love your positivity
Thanks, Tyler! 🙌
Ooh! The Halloweeners sounds like 2 Buffy eps mashed together for pure delight! XD If Ethan wasn't so... mischievous, muahaha
Two of my fave episodes!
The Mike Ford/Spine Tinglers trivia is half right. He was AN author for it. Much like Ghosts of Fear Street, the books were written by multiple authors.
Thanks. Yeah, I slipped up there and no one will let me live it down now 😆
Correction: Mike Ford only write some of the Spinetinglers, that series has a whole bunch of ghostwriters with MT Coffin being the fake name ala Carolyn Keene and whatnot. JA Drake of Spine Shivers is the same actually, does not exist and they are done by credited ghostwriters.
Anyway, I read one of the Fright Visions and really liked it, so I'll look into these others. I've got access to some Monster Streets so I'll read them later this year, I'm looking forward to them. Especially with Stine have the critic quote on them, and the cover artists worked on some of the IDW Goosebumps comics, so that bodes well for me.
I knew J.A. Darke wasn’t real (I believe they’re a collaboration of two authors), but I read that Mike Ford was at the helm of Spinetinglers so I assumed he at least wrote most of them. My bad! I hope you enjoy the MonsterStreet series!
When you mentioned eerie Indiana I knew I had to subscribe. Moon brother.
Definitely checking some of these out especially the MonsterStreet ones! Thanks for the recs! 🤘🏼
P.s. I started rewatching Goosebumps last weekend - so much nostalgic goodness 🎃🖤
Was just on Amazon reading samples and see that The Grin in the Dark takes place here in the Twin Cities. Looks like at least one of the authors lives here. Not sure why, but I always get a weird little thrill whenever I randomly find a book that's set nearby ...
Well, maybe anyway. Mentions a local suburb and county, but those may just be names of convenience. Sorry, I'm just babbling now.
I wasn’t paying attention to the location when I read it, so I can’t recall, but I feel the same way when books are set in Ohio, especially in a town I know well. Always a nice treat :-)
Love that Goosebumps button shirt! Great video thanks for recommendations I’m going to look into some of those books!
Thank you! I’m glad I could put some new books on your radar. 😎
There are some other Goosebumps-like book series:
Other than Goosebumps, R. L. Stine also wrote
Fear Street
Ghost of Fear Street
The Nightmare Room
There’s also
American Chillers
Michigan Chillers
By Johnathan Rand
Shadow Zone
Written by J. R. Black
Betsy Hanes with her Bone Chillers series
AG Cascone and Deadtime Stories
M.D. Spenser and his Shivers books
Jim Razzi:
Spine Chillers
J. A. Darke and his Spine Shivers.
And James Lee who wrote the Mr. Midnight books.
Honestly, I hope to write a Goosebumps-like series of my own.
Yes, I plan on doing another video about Goosebumps knock-offs from the 90s. This was just about the newer series. :) I talked about Spine Shivers in this one haha Thank you, and good luck on your own series!
@@LibraryMacabre Sorry, I think what I meant was Spinetinglers by M. T. Coffin.
Love these recommendations! Thank you!!
Thanks to you I just picked up the first 3 books in the Monster Street series! I never even heard of them before you recommended them. They sound right up my alley. The Halloweeners is such an awesome title that it surprises me no one used that title before Mr. Reynolds. Great premise too. A slight twist on some old standards as you said.
Recently picked up some in the Spine Shivers series. Grin in the Dark sounds terrific! BTW, for old school GB inspired series back in the day, what do you think of Graveyard School, Bone Chillers, Deadtime Stories and Shivers? There’s also the lesser known Shadow Zone by J.R. Black that my childhood best friend and I always kind of enjoyed.
Just ordered Carnevel based on your review. Can't wait to read it! Thanks for all the great videos, Cameron!
Awesome, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Happy reading! 👻📚
Thanks! It just arrived! Of course, I see now that I misspelled the title. Derp!
Very nice recommendation, I will be looking forward to reading some of these, and the spine shivers "The Grin in the dark" the story you said I have seen the animated version of it in many horror Animation channel but let's see how the story continues from there.
Also the creepshow books are like goosebumps, so far I believe there is only 1 out “The Taker” but the 2nd book is coming the end of the month called “The Cursed”, the first book was silly but would be fun for 8 and up.
The Frightville books intrigue me to read them, because of what you mentioned about the objects. It reminds me of the TV show series called Friday the 13th, which was supposed to called The 13th Hour. The Proprietors of the store had sold all the objects, and each episode was about them trying to retrieve all the cursed objects that were hurting people. Are you familiar with this TV show Cameron? The very first episode was my favorite, because a little girl's father buys a doll from the curiosity goods store and the doll's alive.
