- Vampire Breath
infobox Book | | name = Vampire Breath
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author =R. L. Stine
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country =United States
language = English
series =Goosebumps
classification =Fiction
genre =Horror fiction ,Children's literature
publisher = Scholastic
release_date =September 1996
media_type = Print (Paperback )
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preceded_by =Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns
followed_by =Calling All Creeps! Vampire Breath is the 49th "
Goosebumps " book byR.L. Stine .Plot
Cara Bahlinger and Freddy Martinez, who are left alone while Freddy's parents go out, find a secret room in his basement. After further investigation, they discover a coffin with a bottle of "Vampire Breath". They open the bottle and smelly green mist pours out...and it also summons an old vampire called Count Nightwing. The vampire makes them open the bottle again and they are taken back in time. After a harrowing chase through the vampire's castle in the year 1880, another bottle brings them back to Freddy's basement. Count Nightwing has the two kids cornered, until Freddy's parents come home and his mom recognizes the vampire as her father. It turns out that Freddy's parents are vampires but Freddy won't get his fangs for more than a hundred years. Freddy and Cara go in the basement bathroom and Freddy accidentally opens a bottle with a Werewolf Sweat label. Yellow smoke fills and the room and the book ends with Cara growling. She was turned into a werewolf.
TV Adaptation
In the television version of this book:
*Cara and Freddy are siblings (rather than friends).
*Cara and Freddy's last name is Renfield (which is the name of the servant inDracula and Dracula-related stories)
*Cara and Freddy are searching for the birthday present their parents hid from them.
*Count Nightwing appears as an aging vampire and is searching for his fangs (which he needs to be young and feed on Freddy and Cara).
*Cara and Freddy are taken into an underground room filled with coffins (instead of being transported to the year 1880).
*Cara and Freddy immediately get their fangs at the stroke of midnight (which, according to their parents, is the onset of puberty in teenage vampires). In the book, Freddy is told that he won't get his fangs for another 100 years.
*The present Cara and Freddy finally get is a bunk-bed coffin.
*There is no mention of Werewolf Sweat or Cara turning into a werewolf as a result of it.Cultural References
Cara and Freddy (in both the novel and TV versions) encounter a vampire girl named Gwendolyn, whose appearance, hairstyle and nature is similar to that of Claudia the vampire girl from
The Vampire Chronicles .
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