Talk:Goosebumps

message: :As a fan of the series from the past, I intend to fill in a lot of the pages with meaningful content.  Right now, I am in the process of adding pictures of book covers as well as infoboxes to the books that I've owned since childhood.  Eventually, I plan on re-reading the books and adding summaries to their prospective pages.  My personal collection is limited to 26 books from the original series.  If anyone else has information regarding these books that they'd like to add, I would encourage the use of the infobox book template.  I have already completed the infobox for the first book in the series, Welcome To Dead House.  I agree that some of the articles seem pointless, but this page would be far too long if summaries would be placed here.  For the time being, I will concentrate on expanding the pages of the individual books.  --Ravensfan5252 19:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the hard work, Raven. For the record, I think it'd be better for a scan or Amazon picture rather than a photograph.--CyberGhostface 20:58, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I'll help you add the infoboxes and templates. Ok? Shindo9Hikaru 22:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: well guys i have all of em so if u need help just leave a message and ill see if i can look it up.I am Paranoid 19:23, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass Deletion of articles for each indivual book 

message: Is there a list of the ghostwritten ones?
--mwazzap 02:40, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Question: How do we actually know which books, of any R.L. Stine series, are ghostwritten or not? Do you have a source with this information? (All I'd heard was that it was known some Fear Street books were ghostwritten, and all else was speculation.) 86.136.156.205 (talk) 12:45, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Answer: The ghostwritten books were usually the Fear Street spin off series like 'Fear Street Seniors' and they all (as far as I know) have the name of the ghostwriter on the page with the publishing date and everything. Logographicthings (talk) 01:49, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: What about the ghostwritten ones?

message: Thought I'd let whoever edits this know that an article on Goosebumps:_Night_Of_The_Living_Dummy has been created.  It's in a very poor state, and I tagged it for cleanup, as a stub, and so on.  I thought if someone wants to clean it up, it might be appropriate to link it from here, since according to this article it was the author's favorite Goosebumps book. -- SCZenz 08:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That article is redundant.  We already have Night Of The Living Dummy. Any relevant info should be merged there. Never mind. Goosebumps:_Night_Of_The_Living_Dummy actually predates Night Of The Living Dummy, and the latter is about the entire Slappy series.  I suppose we can keep both articles, but I agree, they both need some cleanup. Zagalejo 00:38, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Night of the living dummy article created 

message: I created that night of the living dummy article and I am offended that you would say such things about it.
:Don't take this stuff personally; it's just constructive criticism. Zagalejo 00:45, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Night Of The Living Dummy 

message: Not all spanish speaking countries translated Goosebumps as Escalofríos. In Spain it was translated as Pesadillas (that means Nightmares). The information in the article is inaccurate, but I don't know exactly how to write it propperly.--62.43.237.98 15:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also in Hebrew it's more like "Shiver" rather than Goose-bumps. Goosebumps is usually translated "duck skin" עור ברווז. Should I replace it with Shiver? I don't know if duck skin is the formal translation but it's the common name for the phenomena of the skin turning dotty when it's cold (hair is raised to catch hot air is the explanation to the phenomena I was always given). --89.139.48.67 (talk) 22:00, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you know more about the non-English translations than the present page, go ahead and change it. There's no problem so long as you know what you're talking about it. 86.136.156.205 (talk) 20:39, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goosebumps in other languages 

message: I remember reading up on a few things and I noticed that R.L.Stine was going to make a Goosebumps goldbook. Once again those were also banned. Shouldn't there be a section for that here? ~*~Punk18~*~
:I don't recall the Goldbooks ever being published???--CyberGhostface 00:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it was 'banned', its just that Goosebumps was no longer profitable...if you recall ,near the end, the sales had seriously plummeted. Goosebumps has been been banned in schools before, but never by Scholastic itself.--CyberGhostface 00:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the Goldbook Goosebumps? 

message: Shouldn't there be a section for why Goosebumps was suddenly 
stopped?----Punk18
:Nothing major...R. L. Stine's contract ended, and they decided not to renew it. Interesting factoid is that the sales plummeted yet they were obligated to keep on publishing it, so when the series was finally over Scholastic was doing pretty poor financially. If it wasn't for Harry Potter it'd be off a lot worse.--CyberGhostface 02:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why it ended? 

message: Why was this banned? KinseyLOL 19:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: because some stupid people thought it was too scary Sir Robert Castellano 16:05, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Why is this not explained in the article? ~ Hibana 18:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banned 

message: Are there any good fan sites for the Goosebumps series?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Terry 4k (talk • contribs) 
:Not really.--CyberGhostface 20:57, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Fan Sites? 

message: I'm not quite sure how many Goosebumps books there were. I know its a very high number, and considering each book was roughly 100 pages, Stein must've been busy. Also it didn't seem to follow any series, but were random horror stories under the same title. FinalWish 05:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How Many?

