- Calling All Creeps!
infobox Book | | name = Calling All Creeps!
orig title =
translator =
author =R. L. Stine
cover_artist =Tim Jacobus
country =United States
language = English
series =Goosebumps
classification =Fiction
genre =Horror fiction ,Children's literature
publisher = Scholastic
release_date =December 1996
media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages =
isbn =
preceded_by =Vampire Breath
followed_by =Beware, The Snowman Calling All Creeps! is the 50th book in the
Goosebumps series byR. L. Stine .Plot Synopsis
The story is about on an outcast named Ricky Beamer who is made fun of by a group of bullies named Jared Seiple, David Hanes, Brenda Corbin( who has a crush on Ricky & is not mean to him), and Richard "Wart" Wartman. Tasha McClain is the head of the school newspaper and she fires Ricky over events that were not his fault. After dark he sneaks into the school and puts a tiny message on the front page of the school newspaper to say "Calling all creeps. Calling all creeps. If you're a real creep, call Tasha after midnight." Only something goes wrong, and he gets calls by reptilian like beasts that call themselves "Creeps." Tasha somehow caught the prank just in time and (somehow knowing it was Rick) changed it to "Call Ricky after midnight". It turns out Jared, David, Brenda, and Wart are the creeps, and they believe Ricky is their Commander. They plan to put identity seeds in the school bake sale cookies to turn all the other students such as Tony, Greg, Josh, Britanny, Patrick, and all the others into Creeps. After realizing that he cannot stop them, he goes along with the plan after learning that once the other kids become Creeps, Ricky will be their ruler and they will become his slaves so he eats a cookie to become a Creep.
Differences between the book and the TV version
*In the book the creeps are purple and in the show they are orange.
*Another difference is that in the show Ricky's friend tells him not to eat the seeds while in the book she doesn't speak.
*In the TV show there are 3 creeps. In the book there are 4.
*Jared is absent.
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