The Blob That Ate Everyone

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The Blob That Ate Everything
Author	R.L. Stine
Cover artist	Tim Jacobus
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Goosebumps
Genre(s)	Horror fiction, Children's literature
Publisher	Scholastic
Publication date	May 1997
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	114
ISBN	0-590-56892-2
Preceded by	Don't Go To Sleep!
Followed by	The Curse of Camp Cold Lake

The Blob That Ate Everyone is the 55th book in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series.

[edit] Plot

In this story, Zack Beauchamp, a wannabe horror writer comes across a magical typewriter and pen at an abandoned store that was destroyed in a lightning storm. The typewriter has the power to turn whatever is written into reality. Zack begins to write about a blob that consumes everything in town, and a blob appears in his town doing just as he had written. He tries to destroy the monster with the pen and typewriter, but the monster eats the typewriter and then it ate the pen. Soon, after realizing that the typewriter's "powers" didn't activate after his rival Adam typed on it, Zack then realizes that the power possessed by the typewriter actually came from an electric shock he incurred when he and his friend Alex Larocca were at the abandoned store. All he has to do is think about something and it will come true. Zack uses his new found power to make the blob monster go away. In the end, it is revealed that a blob was making the story and gets critiqued by his friend to change the ending so that way Zack and Alex are eaten.

The television adaptation of this episode follows the book closely, but doesn't include the final sequence.