Stay Out of the Basement is the second book in R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. Dr. Brewer has been acting strangely, spending nearly all his time in the basement of his house, working on his plant experiments. He had warned his children, Margaret and Casey, to stay out, but they ignore him and sneak in to find huge plants. They begin to worry even more when Margaret finds that her father has been eating plant food, sleeping on a layer of dirt, and bleeding green blood. After his baseball cap is knocked off to show leaves growing from his head, Dr. Brewer explains that he is working with genetic engineering, in order to create a plant or animal hybrid.
Eventually Margaret and Casey return to the basement and find another Dr. Brewer experiment hidden in the closet. The siblings and their mother learn that the “Dr. Brewer” they’ve been living with for some time is actually a nearly perfect plant or human clone of the real Dr. Brewer. The clone, along with most of the plants, are destroyed by the real Dr. Brewer with an axe, while a few of the normal plants are moved into the garden.In the final twist, one of these plants speaks to Margaret, claiming that it is the real Dr. Brewer, but this part is left on a cliff-hanger.
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