The magic show is about to begin. The great Mysterio will now choose two volunteers from the audience. Your friend Zack and you! You are in some major danger because Mysterio is an evil magician. You could be the next to get electric shocks from him, after the puppy. If you go with the show, you'll face a deck of razor sharp cards, thrown right at you! If you decide to steal the mysterious bag of tricks, you'll get to play with some cool points like disappearing powder, but spill some on yourself and you'll never disappear except as a monster. The choice is yours.

Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is often called the "Stephen King of children's literature", is the author of dozens of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Some of his lesser-known works include a Space Cadets trilogy, two Hark gamebooks, a two-part novel The Beast and dozens of joke books.