TVTropes on the Eerie Indiana books

Oct. 4th, 2019 05:48 pm
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In 1997, Eerie, Indiana the Book Series, was a short-lived continuation of the original supernatural series of the same name that aired on NBC over half a decade before it. It was a Children's Literature series released on a monthly basis with each entry clocking in at around 120 pages, similar to the ever-popular Goosebumps. The series followed the new adventures of Marshall Teller and Simon Holmes for the first 12 entries, detailing the exploits of Marshall, a transplant from New Jersey whose family has moved to the small town of Eerie, and Simon, an Eerie native, as they investigate the weirdness that inhabits this town. As the other residents are oblivious to the supernatural nature of the town to the point of denial, Marshall and Simon are left to their own devices to uncover the truth behind both the individual happenings around Eerie, and the secret behind it all. They deal with everything from escaped wild west criminals from cryogenic storage to Bigfoot eating out of the trash.

Then, as of Book 13, Switching Channels, Mitchell Taylor and Stanley Hope of Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension fame took over as the main characters following both a dimensional and perspective shift. This lasted a further seven books before getting canned in the final entry, We Wish You an Eerie Christmas.

Allegedly, these books is set a mere one year after the end of the original series, which should make the present year 1993. However, the authors opted to make it the present year of the time, 1997. This isn't the last time they'd play fast and loose with the continuity of the TV show. Authors Mike Ford, John Peel, Jeremy Roberts, Sherry Shahan, and Robert James decided to make the series their own and tell their own overarching story, instead of continuing down the rabbit hole set by the original's creators.

There were 17 books in total over the course of the series' run:

Return to Foreverware
Bureau of Lost
The Eerie Triangle
Simon and Marshall's Excellent Adventure
Have Yourself an Eerie Christmas
Fountain of Weird
Attack of the Two-Ton Tomatoes
Who Framed Alice Prophet
Bring Me a Dream
Finger Lickin' Strange
The Dollhouse That Time Forgot
They Say
Switching Channels
The Incredible Shrinking Stanley
Halloweird
Eerie in the Mirror
We Wish You an Eerie Christmas
This series contains examples of:
Actor Allusion: Several, but some specific examples are:
Mr. Radford (played by John Astin in the TV series), is noted to look like Gomez Addams by Marshall and Simon.
In the first book, Return to Foreverware, Marshall and Simon take an after school job cleaning out the attic of a couple by the name of James and Martha Stewart.
Adults Are Useless: Taken to further extremes here than it ever did on TV. The adults and most of the children of Eerie are so oblivious or in denial that the entire town can start slowly turning into humanoid plants and they wouldn't notice.
Call-Back: Both of the first two books are sequels to episodes from the original series.
Rather fittingly, in keeping with Foreverware being the first episode of the TV show, Return to Foreverware begins the books series.
And Bureau of Lost is a sequel to The Losers.
Shout-Out: In the 4th book, Marshall's class gets a new student named Jazon, who is temporarily living in town with his grandfather, Dr. Foreman. It turns out Jazon's a time travel living in town under false pretenses, to boot. And his home is even disguised as a blue box. Though, since this is America, the only available blue boxes are outhouses, unfortunately.
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Feb. 12th, 2019 07:38 pm
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John Peel on the Eerie tie-in books

Dec. 8th, 2016 11:06 pm
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Eerie Indiana: Bureau Of Lost, Avon Camelot, 1997
Eerie's Lost and Found has always been very strange, but now Marsahll and Simon discover that it contains missing people, too - only some of the most notorious have now gone missing from the missing department!

I really enjoyed the zaniness of Eerie Indiana on TV, so when I was offered the chance to write a couple of original novels it was another case where I simply couldn't resist. This first story was a sequel to one of the episodes that I particularly enjoyed.

Eerie Indiana: Simon And Marshall's Excellent Adventure, Avon Camelot, 1997
Marshall is losing things - things that he knows were just there... Then he sees somebody stealing the newspapers he delivers, so he sets a trap. He manages to catch the most unusual thief ever.

I can't resist time travel stories - and this one has somebody going through time in a portajohn. What's not to love?
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