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The Goosebumps Franchise: Viewer Beware! Your in for a Review!

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  It’s the month of Halloween, time for a whole bunch of scary reviews. So every week I will try to give a review on horror or Helloween-related show, movie, and franchise. So let’s start the Halloween craze with the 90’s horror master: R.L Stine's Goosebumps ! That's right! As a kid living in the ’90s, I remember reading the Goosebumps books. The novels themselves were pretty easy to read but that’s understandable since these books were meant for younger readers. Not exactly first readers, but not books that ever reach Stephen King's length. The stories weren’t extremely scary, with no blood or guts or terrible violence but they still had plenty of supernatural elements, and Stine did a great job giving good character development. And most of the stories were creative. So what’s the downside? Well, as I said before, this series was meant for younger readers (3-4 grade), so while the stories could be creepy, it was never scary. No plot was ever uncomfortable eno...