Hey Cameron I recently discovered a book series called Haunted by Joel A. Sutherland kind of goosebumpish vibe. I think you like Fields of Screams. So far only 3 books in the series.
That’s another I really want to check out! They look fun :)
You must check out Disney Chills, they are like the Goosebumps stories but with Disney villains.
I definitely do! They look good. :)
Great video by the way! I love seeing other children horror book series.
Yes! I LOVE the MonsterStreet series! Great video!
Yay!! I’m glad someone else out there has read them. 😁
I just went and bought Monsterstreet lol Thank you for the recommendations!
Yay!! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
Good recommendations dude ! I have the first monster street book I may read around halloween time
It’s a great halloween read!
Now I'm REALLY interested in reading The Grin in the Dark
Lemme know what you think if you pick it up!
Thanks for all these recommendations! I’m definitely going to try out the Spine Shivers series. The Grin in the Dark sounds so good and creepy! My great aunt collects those creepy clown dolls too. I slept over at her house once when I was younger and it totally freaked me out! 😂 🤡
This must be a normal thing that aunts do 😂😂 🤡
@@LibraryMacabre LOL...wait, I’m an aunt! I guess I’m way behind on my creepy clown collection! 😂
Omg, you have to get on it! You may lose your aunt license if you don’t... 😳
@@LibraryMacabre 😂😆🤣
Bool covers suck nowadays because of the exact reason you stated. I miss the days you could look at a book cover and actually know what genre the book was
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I'm definitely checking out the Monster Street books. I've always been a little hesitant to read other middle grade horror though because none ever seem to hold a candle to OG Goosebumps.
I hope you enjoy MonsterStreet! That’s definitely my fave so far. Hopefully if more people read it, there will be more books in the series 🤞
For once I'm the 1st person to comment. These are some great book recommendations Cam! 📚🌠 I loved Goosebumps as a kid the original ones were the best. I'm digging the T-shirt.
Yay!! I’m glad you could show up so early! 😁 Thank you!! This is my new favorite outfit 😆
@@LibraryMacabre It's all good. I'm up late reading The haunting of blackwood house as it is now 1am here in Australia. It is really good so far. My favourite Goosebumps book would have to have been The Haunted Mask.
I just ordered The Grin in the dark after seeing this, hope it creeps me out!
This was such a fun video!
Thank you! 😁
LoL 😂 the thumbnail, well done Cameron! 😁
Thank you 😂🤣
This was great! More recommendations videos please
Hey man good morning! Love this video, I’m actually going to pick up that series, sounds beyond awesome. By the way I messaged you on Instagram, I know you’re not doing social media at the moment ha ha but I did get a bunch of awesome books for free at my local library and I was interested if you were interested. Some cool horror books, some goofy book about a vampire rabbit ha ha
Thanks so much!! You can email me at bookmovieguy@gmail.com. I’d love to see what you found. I’m guessing the vampire bunny book is Bunnicula? That’s a fave of mine haha
Thanks
Have you seen the Creepers series by Edgar J Hyde? I recently read the Scarecrow and loved it
I haven’t read those yet, but I actually just recently found out about them. They look great! I’m going to need to track them down. :)
The creepy clown sees them when their sleeping, and knows when their awake.
Where did he get that awesome shirt??!?!!!?
Do you have a book it has a cowboy skeleton or zombie on the front I thought it was apart of the shivers books but it's not but I don't know what the book is called
When is the part 2 for goosbumps collection coming??
Hey! My recent Goosebumps collection video was my complete collection, so there’s no part two. I will do an updated collection video once I’ve added a decent amount more, but until then I’ll be doing other kinds of Goosebumps-related videos such as this. I hope you enjoy them!
Scarewaves is a awesome one made by Trevor Henderson
I grabbed that one recently! Very excited to read it. He’s a great artist I’ve followed for a long time, so I’m glad to see him get a book deal. :)
I’m so mad it took me 22 years to find out there was a FEAR STREET I’ve been reading goosebumps watched the show and movies all this time and I didn’t even know about fear street till now lol so now guess what my 22 year old ass is gonna do, I’m gonna read them all till I’m done and if I gotten read it in the kids section I’m the library I will lol
Where do I get your book from.
I miss the book covers from the 90s. And the 80s. Now most of them look the same. :/
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u SHOULD TRY HARRY POTTER
I’ve read the Harry Potter books many times :)