A review by libreroaming
Check Out the Library Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales by David Lubar

3.0

A weaker but still fun edition to the Weenies series. Highlights include "All That Glitters" and "Seeing Red" with an honorable mention to the story about farts that turn into gold. Like previous Weenies books and unlike Goosebumps, the mortality rate is pretty high for these characters.

I'll also mention this one is a little looser/darker with the themes, as previous Weenie books had clearer delineation of good kids escaping a scare and naughty kids meeting unfortunate ends, swinging between silly and scary. At least one, "Mummy Misses You" is straight up sad.

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Some examples or nuanced/complicated morality plays being: a well-intentioned kid trying to save his neighbor and being indirectly responsible for his death, a well-intentioned teacher being lured into a death trap, group of kids creating a golem to stop a bully only for the bully to be smarter and save them when the monster runs amuck, "Seeing Red" has no likeable characters and thus no survivors, and a straightforward horror theme of chomping doll heads that would normally be a gruesome fate reserved for truly heinous antagonists

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