Twistaplot

Twistaplot is a series of children's gamebooks that were published by Scholastic from 1982 to 1985. Books #1, #4, #9, and #14 were written by R.L. Stine, who would go on to write the Fear Street series and the Goosebumps series, which in turn spawned the gamebook spin-off series Give Yourself Goosebumps. The remaining books were written by various authors including Louise Munro Foley. They were Scholastic's response to the Choose Your Own Adventure series. After the success of the Goosebumps series, the Twistaplot titles that were written by R. L. Stine were reissued with new covers in 1994 and 1995.

Style and gameplay
Twistaplot covers a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Similar to the Give Yourself Goosebumps series, they are novels with branching plots. The books are written from the second-person perspective, in present-tense form. The protagonist in each book is never referred to by name, and the protagonist's gender is usually ambiguous. Thus readers can easily imagine themselves as the protagonist of the story. Unlike the Give Yourself Goosebumps series, the books have interior illustrations.

Spin-offs
After the success of Twistaplot, the series spawned a series of computer games for Scholastic's electronic magazine, Microzine. It also spawned another gamebook spin-off titled Pick-a-Path, which was intended for a younger audience.

Twistaplot

 * 1) The Time Raider
 * 2) The Train of Terror
 * 3) The Formula for Trouble
 * 4) Golden Sword of Dragonwalk
 * 5) The Sinister Studios of KESP-TV
 * 6) Crash Landing!
 * 7) The Video Avenger
 * 8) Race into the Past
 * 9) Horrors of the Haunted Museum
 * 10) Mission of the Secret Spy Squad
 * 11) Camp-Out on Danger Mountain
 * 12) Journey to Vernico 5
 * 13) Midnight at Monster Mansion
 * 14) Instant Millionaire
 * 15) Spellcaster
 * 16) Secrets of the Lost Island
 * 17) Ghost Riders of Goldspur
 * 18) Calling Outer Space

Pick-a-Path

 * 1) The Dandee Diamond Mystery
 * 2) The Roller Coaster Ghost
 * 3) The Great Baseball Championship
 * 4) The Amazing Bubblegum Caper
 * 5) The Super Trail Bike Race
 * 6) Mystery at Mockingbird Manor
 * 7) The Fantastic Journey of the Space Shuttle Astra
 * 8) The Magic Top Mystery
 * 9) Jungle Adventure
 * 10) The Mystery of the Missing Mummy
 * 11) Dinosaur Adventure
 * 12) The Ballerina Mystery
 * 13) The Secret of 13
 * 14) RIM, The Rebel Robot
 * 15) The Hot Dog Gang Caper
 * 16) Adventure at Camp Schoonover
 * 17) Murf the Monster