Give Yourself Goosebumps
children's horror fiction gamebook series by R. L. Stine
Give Yourself Goosebumps is a children's horror fiction gamebook series by R. L. Stine. After the success of the original Goosebumps books, Scholastic Press decided to create this spin-off series in 1995.
50 books in the series, including the "special editions" were published between 1995 and 2000. All of the books in the series, with the exception of Please Don't Feed the Vampire, are now out of print.
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For the most part, play is rather simple, as the books are merely novels with branching plots. The books are written in the second person and enlivened by puzzles or choices. Rather than reading simply from beginning to end, the reader is told to turn to a certain page at the bottom of the current page. At certain pages the reader will be given at least two choices of which page to turn to, depending on what they want the main character (one's self) to do. If the reader makes poor choices, the book may come to a "bad" ending that will feature a horrid fate for the main character, but the reader is always able to go back and choose a new choice.
There is also at least one page in each book that uses an alternative method to selecting each choice, and is done more by chance rather than the reader's decision.
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