#Night of the living dummy

[cat0901h3]

Goosebumps Books 1-10

Can't believe that it took me nearly two years to just do 10 covers for the books. Will be posting more Goosebumps in the future, along with other stuff.

Read more to know my personal opinions and critiques on my fanart for each book:

Welcome to Dead House: I wanted to make the house look alive like Monster House, so I gave it more human characteristics (ie: the people in the windows to form eyes, or the finger-like branches.) Also paid homage to a horror film by styling it after The Amityville Horror house.

The Benson children themselves look a bit depressed, that's because the first book is actually more scarier than the rest of the series, so they're a bit angsty.

Stay Out of the Basement: This one killed a lot of my green markers lol. I tried to make Dr. Brewer as menacing as possible while still showing that he is a father with the photos, There were going to be more plants reaching out, but I decided that the leaves hidden on him would be enough.

Though I have to admit my disappointment with the lighting. It still looks a bit too bright, and not dark enough. That's just my own critique.

Monster Blood: Honestly, pretty mixed about this one. While I'm proud of the bubbling ooze that looks like a skull, which is outlined by one of my colored pens. I'm not proud that everything else is so muted with brown. Almost all of Jacobus' works are vibrant and saturated, so it being dull in colors feels like a disservice to him.

Also, Andy's last name was made up by me, she apparently just doesn't have one. It's inspired by Stephen King. Btw, hope you love banana and strawberry dyed hair, you'll see more of it soon in future batches.

Say Cheese and Die!: One of my favorite books, and of course it gets the best fanart imo. The screaming skeleton form of Greg Banks with red bg in the polaroid, contrasting with the dark background is just super cool, coolest shit I've ever done. Though I might be biased, I really like skeletons. Like Curly.

I actually made concept art for a Say Cheese and Die! graphic novel, which includes drawings of the photos and Spidey! Let me know if you're curious.

The Curse of The Mummy's Tomb: Not much to this one honestly. Just a mummy casually busting down a wall filled with hieroglyphics. Though I will say, I was experimenting with shading with purple and blues like Jacobus. As you can see, didn't stick for long.

This is also the book that I discovered that if the protag doesn't have a last name, then there is an official one either in the Presents novels, the mobile app, comics or other.

Let's Get Invisible!: This was pretty tricky to draw. Drawing someone turning invisible maybe easy in Photoshop or Procreate, but this was traditional art. Sure Jacobus did it with airbrushes, but I all had were pens and markers. But I somehow managed to pull it off, which is insane that I even managed that in the first place.

Night of the Living Dummy: Ah, the infamous Pamela Vorhees book, where the main antagonist isn't the mascot, but instead some other puppet lol. I've seen a lot of fanart of Slappy, but never of Mr. Wood. So I wanted to do justice for Wood while still showcasing Slappy. While I am proud for how it mostly turned out, there are two things that bother me. 1. This is the night sky that is black, the rest are either blue or purple. 2. I forgot to add the lines that make the jaw on Mr. Wood, whoops.

Aside from that, I hope guys like that Misfits poster in the background and Kris's cool hair cut. The green was inspired by the comic adaption not 2015 Jacksepticeye.

The Girl Who Cried Monster: Please forgive me for the small thumbnail, I wasn't using a ruler at the time. The design for Mr. Mortman wasn't much of a challenge. I loosely based it off of the French rendition of the cover and gave him a large leech-like mouth.

In my headcannon, the teeth spin like a garbage disposal, making easy work of the turtles.

Welcome to Camp Nightmare: Another one of my favorites, and I think I did a decent enough job, too. The lighting is perfect, the clouds look alien enough, and you can just barely see the screaming campers inside the tent. I do have one issue though, and that is the size of the monster, Sabre. In the original sketch I did, he was supposed to blend in like a bush, but instead he looks like Sasquatch Sr. Oh well.

While they did give Billy a last name in the Presents books, I had to make up one for Dawn. Just based it off Gwen Stacy lol. Also, hope you enjoy the little bonus pictures down below.

The Ghost Next Door: The original Jacobus art was perfectly vague enough to keep the twist there but not spoil anything. Of course to do the same thing, but with a twist of my own. The "ghost" shadow that you see in the street is the Dark Figure that follows Hannah around or when Danny is near. I wanted it to look like it was constantly on fire, since SPOILERS: someone in the book does die in a fire.

Another headcannon is that the Dark Figure isn't actually a ghost or whatever, but instead the embodiment of Misery.

[piperlnorth]

Ginger Slappy > black hair Slappy

[redisloser]

HUMAN PUPPETS

...an doll

[decrepitdeer]

It was fun to finally give my own designs to these two little fuckers

Edit: Lindy and Kris did not look THAT yellow when I was drawing them, they are supposed to be tan :'D

[brokehorrorfan]

Trick or Treat Studios will release Goosebumps action figures in December/January. The set of five is available to pre-order for $125 with free shipping.

