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In "Night of the Puppet People," twins Ben and Jenny Renfro are plagued by an inexplicable terror of all kinds of puppets, especially marionettes with their eerie wires. The story follows their attempts to understand and confront this shared dread, highlighting the uncanny power of puppets in the Goosebumps horror series.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Robert Lawrence Stine
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