Cavity Colors has released a Goosebumps collection that includes T-shirts ($30), long sleeves ($40), zip-up hoodies ($50), and sweatpants ($45) designed by Devon Whitehead, Hillary White, Anthony Petrie, and Matthew Skiff plus two enamel pins ($15). They’ll ship the week of May 17.

Journal - Mask.

Some silly old doodles I found in my sketchbook

Spooktober days 20 to 23

Do you dare try it on?

"and this is cory's head!!" -possessed by the haunted mask

A pretty good psudo Jekyll-Hyde story

We all know the split personality trope, and how, if you read the book, know Jekyll is mr Hyde, there is no "angel vs demon" only "human repression vs giving into vices and letting them overtake the balance"

Goosebumps the Haunted Mask

Hear me out!

Carly Beth is a meek, shy and repressed pre-teen girl, who longs to be frightening, tired of being picked on, so when she gets the mask, it changes her, it gives her a high, very much like how Jekyll's potion in the book gives him a high, plus a new appearance to match their wicked behavior.

Until it is not fun anymore, when vice overtakes virtue and spirals into something that destroys Jekyll, and almost destroys Carly Beth.

R.L. Stine's The Haunted Mask - the 1993 eleventh children's horror novel in the original Goosebumps series - is being turned into a graphic novel.

The 160-page graphic novel will be published on September 3 via Scholastic's Graphix. The adaptation is illustrated by Maddi Gonzalez, with colors by Corey Barba and lettering by Jesse Post.

How ugly is Carly Beth’s Halloween mask? It’s so ugly that it almost scared her little brother to death. So terrifying that even her friends are totally freaked out by it. It’s the best Halloween mask ever. With yellow-green skin and long animal fangs, the mask terrifies the entire neighborhood. Before long, it has a surprising effect on Carly Beth, too. She tries to take it off... but it won’t budge! Halloween is almost over, but fright night is just beginning.

Pre-order The Haunted Mask.

The Haunted Mask II managed to give a unique spin on its predecessor. It ultimately fell short, but I appreciated that it had its own charm. I like that the original cast of characters is all here but still gave us a different protagonist. Instead of Carly Beth, we got to go inside the head of her friend and occasional bully, Steve. Steve is determined to get his hands on a mask like the one Carly Beth had worn last Halloween, but instead of trying to prove himself he just wants to scare the first-grade soccer team he’s stuck coaching. Instead of the scary, claustrophobic themes of the first book, The Haunted Mask II is more comedic in nature. Steve is a bro dude though and through, which often makes him difficult to empathize with. I definitely got the sense that I was laughing at him and not with him. My biggest gripe is that it took way too long to get to the mask itself, and then the ending felt like a bit of a cop-out. I also would have liked to get a deeper understanding of the Unloved, but maybe that was hoping for too much. So far as Goosebumps sequels go, The Haunted Mask II holds up fine alongside others like Return of the Mummy and Night of the Living Dummy II. It also blows every Monster Blood book out of the water, but that’s a very low bar.

Score: 3

My full review with memes, snark, and spoilers can be found here: https://www.danstalter.com/the-haunterd-mask-ii/

By The Power Of Halloween

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~1k, Carly Beth Caldwell/Steve Boswell, No Rating, Post-Canon

Summary: Carly Beth wishes she could escape her past with the Haunted Mask. But it always returns.

Cw for hyper realistic eye and blood!

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