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Goosebumps HorrorLand is a horror novella series by R.L. Stine, a spin-off of his popular Goosebumps books. There was an almost ten-year gap between the publication of the initial installment in the Goosebumps Horrorland.
R.L. Stine had written what was originally announced as a twelve-book series titled Goosebumps HorrorLand. The series, based loosely on One Day at HorrorLand (sixteenth in the original series) and Return to HorrorLand (thirteenth in the Goosebumps 2000 series), is the first Goosebumps series where each book is part of the same plot, and the first Goosebumps fictional crossover, with characters, villains and locations from distinct Goosebumps continuities interacting.
The first twelve books were announced with the following details:
The new series will be an immersive storytelling experience welcoming fans to HorrorLand, a vast theme park which R.L. Stine describes as “the scariest place on Earth.” In a Goosebumps first, the new series will be a serialized adventure, and the story won't end on the final page of book one, Revenge of the Living Dummy. Instead, the spine-tingling and funny bone-tickling adventures will continue on the Internet and in books #1-12, each of which can also stand alone. The first nine HorrorLand books all will feature a combination of frightful new faces as well as the vilest villains from the original Goosebumps series. Ordinary kids are being summoned to HorrorLand—but why? Readers are in for the ride of their lives as the cast of characters trapped in the theme park grows larger with each book, and their situations become more and more perilous.
Books #11-12 will take place entirely in HorrorLand. Who—or what—is behind the evil plot to assemble these kids? The answer will be revealed in the final book. Soon after the debut of books #1 and #2, Scholastic also will begin to reissue original Goosebumps books—ten bestselling titles that tie in with each new story as it unfolds in HorrorLand.
Also launching in April will be a dedicated Goosebumps HorrorLand website (www.enterhorrorland.com) that, with the publication of each book, will further the narrative and provide corresponding clues to help readers unlock the secrets to HorrorLand. In addition, the web site will offer readers original HorrorLand material not available in the books—including ten free internet-only related stories, bonus downloads, interactive games, and more. [1]
Each book had two stories. [2] The purpose of the first, considerably longer, story is to introduce the villain and protagonists; the second story shows what happens to the protagonists when they get to HorrorLand, and are united with the other characters. The books also include a case file that links to material on the EscapeHorrorLand.com tie-in website. The final two books in the series serve to wrap up the 'HorrorLand' plot in a single climactic storyline.
Scholastic's reprints of classic Goosebumps titles to accompany the series have all-new covers and bonus material. They are known as "collector's editions," [3] and are marketed under the title "Classic Goosebumps." Since not all the books in Goosebumps HorrorLand are connected to classic books, some of the reissues relate to the ongoing Enter HorrorLand storyline, or are simply reissues of bestsellers. For example, Be Careful What You Wish For... is a Classic reissue because the character Clarissa was used as the basis for HorrorLand's fortune-teller dummy, Madame Doom. [4]
Ultimately, there were some deviations from the original announcement; the tenth book did not take place exclusively in HorrorLand, and reissues of classic Goosebumps books continued on past the tenth, probably due to their sales success. Finally, shortly before the publication of the twelfth and concluding book in the series, it was revealed that a new story arc, running for seven books and bringing the total to nineteen, would begin in 2010. [5] [6] This was confirmed in the back of the Survival Guide, in which there was a three-chapter preview.
In May 2010, Stine revealed via a video interview that he had just agreed to write six more books in the series, bringing the total to twenty-five, and that he hadn't yet come up with any ideas for them. [7]
Each book in the first arc is split into three sections.
This is the main section of the book, lasting approximately 100 pages. Since it reads identically to a classic Goosebumps book, readers will be most familiar with this section. It continues to incredibly more sections.
Technically a continuation of the first section (as well as a continuation of the previous books' "Enter HorrorLand" segments), this 30-40-page mini-story is a crossover which finds the book's characters invited to HorrorLand as Very Special Guests, meeting up with other books' protagonists and villains. Each HorrorLand segment ends with a "cliffhanger" ending, to be continued in the next book's HorrorLand segment. For example, in The Scream of the Haunted Mask, at the end, Carly Beth and Sabrina think that a werewolf is tackling them. In Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz, it is revealed that it was just Robby.
