Goosebumps: Night Of The Living Dummy III

The first Night of the Living Dummy is one of the best entries in the Goosebumps canon, a genuinely creepy horror novella that Stine has rarely matched. Night of the Living Dummy II was a solid follow-up, introducing a new twist to the dummy story and even adding an extra bit of creepiness. However, just nine months after the second installment, Stine returns to the Dummy well, and finds it a bit dry this time around.

There really isn't much to say about this one that wasn't said about the first two books. The book has the same exact set up and plot twists as its predecessors, the same "the dummy's alive but then it's a prank but oh wait, the dummy really IS alive" story arc, with the added conceit of (wait for it)... extra dummies! Yeah, the epitome of creepiness and creativity is adding more dummies, not giving the already-existing dummy (Slappy) something interesting and original to do. (This isn't even to mention the presence of the same exact "Dummy on the kitchen table" scene as the first two books.) The book does have a nice twist ending which I quite like, but otherwise it's just more of the same.

What more can be said about this book? As the saying goes, it's done well, but one is disappointed to see it done at all.

Trina and Dan's father used to be a ventriloquist, and he still has all his dummies in the attic. When cousin Zane visits them, things start going wrong.

Once again Stine has put the same dummy in new settings and wrote another replica of night of the living dummy. A new ventriloquist dummy arrives in a family, things start happening, it turns out that one of the kids is behind at first, and then the doll takes over after the kid is caught. And if you've read the former books in the series, you already know who will finally fight the evil doll. Yawn.

I saw the movie before I read this book. And they are completely diffrent.

This is my favorite Night Of The Living Dummy book. I like Rocky because he's a gankster dummy. But in the movie Slappy got struck by lightning, exploded, and died. In the book Slappy got stretched out by the other dummies and died. And your not going to belive the pranks he pulls this time. YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK!

My son loved it!

I bought this for my 12 year old grandson and he loved it. He reads all the goosebumps books that he can find. These books are good because they make him read a lot.

This was the third Night of the Living Dummy books by R.L. Stine, and I believe it was the best. In the book Trina and Dan's cousin Zane and Uncle Cal were visiting while there Aunt was away on business. Zane was scared of Trina and Dan's house because it was so old and in the past Trina & Dan would torment Zane by making scary noises in the house and tease and scare him with their fathers ventriloquist dummies. This year they promised thier Dad they wouldn't do it. But oddly the noises continuted and the dummies seem to come alive. Were Dan and Trina to blame again?? or was there something more sinister going on? The book will keep you on the edge of your seat with surprise twist ending and a great cliff hanger that will keep you wondering if ther will be another book to come..

These books are helping my grandson learn the enjoyment of reading. He was having a hard time, but these books hold his attention and he really looks forward to getting a new one in the series.

This is, of course, wonderfully scary in all the right spots, for pre-teens, teens, and maybe just people who like a good, campy, simple mystery. My son loves these books!