Aha! Just found this book in a second hand bookshop and surely it can cure my longing of my childhood fantasy. I read it in once sit, hehe.Even though the series of The Nightmare Room is just almost the same with those of Goosebumps, I still do like it. It's a story about a girl named Laura Atkins who lives surrounded by the woods and a lot of animals. She likes them both and always feels like home being in the woods and surrounded by the animals. But unfortunately, there's an animal, oh not sure an animal-just call it creature- lurking in the woods that Laura will be sorry she met. In fact that there are so many creatures hiding in the woods and act so strangely beast and make any other animals frightened. The creature is half human and half animal, it has bald head, ears of a pig, a tail of a horse, and face of a human. That creature doesn't belong in that woods or just doesn't belong anywhere.Besides, Laura's father has been acting so strangely. He used to be a vet, but just got fired from an animal hospital. He has a shed between the house and the woods, the place where he hides a secret, the place that sometimes Laura hears a sound of a painful voice of animals. But he always keeps that shed locked.With curiosity, Laura sneaks to that shed. And after she knows what's in that, her father wants her to stay away and eagerly to send her to Chicago where her mother lives.You'd may be thinking something wrong with her father, the shed and the woods, but it's not R.L. Stine if he doesn't gives us a twist in the end of the story.I give this story a three-star. Why?? Simply because I read it just now, it might be different if I read it fourteen years ago :)
