I realized part of the reason I used to love things like Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? so much when I was a kid: they didn't always have a happy ending. It was so completely unpredictable.

I remember quite a few books by R.L. Stein that did this. Calling All Freaks, the main guy eventually gets seduced by the freaks. How To Be A ( Read more... )