The line includes the Mummy from The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Slappy from Night of the Living Dummy, Carly Beth from The Haunted Mask, Mud Monster from You Can't Scare Me, and Scarecrow from The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight.

Each 5" scale toy has five points of articulation and comes with a trading card featuring its respective book's original cover art by Tim Jacobus on a display stand. Collect all five to build a Curly the skeleton figure.

[jackchampioncumpit]

Sam McCarthy We asked the cast of Goosebumps: The Vanishing, what their favorite Goosebumps book is. They spilled the (creepy) tea - now we want to know, what's yours? Stream all episodes of Goosebumps: The Vanishing now on Disney+ and Hulu.

[nahyerart]

The gruesome twosome

[letzgetsilly]

So Bjorn got a better pic of the new Slappy design and...

IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD???

He looked SO TERRIBLE on the poster BUT THIS DESIGN ACTUALLY GOES SO HARD LIKE LOOK AT HIS HAIR AND HIS SMILEEEEEE

I still wish they'd given him freckles but that's just a nitpick at this point since none of the other live action Slappy designs have them hfsdkjfhskjdfhs

[slooshee]

“VIEWER BEWARE!!”

I recently did some redraws of some of the Goosebumps book covers in honor of Halloween being around the corner. I really loved a lot of these books growing up and tbh I still have a fondness for them. Honestly a lot of children’s horror anthology media has a really special place in my heart. I love seeing people make horror content without it being able to be outright gorey or scary. The haunting hour still holds up as being pretty scary in a lot of cases imo. I also thought these might be fun to kinda get out of my comfort zone a little. Tbh I had a good time doing a horror art again I missed it.

But um ya enjoy :>

1- Night of the Living Dummy

2- One Day at Horrorland

3-Werewolf Skin

4- Calling All Creeps!

[artsisqool]

Welp rip slappy (don’t mind how messy my room is)

[tlbodine]

Overthinking: Night of the Living Dummy

Is there any Goosebumps villain as iconic as Slappy the dummy? One of Stine's favorite characters to write, a fan favorite, and a recurring character across not just the original series but its many spin-offs, to say nothing of the merch...and here's the book that started it all. Except you may be surprised to realize that Night of the Living Dummy (1993) barely features Slappy at all.

Oh, sure, he's in there, and he makes a big splash. But he's more of a background character...unless, of course, he's the puppet who's really pulling the strings.

First, the Plot:

Night of the Living Dummy introduces us to 12-year-old twins Lindy and Kris. They have a fraught relationship, as many twins do, both loving and hating being a twin. Everything turns into a competition between them, a circumstance not at all improved by Lindy finding a discarded ventriloquist dummy in the dumpster near an under-construction neighborhood home.

Lindy immediately takes to ventriloquism, performing with her new pal Slappy for the entertainment of friends, getting hired to do a birthday party, and even potentially getting a spot on TV. Her parents encourage this hobby, thinking maybe she'll even become famous or make a career of it.

Kris is jealous and demands a dummy of her own, which her parents get her. She names him Mr. Wood and tries to keep up with Lindy, but she doesn't get quite the same attention. Being the kid in school with a ventriloquist dummy is kind of cool. Being the second kid in school with a ventriloquist dummy is kind of lame. You know how it goes.

Anyway - the bigger problem is that Mr. Wood has a mind of his own. She keeps finding him in places he's not supposed to be. She awakens to find him wearing her nice dress-up clothes, all wadded and wrinkled. Another time she finds him seeming to strangle Slappy. One night she discovers he's made a huge mess of the kitchen, dumping out food all over the floor and sitting in a heap of her beloved costume jewelry.

Their mother, already annoyed by the girls' constant bickering, is about ready to take both dummies away when neither twin will come clean about the mess in the kitchen. But they agree to clean it up in exchange for one last chance. After they finish, Lindy admits to Kris that she's the one who's been moving the dummy around, pranking her sister to scare her. Kris is naturally furious.

Unfortunately, that's not the end of her problems. She has the bad horror-movie-survival-sense to read foreign words aloud from a slip of paper in Mr. Wood's shirt pocket, and now Mr. Wood really has a mind of his own. He blinks and moves when nobody's looking. He says rude, awful things, first to the elderly neighbors, then to a teacher in front of an entire auditorium when Kris finally lands a public performance. He caps off the night by spewing green putrid gunk, Exorcist-style, all over the audience, and Kris is in DEEP trouble because nobody will believe her about the dummy.

Ultimately, Mr. Wood makes a bold move, and Lindy sees him and joins her sister in trying to stop him from killing the family dog and wreaking general havoc on their lives. He keeps threatening the girls that he has powers and intends to enslave them (yikes) but they ignore him, attempt to dismember him, stuff him into a suitcase, bury him alive, then finally throw him in the path of construction equipment until he's crushed to oblivion. You know, kid's stuff.

