Familair Faces: Top 13 Goosebumps

[@thenerdbeast7375]

The funny thing about Werewolf Skin is it is pretty accurate to the source material. The full moon thing is a more modern invention of werewolf mythology, back in the olden days it was said a person could turn into a werewolf whenever they wished using an enchanted wolf skin or garments such as a belt or tunic made of wolf skin. I'm very impressed about how R.L. Stine basically came full circle with the werewolf mythos. As for why what's her name wanting to get rid of the werewolves is simple; she wanted their territory just like conflict with unrelated real wolves.

[@phastinemoon]

I mean, if you think RL Stine was familiar with the Volsaga Saga in Norse mythology… I kinda doubt it - it’s a little obscure, and only that one source. But it is always great when trying something new turns out to be… well, something classic

[@awfulusername1465]

Watched this all the time when I was a kid, thanks for the nostalgia.

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

I love watching this every October, or when I'm generally in a Halloween mood! Makes me wish you'd do a retrospective on the Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark book series!

[@FamiliarFacesChannel]

Thank you. Love hearing that. And I just posted a Familiar Short of RL Stine's "When Good Ghouls Go Bad" : FF: When Good Ghouls Go Bad Happy Halloween!

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

Awesome! I'll be sure to check it out immediately!

[@K1ng1995]

FamiliarFacesChannel What I loved about the Cookoo clock story was how much better mike's life was if his sister was never born, he girl he likes likes him back, his parents and him don't argue just as much.

[@beneil2]

+Painter Lava Lamp he girl he likes likes him back what?

[@GeneralKenobi75]

Apart from Harry Potter the book series I grew up with would have to be the Series of Unfortunate Events.

[@Nubbletech]

hello there

[@EpicMickey777]

Dude, I'm not kidding when I say this. Stine saw part of your video. He your review on Girl who Cried Monster.

[@FamiliarFacesChannel]

+Josh Thomas Really when did he say that?

[@EpicMickey777]

It's on a KZbin talk show called The Running Late show. Some guys were interviewing him and he was asked if he'd rather hear your thoughts on Werewolf Skin or Cried Monster. He chose the second one and liked the idea of his books being gateway books.

[@Werewolf_Korra]

Josh Thomas link?

[@KilldaneEnterprises]

Childhood memories are coming back watching this

[@bul13ts]

Oh my God, the nostalgia is killing me! I still remember Horrorland, that was just wonderful, creating a nice oppressive atmosphere, and like you said the idea of there being more of these things around the world was just... awesome!

[@KevlarNinja]

D'awww, that werewolf girl in the titlecard is adorable.

[@someonerandom8552]

Ahh Goosebumps. I adored that series. I also vaguely remember the grumblings of parents. But by the time I was in grade 2 they were already being used for "reading homework." And there was always a huge stack of them whenever we had classroom reading until at least year 6. I remember they usually had the choose your own adventure series. My favorites were Day at Horrorland and The Haunted Mask. I also remember this one, can't remember the name, where this kid turns into a bee and it really freaked me out lol But I slightly prefer Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids personally.

[@kylebrown5101]

Why am I afraid of bees. Is the name of the book wait I mean novella.

[@jordan1650]

I did get the most chills from the haunted mask, especially the episode. Just the way Carly Beth becomes more and more psychotic and two other really creepy moments, but I won't spoil them for anyone.

[@cedriksamson5733]

me too

[@JohnSmithPlaysGames]

Man just seeing that clip from the Television episode with Slappy is so awesome, it was really well done looking back at it.

[@Kerriangel]

I like to tell myself that at almost 20 years old, I'm too old for the Goosebumps books but on the other hand I do want to be a primary school teacher so maybe I should invest in some for my future students. Yes, for the students.....

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

***** I agree with you completely! Besides, reality sucks most of the time, the only source of solace one can find these days can be found in videogames and the like

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

***** I hear you, speaking of people begging for ass-kickings there's this one midget (pardon my language) that both goes to school with me.and drives me to the brink of my tolerance. There isn't a day that goes by that I wish I had the powers of some of my favorite cartoon characters ( heck, even this so-called "Level Booster" from this manga I recently found would do it)just so I can give that moron such a beating! How about you?

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

I'm in primary teaching training and I'm still collecting the books. I even had a long conversation about them with an eight-year-old boy I met while interning at one school.

