- The Barking Ghost
infobox Book | | name = The Barking Ghost
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 = June 1995
media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages = 117
isbn = 0-590-48344-7
preceded_by =Night Of The Living Dummy II
followed_by =The Horror at Camp Jellyjam The Barking Ghost is the 32nd
novella in theGoosebumps series.ynopsis
An easy-to-scare boy named Cooper Holmes and his family his brother Mickey, his dad Sam and Cooper's mom move into a new house near a part of the forest haunted by ghost dogs. Cooper and his new friend, a girl name Fergie Ferguson plot to capture the ghost dogs, but are taken to a hollow shack where the dogs switch Cooper's and Fergie's bodies with their bodies. Cooper and Fergie track down the ghost dogs that took their human bodies and lead them back to the tree so they can switch back...but Fergie and Cooper end up being switched with two chipmunks.
TV Adaptation
*The TV version follows the book version, except for the end. Cooper and Fergie do get put back into their normal bodies, but Mickey is the one who ends up in the body of a chipmunk and left in the woods.
Book's Description
It's a Dog-Gone Nightmare!
Scared of his own shadow. That's what everyone says about Cooper Holmes.But when Holmeses move into a new house deep in the woods,scary things really DO start happening. Problem is, no one believes a scaredy-cat like Cooper.But then no else heard the bone-chilling barking late at night.Or ran into two evil-looking dogs who disappeared into thin air....
Tagline
Bad dog. Really BAD dog.
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