Show 15 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified Get Goosebumps with the startling repackage of a best selling classic. Now with bonus materials! Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they...meet...some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy-and seedy. R.L. Stine is the creator of the bestselling Goosebumps series, which has more than 400 million copies in print worldwide and celebrated 25 years in 2017. Goosebumps is one of the bestselling children's series of all-time and inspired a popular television show, as well as a feature film starring Jack Black that opened at #1 at the box office. His other popular children's books include the series Fear Street, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School, and his picture books, with Marc Brown, The Little Shop of Monsters and Mary McScary. R.L. Stine lives in New York City. You can connect with him on Twitter at @RL_Stine or Facebook: facebook.com/rlstine. For more information, visit rlstine.com and scholastic.com/goosebumps. Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they...meet...some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy-and seedy. Is it just part of their father's "harmless" experiment? Or has the basement turned into another little shop of horrors? The 2003 reprint's cover illustration depicts Dr. Brewer's clone in front of a lab table holding a beaker in his hand. Contents
BlurbLIVE PLANTS...DEAD PEOPLE? Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they...meet...some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy—and seedy. Is it just part of their father's "harmless" experiment? Or has the basement turned into another little shop of horrors? PlotMargaret and Casey Brewer are playing Frisbee outside. They invite their father, Dr. Brewer, to play with them, but he declines their invitation, as he has work to do in the basement. Formerly, Dr. Brewer was a specialized botanist, but he was recently fired from his workplace. Now, Dr. Brewer does experiments in his basement. When Margaret and Casey try to go down to the basement to see his works, their father, whose hand is bleeding, yells "Stay out of the basement!" Sometime later, Mrs. Brewer is forced to travel to Tucson to visit her sister Eleanor, who has been hospitalized. Dr. Brewer takes Mrs. Brewer to the airport, giving Margaret, Casey, and their friend, Diane an opportunity to go down into the basement and investigate Dr. Brewer's strange experiments. Upon entering, they find a wide variety of gigantic green plants, some of which seem to be bearing fruits. Due to the intense humidity of the basement, Casey takes off his shirt and sets it down. The three kids begin to hear a breathing sound coming from several plants. The plants seem to be beckoning the kids with their tendrils. The kids decide they've seen enough and leave the basement at roughly the same time Dr. Brewer returns home. Suddenly, Casey remembers that he forgot his shirt and goes back to the basement to find it, only to hear the plants' breathing and groans. Casey is grabbed at the waist by two long plants tendrils. Margaret comes down to help him and manages to free him, but, while they are walking up the stairs of the basement, they find their father looking down at them. Calmly, Dr. Brewer sits his children in the kitchen and tells them that one day he will explain everything that is happening, but — until that day — they are forbidden from entering the basement. Later, Margaret discovers that her father has begun placing a lock on the basement door. On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Brewer calls Margaret by telephone. She informs Margaret that she must stay in Tucson for a few more days because Eleanor's operation did not go as expected. Taking advantage of this moment, Margaret tells her mother about the strange plant experiments in the basement. Margaret informs Mrs. Brewer that Dr. Brewer is now wearing a cap all the time. After hanging up the phone, Margaret goes to the kitchen and watches her father eat something from a plastic bag. When he leaves, she discovers that he was eating plant food! Margaret tells Casey what happened, but he refuses to believe her. A few days later, the kids are playing Frisbee again, and Dr. Brewer is outside with them. The kids accidentally hit Dr. Brewer on the head. This knocks off his hat, revealing green leaves growing on his head. Dr. Brewer sits down with his children again and explains that the leaves are only a side effect of his experiments. Dr. Brewer goes to the basement again quickly. That night, Margaret spies her father in the bathroom, watching as he removes the bandage from his hand, revealing bright green blood instead of red blood. She panics and runs back to her room. Eventually, she goes down to the kitchen to have a glass of water. Margaret finds Casey, who also couldn't