[@Stormkrow280]

Werewolf skin actually takes original werewolf lure

[@DukeofArtz]

#kamenriderreaper Agreed

[@GodzillaFan-ok7ek]

Yes

[@ryoluver15]

wow. this brought back so much... thank you so much for making this, this really brought back all the memories and awesome thrills of the series! I'm digging up my old collection and looking for some old episodes!

[@Zosalot]

This was a super nostalgia trip for me. I was thinking about collecting the books and this video confirmed that I should invest time and money into something I used to love as a kid. I read the shit out of Goosebumps and I think I will have fun reading them again now.

[@Shadowcat753]

I loved the story with the Jack-O-Laturn aliens myself, as a kid, due to the twist. I also loved "Stay out of the Basement!"

[@lexiatel]

Nice list. Horror at Camp Jelly Jam was always my favourite :)

[@didma]

they released the series here under the name "gänsehaut" (which is goosebumps in german). i loved the books back then, and the cover of the book with the puppet was possessed. good times

[@b1ackb3rry2]

I watched this video as a kid and I feel amazing nastalga watching it now, thank you for being apart of my goosebumps obsession and I'm Introduction of horror

[@FamiliarFacesChannel]

Ah that's wonderful to hear. Thank you for letting me be apart of that.

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

"And possibly a Goosebumps Movie coming out" And it only took em' three years! Give the movie industry some credit, thats pretty fast!

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

This video was originally uploaded back in 2010. So it was FIVE years before the Goosebumps movie came out. Possibly even longer, as a Goosebumps movie was in talks long before then (2000 at the earliest, if not during the late 90s). Hollywood doesn't do anything fast! I still remember whispers of a DBZ movie Hollywood wanted to make among the pre-internet anime spaces between 1998 - 2000. At the time the talk was that the DBZ movie would be directed by the Wachowskis because The Matrix was the new hotness at the time, and had a similar tone to what DBZ fans wanted for a movie at the time, and further speculation that it was going to have pretty boy A-listers like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Keanu Reeves as some of the leads in the movie. Even though years later, the actual Dragon Ball movie we got was nothing like the initial rumors, the point is that the anticipation for a Hollywood adaptation of a beloved intellectual property will exist in some form long before it actually happens. I remember when IMDb was in its early years, and the toxic dumpster fire that was their message board was still open, people were talking about a Mary Poppins sequel or remake happening and reeeeeeeaaaaaally wanting Johnny Depp to play Bert or Bert 2.0 for a sequel, long before the version we got with Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

[@Spindler2007]

Excellent top 13. I loved the goosebumps stories. The girl who cried monster was a good favourite of mine with a great twist ending. To help you with the music you forgot for number 5, its from the movie Aliens. Can't remember which track though.

[@MrPJD18]

its pretty much the only goosebumps book I know of that has this iconic moment from the opening of the show. not only that, as you go along you find the pages scattered around twisted tree lodge and they seem to predict everything thats going to happen to you. its your choice whether or not you take its advice or find a better way to solve your problems. plus one of its endings is actually very satisfying.

[@Kerriangel]

I used to always get Goosebumps books out of my school library, which was seen as weird because I was a girl but I loved them. They scared me, enthralled me and always had me wanting to find newer Goosebumps books every time I went. I'm 19 and planning to become a teacher and when I do; I don't care how much it would cost me, I'm going to make sure there are Goosebumps books in my classroom so my students can enjoy them too

[@shanemoose3235]

Is it just me, or is there always a Hannah in these books?

[@DukeofArtz]

#ShaneMoose I don't know.

[@wadejohnston4305]

If it wasn't for this series I would never have dived into the horror genre in fiction and even alot of non fiction horror in my later years lol. The beast from the east is one of my favorites. I remember the cover of that one with the demonized looking puppy. I still haven't read it used to scare the SHIT outta me. Ahahaha 9 years later I'm glad to see you're still active cuz I like your content

[@davidlosardo2508]

This was a great list, it brought back so much nostalgia for me! I'm only 16, so I read these books back when they were getting reprinted for the second or third time, and they were awesome, some of my favorite childhood literature. One of my personal favorites, and the first one that I ever read, is "How I got my Shrunken Head", where the kid goes to the jungle surrounded by shrunken heads and has to stop two scientists who are using dark magic. Another one that I really enjoyed, which I also feel is overlooked, is "You Cant Scare Me", where two boys try to scare a girl by dressing up as mud monsters, only to be met with actual mud monsters during their prank. And I agree the people below me, "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" is my all time favorite too. Again, great list, and thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@Hewylewis]

Hope you do more halloween reviews this year!