Finally free of the cursed doll, the girls head inside to clean up and savor their victory. Only for Slappy to turn on his own volition and say, I thought that other guy would NEVER leave!

Overthinking It:

Night of the Living Dummy may not be the scariest Goosebumps book so far in the series, but it might be the most uncomfortable to read, at least if you're prone to second-hand embarrassment. Watching Kris sit there helplessly while the dummy in her lap spews vile insults (not to mention vile liquid) is agonizing. Knowing she's innocent and seeing her get into trouble, again and again, is similarly painful.

But the scariest thing about the book by far is Lindy. It's pretty common for Goosebumps characters to prank each other, but Lindy's actions go well beyond pranking. It's a days-long, protracted harassment campaign where she torments and gaslights her sister, acting shocked and outraged at all the right times with the skill of an Oscar winner. It's chilling in its heartlessness.

Either Lindy is the story's true malevolent supervillain, or there's something else going on here.

There's a scene fairly early in the story where Lindy is showing off her dummy routine to their parents, and Slappy growls out something mean to Kris, then slaps her across the face with a wooden hand. Lindy of course gets in trouble for this and it's all written off as part of their rivalry. But if Slappy is alive and talking at the end of the book, it's fair to assume he was alive then, too, which means that Lindy already knows what the dummy is capable of.

I think it's extremely plausible that Slappy is manipulating Lindy into tormenting her sister. I also suspect he's the one who planted the magic words in Mr. Wood's pocket, knowing Kris would be likely to read them and awaken the dummy.

So now instead of one kid being gaslit, we also have a kid being emotionally manipulated and possibly even coerced into performing cruelty. Children's books are neat!

If You Liked This, THESE Will Really Give You Goosebumps:

For a fantastic book about sibling rivalry and puppets behaving badly, you must read Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House. It honestly shares so much DNA with this book, I'd be surprised if Hendrix wasn't a Goosebumps fan.

For a different take on ventriloquist dummies being up to no good, you should also certainly check out the movie Dead Silence.

If it's the psychological horror of siblings being awful to each other than intrigues you, try watching and/or reading Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. And, of course, Gaslight is the trope-namer for horror stories about people driving each other crazy to discredit them.

And for walking, talking dolls manipulating kids and saying messed up things, there's the entire Child's Play franchise, which I suspect Stine was strongly influenced by.

[calebs-hangout-corner]

Slapster!

[maeganroeslove123]

I’m throwing my head in the ring. Anyone can ask any questions of what’s going on I would be happy to answer. 

[idkmanwtfishumanityanymore]

just rewatched the two goosebumps movies (the ones with jack black) and I gotta say- SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE MOVIES!!

I HAVE NEVER FELT SO BAD FOR SLAPPY.

Hear me out.

First off, he was created, OUT OF MALICE. By an isolated little boy(R.L. Stein), and he’s just expected to NOT be malicious???

second, due to being the malicious bastard he is, Stein locked him up in the books with the rest of the monsters, which seems to have affected him in some way considering how bitter he was about it-

(The rest is from the sequel now)

Third, In the sequel “Haunted Halloween”, he is quite literally just trying to build up a family for himself-

if those kids in the beginning hadn’t abruptly decided he’s evil and bad just because he made a cheating bastard fall and break a bone or two (getting revenge for his “sister”), and because he made Sonny’s Tesla project too powerful (probably not on purpose!), then all of “Haunted Halloween” (the first book Stein ever tried writing in-universe but never finished, where Slappy goes on a rampage making a family of monsters), NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

IF THEY HAD JUST SET SOME RULES Y’KNOW LIKE “Okay don’t actually hurt anyone or kill them or cause irreparable damage, got it?” THEN THIS WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED. HE SEEMS LIKE A VERY REASONABLE PUPPET.

This movie has somehow taught me that Slappy (movie only) has daddy issues, possibly abandonment issues, had no mother and wants a mother of his own, doesn’t turn too evil unless provoked in some way(Ex; Insulting him, upsetting someone he claims as family), and just wants a family.

Also “Dummy” is like a personal slur to him apparently like- he gets so pissed- “Puppet” seemed to be acceptable though. Just not “Dummy”.

((Also please forgive me Idk how to spell the author’s name and I’m too lazy to google it rn please Lemme know what the proper spelling is if I fucked up-))

[brokehorrorfan]

Funko has released Goosebumps Pops. Bad Hare Day, Attack of the Mutant, Night of the Living Dummy, and The Haunted Mask are $12 each.

A Werewolf of Fever Swamp Pop Book Cover is also available for $25. It features a book cover backdrop housed in an acrylic display case that measures 8.5" tall, 6.75" wide, and 3" deep.

[bewdewd]

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