The Haunted Mask

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**Title** **The Haunted Mask**

Author	R.L. Stine
Cover artist	Unknown
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Goosebumps
Genre(s)	Horror fiction, Children's literature
Publisher	Scholastic
Released	1993-1994
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	144
Preceded by	The Ghost Next Door
Followed by	Be Careful What You Wish For...

Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask is a horror children's novel by R. L. Stine. It was one of the more popular of the highly successful Goosebumps book series, and so was made into a one-hour TV movie, broadcast later as two episode on the Goosebumps television series. This story deals with a timid girl who buys a Halloween mask that changes her personality.

1 Plot Overview
2 The Haunted Mask II
3 Television episode
4 Goofs/Trivia
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Plot Overview

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

11-year-old Carly Beth is described as a quiet, shy and overly trusting girl. She's easily scared, and repeatedly humiliated by two prankster boys at school. For Halloween, she searches through the local costume shop, and chooses a life-like, creepy latex mask. She then puts it on to scare Chuck and Steve who are the two boys that constantly scare her. To her horror she discovers that when she gets home, the mask won't come off! She later does remove the mask by showing the icon of true love, the mold that her mother gave to her. She then returns home, relieved she greets her mom only to turn around and find out that her little brother Noah is inside of the mask! The book has a moral in it about wanting to be someone else, instead of being yourself that Carly learns when she finds the plaster of Paris bust her mom made of Carly Beth's face and shows it to the spirits of the other creepy masks, yelling, "This is me! This is my real face!"

[edit] The Haunted Mask II

In The Haunted Mask II, Steve, one of the pranksters from the first book, visits the mask store that Carly Beth frequented in the first book and finds an old man mask. Steve puts on the old man mask for Halloween and finds himself in the same predicament as Carly Beth was in the first book, only the old man mask ages Steve rapidly instead of turning him into a monster.

[edit] Television episode

Carly Beth wearing the haunted mask.

The book also had a TV episode, it starred Kathryn Long as Carly Beth and also Kathryn Short as Carly Beth's best friend, Sabrina. The episode stayed pretty close to the real book, but it was also sometimes very different from the book. The episode is remembered as one of the best episodes in the Goosebumps series, most likely because of the wonderfully terrifying mask the main character wears, the great visual effects, and the acting. The episode was a two-parter, and it was then released on VHS.

[edit] Goofs/Trivia

Continuity: In "The Haunted Mask", the first time Carly Beth takes off the mask, it falls to the floor, but suddenly jumps back up to her hands when she tosses it to Noah.
In "The Haunted Mask" from Goosebumps, the producers said they would use a rubber worm for the scene where Carly Beth eats a worm, but Katheryn Long insisted on using a real worm to make it more realistic.