Classic Goosebumps #15: Ghost Beach

Suspicious long lost relatives, late night strolls through a graveyard, terrifying caves and possibly the highest ghosts-per-capita of any Goosebumps title. Ghost Beach features unforgettable cover art and the story within—though not canon—is noteworthy for its high stakes, eerie imagery, and the inclusion of actual deaths.<br /><br />In my reviews of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3146655064?book_show_action=false&amp;from_review_page=1%20" rel="nofollow noopener"> The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena</a> and <a>The Horror at Camp Jellyjam</a>, I identified literary themes pushing the plot forward. Themes which made the adventure more personal, with a hint of life lesson thrown in. Ghost Beach, however, has nothing to say outside of the action at hand. Other than a few random hobbies—grave rubbing, for example—the children protagonists possess no distinct personality to dissect or flaw for the ghosts to exploit.<br /><br />Lacking themes doesn't take away from the thrilling pace, but it does leave a kind of "so what" reaction, even after enjoying every moment of the ride. I vaguely remember having a similar opinion after reading this as an eight year old.

El primer libro de toda la colección de escalofríos que leí.<br />Por ello le guardo mucho cariño, aunque todavía no he podido ver el capítulo que la serie de televisión hizo de esta historia.<br />El concepto me llamó mucho la atención a mi yo de 12 años, porque la portada era muy misteriosa, con eso del fantasma, según yo.<br />La verdad es que ahora, luego de haber leído una cantidad considerable de estos tomos y de otras obras del autor, no me parece de sus mejores historias, pero bueno, los gustos cambian con los años, y si ahora tuviera la oportunidad de leerlo de nuevo (debido a que lo perdí poco después de leerlo) lo haría sin pensar. <br />

<b>I recall my mom reading me this story when I was a kid. So that meant I already knew the story ending beforehand. I have read the exact same copy that that mom read for me that turned up to be a vintage now with all its pages transformed into yellowish colour and cracked cover which adds to the story horror!<br /><br />Anyhow, as the story is aimed to teens and kiddos it would be quite an adrenaline stimulatant, which, however, wasn't the case for me.<br /><br />I enjoyed reading it on the beach and trying to picture their fears along with my scenary.<br /><br />First book to finish on my vacation ?, EXCITED AND THRILLED ??<br />WOOOOHOOOO ??<br /></b>

Si es por la mayor le pone las 5⭐ pero pensándolo mejor cuatro están muy bien ?<br />Lo hemos pasado genial en esta primera aventura. Retrocediendo en el tiempo y recordando las sensaciones que viví cuando lo leí por primera vez cuando tendría unos diez años.<br />Me he asombrado porque me acordaba de gran parte de la trama y los giros que van apareciendo.<br /><br />Dos hermanos, Jerry y Terry, están pasando unos días en casa de unos primos. Cerca hay una playa y una cueva que guarda un oscuro secreto...<br />Secretos del pasado que pronto saldrán a la luz.<br /><br />Una lectura muy recomendable para adentrar a los peques en el género. <br />Poco a poco iremos leyendo toda la colección ???<br /><br />¿Cuál me recomiendan para seguir? ?

#22 "No swimming. No surfing. No haunting."<br />Terri and Jerry are visiting their cousins for the summer. They live in a small beach town where there's not really a lot to do. But when some friends get together with Terri and Jerry and start telling them a ghost story involving a cave Jerry has to explore. Besides, ghosts are real...