[@ladywolf9life]

i loved the picture. the werewolf and ghost girl were great. thanks for the video highly entertaining. ^w^

[@nelliosity6454]

OMG I laughed so so hard from 21:00 onwards xD You would be such a good comediant! I loved your video, my personal favourites are The Cucoo Clock, My Hairiest Adventure,The Girl Who Cried Monster and Ghost Next Door! Goosebumps were also very famous around here during the late 90's and 00's :) Greetings from Portugal! You are very talented, funny and super cute! I loved the ending!! xD

[@slashbash1347]

I thought of this video when I read about how some of the werewolf myth derives from Viking berserkers, men who'd wear the skin of an animal to inherent its strength. Wolf skins were a popular one. As a result, many werewolf (or werebear) stories involved wearing the skin.

[@openmindedgamer8923]

Im not gonna lie when I was 7 and when I first saw that nightmare mask episode and all of a sudden the masks came alive and started chatting and junk I was legitimately screaming to my parents to shut it off. Course nowadays I laugh at it, but still... I mean damn.

[@SketchBud]

It's good that I watched this list years before the Goosebumps movie, I spotted some of the references of the book in your list when I watched it in theatres

[@TheAnchorArmsChad]

I loved Attack of The Mutant idea, imagine supervillains like The Joker, Venom, Red Skull, ClayFace, Mr Freeze, or even Darksied!

[@captainkirk400]

I remember reading The Haunted Mask. It was amazing.

[@FrederickGreer]

This is one of the best goosebumps videos I've ever seen 10/10

[@quickbeam7361]

YOU NEED TO BE EATEN WHILE CHILDREN LAUGH AT YOU!!!! That episode scared me soooo badly when it was on tv.

[@posterboylegacy6214]

Also, Ironicallly, Im actually currently reading The Curse Of The Creeping Coffin right now and oh yeah it is terrifying! at times. I literally got Goosebumps at some parts. Then the part about the headless ghost woman, the description of how the stump on her shoulders was bloody and disfugured. This book is SO good! Havent finished it yet but Im looking forward to it! :)

[@thomasthane3821]

Excellent video! lol. I was very amused.

[@OrbitAwayy]

goosebumps was my childhood! Still read them!

[@MrPJD18]

I'm not sure what that song is called, but I recognize it as the song that plays in the beginning of shawn of the dead.

[@capam15]

man i love the ramones pet cemetery...

[@BoooRatt]

I loved the TV series as a kid but never read the books actually but I did have a few of R.L. Stine's other books I never got around to reading! My favorite episode was this one about creatures in a swamp and it turns out they're deadly allergic to kids to if they so much touch a kid they blow up!

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

Ah, I love watching this around Halloween time, or when ever I get nostalgic. I still think you should do another Goosebumps video CR. Maybe of other books that didn't make the list but you enjoyed reading, or perhaps a video of your audience's favorite books. Maybe a video of your favorite episodes from the old Goosebumps show (not The Hub's The Haunting Hour)? How about a CR Let's Play for Halloween of CarnEvil?

[@08klesko]

Awesome video especially the ending

[@GrizzlyAdams94]

Excellent choice of song.

[@lizm194]

I loved Fear Street Books!

[@lexiatel]

Who's Been Sleeping in My Grave?!

[@DukeofArtz]

Me too

[@sharebear421]

Can't really go wrong with picking a top goosebumps list, most of the books were good. My personal favorite is horror at camp jelly jam, not a lot of people really that about that one. But yeah 1-64 (original series) was so good, I still own all of them.

[@Qwerty-kz7gk]

Bro the background tracks you used were on point

[@eternalhikarinotenshi193]

Half of those books besides Goosebumps are not that bad, I like fear street and nightmare room. But right now R.L. Stine is losing his touch I mean he was king of children's horror now with these new R.L. Stine shows and the movie they do not have his mojo for some weird reason. I mean they feel dumb down and stupid looking like one of those crappy Halloween decorations of a goofy and happy going monster that looks mostly silly than scary. When I was a kid seeing they were scary, but in a good way it is good to have kids be a little scared cause than they know how to face it as they get older. If you surpass and shield from everything how they will face it as they get older?

[@fin9914]

and little comic book shop of horrors wasn't dumbed down and stupid?

