October 31st is approaching! Time to bring the R.L. Stine-induced nightmares of your childhood to life.
The Haunted Mask
Easy: Purple tee. Blue overalls. The grossest green mask you can find. Make like main character Carly Beth and get meaner and meaner as the night goes on, until you come to the panicked realization that 1) you are a huuuuuuge jerk, and 2) the mask has become your face.
Stay Out of the Basement
While the cover may have you thinking it’s time to dress like Swamp Thing (any excuse is a good excuse), here’s what you need to do: construct a bright green garden on your head, then perch an old LA Dodgers cap on top. Wrap a bloody bandage around one hand. Boom: You’re Dr. Brewer. Now go around telling folks to “Stay out of the basement,” gesturing threateningly with your gross hand.
Bonus Costume: If you’d rather go as Casey Brewer, just walk around with your shirt off, much like Casey weirdly did for almost the entire first half of the book.
Go Eat Worms!
Dress up as a giant worm. Hand out gummy worms, watch in horror as people start eating them, and accuse them loudly of mistreating your babies.
Bonus Points: Get a friend to come with, wearing a Raiders hat filled with gummy worms and acting creepily obsessed with worms. That's Todd Barstow, who everyone at the party can get mad at because the whole angry giant worm thing is basically his fault.
Say Cheese and Die!
Load a digital camera with pictures of skeletons, a smashed up car, and one of your friends with their neck bent at a disturbing angle. (You might want to avoid this friend, who'll probably be seriously creeped out by your Photoshopping.) Try to convince everyone that your camera predicts the future.
Or just gather up some pals and dress like a family of skeletons having a bitchin’ good BBQ because that sounds way more fun.
Bonus Points: dress up as a Perfect Human Being *before* going out there with your scary death camera, and you will be Ryan Gosling playing the main character in the TV version of this episode, because that is a thing that really happened.
