![]() ![]() Our main character and narrator, Amanda Benson, is a girl dealing with her bratty brother Josh and her parents not believing them about the weird shit going on in their new home.Īmanda’s plight is probably the most believable out of the myriad ways Stine reused these character dynamics in later books. Boy were they wrong! Īs the beginning of the franchise, “Welcome to Dead House” gives us a look at how Stine originally established many of the tropes he’s run into the ground over the last three decades, but before he exaggerated the shit out of them. Stine, commissioned back when Scholastic didn’t believe the series would sell enough. This is one recap I definitely have the energy for, because this is where it all began. But these new friends are not exactly what their parents had in mind. And the town of Dark Falls is pretty strange, too.īut their parents don’t believe them. “They’re Coming To Get You, Amanda!”Īmanda and Josh think they old house they have just moved into is weird. ![]() Title: Goosebumps #1 – “Welcome to Dead House” a.k.a. Welcome to Dead House Cover by Tim Jacobus ![]()
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