![]() ![]() She’s going to learn how to make Slappy move and talk. The original book is a bit different however and Slappy himself isn’t even the main player… The Blurb Lindy can’t get over finding a ventriloquist’s dummy in her neighbourhood skip. There would be two more Night of the Living Dummy entries in the original Goosebumps run, two more in the Series 2000 follow-up and a TV appearance in the live-action show so the popularity of Slappy is evident. ![]() The idea of a creepy ventriloquist’s dummy gaining sentience is something you can do a lot with and I’m sure many kids who come into contact with a vacant-eyed dummy in real life would be unnerved. Night of the Living Dummy is one of the more iconic and memorable books in the Goosebumps series. Well, when taking them all out for a quick photograph for that post, I decided it might be fun to re-visit them all with adult eyes. In a previous post entitled “ My Reading Journey“, I mentioned my complete set of the original Goosebumps books by R.L. ![]()
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