It Came from Beneath the Sink! (Goosebumps #30)

## It's warm...it's breathing...and it doesn't do dishes!

Katrina 'Kat' Merton and her brother Daniel find a warm, squishy, breathing sponge when moving into their new home, and it quickly latches onto the kids. This gross find brings a wave of bad luck to Kat and her family. According to legends of similar-looking creatures called 'Grools,' anyone who tries to rid themselves of the creature meet an untimely death. With each passing day, more relatives and friends find themselves mysteriously injured or even nearly killed, and the Grool pulses and heaves and grows bigger and brighter. Kat and her brother must find a way to safely rid their family of this bad luck charm before someone ends up seriously hurt.

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It Came from Beneath the Sink! is a pure adventure yarn in the series. Most of the book is spent following the kids as they handle bad luck, and try new methods to save their family and friends from further harm. Of course, no one believes them or wants to help because the deadly monster is simply a dirty, old sponge whenever anyone but the kids takes a look at it. It's an imaginative monster that can't be harmed or tossed aside, and looks harmless despite the damage it brings.

It's a fun tale, not particularly spooky, but intense at moments. Despite the apparent harmlessness of the monster, it's impossible to predict or bring under control, which adds some scares. There's also a touch more gore and danger in this entry, and kids and adults are injured -- even cut -- and the possibility of death looms over Kat in particular.

The title is based off of the 1955 b-movie, It Came from Beneath the Sea, which was also one of inspirations for author R.L. Stine's writing career.

R.L. Stine's Goosebumps (1992–1997):
#29 Monster Blood III | #31 Night of the Living Dummy II show less

It has long been my desire to read through all of the Goosebump books. This desire was borne out of a love of them as a child, but for whatever reason I never got through all of them. Off and on I've been wanting to, the old tug of desire returning, but I never really committed to it. Until now. So, fellow GoodReaders, I'm sorry but your updates will be full of my musings about a series for children as I work my way through all 62 original titles.

I might do Goosebump 2000 after. I don't know. It depends on how I feel at the end.

Anyway, reading the series has put me through some seriously terrible books. Every now and then, though, a true gem emerges that manages to surprise and disturb me a little. Even with the hokey endings, now and show more then I'm shocked by the level of horror injected into a kid's book. This book was one such book, and an utter delight. [b: It Came From Beneath the Sink!|125536|It Came from Beneath the Sink! (Goosebumps, #30)|R.L. Stine|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328867791s/125536.jpg|120901] was a surprisingly creepy, good kid's horror novel. I'd recommend it in a heartbeat.

The idea is that a creature is found.... beneath the sink that creates and feeds on bad luck. No matter what you do, it will always come back and it will be with you until you die. How the characters react, how they discover this and deal with it, is an utter delight. The creature is purely evil, and purely creepy. There's something so alien about it in the descriptions, so malevolent, that is became truly captivating.

This wasn't by any means a masterpiece of literature, but for a Goosebump book it truly rose above the crowd. Good going [a: R.L. Stine|13730|R.L. Stine|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1194380070p2/13730.jpg], this one was awesome. show less

3,5/5

This was a pretty fun story, maybe even better than average for Goosebumps books. The villain isn't exactly terrifying, but the threat is always present and you can understand that the protagonist is trapped in some sort of living hell.

As I said, the Grool is not really scary by itself. It's just a tiny, living and indestructible sponge. But it does have the power to send the protagonist into a lot of awful situations. Just generating bad luck constantly, not just for her, but everybody around it. And more, the bad luck will escalate to the point of death eventually, and she can't get rid of it, or else she'll die. I'll be honest, I didn't see much of a way out for her, the creature was able to regenerate after pretty much show more everything done to it. The fact that it was killed by love is actually pretty fun and, in my humble opinion, very logical. The fact that they found another, more dangerous one at the end was interesting, but kinda predictable. They could've done without that.

All things concerned, I liked it. It's about average for Goosebumps, but it's a fun enough adventure. show less

It Came From Beneath the Sink isn’t one of R.L. Stines best books, but it was still a fun read. I couldn’t put it down. I wanted to know what kind of bad luck Kat would have next. I gave it three stars because I liked it, but it wasn’t as creepy as some of the other Goosebumps books I’ve read. As I’ve been re-reading them, I’ve noticed that even as an adult some of them are actually a little creepy. This wasn’t one of them, but I still really enjoyed it.

Kat and her brother, Daniel, are excited about moving to their new house... until things start going wrong. Bad luck strikes repeatedly and they find out that the new pet sponge they found under the sink is actually a Grool- and it lives off bad luck. They try to kill it, but it seems impossible- until Kat comes up with a new strategy- she kills it with love!

Kat and her brother have just moved to a great new house. It would be perfect, if only their dog, Killer, would cheer up and stop growling at something under the kitchen sink.

Kat and Daniel just moved into an extremely large house. Soon they find a old, dusty, and dirty sponge. Soon all their luck will go down the drain. I loved this book because it was a exiting and hectic book. This Fantasy adventure is a weird story and a funny one too.