The Horror at Camp Jellyjam

Probably the worst Goosebumps book I've read. Not only is it not "scary", but it's also too predictable even for a children's story, which is not a bad thing on its own, but the premise isn't that interesting either. There is no deeper exploration of the story elements. It feels like R.L. Stine was trying to go the Lovecraft direction, but took the mystery and not explaining part too seriously. The characters suck and don't have much of an impact on the plot anyway. I was excited to finish it to find out what happens, but by the end it turned into a rushed and campy camp horror story. The visuals and body horror was gross and cool though.

I remember reading this one as a preteen but couldn't remember a lot about it. This one seems to be somewhere in the "RL Stine is out of ideas" and "Scholastic is really pushing Stine to churn these out" phase of Goosebumps. Most of the story didnt make sense, but I can see why I ate these books up when I was younger. It's been pretty fun revisiting these. Probably won't re-read this one ever again though.