The Haunted Mask
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Sep 27, 2026
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.
speaker_1HOST
But he was just locked in there churning out these joke books to the point where his teachers actually banned them from the classrooms because they were causing too much of a disruption.
speaker_2HOST
See, I look at that and I don't just see a kid who likes jokes.
speaker_2HOST
I see someone building an intense, repetitive discipline.
15 MINS LATER
speaker_1HOST
She is.
speaker_2HOST
She has a hole in her schedule for a YA horror book.
speaker_2HOST
Why on earth would she hand a guaranteed moneymaker genre to a guy whose primary credit is Eureka's Castle and joke books?
speaker_1HOST
Because she didn't see a horror writer.
speaker_7HOST
Let's look at the premiere episode that set this entire template in October of 1995.
speaker_8HOST
The Haunted Mask.
speaker_7HOST
The Haunted Mask, it's an absolute masterpiece of the genre.
speaker_7HOST
You have the protagonist, Carly Beth.
speaker_7HOST
She is sick of being the timid kid, you know, the one everyone easily scares on Halloween.
speaker_7HOST
Revenge literally has a face that will not come off.
speaker_8HOST
It's a perfect visceral distillation of the formula.
speaker_8HOST
And what makes The Haunted Mask work and what makes the 95 series as a whole work is that it kept Stine's mean streak completely intact.
AJ VensHOST
You know? [laughs] Uh, that's just, that's just what I did, and, like, I, I remember r- very, very, very much remember The Mask, the one with the mask.
Mike SchulteHOST
Yeah, The Haunted Mask.
AJ VensHOST
Mm-hmm, The Haunted Mask.
AJ VensHOST
I remember that very much, and that v- really creeped me out because it was just this kid b- holding up that mask-
Mike SchulteHOST
Yep
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Sean PryorHOST
Yeah.
Mike SchulteHOST
Some of his ideas for books came from real life.
Mike SchulteHOST
Uh, Stine got the idea for the book The Haunted Mask after his son Matt had a Halloween mask that he had trouble getting off.
Michael ReaganHOST
We are actually launching a double feature month, giving two separate book club meetings to sink your keys into.
Michael ReaganHOST
First up, to get us in the perfect spooky mood for Halloween, we are reading a definitive 90s scholastic favorite, The Haunted Mask, the iconic Goosebumps classic by R.L. Stine.
Michael ReaganHOST
But that's not all.
Michael ReaganHOST
For our second October meeting, we are fast-forwarding to a brand new release that flips the script on our childhood television habits.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
I know that definitely worked on me.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
But, like, Say Cheese and Die!, um, Night of the Living Dummy!, The Haunted Mask, Werewolf of Fever Swamp, one of my favorite covers and favorite titles.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
Uh, The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
Again, I've got a thing about spooky scarecrows.
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Lyle PerezHOST
... it's called.
Lyle PerezHOST
That one was, is a good one.
Lyle PerezHOST
Um, the, the, uh, Haunted Mask one was a good one.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
Yes.
Alistair Beckett-KingHOST
Dot com forward slash read that underscore podcast.
Eleanor MortonHOST
And we'll be back next time with The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine.
Alistair Beckett-KingHOST
Goosebumps.
Eleanor MortonHOST
spooky season and god damn it does this look easier to read i'm sorry yeah
speaker_5GUEST
and you have to do a Mask and you have to do a Slappy.
speaker_5GUEST
I will say Haunted Mask Part 2 is more horrifying to me now because it's just, what if you suddenly got old and that's just life? I can't eat candy and my bones hurt.
speaker_5GUEST
Honestly, I think the one that
speaker_7GUEST
I always think of is... what is oh my god it's the uh no end house or whatever it's the board game one i had that one of
speaker_5GUEST
I would agree with Brendan.
speaker_5GUEST
It's like you eat Slappy.
speaker_5GUEST
You eat a Monster Blood, a Haunted Mask, then Horrorland.
speaker_5GUEST
That's kind of the big four of Goosebumps, I think.
speaker_4HOST
Sitting comfortably at the absolute number one spot is the series premiere from 1995.
speaker_5HOST
The Haunted Mask.
speaker_4HOST
The Haunted Mask.
speaker_4HOST
Now, if you need a refresher, this installment is a heavy hitter.
speaker_4HOST
It introduces us to Carly Beth.
speaker_4HOST
Right.
speaker_4HOST
It feels like the exact same psychological horror, just updated for a broadband connection.
speaker_5HOST
It does, but I actually think the fear the haunted mask taps into for a child is even more primal and less intellectual than internet accountability.
speaker_2HOST
Exactly.
speaker_2HOST
Or you had the haunted mask, which is, you know, purely about the psychology of a Halloween mask that slowly fuses to your face.
speaker_3HOST
And changes your personality.
speaker_2HOST
Right.
Darkness PrevailsHOST
But yeah, Goosebumps was my jam as a kid.
Darkness PrevailsHOST
I like the Haunted Mask.
JeffPANELIST
Oh, yeah.
JeffPANELIST
And Don't go in the basement.