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Did you hear about this?
I'd always get my Goosebumps book off of this one endcap in the book and magazine section of Target. But one day I saw two books included on the six shelves of R.L. Stine's hit series. These were called Gooflumps and they were a parody of two original books (Say Cheese and Die, Stay Out of The Basement) which were called Say Cheese and Barf and Stay Out of The Bathroom.
The details are still a bit shady in my mind but from what I remember, they were pretty funny. True, gross at times but when a kid reads something gross that's just because he has nothing better to do. There were only two in the series and it even said it on the cover: BUY 2- THAT'S IT.
But whatever happened to the author?
I did a little digging and found that the pen name which these books were written under (R. U. Slime) was just a clever cover for a man named Robert Hughes.
Apparently I can't find him doing anything after this short lived series.
I wonder where he went?
1 comment:
I saw these in '95 (I was 6 at the time) as well and I remember being very confused to what they were exactly. I almost bought one, but opted to get a real Goosebumps instead.
My best guess is that they didn't sell all that well and the author's deal was scrapped.
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