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The Girl Who Cried Monster

  • 1993 first published
  • 144 pages
  • ★ 3.0 (5 ratings)
  • 24 editions

Robert Lawrence Stine's The Girl Who Cried Monster (1993) is a horror novella. Readers will find themes of monsters, librarians, libraries and Fear.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 58 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 24 editions across 5 languages.

At about 144 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours.

About The Girl Who Cried Monster

A girl loves torturing her younger brother with stories of monsters. When she leaves something back at the library, and goes to get it, she sees something that makes her wish that she had never told any of those stories because now, no one believes her.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Monsters
  • Librarians
  • Libraries
  • Horror stories
  • Fear
  • Horror tales
  • Children's fiction
  • Girls
  • Food

Quick answers

Who wrote The Girl Who Cried Monster?

The Girl Who Cried Monster was written by Robert Lawrence Stine and first published in 1993.

What genre is The Girl Who Cried Monster?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is The Girl Who Cried Monster?

The median edition has 144 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Girl Who Cried Monster?

Readers who like it often enjoy Coraline, City of Bones and The Vampire Lestat.

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