[@TheZipperDragon]

Lol the haunted mask is C.R.'s 1st main villain. Love it

[@MegaNosgamer]

i loved the give yourself goosebumps id read as if i was playing a videogame.id read it over and over again until i got the best possible ending

[@bethmartin6070]

I'm 13 but I still remember the goosebumps series

[@MrMWorks]

Cry of the Cat actually sounds like a Victorian horror story I own...sounds a lot like it actually. Only difference is the lack of cat tornado. Would be a neat idea to compare the two.

[@GregTheLion]

15:48 I guess you could say the Afterlife finds a way.

[@ImaKittypet]

*Watches beginning of video* Whelp, good thing I'm already in my favorite chair and cozy blanket.

[@janiyahhairston2387]

I love goosebumps tank u for this vid.

[@squirrelnuts90]

My favorite has always been the beast from the east. I've always had a hard time at libraries growing up for them having that specific one to read.

[@TheAnchorArmsChad]

My favorite books were A Shocker on Shock Street, Say Cheese and Die, Night of the Living Dummy 3, Let's Get Invisible, and The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

[@ericsander3620]

I notice that the monsters on the title card are characters from the books on the countdown. The werewolf girl in her skin, the haunted mask, the ghostly roommate, monster blood, Slappy, and a horror.

[@DarkMagicianGirl247]

The only one that I read was Terror Tower and it is glorious! Heck I immediately pressed record when I saw that they were airing the TV adaption on the Hub

[@FamiliarFacesChannel]

Bad Moon Rising

[@DukeofArtz]

#FamiliarFacesChannel CCR

[@Dimensioneer88]

12:32 Has anyone figured out that background music yet? Update: It's the Haunted Mansion Holiday ballroom music

[@DionysusLion]

My favorite was always Beast of the East.

[@ajtoyreviews2.o570]

Number six is haunted mansion holiday premiere ballroom music

[@MegaNosgamer]

awesome ghostbuster reference at the end by the way

[@MERIO888]

Midnight syndicate haha great choice my friend

[@JoshtheOverlander]

I own Monster Blood IV, one of the four rarest Goosebumps books. The problem is... I can't remember where I put it. It might be in storage, I think.

[@Rubberman202]

Goosebumps scared the crap out of me as a kid... Though mostly the TV show, I barely read the books.

[@annegriswold2116]

I always liked #12 I read the book as well as saw the tv episode when they aired it. *Spoiler alert* Its true he activated the mentioned magic by his father who also said the man he bought it from said it existed. And he went back in time managing to fix it so he didn't go so far back in time that he would cease to exist. There was also a mention of a flaw in the clock that's revealed towards the end. The flaw is the clock also lists the years, the year his sister would have been born is missing thus why she was never born. It always made me wonder if it was possible for him to even go back and get her if by first activating the clock it caused her to not exist is the first place.

[@TheSirenNymph]

Actually, the first time I saw this video it was a while after I saw the Longbox of the Damned Review of that comic you briefly showed

[@monkeykingw]

A personal favorite of mine was Say Cheese and Die. I don't remember much, but what I do remember is that it was one of the few Goosebumps books that I read that I was able to imagine what was going on vividly.

[@spectrevampire]

Great video. One little correction, though: Evan finds the can of Monster Blood at a thrift store, not in his aunt's basement. Also, he meets a girl (whose name I don't remember) who ends up having to help him with the goo.

[@Indird]

god help me but this actually made me want to read a book again, that fact is far more impressive than the series of books i'd choose from is goosebumps... i wouldnt add it to this list anywhere but of the 50ish goosebumps books i have, my favourite and the one that always pops up first in my head when i think about the series is The Beast From The East, theres just something about it that hit all the right buttons for me

[@AnimeAngel88]

Not gonna lie, that dummy still scares the hell out of me all these years later...

[@personnelchange1617]

You beautiful goofball. I loved this. :3

[@beksrj9558]

My theory of the haunted masks is that they used to be human mask the shopkeeper used but his behaviour caused them to turn ugly and evil. My theory is dumb but its what I came up with it

[@Mossheart1129]

i personally loved werewolf of fever swamp. mostly because i first read the comic version at camp, but couldnt finish because the owner was actually looking for it. oops... when i found out there was a book series, almost shouted in pure joy from finding it. and so, I've always loved that particular book.

[@GEARWOLF28D]

the tracy reference at the end was the best part. the thing about goosebumps is more often then not the kids are average not normal but extremely average and the parents are always your typical 90s suburban parents. but damn they were awesome books..

