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The Nancy Drew Case Files #28: The Black Widow (1988)

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Carson gets an invitation from an old friend who is now the captain of a cruise ship to come on a cruise to Argentina. From the second they arrive, Nancy uncovers proof of something weird going on. Nina is an older rich widow who has eyes for Carson, but someone leaves the woman a box of chocolates filled with black widow spiders. Nancy barely manages to get the spiders out of her room. At dinner, she meets the hotel manager Antonio who shares a gruesome look with Nina. She also meets Randy, a hunk of a guy in charge of guest relations, a young married couple, and a woman named Lynne who clearly has an eye on Randy. Nancy overhears Antonio threatening Nina about a map her husband left behind, and she then sees the woman looking over blueprints of the ship. When she tells her dad about everything, he thinks she's making things up and needs to just relax. Someone delivers a bouquet of flowers to her room with a warning that they might be her funeral flowers, and the

Still More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (R.L. Stine)

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Pumpkin Juice Charlie is getting ready to go out trick or treating when his best friend Frank comes over with a book on how to make your own crazy brews and drinks. He whips up a pumpkin juice recipe designed to bring out your inner beast. After hitting up a few houses, they both get so hungry that they start eating all their candy, then grass, raw eggs, hamburger meat, and anything else they can find. Frank finds a remedy in his book that calls for the same pumpkin. They rush back and find that the juice is all gone. Charlie's mom says she made the rest of the pumpkin into a pie. They eat and finally feel fine because it uses all the same ingredients. Mom then comes downstairs and proceeds to eat raw meat, telling them that the juice they made was good but left her feeling really hungry. Attack of the Tattoo Jeannie is a little disappointed about her trick or treat haul until she finds a cool temporary tattoo of a red and black snake. It doesn't go on the

Goosebumps #38: The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena

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Jordan and Nicole live with their dad in Pasadena, California while their mom lives in Pennsylvania. Their dad just got back from a trip taking photographs of brown bears in the Grand Tetons. When he goes to develop the film, he finds picture after picture of teddy bears. Jordan cracks up laughing and reveals it was all just a prank. He and Nicole decide to take a bike ride to beat the heat but run into some bullies first. Twins Kyle and Kara stab him with a popcicle before attacking both with water guns. Nicole winds up stealing one and chases Kara around until she falls head first into a compost heap. Their dad then announces that he has a new assignment going to Alaska to search for the abominable snowman and that he's taking the kids with him. Before they even land, Jordan thinks he sees the creature but it's actually just a sign. The three of them and their guide hike deep into the wilderness. Jordan slips and falls in a crevasse but recovers pretty fast wh