Ghost Beach (Goosebumps #22), R.L. Stine<br />Jerry can't wait to explore the dark, spooky old cave he found down by the beach. Then the other kids tell him a story. A story about a ghost who is three hundred years old. A ghost who comes out when the moon is full. A ghost... who lives deep inside the cave! Jerry knows it's just another silly made-up ghost story... isn't it?!<br /><br />عنوانها: شبح ساحل؛ غار ارواح؛ نویسنده: آر.ال. استاین؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز اول ماه دسامبر سال 2010 میلادی<br /><br />عنوان: شبح ساحل؛ نویسنده: آر.ال. استاین ؛ مترجم: میترا کیوان‌مهر؛ تهران، ویدا، 1386؛ در 141 ص؛ شابک: 9789642912131؛ چاپ سوم 1389؛ چاپ چهارم 1390؛ چاپ دیگر در 144 ص؛ 1397؛ شابک: 9786002913050؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 20 م<br />عنوان: غار ارواح؛ نویسنده: آر.ال. استاین؛ مترجم: ناصر زاهدی؛ تهران، پیدایش، 1386؛ در 179 ص؛ شابک: 9789643495008؛ چاپ دوم 1388؛ چاپ چهارم 1391؛ چاپ پنجم 1392؛ چاپ ششم 1393؛ چاپ هفتم و هشتم 1395؛ چاپ نهم 1396؛ <br /><br />جری دوست داشت تا هرچه زودتر، در گورستان متروکی که کنار ساحل، پیدا کرده بود، به کاوش دست بزند. تا اینکه بچه‌ های دیگر، داستانی برایش درباره‌ ی روحی سه هزار ساله تعریف کردند. روحی که هنگام ماه کامل از قبرستان می‌آید. روحی که در ژرفای قبرستان زندگی می‌کند. «جری» اندیشید که این هم یکی از همان قصه‌ های احمقانه، در مورد ارواح است. ...؛ آیا واقعا چنین بود؟ ا. شربیانی

کتاب «غار ارواح» نوشته‌ «آر.ال. استاین» و ترجمه‌ «ناصر زاهدی» است. این اثر جزو مجموعه‌ی «ترس‌ولرز» محسوب می‌شود. استاین نوشتن مجموعه‌ی ترس‌ولرز را در سال 1992 با کتاب «خانه‌ی مرگ» آغاز کرد. این مجموعه حدودا شامل 100 عنوان کتاب است که تاکنون بیش از 220 میلیون نسخه از آن‌ها در آمریکا به فروش رسیده و به 32 زبان زنده دنیا ترجمه‌ شده‌اند. در پشت جلد کتاب می‌خوانید: «با داستان‌های مجموعه‌ی "ترس‌ولرز" واقعا مو به تن آدم سیخ می‌شود. دختر و پسرهای معمولی، ولی شجاع و کنجکاو با داستان تجربه‌های بسیار ترسناکی را از سر می‌گذرانند... تعطیلات تابستان برای جری و تس تبدیل به ماجرایی وحشتناک می‌شود. چون آن‌ها با تمام اعلام‌خطرها می‌خواهند سر از اسرار غار ارواح درآورند اما درعوض به یک موضوع بسیار هولناک پی می‌برند...»

