The Haunted Mask
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| Author | R. L. Stine |
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| Cover artist | Tim Jacobus |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English/Spanish/French |
| Series | Goosebumps |
| Genre(s) | Horror fiction, Children's literature |
| Publisher | Scholastic |
| Publication date | September 1993 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 121 |
| ISBN | 0-590-49446-5 |
| Preceded by | The Ghost Next Door |
| Followed by | Be Careful What You Wish For... |
The Haunted Mask is the 11th book in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series.
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[edit] Plot
Eleven-year-old Carly Beth Caldwell is described as a quiet, shy, and overly trusting girl. She's easily scared, and repeatedly humiliated by two prankster boys (Chuck and Steve) at school. For Halloween, she searches through the local costume shop, and chooses a life-like, creepy latex mask. She then puts it on to scare Chuck and Steve. To her horror she discovers that when she gets home, there's no space between the mask and her skin! She later does remove the mask (which turns out to really be a face made by the store owner) by showing the icon of true love, the mold that her mother gave to her. Then the store owner gives her a warning, "If you ever put it on again, it will be forever." She then returns home, relieved she greets her mom only to turn around and find out that her little brother Noah has put on the mask. The book has a moral in it about wanting to be someone else, instead of being yourself. In the television version Carly learns when she finds the plaster of Paris bust her mom made of Carly Beth's face and shows it to the spirits of the other creepy masks, yelling, "This is me! This is my real face!".
[edit] Tagline
If looks could kill...
[edit] The Haunted Mask II
In The Haunted Mask II, Steve, one of the pranksters from the first book, visits the mask store that Carly Beth frequented in the first book and finds an old man mask. Steve puts on the old man mask for Halloween and finds himself in the same predicament as Carly Beth was in the first book, only the old man mask ages Steve rapidly instead of turning him into a monster. Instead of going to the store for help, he finds Carly Beth. It turns out that the "symbol of love" idea doesn't work for him, so they find the body that goes along with the mask and then it detaches itself. However, they learn that Chuck went back to the store and took a mask himself, and now he cannot get his off.
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New face. Old nightmare.
[edit] The Haunted Mask Lives!
In 2000, Stine wrote a third installment of the series, entitled The Haunted Mask Lives! for Goosebumps Gold. Unfortunately, the book (as well as the other two books written for the series) was not published. The specifics of the plot are unknown, but it continues to follow the character of Carly Beth.
[edit] The Scream of the Haunted Mask
This book will be released in August 2008 as the fourth part of the Goosebumps HorrorLand series. It will be set in an entire house full of haunted masks, in which Carly-Beth, Steve, Chuck, and Sabrina must survive a night.[1]
[edit] Television episode
The book was also the basis for a TV episode, which starred Kathryn Long as Carly Beth and Kathryn Short as Carly Beth's best friend, Sabrina. It starts off with Carly Beth getting scared several time and her mom making a head that looked like Carly Beth. After getting tricked at school by eating a worm, Carly Beth destroys her duck costume. She then goes to a store and steals a mask, but tosses $30 behind her to pay the man for it. Carly Beth then puts it on and takes the head her mom made on a broomstick. After scaring a few kids Carly Beth rips off two kids costumes before meeting Sabrina. When Sabrina asks Carly Beth to take the mask off Carly Beth attacks her. At a house Carly Beth scares a little girl by bring the mask close to her face and says "You better watch what you say to me if you me if you know whats good for you". And then steals candy from the mom. Carly Beth then smashes a pumpkin, destroys more decorations, and scares more kids before running to the cemetery where she scares Steve and Chuck. She then howls and buries the head saying "byebye scardy cat byebye".
Carly Beth returns to Sabrina's house and they cannot get the mask off as it seems to have become part of her skin. She goes back to the mask shop, the mask maker tells she will have to live with it and says her only chance is if she can find a "symbol of love." She scurries away from the other masks (the mask maker called them faces, since it did take over her face) from the back room and digs up her mom's sculpture of Carly Beth's head - the symbol of love. Carly Beth frightens away the "faces" and can now take off the mask. She runs home, tells her worried mother she's all right and that she loves her. The episode ends with Noah putting on the mask that took over Carly Beth.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official Goosebumps Website
- Official Goosebumps DVD Website
- http://www.protocolent.com/goosebumps/ Web Site Featuring Video Clips