Only a few pages long and not included in the page count, each book's Fear File contains fictional maps, brochures, menus, etc. pertaining to the section of the theme park featured in that book, along with a hand-drawn map of the area. Each book also includes a fictional advertisement to its featured park area on the front page of each book. Most of the advertisements feature web addresses for EnterHorrorLand.com and EscapeHorrorLand.com. Each map can be connected to form the whole park map.
The order of the maps (from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner): Top row: 6, 12, 4, 11. Middle row: 10, 8, 1, 9. Bottom row: 2, 3, 5, 7. The Fear File features which appear in the books are merely samples of the full chapters, which are published in full in Welcome to HorrorLand: A Survival Guide. The first ten chapters were originally located at escapehorrorland.com.
Some books feature single-chapter previews of the books on which they were based. For example, Creep from the Deep features a single-chapter preview of the original Deep Trouble. In addition, the back of each of book in the first arc shows half of a HorrorLand map token on either edge of the book. When two corresponding books, such as #1 and #2, are placed next to each other, the two halves match up and show a complete token; in this case, it features Slappy the Dummy. Following this pattern, the second book shows half of a coin that will only be complete when placed next to the third book, and so on. Each token has a unique message, written in mirror writing, around the edge. The tokens form different messages depending on whether they are placed against the following book in the series, or their corresponding companion reissue, which also bear half-tokens; for example, placing Revenge of the Living Dummy and Creep from the Deep together gives the message "Find This Token Online," but Revenge of the Living Dummy and the reissued Night of the Living Dummy spell "Find This Dummy Online." The twelfth, final token was never completed.
The books in the second arc, from #13 onwards, are also split into three parts - Part One is a mini-adventure in HorrorLand, Part Two tells the main story, and the Epilogue describes the hero's return to HorrorLand.
Online bookstores have posted a listing for more then-upcoming Goosebumps HorrorLand books, beginning with "When The Ghost Dog Howls", released on January 1, 2010. They have provided the following synopsis, implying that the series has been extended to include nineteen books with a new seven-book story arc:
Each eerie adventure of the next seven-book arc begins with a trip to the Chiller House, a gift shop only found in HorrorLand. Kids are invited to take a little horror home with them and given a souvenir and a miniature Horror. At home, the kids experience wild things with their "free" gift, while the glowing, menacing Horror keeps an eye on the fun. When it's time for their payment, the Horror takes them back to shopkeeper Jonathan Chiller.
Unlucky book #13 kicks off an entirely new type of terror that will keep you guessing and quaking until book #19.
Announced in May 2010, the third arc, known as "Hall of Horrors", contains six books. The arc's tagline is "The Hall of Horrors is open. Step into the nightmare!". According to the teaser at the end of book 19, the Hall of Horrors is "hidden in the darkest shadows of the park. It is the place for kids who have frightening stories to tell." Hall of Horrors is numbered as a separate series, beginning again at number 1. The Hall of Horrors is run by a Horror called the Story-Keeper, who hears the stories of the protagonist when they visit the Hall of Horrors.
