Stay Out of The Basement by R. L. Stine Book Review

Stay Out of The Basement by R. L. Stine is the story of a scientist Dr. Brewer who, after he got fired from PolyTech, decided to continue his research on his own. He set up his lab in the basement of his house and started spending most of his time there. The children, Margaret and Casey, were forbidden to go inside the basement. When Mrs. Brewer’s sister was hospitalised, she decided to go and take care of her. Mr. Brewer went to see her off to the airport. In his absence Margaret, Casey and their friend Diane ventured inside the basement.

The basement, as they found out, was full with strange plants. Some of those plants seemed to breathe audibly. To their shock, one of the trees stretched out its branch and caught Casey in its tendrils. After rescuing Casey, the children managed to return to their house before their father was back. Then Casey discovered that he left his T-shirt back in the basement. So he went there once again. That’s when they were caught. 

That made Dr. Brewer very upset. It was then that he thought it was time to tell the children about his research. He explained that the objective of his research was to make a completely new kind of plant – a plant that was part animal. He explained that he had been re engineering the DNA into something much more advanced.

This time he not only asked the children to Stay Out of The Basement but also placed a lock on the basement door. His explanations, however, did little to satisfy the children. Moreover, Dr. Brewer seemed to grow more distant day by day. One day Margaret watched his father swallowing from a bag. She later fished out the bag from the garbage can and found out it was plant food, some fertiliser. The children began to suspect something big – something that their father was hiding from them. The story only gets more complicated from here. It seemed that there was much more in the basement that Dr. Brewer actually wanted to reveal.

Stay Out of The Basement by R. L. Stine is the second in the famous Goosebumps series books. It is not only a horror story but there is also some element of science fiction. The research that the reserved, slightly eccentric scientist Dr. Brewer did in his basement went out of control and produced something that was not only an aberration but also a threat to himself and his family. This brief novel can be completed in about an hour. The fast paced horror Stay Out of The Basement by R. L. Stine, has unexpected twists in every chapter.

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