sleep. Both kids listen again to the plants' noises in the basement. The next morning, Margaret takes a small look at her father's room, discovering moist dirt and insects in his bed. The next morning, Margaret tells Casey what happened. Immediately, Dr. Brewer appears and tells them that he has prepared lunch for them: weird green mush. He insists that they eat it. Fortunately, Mr. Martinez, Dr. Brewer's former boss, visits the house to discuss Dr. Brewer's experiments. While their father is distracted, the kids throw their meal in the trash and say they have already eaten it. The next morning, Dr. Brewer leaves the house to help his neighbor to install a bathroom sink. The kids decide that this is another opportunity to enter the basement. As soon their father leaves, they remove the lock and enter. In the basement, they find Mr. Martinez's suit hidden near a table and realize that he never left the house after his visit yesterday. After a few minutes, the kids hear footsteps in the house and realize that their father has returned, so they flee from the basement through a small window that faces the backyard. However, they're discovered by Dr. Brewer. He tells them that Mr. Martinez took off his suit due to the basement's tropical climate and forgot it there. Before returning to his neighbor's house to continue with the sink, Dr. Brewer again warns Margaret and Casey not to go back down to the basement. The following morning, Mrs. Brewer returns from Tucson, so Dr. Brewer must leave the house to pick her up from the airport. Margaret and Diane go out for a bike ride. When they return, Casey tells them he wants to fly kites, but the kites are in the basement. The kids decide to return to the basement so they can look for the kites. Shockingly, they find the rest of Mr. Martinez's clothes, realizing that their father had lied to them. The kids hear noises coming from a supply closet. When they open it, they find Dr. Brewer bound and gagged with plants tendrils. They untie him, and Dr. Brewer tells them that the one who went to the airport to pick up Mrs. Brewer is not him. Instead, it is a hybrid plant clone created during his experiments. Dr. Brewer grabs an axe and waits for his clone to return. Dr. Brewer's clone appears on the basement stairs. He tries to trick the kids into believing that their real father is the clone. However, when Margaret hears her father call her "Princess" (which the clone never did), she gets an idea; grabbing a knife, she makes a small cut to her father's hand, revealing red blood. The real Dr. Brewer uses the axe and cuts his clone in half, revealing bright green blood and a stem-like interior. The kids hear more noises in the supply closet. Inside, they find Mr. Martinez gagged, so they release him. One week later, Dr. Brewer burns all the mutant plants in the yard, planting a few into the garden. He tells Margaret and Casey that he will stop doing experiments permanently. The kids are walking back inside when a small flower on the ground brushes against Margaret's ankle. When she bends down to look at it, the flower whispers to her "Margaret, help me! I'm your real father!" Reprints and rereleasesBookRelease dateTypeMediaMonster Edition #1  2003 - 2007 reprint series Hair Raising Collection Classic Goosebumps Retro Fear Collection Differences
International releasesNo: 3 No: 17 Country: France Country: France Country: France Country: France No: 5 No: 2 Country: Italy No: 3 No: 2 No: 3 No: 2 No: 2 No: 2 No: 2 Country: Nederlands No: 10 No: 2 No: 3 No: 2 No: 2 No: 3 No: 11 No: 3 No: 20 No: 3 No: 9 No: 23 No: 7 No: N/A No: 21 No: 3 Classic Goosebumps No: 22 No: 12 No: 12 No: 1-3 No: 2 No: 2 No: 3 No: 9 Differences
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T-shirt (front and back). Doorknob Cover (packaged). Doorknob cover (unpackaged). Doorknob hanger. Tape Dispenser. Tape Dispenser in package. Safety Scissor. "Twisted Scissors". "Twisted Scissors" (unpackaged). Petrifying Protractor in package. Petrifying Protractor (unpackaged). Enamel pin from Cakeworthy. Lithograph. Collector's Cap. Trading CardsTopps Trading Card 01. Topps Trading Card 02. Topps Trading Card 03. Topps Puzzle Card. AdaptationsTV seriesStay Out of the Basement was adapted into a two-part episode of the Goosebumps TV series. It is the eleventh (part one) and twelfth (part two) episode of season one. What is the book Goosebumps Stay Out of the Basement about?The story is about how a girl named margaret and her brother casey notice their Dad (Dr. brewer) spend hours down in the basement and hardly comes out to talk to them. He is trying to come up with experiments to prove to his boss that he shouldn't have fired him.
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How many Goosebump books are there?Original Goosebumps (1992-1997)
The original 62 books by R.L. Stine.
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