Vampire Breath
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| Author | R. L. Stine |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Goosebumps |
| Genre(s) | Horror fiction, Children's literature |
| Publisher | Scholastic |
| Publication date | September 1996 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Preceded by | Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns |
| Followed by | Calling All Creeps! |
Vampire Breath is the 49th Goosebumps book by R.L. Stine.
[edit] Plot
Cara and Freddy, who are left alone while Freddy's parents go out, find a secret room in his basement. After further investigation, they discover a coffin with a bottle of "Vampire Breath". They open the bottle and smelly green mist pours out...and it also summons an old vampire called Count Nightwing. The vampire makes them open the bottle again and they are taken back in time. After a harrowing chase through the vampire's castle in the year 1880, another bottle brings them back to Freddy's basement. Count Nightwing has the two kids cornered, until Freddy's parents come home and his mom recognizes the vampire as her father. It turns out that Freddy's parents are vampires but Freddy won't get his fangs for more than a hundred years. Freddy and Cara go in the basement bathroom and Freddy accidentally opens a bottle with a Werewolf Sweat label. Yellow smoke fills and the room and the book ends with Cara growling. She was turned into a werewolf.
[edit] Trivia
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In the television version of this book, Cara and Freddy are siblings searching for the place where their parents hid their birthday presents until they come across the bottle of Vampire Breath. After it's revealed that the vampire is their grandfather, Cara and Freddy grow fangs at the stroke of midnight (which, according to their parents, is the onset of puberty for teenage vampires) and receive coffin-style bunk beds as their birthday present. Also, their family name is Renfield, which is a reference to the servant in the Dracula literature, who bears the same name.
In the story the two friends encounter a vampire girl named Gwendolyn, whose appearance, hairstyle and nature is similar to that of Claudia the vampire girl from the Vampire Chronicles.
