Genre : Children’s Horror Format : Paperback Pages : 121 Published : 1993

I don’t see why everyone always thinks it’s so much fun to try to scare me . Even you , my best friend .”

Summary : Let us meet Carly Beth . She’s an elementary school girl with a slight problem . You could call her a scaredy cat . It seems everyone at school is either scaring her or laughing at her being scared . So for this Halloween she has decided she’ll turn the tables and start scareing them back . To do this she goes to a costume shop and gets a super scary mask that the shop owner was a little bit reluctant to sell . She tries it on and it totally works . She’s scareing her brother , her bullies , and even her friends . But there’s a cost to this , apparently this mask is starting to change her personality , and it won’t let her take it off !

“They were beautiful . And they were alive . But something went wrong . When they were taken out of the lab , they changed . My experiments – my poor heads – were a failure . But I had to keep them alive . I had to .”

Review : I’m glad I decided to read this again . The nostalgia hit me hard . It’s a classic children’s story that combines cursed objects , mad scientists , and the traditional be careful what you wish for . If you got kids or just want to check out what we were reading in the 90’s I would highly recommend it .

“I am sorry . The face is your face now .”

Recommendations : Books

1. Goosebumps : Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine
2. Indiana Jones and the Cult of the Mummys Crypt by R.L. Stine
3. Dark Water by Koji Suzuki
4. Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker
5. Another Volume 1 by Yukio Ayatsuji

Songs

1. Mother – Danzig
2. Teenage Frankenstein – Alice Cooper
3. Enemy – Fozzy
4. Don’t Bring Your Guns to Town – Johnny Cash
5. Monster Mash – Bobby Pickett

Movies

1. The Mask (1994)
2. The Monster Squad (1987)
3. Monster House (2006)
4. Goosebumps (2015)
5. Goosebumps 2 (2018)

Lesson : Sometimes you just gotta be a duck instead .