REVIEW — Open Wide (I. M. Eerie)
Open Wide is a story about how a boy’s love for candy and disdain for dentists gets him into some out-of-this-world trouble.

Open Wide is a story about how a boy’s love for candy and disdain for dentists gets him into some out-of-this-world trouble.
There are two types of people: those who think 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie, and those who are wrong.
For our third installment of an OG Goosebumps book review, I picked the story from an episode I have seen a million times: One Day at Horrorland.
If you are a Millennial, you know this theme song by heart. The maestro of the macabre, strumming the strings of our haunted souls. A dreadful treat for your ears, tickling the ivories while tip-toeing through dark rooms and hallways. The theme to nightmares itself: Goosebumps. This theme song is ingrained in our minds forever more, bearing the power to possess our psyche and bring us back to a time of nostalgia and fright. It is the one. Viewer beware, you’re in for a scare!
And we’re back with the second of three Halloween-themed children’s books from my mom’s past (that she has given to me, and that I share with my own kid). This time it’s Humbug Witch, a book about a little girl that dresses up as a witch and has a lot of fun doing so.
I’m continuing my Goosebumps kick with 1997’s The Haunted School. Bell Valley Middle School has some secrets, and new student Tommy gets right in the middle of this ghostly mystery.
Halloween is great because it can be as scary or harmless as you like. Ron Reese’s Halloween is a simple masterpiece.
It’s not the first book in the series, but Stay Out of the Basement is one whose imagery is forever cemented in my head.
In 2005, my brother bought me The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King for my birthday, and it absolutely took over my flame-red Game Boy Advance SP, and my life.
Super Simple Songs has Halloween kids music and it’s AMAZING!