Are You Terrified Yet?

***Are You Terrified Yet?*** is the 9th book in the Goosebumps Series 2000 series.

## Plot

Craig Morgenstern is a total scaredy cat, even with his reputation as
 such being well known amongst everyone. But as of late, things are
looking up for Craig! He has moved to a new town and even saved a baby
from being hurt in a car accident. Everyone is then considering Craig to
 now be very brave for what he did. Despite him falling off of his bike
and nearly getting hit by the careening car. Not to mention,
accidentally getting inside of it and managing to stop it. The car slows
 to a stop in front of his new school on his first day of classes,
branding him a hero to the entire student body, save a few skeptical
students. The mother of the baby rushes over to thank him, having
accidentally left the car for just a moment while the baby was still
inside.

Craig's good fortune continues to escalate even higher! He
befriended the cutest girl in school, Amy. Who is very impressed with
his bravery. Unfortunately, her best friends Travis and Brad happen to
be Craig's harshest critics. They refuse to be won by the boys charms,
even after he saves a bird's nest. Other random lucky streaks happen to
strike Craig also. Such as screaming in horror during a scary movie,
which Amy agrees that it is fun to scream along with characters in
films.

But jealous of all the attention Craig receives, Travis becomes
obsessed with trying to prove that Craig is a scaredy cat. He then talks
 with a cousin, who happens to know about Scaredy Cat Craig from his
previous town/school. So Travis shows up with a jar full of spiders and
dares Craig to stick his hand in the jar for five minutes. Craig is
goaded on by Amy and does so, only to be bitten so many times that he
can't even remove his swollen hand after five minutes are up. So Amy
talks Travis into going double-or-nothing and Craig has to keep his hand
 submerged twice as long.

Travis pledges to go double or nothing again the following day.
The bravery challenge this time will be to kiss a poisonous snake on the
 lips, but really what one boy does it pluck out a single eyeball of his
 own and shove it into Craig's mouth. Craig comes out of this one
looking brave by spitting out the eyeball and nobody is really surprised
 when they find it is a fake gag eyeball. They do not think this is
enough to prove how brave Craig is however and Travis reveals that his
father works at a funeral parlor. So now the newest bravery test
involves Craig sneaking into the funeral home and sitting in a coffin.

But unfortunately for him, the coffin he chooses is occupied. His
 "friends" egg him on anyways, as a truly brave person would sit in a
corpse-filled coffin no problem. The corpse then comes to life and tries
 to choke Craig, but Craig allows himself to be choked by the "corpse".
This shocks Travis, who had been the corpse in hopes of outing him. But
then Amy challenges Travis to let Craig repeat the challenge again the
next day. At some point, Craig comes clean with Amy, but Amy just thinks
 he is not only brave but sweet to not want to take Travis' money by
pretending to be afraid.

Sometime after then, Craig accidentally beats up Brad's older
brother! Once again everyone is at the funeral home when all of the
corpses rise and begin to attack! Everyone runs away, but Craig stays to
 bravely defend those who abandoned him. Proving to them all that he
really was brave all along.

It turns out that the corpses were all set up by Craig, with some
 help from Brad. Who felt bad about how devoted Travis was to proving
Craig's bravery. The zombies were actually Brad's older brother (the one
 Craig "beat up") and his friends. Brad's brother walks in and
apologizes for his friends not being able to make it to the cemetery,
which results in Brad racing away to vomit in horror.

It turns out Brad's brother just said that to get back at Brad!
Craig walks home and remarks to the reader on how it turns out he really
 is brave... even if he is still afraid of the dark.