Goosebumps Series 2000 · Book 1
Cry of the Cat
- Published
- 1 December 1997
- Pages
- 119
- ISBN-13
- 9780590399883
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cry of the Cat, written by R. L. Stine, opens the Goosebumps Series 2000 in December 1997 at 119 pages -- the relaunch Stine built after the original Goosebumps run's 62 books in five years, with sharper scares and a recurring, nastier Slappy the dummy.
Its place in Goosebumps Series 2000
Cry of the Cat is book 1 in the Goosebumps Series 2000 series. It is followed by Bride of the Living Dummy. See the full Goosebumps Series 2000 reading order.
By 1998 the original Goosebumps run had produced 62 books in five years, and R.L. Stine relaunched the brand under a new name for a new decade: Goosebumps Series 2000. The scares got a notch sharper -- Slappy the dummy became a recurring menace rather than a one-off villain, monsters got nastier, and endings occasionally left a thread dangling instead of tying up neatly, a departure from the original series' insistence on a clean final twist. The line still delivered the same formula that made Goosebumps a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780590399883