Goosebumps, The Blob that Ate Everyone

Zackie is a young boy that loves to write scary stories and read them to his friends Alex and Adam. Alex loves Zackies stories but Adam always makes fun of the stories but Zackie writes them because he is easily scared. Alex and Zackie walk to town and come across a burned down building and they enter to explore the remnants. Zackie sees an old typewriter and wants to take it but he is shocked by electricity and falls to the ground and the shop owner gives Zackie the typewriter and a quill pen, he takes it home and then discovers it might have special powers. Zackie begins to type his scary blob story on the typewriter and everything he types begins to come true. Soon the town is being attacked by a giant blob and is now in his house along with Alex and the blob eats the typewriter so Zackie is unable to write a good ending to the story. Zackie realizes that he has the power of the story and not the typewriter so he thinks the end of the story and saves the day.

The plot carries this story because it is an interesting concept of what could happen if you are zapped by electricity. The characters are believable because they could be any child from any school that embark on a crazy adventure.

Stine, R. (1997). The Blob that ate everyone. New York, NY: Parachute Press, Inc.