Das Biest Kommt In Der Nacht

"Das Biest kommt in der Nacht" is the German edition (Gänsehaut Band 56, translated by Katarina Ganslandt) of R. L. Stine's Goosebumps series, published by cbj.

After the death of her parents, twelve-year-old Heidi moves in with her Uncle Dr. Jekyll and his daughter Marianna at their large, old house outside a small Vermont town. Her uncle welcomes her warmly but spends most of his time locked away in a laboratory she isn't allowed to enter.

A boy from town tells Heidi that the place is haunted by a beast that comes out at night, and that the townspeople suspect it's connected to her uncle's secretive experiments. As Heidi investigates, she learns that her cousin Marianna was bitten by a creature five years earlier during a trip to Europe and has been transforming into a beast every night since — and that her father has spent years searching for a cure.

Like other Goosebumps titles, it's a fast, spooky read pitched at middle-grade readers, built around a classic monster-transformation premise reminiscent of Jekyll and Hyde.