⬛️ So, is "joining in the darkness" another way of saying "yeah, you walked into the water and drowned"? 🌊

(📷: "Blood Island" by Liz Windover. Choose Your Own Nightmare #3, 2014)

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Well, she seems nice:

👋🦶"I caught the plague and my feet and hands rotted off, and no one knew how to save me. Sometimes, my heart was cut out of my body and eaten while I was still alive." 💛

(📷: "Blood Island" by Liz Windover. Illustration by Gabhor Utomo. Choose Your Own Nightmare #3, 2014)

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👖"Hey, keep your pants on. We're trying to solve a mystery here!"👖

(From: "It Happened at Camp Pine Tree" by R.A. Montgomery & Janet Hubbard-Brown, Choose Your Own Nightmare #10, 1996)

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☢️ Your favorite camp counselor Joel dying from radioactive waste exposure on Mystery Island - just some light-hearted reading! ☢️

(From: "It Happened at Camp Pine Tree" by R.A. Montgomery & Janet Hubbard-Brown, Choose Your Own Nightmare #10, 1996)

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🛶 Creepy Lennie, nephew of the camp director, tries to scare us by grabbing our canoe while hiding underwater 🧤

(From: "It Happened at Camp Pine Tree" by R.A. Montgomery & Janet Hubbard-Brown, Choose Your Own Nightmare #10, 1996)

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Continuing the summer camp theme with #StorytimeWithSteve, this week we're reading "It Happened at Camp Pine Tree" - a #ChooseYourOwnNightmare, the 'scary' 18-book #CYOA spinoff from 1995-7 designed to compete with the more popular 42-book #GiveYourselfGoosebumps series (1995-2000).

Fav camp counselor goes missing. Murdered by ghost, eaten by snakes, disintegrated by toxic waste? Only 6 endings - great setting, poor #gamebook.

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The #ChooseYourOwnNightmare series was #ChooseYourOwnAdventure’s response to #RLStine’s return to #gamebooks with his #GiveYourselfGoosebumps series - providing a niche for “scary #CYOA.”

Stine’s series ran 42 books from 1995-2000, while Nightmare only saw 18 books from 1995-1997.

This week I read 1996’s “Something’s in the Woods” for #StorytimeWithSteve. Lots of narrative, but only 10 endings - and I’m not sure what the plot was supposed to be other than “bad stuff happens when camping.”