Carly Beth finally finds the scariest mask ever but is to scary for However the mysterious owner of the shop allows her entry and she unwillingly stumbles upon a back room filled with the many of the most hideous masks she has ever seen. Almost a year after the events in The Haunted Mask, Carly Beth wakes up in the middle of the night and begins uncontrollably walking to the basement of her house, and she even hears her name being called. Cat. The Haunted Mask II book. But this Halloween it's different -- she's got the spookiest mask ever and she'll get her revenge and watch her classmates recoil in horror. Audiobooks on Youtube presents the first chapter of R.L. She then returns home to her mother. [18] Michelle Erica Green from FamilyWonder.com felt that it had genuinely scary and exciting scenes, but thought it had stereotypical characters, a corny feel-good message, and hokey special effects which weakened its impact. It's the best Halloween mask ever. [5] Flavorwire's Kevin Pires listed the book as one of his ten favorite Goosebumps books, stating "Tim Jacobus' [...] gripping illustration and Stine's straightforward plot made The Haunted Mask an emblem for the series. The scene where Carly Beth finds herself the owner of a new duck costume was inspired by a similar event in Stine's childhood where he opened a gift only to find himself disappointed by the duck costume he found inside. Despite her desperate pleas, the shopkeeper tells Carly Beth over and over that the mask cannot be removed as it is not simply a mask...it is a real, living face. At one moment, Randolph managed to pull the scariest of these haunted masks and press it against William's face. ", The Haunted Mask was featured on USA Today's Top 150 Best-Selling Books database for 43 weeks, attaining a peak position of 107. Carly Beth is a quiet, shy, and overly trusting girl. [24] Another book, The Haunted Mask Lives!, was listed on illustrator Tim Jacobus's website, but was not released. Her friends are always thinking of ways to frighten her -- and it works. R. L. Stine says he got the idea for the book from his son who had put on a Frankenstein mask he had trouble getting off. Fiction

Carly Beth thinks she's found the best Halloween mask ever. [3], The book was first published in September 1993 by Scholastic, and reissued in 2003[4] and on September 1, 2008. The Haunted Mask Lives! The pair play several tricks on her, such as offering a sandwich containing a live worm. Steve and Chuck run off in fear and Carly Beth gleefully abandons the plaster face. Author(s) it is the scariest mask she has ever seen. is the 2nd book in the Goosebumps Gold series. "I'm live at #BookExpo in New York discussing my new books. [1] Stine also says that he incorporated a duck costume his parents got him for trick-or-treating in the book. He tells her that he created them and they were once beautiful, but they slowly decayed over time and became hideous, repulsive monsters. Rather than seeing her own normal eyes staring back at her in the mirror, Carly Beth sees evil, animal-like, orange eyes leering back at her. So terrifying that even her friends are totally freaked out by it. Both Sabrina and Carly Beth work at the daycare. Get the best deals for the haunted mask goosebumps at eBay.com. The day before Halloween at a science fair, Carly Beth is once again made a fool of after Steve pretends his tarantula has escaped, knowing full well Carly Beth is terrified of spiders. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. But when Lu-Ann comes face-to-face with The Haunted Mask, major trouble lies ahead. Deciding to go to the same Halloween costume store where his friend Carly Beth got her face rearranged the previous year, Steve Boswell searches for the perfect mask and finds it, unaware that the mask is even scarier than it appears. Within the shop, Carly Beth sneaks into a back room and discovers a row of hideously deformed masks. And that was before he heard the strange scratching on his windows and saw the shadows moving around in the fields. The cover illustration shows Carly Beth Caldwell trying to wear a scary green mask. And without a trumpet sound, his true love--the beautiful swan Serena--just ignores him. It's everything Carly Beth hoped it would be. [16] The video was listed 75th in Billboard's list of Top Video Sales for 1996, the only Goosebumps video on the list. Stine Wants 'The Haunted Mask' to Get the 'Goosebumps' Movie Treatment, https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/The_Haunted_Mask_(book)?oldid=146453. One year later, the ugly, green mask mysteriously calls out to her again, and ugly, green masks don't like to be ignored. This The Haunted Mask is the story of Carly Beth just fed up with being wimpy, wimpy, wimpy...tired of constantly being teased, pranked, and scared by her friends Carly Beth is determined to get the scariest Halloween mask ever and show her friends that she's not such a wimp after all. And Carly Beth is still wearing that special mask... Carly Beth Caldwell is talking about her Halloween costume with her talkative best friend, Sabrina Mason. On Halloween day, she collects