In <i>Ghost Beach</i>, Jerry and Terri go to a secluded community in the woods to spend the summer at their cousins' cabin. Their cousins who have white hair and are decades older than them? I thought that was really weird. Does that happen in real life? Anyway. Jerry discovers a cave down by the beach just outside the forest, and the cave is haunted! And they meet some creepy local kids, and find a creepy graveyard in the forest. But how is it all connected? What mystery might be lying beneath the surface? Can the rhyming protagonists discover the nature of the evil ghost that lives in the cave and escape his wrath? <br /><br />This one was pretty mediocre. On the plus side, I liked the ghost aspect of the story, and there were some genuinely scary moments in this book, even for an adult. The setting was also interesting; there's a mysterious cave on a rocky beach, in a secluded area, with graveyards and one or two cabins nestled in a creepy forest. I really liked all of that. I also liked the initial mystery of the ghost, trying to figure out who or what the ghost was, and the mystery behind the cemetery tombstones all having the same family name. Those things were genuinely interesting and kept me invested early on in the book, before everything fell apart so completely in the second half. <br /><br />As for things I didn't like. I mean, Terri and Jerry are the protagonists' names. Seriously? And Jerry is a protagonist name Stine already used at least once in a previous <i>Goosebumps</i> book earlier in the series, <i>Piano Lessons Can Be Murder</i>. It seems ridiculous to me that of all the names out there he reused a protagonist name in two separate books that aren't even ten books apart in the series (<i>Piano Lessons Can Be Murder</i> is book number 13 and <i>Ghost Beach</i> is book number 22). That just seems really lazy to me, and further illustrates how all of Stine's protagonists are really just cookie-cutter copies of each other; they all seem to look and act the same, and now <i>they even have the same names</i>. <br /><br />And this is now at least the second time where I've seen Stine use these lazy "rhyming protagonist" names in a <i>Goosebumps</i> book. In <i>The Beast from the East</i> two of the three protagonists were named Nat and Pat. And now Terri and Jerry. I mean c'mon Stine. Just try for once, with one of these books. Just <i>try</i>. It's really not that hard to make up character names. <br /><br />And then there was the bizarre reveal by Stine of the true identity of the ghost, with one piece of basically damning evidence, and then Stine seemingly realizing he had several dozen more pages to write, so he went to great lengths to convince the reader that the identity of the ghost was still up in the air, except the doubt he was trying to sow didn't convince me for a second? And so when he doubled back at the end and was like "Actually it's what I said the first time! That's who the ghost is! Surprise!" it wasn't a plot twist at all? It was just cringe-worthy and a bit embarrassing, frankly. <br /><br />It's also the most predictable book I've read in recent years, and has an absolutely horrific, unbelievably lazy ending that reads as if Stine just wanted the book to be over and so just barfed out a zero-star ending in less than a single page, and that was the end of the book. <br /><br />This one has its moments, some of which genuinely scared me (which is more than I can say for 90% of these books so far), but overall I still didn't enjoy reading it. It completely fell apart, especially at the very end, as many <i>Goosebumps</i> books sadly do, and there just isn't enough to like when weighed against all the things wrong with it. It's an okay entry, but for me it was a disappointment. <br /><br /><i>CAWPILE rating: <br /><br />Characters: 6.0<br />Atmosphere / Setting: 6.5<br />Writing Style: 4.5<br />Plot: 3.0<br />Intrigue: 5.8<br />Logic / Relationships: 4.0<br />Enjoyment: 5.0 <br /><br />= 34.8 total<br />÷ 7 categories = 4.97 out of 10<br />= 3 stars</i>

I think this might actually be a new to me Goosebumps that I somehow skipped over as a child because I haven’t the faintest recollection of it. Either way, I’m glad I got my hands on it because I think it might actually be my favourite one I’ve read yet. It’s just spooky and creepy and actually surprised the heck out of me. I don’t know what that says about how easy I am to surprise but who cares because I loved it! That ending really got to me too, after the first reveal I didn’t see a second one coming and I finished the book with my jaw hanging on my chest in shock. Yes I’m 30 years old and Goosebumps still elicits this reaction from me… What can I say, I’m young at heart I guess.

<b> Il fuoco nella caverna </b><br /><br /><i>"A volte Terri può essere davvero tonta. Se ci fosse qualcuno dentro la caverna, e sentisse urlare da fuori "uooooooo", secondo voi risponderebbe?"</i><br /><br />A volte è bello ripercorrere le tappe fondamentali della propria infanzia.<br />Certo, le storie di <i>Piccoli brividi</i> avevano lo scopo di intrattenere con spensieratezza e semplicità, limitando al massimo la componente prettamente horror.<br />Questo approccio narrativo, eternamente in bilico fra lo spaventare e il divertire, spesso anche in maniera vistosamente scrausa, funzionò da bambino e ha sortito effetto anche stamattina.<br />La storia regge bene e il colpo di scena finale - anticipabilissimo con un attimo di malizia - risulta inquietante il giusto.<br />Bravo Stine...e grazie!