Doom feel The Spine Shivers series isn't quite just another Goosebumps copycat. The story's subject matter is also darker than the norm for middle-grade readers, leaning toward the young-adult end of the spectrum even though the actual story as it plays out is decidedly middle-grade. Nelson Evergreen's cover art for The Grin in the Dark, showing half the face of a crazed-looking clown with blue hair, lips, nose, and eye sockets, is seriously creepy, more so than the cover of any Goosebumps book. The Spine Shivers series isn't quite just another Goosebumps copycat.
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