her money and sets off for the costume shop, distraught that it is closed. Carly Beth finds the mold and uses it to deter the masks and remove the mask from her face. Don't wear it out. She flies into a frenzied and destructive panic and is once again humiliated in front of her teachers and classmates. Dismissing the transformation as normal, Carly Beth steals the Plaster of Paris mold of her head that her mother made, and goes in search of Chuck and Steve, determined to make them pay. The Haunted Mask II is a pretty awful book until the last thirty pages or so when it just embraces the silliness of the situation and goes for laughs instead of "scares." R.L. After finding Chuck and Steve and scaring them however, Carly Beth is horrified to notice that the mold of her face spoke, imploring Steve and Chuck to "help" her. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Summary The Haunted Mask is the main antagonist of the Goosebumps tv show adaptations of The Haunted Mask and The Haunted Mask II, both of which are based off the books of the same names. "[9] Nathan Reese and Brooke Marine from Complex.com ranked it as the best Goosebumps book, stating the book was very thrilling, and the twist ending caused the right amount of horror. In the European English version, the mask isn't removed by a symbol of love, but with a magical potion. But if the mask is ever put on a third time, it will be forever." in this book, carly beth, who is a "scaredy cat", buys a mask against the store owners warnings. It's so ugly that it almost scared her little brother to death. At HorrorLand, every night is Halloween. Carly Beth later discovers that she is unable to remove the mask and realizes to her horror that the mask has become one with her skin. It first aired on October 27, 1995 in the United States on the Fox network, where it was viewed by 7.9 million households. They begin floating off of their model heads and start to slowly, but surely, fly at Carly Beth. The store owner reluctantly sells her one of the masks and Carly Beth goes home in delight. The Haunted Mask is the eleventh book in the original Goosebumps, the series of children's horror fiction novels created and written by R. L. Stine. Carly Beth uses it to deter the masks and remove the monstrous face that has attached itself to her. He didn't ask to go on this trip. [23] Wanted: The Haunted Mask was published as a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Goosebumps. The shopkeeper says, "The only way to remove the mask is to find a 'symbol of love'. This The Haunted Mask is the story of Carly Beth just fed up with being wimpy, wimpy, wimpy...tired of constantly being teased, pranked, and scared by her friends Carly Beth is determined to get the scariest Halloween mask ever and show her friends that she's not such a wimp after all. Carly is tired of getting teased at school. The horror begins when Carly Beth puts on the evil, haunted mask. The 1995 reprint included a cardboard cut-out mask based on the cover inside the book. Original. While running away from the masks, she realizes that the plaster mold her mother made is a symbol of love. [14] In Canada, the episode aired on YTV and became the network's highest rated episode up to that point, with nearly three million viewers. Carly Beth simply remarks, "I don't know...but I like it". After Carly Beth sends Noah away, she calls Sabrina on the telephone. [17] Frazier Tharpe, Brendan Klinkenberg, and Khal from Complex.com named it the 10th best Halloween themed TV episode and called it one of the scariest Goosebumps episodes. Front Tagline: If looks could kill... Back Tagline: Face to Face With a Nightmare... Official Book Description: How ugly is Carly Beth's Halloween mask? The Haunted Mask is its name. T… Carly Beth returns to the shop, where the shopkeeper tells her that the "masks" in the back room are actually living faces that can only be removed by a "symbol of love", but if it attaches itself to her or another person again, the fusion will be permanent. But after she decides to get revenge on her tormentors, she buys a scary mask from an old novelty shop. If Carly Beth can survive the night, even a terrifying amusement park like By R. L. Stine. The other masks suddenly come to life and begin to pursue Carly Beth. Cheerleader. "The Haunted Oak," written and publsihed in 1900, could have been based on one of the 105 lynchings that occurred that year, but it was inspired in Washington, D.C., by a story that Dunbar heard an old black man relate concerning his nephew in Alabama who bad been hanged on an oak tree by a mob of whites after having been falsely accused of "a grave crime." Vietnamese Artwork by Tidus Fair Supertramp. But she is insistent and takes off with the mask while throwing the money to him. This is one of the few books in the original series in which Tim Jacobus did not sign the artwork. Click here for a full article about the television adaptation. Before she puts it, Carly Beth manages to will herself to put the mask down. He is born one summer on a little pond in Canada, along with four brothers and sisters. When Carly Beth came upon a halloween