[@splurbit502]

"Cry of the cat" was based on a short story in "More Tales to Give You Goosebumps: Ten Spooky Stories (Goosebumps Special Edition, No 2)" And also, WHERE WAS "PIANO LESSONS CAN BE MURDER"!?

[@Jackie-McCann]

“They’re not ‘books’, they’re _novellas,_ you philistine!” I’m sure I’d say pretty much the same thing about the Captain Underpants series. I mean come on, it said “Epic Novel” on the cover! XD

[@awaasproductions]

This video is now ten years old. God I feel old!

[@TheSirenNymph]

I actually saw a couple of books from a new Goosebumps series called Most Wanted in my sister's "Book Fair Catalogue"

[@heidifedor]

I remember when R.L. Stine Was a comedic writer, and the publisher on a pre-teen comedy magazine called, “Bananas”.

[@DrowinMJ]

Always loved the Ghostbusters segue!

[@DeeManDrawsIsTheBest]

Please don't put Twilight on the same level as Harry Potter. At least Harry Potter is competently written, has a likable main character, and some actual conflict.

[@battlion507]

Sadly, Twilight was as popular as Harry Potter... for all the wrong or confusing reasons.

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

+Tony Davis (Battlion50) It's like what they say, a sucker's born every minute, you know?

[@battlion507]

Reapermaskhybrid YEAH... That's pretty much me when I got tired of the Bayformers on the 2nd film...

[@ShiningTaiga]

Mr. Sammich no No it isn’t

[@PKpaula425]

oh my, i didnt know they had a book version of cry of the cat! i loved the tv special, i must own it!

[@JNT737]

One Day In Horrorland was my fav of all time

[@pugs6149]

Lol me too :)

[@ramjet94]

I hope you upload that awesome Ghostbusters episode

[@MrPJD18]

you know, I can think of another "give yourself goosebumps" book that was actually pretty good, and I'm kind of disappointed that it didn't get mentioned. it's called "the werewolf of twisted tree lodge" and in it, you win a horror story contest for a story you didn't write that had something to do with werewolves. your prize is a trip to a place called twisted tree lodge. while there you see a man in black walking with a bag full of papers that go flying in the wind... sound familiar?

[@pjdougherty6442]

Damn, almost a decade and a different account ago since I commented this. The replies aren’t even connected to it anymore for some reason. Honestly, this is still my favorite of the Give Yourself Goosebumps books. If you go in Twisted Tree Lodge, you find out the contest itself is a trap for horror writers set up by horror monsters. There’s also a point where you’re being chased by the man in black and one of the papers says “to the left is death, to the right is safety.” If you go left, you get killed by zombies. If you go right, you run into the man in black who says “Did you really think you could escape me by following the manuscript? I wrote the manuscript!” The correct path is just to keep going forward.

[@pjdougherty6442]

Another one I find interesting and still own is All-Day Nightmare. It has a really creepy start where you wake up from a horrible nightmare, alone in a dark house with no memory of who you are or why you’re there, and you hear someone knocking at the door, presumably there to kill you. It’s such a brilliant and strong start that it’s a shame it’s all downhill from there. Every ending tries to explain why you’re there, why you have amnesia, and what the nightmares were, but a vast majority of the explanations are incredibly stupid.

[@pugs6149]

What song was that at number 12 it was fucking AMAZING!!!

[@DukeofArtz]

As “The Duke of Artz” #FamiliarFacesChannel this is a Triple great Great GREAT video review of Top 13 List of Goosebumps 😉👍👍👍!

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

Wait a second...if you don't read The Curse Of The Creeping Coffin on Friday and go with the storyline that choice is in, I'm pretty sure you survive either way. The end depends on whether you practice for your dead piano teacher or not, and you survive in both.

[@TheSirenNymph]

In fact after seeing this video, both Moarte and Linkara appeared in my dreams last night. And boy was that weird, but I think that maniac's calling to me again

[@gnikhcil]

i was always a fan of the 1st one dont know why just had the most scare to me

[@lovelylittlevulpix]

Thank you!

[@MegaNosgamer]

holy shit im having a massive nostalgia trip.why god why did i have to sell my complete collection!

[@RoxanneVonMorbid]

Good choice of song during Cry of the Cat

[@92metroidfan]

I like the series when I was little and number one was my favorite episode

[@Crazyredemu]

Monster Blood would be my personal number one, it gave me nightmares, none of the others did.

[@wolfin22]

i like the title card art i think the werewolf girl is adorable