{"id":2582,"date":"2013-08-13T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2013-08-13T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T13:15:10","slug":"help-a-reader-out-a-purple-cover-with-an-orange-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/help-a-reader-out-a-purple-cover-with-an-orange-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Help a Reader Out: A Purple Cover With an Orange Pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helayna writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello, When i was in primary school, i used to always take this horror book out of the library&#8230; the thing that&#8217;s troubling me is that I cant remember the title or the author&#8230; and it was my favourite book. The cover is purple with an orange pumpkin in the middle, and it was full of shortish horror stories, and i think in one of the stories there was a family who got murdered in their house and Bridget was the murderer, and a man&#8217;s nose was swiped clean off with an axe&#8230; I REALLY need to find this book. I think it was in a series along with &#8220;the phone goes dead&#8221;, i dont think its the Horowitz Horror books, but i remember the series had the same kind of design but different colours and different picture in the middle&#8230;I think one of the other series cover picture had a sillouette of a tree with a &#8220;hanging rope&#8221; hanging off it&#8230; AND it is definitely not the Goosebumps series, I read those too. So please help me find this book!! I was hoping you would know&#8230; Thanks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This one I don&#8217;t know. There are tons of books with purple covers and orange pumpkins on the cover. The first one I thought of was <em>Big Pumpkin<\/em>, but that&#8217;s a picture book. \u00a0Helayna must have been in school in the 1990&#8217;s, to reference the series she did here. There are so many <em>Goosebumps<\/em> knockoff series with garish covers that I don&#8217;t know which one this could be.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that it is a collection of short stories ought to narrow it down, but the description of the cover doesn&#8217;t match any collection of short stories I can think of. The short story Helayna referenced, &#8220;The Phone Goes Dead&#8221;, is in one of the <em>Horowitz Horror<\/em> books, but she says that the book she is looking for is not part of that series, or part of <em>Goosebumps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helayna writes: Hello, When i was in primary school, i used to always take this horror book out of the library&#8230; the thing that&#8217;s troubling me is that I cant remember the title or the author&#8230; and it was my favourite book. The cover is purple with an orange pumpkin in the middle, and it<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/help-a-reader-out-a-purple-cover-with-an-orange-pumpkin\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,1186,1574,479,446,1588,6,35],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-horror","tag-elementary","tag-goosebumps","tag-help-a-reader-out","tag-horowitz-horror","tag-libraries","tag-series-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}