store that she had It's everything Carly Beth hoped it would be. Carly Beth goes to her bedroom, where her little brother, Noah, has dressed up in her costume and frightens her. Yet strange things start happen to her. When she goes to her room, her younger brother Noah scares her in a duck costume also made by their mother. How ugly is Carly Beth's Halloween mask? Carly Beth, who is easily scared, is always scared by her peers. NEXT> [12] The episode first aired on October 27, 1995 on the Fox Network as the series premiere of the Goosebumps TV series. she is completely shock to find that the mask is so much as a perfect fit, that it … It is the first (part one) and second (part two) episode of season one. The Haunted Mask. [25], This article is about the book. Despite the self-referential nature of the second half (there's even mentions of the Mud Monsters from You Can't Scare Me! It was first published in 1993, and was later followed-up by the thirty-sixth book, The Haunted Mask II in 1995. Noah later bursts in and asks her, "How do I look in your mask? Carly Beth Caldwell is a naive, timid and gullible 11-year-old girl who scares easily. And it ends when she discovers there is nothing more powerful than the love of her family and friends. Once she gets home, she drops the mask by the door and runs for her mother's warm embrace, Noah then appears from the other room and asks how he looks in her mask. Bride. Maybe too much more. It turns out every so often a young, innocent person like Carly Beth, finds one thinking it to only be a latex mask, puts it on and the mask begins to become one with the victims skin as the mask fuses with them and begins to slowly take over their mind. Stine's 'The Haunted Mask' is the eleventh book in the series of the higly-acclaimed Goosebumps. The episode is based on the book of the same name by R. L. Stine and is about Carly Beth, a timid girl who buys a Halloween mask that soon begins merging with her face. The next day, Carly Beth goes to the Tumbledown Farms daycare with her best friend, Sabrina Mason. Louis is a trumpeter swan. The original artwork of the book can be seen on a skateboard in the, The title is seen on a book on the cover to the first issue of. With much force William pulls the mask and his own skin from his face, leaving him with a bloody face. The Haunted Mask is the eleventh book in the original Goosebumps series.It was released in September 1993. She walks over to the back of the basement and retrieves the Haunted Mask. Goosebumps Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. So terrifying that efen her friends are totally freaked out by it. Deciding to go to the same Halloween store where his friend Carly Beth went the previous year, Steve Boswell finds the perfect mask, unaware that the mask is ev Teachers Lessons and Ideas :) R.L. Grades. haunted mask. And those monster m. With yellow-green skin and long animal fangs, the mask terrifies the entire neighborhood. [7] In 2001, it was listed as the 249th bestselling children's paperback book of all time by Publishers Weekly, having sold 1.42 million copies. [11], Filming for "The Haunted Mask" episode began in 1995 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Carly Beth once got so scared by her friends Chuck and Steve that she swore she would pay them back. Because Halloween is almost over. At the school science fair, Steve causes a panic by announcing his pet tarantula has escaped, and exploits Carly Beth's arachnophobia by pinching her leg, leading her to believe that the tarantula has bitten her. Add a new character to your production, terrorize the neighborhood on Halloween, or get many a conversation started at the next costume party with this infected clown mask. Maybe too much more. R. L. Stine says he got the idea for the book from his son who had put on a Frankenstein mask he had trouble getting off. After school, she goes home and finds her mother has made her a plaster of Carly Beth's face as a symbol of love. Sobbing, she returns to the shop where she bought the mask and finds the owner waiting for her, knowing she would come back. However the mask will not come off at first, when it finally does, Carly Beth and Noah are unsure as to how she unintentionally changed her voice to a hoarse growl. The Haunted Mask Carly Beth thinks she's found the best Halloween mask ever. Summary. But Louis has a terrible problem. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items! If Carly Beth survives the night, even a scary theme park might sound like a vacation. Classic Goosebumps #4: The Haunted Mask Summary. this is yet another great book from the goosebump series. Carly Beth runs off in tears, after everyone laughs at her. They pursue her down the street and Carly Beth finally realizes that the mold her mother gave her is a symbol of love she needs to remove the mask from her body. Stine's 70th Birthday With His 10 Best 'Goosebumps' Books", "The Definitive Ranking of All 62 Original "Goosebumps" Books", "Things that go 'Goosebumps' in the night", "World Series Viewership Slips Despite Big Week", "Youthful Performers Get 'Lesson' in Drama", "The 25 Best Halloween Themed TV Episodes", "Gemini Nominees: And the 1997 nominees are", "Goosebumps Horrorland: #4: The Scream of the Haunted Mask", The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night, Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary, Children's and young adult literature portal, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Haunted_Mask&oldid=999197581, American novels adapted into television shows, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 January 2021, at 23:45. "The Haunted Mask" is the series premiere of the Goosebumps TV series. FACE TO FACE WITH A NIGHTMARE... How ugly is Carly Beth's Halloween mask? In Canada, where the episode was filmed, it aired one day later on the YTV network. The owner refuses to sell her the one she wants. [19] In 1997, Kathryn Long, who played Carly Beth, received a Gemini Award nomination for "Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series". After being tricked by Steve into eating a sandwich that contained a live worm, Carly Beth flees home in shame and vows revenge. Some important events in the book are when Carly Beth meets Clark at the stable. The Haunted Mask is the eleventh book in the original Goosebumps book series, and the first book in the same name saga. Summary Goosebumps the Haunted Mask is about a girl named Carly Beth. [20], Three sequels of the book were published, The Haunted Mask II in October 1995 (the thirty-sixth book in the Goosebumps series),[21] The Scream of the Haunted Mask on August 1, 2008 (the fourth book in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series)[22] and a stand-alone story on July 1, 2012, Wanted: The Haunted Mask. For the episode, see, Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series, "13 Things You Want to Know About R.L. After successfully scaring Noah with the mask, she dons it again on Halloween evening and manages to scare Chuck and Steve. She acts like a totally different person: she attacks Sabrina, frightens young children, vandalizes the neighborhood. He refers to them as "The Unloved Ones". So terrifying that even her friends are totally freaked out by it. Replica haunted mask from Trick or Treat Studios. After putting on the mask, she starts acting differently and discovers that the mask has become her face; she is unable to pull the mask off. In the mid-1990s, the book was adapted for television and released on VHS on March 12, 1996. Within a short moment William finds out that the mask can't come off and adheres to his facial skin permanently. It also makes cameo appearances in the rest of the Goosebumps Horrorland series of books, several video games, episode adaptations of the original … Then she muses about buying a horrible mask from a new shop that has just opened. At the time, it had almost 3 million viewers and was YTV's highest-rate… She is easily scared of almost everything, and repeatedly humiliated by her friends, Chuck Greene and Steve Boswell, at school who call her a "scaredy cat", and delight in making her life a misery. Because Halloween is almost over. [2] Tim Jacobus's niece was the model for the cover of the book. A great character for any haunted big top or cursed circus scene, this over the head mask offers Hollywood-quality look. The Haunted Mask was written by R. L. Stine and originally illustrated by Tim Jacobus. ", R.L. Carly Beth exasperatedly vents to her friend Sabrina and promises vengeance upon Steve and Chuck. He never states that rule applies only to her mask and heavily implies it's for all the masks. Discover the original bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time! Late at night, an ugly green mask is mysteriously calling out to her and ugly green masks don't like to be ignored. Click to read more about The Haunted Mask by R. L. Stine. She returns home to her mother, tossing the mask away. At home, Carly Beth discovers her mother, Kate, has made a perfect likeness of Carly Beth's face from plaster of Paris as a symbol of her love for her. "The Haunted Mask" is a frightening Halloween story about a girl named Carly Beth. The book follows Carly Beth, a girl who buys a Halloween mask from a store. [8], Terreece Clarke from Common Sense Media rated the book three stars out of five, commenting that it "is ideal for reluctant readers and Halloween-themed sleepovers" and "is one of the better books in the Goosebumps series". Or maybe not! And more. Before long, it has a surprising effect on Carly Beth, too. The Haunted Mask was adapted into a two-part episode of the Goosebumps TV series. Devin O'Bannon didn't want to leave his best friend Lu-Ann Franklin behind on Halloween. Synopsis. In Portugal, this is the ninth book in the original, In the French edition, Carly Beth is called "Carolyn. ", Stine has gone on to say he would enjoy seeing a film adaptation of this book — possibly even one that combines. To her horror, Sabrina discovers that there is no space between the mask and her skin. Sabrina tugs and pulls at Carly Beth's sweaty mask, but it does not seem to give. Anybody have a question for me? It's the best Halloween mask ever. 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