Cabinet of souls

Format:

Book

Title:

Cabinet of souls

Other title(s):

R.L. Stine's Monsterville

Author:

Ferguson, Jo Ann author

ISBN:

9781338032529

9781484488768

Publication:

New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2016]

Physical Description:

156 pages, 8 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Series title(s):

Monsterville.

General Note:

Photos ©: cover art: courtesy Universal Studios -- Title page verso.

"From the author of Goosebumps"--Cover.

"Look for the movie on DVD & Digital HD"--Page 4 of cover.

Summary:

"When a traveling Hall of Horrors comes to their town just in time for Halloween, teenage friends, Beth, Nicole, Kellen, and Luke can't wait to get spooked. The ghosts and ghouls are completely realistic, and the show's creep-in-chief, Dr. Hysteria, is deliciously sinister. But then Beth accidentally wanders backstage and discovers a haunted cabinet that traps the souls of lost teens. When she tells her friends what she's seen, no one believes it's real. Can Beth unmask the sinister Dr. Hysteria before she and her friends are trapped forever?"--Page 4 of cover.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.0 4.0 182361.

Subject(s):

High school students -- Juvenile fiction.

Small cities -- Juvenile fiction.

Paranormal fiction.

Haunted houses (Amusements) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Added Author:

Brown, Billy, 1929-2009

Added Corporate Author:

Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Stayton Public Library	JF STINE	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Dallas Public Library	+ FICTION - STINE	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Salem Main Library	J Ferguson, J.	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

The creators of Goosebumps present a new series full of chills, thrills, and just the right pinch of humor. It's safe scares the whole family can enjoy.Dare to enter a mysterious realm where the cost of admission just might be your soul! When teenage friends Beth, Nicole, Kellen, and Luke visit a traveling Hall of Horrors, they can't wait to get spooked. But when Beth goes backstage and discovers a haunted cabinet that traps the souls of lost teens, she and her friends just might get trapped forever!

Author Notes

R. L. Stine was born in Columbus Ohio on October 8, 1943. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965. Under the name Jovial Bob Stine, he wrote dozens of joke books and humor books for kids including How to Be Funny, 101 Silly Monster Jokes, and Bozos on Patrol. He also created Bananas, a zany humor magazine which he worked on for ten years.

His first teen horror novel, Blind Date, was published in 1986 under the name R. L. Stine. His other works include Beach House, Hit and Run, The Babysitter, The Girlfriend, the Goosebumps series, and the Fear Street series. He also wrote an adult novel entitled Superstitious.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

A demon catches four young teens on Halloween, intending to turn them into monsters. This middle-grade series kickoff features teens Beth, Kellen, Luke, and Nicole, white except for Asian-American Nicole. Kellen yearns for childhood friend Beth, Nicole seems to have a crush on Kellen, and Luke cares only about cracking jokes. 'Tis the season, and Dr. Hysteria arrives in town with his Hall of Horrors, supposedly holiday entertainment for the town. But Beth takes a wrong turn inside the attraction and realizes that the monsters are real. When she stumbles on the titular cabinet, she finds not only a girl who went missing a year ago from another town, but also many others, some in historical clothing. She realizes that Dr. Hysteria is a demon and that he has trapped her friendsand perhaps also has trapped her. Adapting the book from the screenplay for the 2015 film R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls, Ferguson keeps the creep factor high and the originality factor low. Befitting its status as a movie tie-in, the book contains glossy photos of the characters in a four-page inset. While the story starts with some unrequited romance, it quickly begins to focus on suspense and horror, with beautiful, blonde Beth as the star trying to save herself and her friends. Fans of the movie may enjoy it. (Horror. 8-12) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.