message: Would it be a good idea to merge that article here? Neither one is that big. Madman Marz 06:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of Goosebumps books]]

message: Goosebumps Series 2000 links to this page. Doesn't it have its own article?
No it doesnt have an article of it'sown.it would be great if someone were to write one.-Vmrgrsergr 05:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goosebumps Series 2000 

message: What font did R.L. Stine used to make the title of the logo? --  Boogster  Go!  04:36, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Font Title 

message: In Canadian French, the translation is Chair de Poule (literally "hen flesh", the French phrase for goose bumps). 
I think we should remove the word Canadian because it is also known under the same title in France/Belgium.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.181.59 (talk) 18:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  French Title 

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message: There are quite a few Goosebumps-related pages now. Does anyone know how to make templates and infoboxes and such, to form a quick index of/for Goosebumps pages? 86.134.250.16 (talk) 17:06, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Goosebumps info box?

message: The discussion here may be of interest to editors frequenting this board. d'oh! talk 16:23, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Discussion 

message: Cross out when complete.
 - Structure, genre and format - Goosebumps HorrorLand
 - Inspiration and themes - Themes
 - Legal dispute - History and final outcome of case.
 - Literary criticism and reception - One source.
 - Clean-up - Last paragraph structure, genre and format section/literary criticism and reception section.
 
Fearstreetsaga (talk) 18:07, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done all. Proceeding to Peer Review. Fearstreetsaga (talk) 22:26, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  To-do list 

message: Needs more improvement. Cross out when complete.
*Move final paragraph of Structure, genre and format section to Origins and publishing history section
* Inspiration and themes section needs expansion
* Origins and publishing history section needs to include about a paragraph description for every series 
* Achievements sub-section needs expansion
**How it changed/influenced children's horror
**Series it may have influenced etc.
* Literary criticism and reception sub-section needs expansion, more comments: literary merit etc. 
* Book challenges sub-section needs expansion: violence etc.
* Clean-up (see GA review cheat sheet) Fearstreetsaga (talk) 15:51, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated to-do list 

message: Could someone please fix the reference issue in the "Literary criticism and reception" section?  If you look at the section in edit mode, you'll see:
...nothing more important than the love of your family and friends." <ref name="okay to read."
Histic violence to set forth a random...
I tried to use Article Blamer to figure out what happened, but it just pointed me to a May 2012 revision that already had the problem.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 19:32, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referencing problem 

message: Ought to be a footnote that it's found in one of the most popular internet memes: Ermahgerd! Gerseberms es mah favorit berks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.189.31.1 (talk) 23:49, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a reliable source that we could use?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 23:59, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meme 

message: That reference is not terribly helpful. I'd add these:
: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997-06-09/business/9706070131_1_hercules-and-xena-goosebumps-series-walt-disney
: http://allears.net/news/dd1097.htm
: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997-10-03/entertainment/9710020325_1_walt-disney-disney-mgm-studios-goosebumps-horrorland
I'd also expand what the attraction is a bit, so it doesn't sound like they created a ride. Also, the link should be to Disney-MGM Studios.  --  Zanimum (talk) 14:09, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I've updated the article accordingly. Fearstreetsaga (talk) 20:52, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disney World 

message: This should be changed back to 350 million. There are a lot of refs saying 350 million, so this is a much more conservative estimate (, , , , etc.). Plus this figure seems unlikely; before 2014 they were saying more than 300 million were sold, and in 2014 they were saying it sold 350 million copies. It would have had to sell over 50 million copies in one year in order to achieve this figure. Even back in 2008, they were saying these books were only selling 2 million copies a month, plus Publishers Weekly is saying one of the latest Goosebumps Most Wanted books only had a printing of 50 thousand copies. I suspect what's happening here is someone misinterpreted "400 million books in print" with "400 million books sold". Fearstreetsaga (talk) 20:25, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books sold 

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message: Types of mythological or fantastic beings in contemporary fiction is a page of, well, fantasy works (movie, TV, written, whatever) and the assorted mythological and/or fantastic critters they contain.  This series would likely qualify.  Anyone care to add it? Tamtrible (talk) 18:18, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone familiar with this series care to add it to this list? 

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message: Could somebody please make a page detailing the characters/monsters that appear in the series? Thank you.
(Garlic Zamasu (talk) 20:37, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of Goosebumps Monsters]] 

message: We all know that goosebumps is one of the greats, but unfortunately not THE best. It has been shadowed by Harry Potter. People just kind of moved on. They traded fear for fantasy, screams for spell, slappy for mouldywart, sorry, voldamort. I agree, Harry Potter is really good. But like most common reader, they just move on to whatever is new
Thank you for listening.🙂 111.220.178.20 (talk) 00:35, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  why people of today dont know it 

message: The general information listed on the top right of the article says the original series ran from October 25, 1992 til December 1997, but elsewhere in the article it specifies that the first book was published in July of 1992. So where is this October 25 date coming from? 101.181.59.152 (talk) 04:50, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original series dates clarification