Escape from the Carnival of Horrors
| Paperback cover | |
| Author | R. L. Stine |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Mark Nagata |
| Language | English |
| Series | Give Yourself Goosebumps |
| Genre | Horror fiction, Children's novel |
| Publisher | Scholastic |
Publication date | July 1995 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 135 pages |
| Followed by | Tick Tock, You're Dead! |
Escape from the Carnival of Horrors was R. L. Stine's first written gamebook in the all new spin-off series, Give Yourself Goosebumps. It was released in July 1995 on Scholastic Press. In addition to the usual choices, this book includes several gimmicks involving carnival games.
Trivia
This book references Monster Blood (It can help you get out of the carnival and it eats the carnival), Night of the Living Dummy and One Day at HorrorLand (The Doom Slide). Slappy makes a cameo in the book.
It has been published in two covers, both with same art work, one for the UK and one for the US.
Plot
This book has two main storylines. You and your friends, Patty and Brad, wander into a haunted amusement park. You can either go to the rides, or the games in the park.
By going on the rides, you can find the Space Coaster, The House of Horrors, The Boat Trip To Nowhere, The Doom Slide, Halloween Express, and Mountain King. The one "Good Ending" results in you riding in a choo-choo train into a tunnel, and the amusement park returning to normal. "Bad endings" include: being paralyzed, falling endlessly, turning into a volleyball, getting killed by a swamp monster, sliding the doom slide, drowning, getting eaten by a ghost, getting beheaded, getting broken into pieces, eaten by monster, cannoned into space, and elves killing you. Another twist ending is where you and patty make it out and decide to go to your house. Once you get there you and patty talk to your mom for awhile, and then watch tv with her. After the show ends your mom tells you that she will make her famous chocolate chip pancakes in the morning, Patty tells her she cant wait. After your mom goes to bed you and patty go to your room. Patty then suddenly starts acting weird and is chuckling to herself, you ask her whats going on and she says there is something iv'e been wanting to do all night and pulls out your mom's sewing needle, before you can say anything patty stabs the needle into your throat. You start to gurgle on your own blood and then fall to the ground. Patty gets on top of you and says, looks like you wont be eating mommy's pancakes tomorrow, then proceeds to stab your throat over and over while she laughs hysterically.
By going to the games, you can play Fortune Teller, Wheel of Chance, Guess Your Weight on Mars, and Final Challenge. The two "Good Endings" result in you going back in time to before you entered the park, or rescuing the freaks and getting out. "Bad endings" include: Eaten by alligators, having NO CHANCE, blasted to Mars, become slaves of Slappy the dummy (which you can escape), bouncing...and bouncing...and bouncing...and bouncing on a trampoline, turn to a chicken, glued to Patty and Brad, falling out of trees, and consumed by monster blood.
Going to the rides seems to have more "Chances of death".