| # | Title | Original published date | Pages | ISBN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N–A | Welcome to HorrorLand: A Survival Guide | October 12, 2009 | 137 | 0-545-09008-3 | |
A promotional book filled with HorrorLand facts. | |||||
| N–A | Goosebumps HorrorLand: Write Your Fright | 2009 | 64 | 0-545-33295-8 | |
Think you can out-scare the Master of Horror, R.L. Stine? Write your own endings to six of his scariest stories and keep your work safe behind the oozing hand lock, which screams in alarm when opened. | |||||
| 01 | Revenge of the Living Dummy | April 1, 2008 | 128 | 0-439-91869-3 | |
R. L. Stine commented in an interview that he thought Revenge of the Living Dummy, the first Goosebumps Horrorland book, was one of his scariest stories. [8] Revenge of the Living Dummy was listed as the 39th bestselling children's paperback frontlist book for the year 2008, with over 184,000 sales. [9] Terry Miller Shannon from KidsReads.com described this book as "a fun, fast-paced, spine-chilling thriller for kids who love to be scared". [10] Publishers Weekly stated in a starred review that this book was "a suspenseful opener" that was "broken into two equally enjoyable sections". [11] An excerpt from this book was published on The New York Times [12] and NPR . [13] Revenge of the Living Dummy was adapted into an audiobook released in August 2008, narrated by Alissa Hunnicutt. [14] The School Library Journal stated that Hunnicutt did a "more than capable job reading these two related stories" and "Effective and nearly constant sound effects enhance the telling and increase the tension". [15] | |||||
| 02 | Creep from the Deep | April 1, 2008 | 137 | 0-439-91870-7 | |
In a follow-up to Deep Trouble and Deep Trouble II, Billy and Sheena Deep always expect adventure when they visit their uncle Dr. George Deep the marine biologist and encounter another creep from the deep - the fearsome pirate captain Long Ben One Leg even though he's been dead for centuries. Later, an invitation to Horrorland leads the Deep siblings and their new friend Matthew into another terrifying situation. | |||||
| 03 | Monster Blood For Breakfast! | June 1, 2008 | 137 | 0-439-91871-5 | |
The athletic Matthew Daniels and his sister Livvy can't stand their neighbor Bradley "Worm" Wormser who copies Matthew in every way he can. Bradley orders a plastic egg full of Monster Blood on Matthew's computer, but a backfiring prank Matthew with Monster Blood for breakfast. Even after solving that problem, Matthew is faced with another: An invitation to Horrorland where old and new dangers may be lurking around! | |||||
| 04 | The Scream of the Haunted Mask | August 1, 2008 | 139 | 0-439-91872-3 | |
Menaced by the scream of The Haunted Mask, Carly Beth starts to delve into its past - searching for a way to escape it. She uncovers a terrifying tale about an old stable she works near, but the mask isn't the only threat. At Horrorland, she and her friend Sabrina team up with the other Very Special Guests and overhear a disturbing plot to dispose of them all. | |||||
| 05 | Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz | October 1, 2008 | 132 | 0-439-91873-1 | |
Robby Schwartz creates comic strips on his computer starring bizarre supervillains. His favorite is the crazy Dr. Maniac, but fantasy and reality collide when Dr. Maniac appears in Robby's hometown with a dastardly plot. It's Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz and even after Robby is invited to Horrorland their fight continues with more friends and enemies appearing on the scene. | |||||
| 06 | Who's Your Mummy? | January 1, 2009 | 133 | 0-439-91874-X | |
Abby Martin and her little brother Peter were staying with their Egyptologist uncle Jonathan, but suspect he is keeping secrets from them in his creepy Egyptian themed mansion including a bunch of ancient mummies, but who's the real threat? Later, Abby visits Horrorland, where she meets another Very Special Guest, Michael "Monster" Munroe and the Horror named Byron. Can he really help them out? | |||||
| 07 | My Friends Call Me Monster | January 1, 2009 | 138 | 0-439-91875-8 | |
Michael "Monster" Munroe has had it with his teacher Mrs. Hardesty, but during an attempt to get even, he discovers a giant egg in her attic and finds out that she's not human and soon neither is he. Afterwards, Michael visits HorrorLand and meets Abby Martin, another one of the Very Special Guests. With Michael's help, the Very Special Guests learn more about HorrorLand and the mysterious Panic Park, but are they on the right track? | |||||
| 08 | Say Cheese And Die Screaming! | March 1, 2009 | 160 | 0-439-91876-6 | |
Julie Enhrit enters a picture taking competition, confident she can win, but when she gets a weird camera from a yard sale, weird and evil things begin to happen weird and evil things that show up in Julie's camera pictures. If that's not scary enough, a trip to Horrorland is also in Julie's future, including a nightmarish experience in the Tunnel of Screams. | |||||
| 09 | Welcome To Camp Slither | April 15, 2009 | 133 | 0-439-91877-4 | |
Spooky legends aside, animal-loving siblings Boone and Heather Dixon can't wait to get to Camp Hither, but an infestation of snakes soon changes their minds. Even after they can get to the bottom of the trouble, more danger awaits when Boone gets to Horrorland and is captured with the other Very Special Guests. | |||||
| 10 | Help! We Have Strange Powers! | April 15, 2009 | 133 | 0-439-91878-2 | |
Twin siblings Jillian and Jack Gerard need help. They've developed some really strange abilities after an encounter with the fortune teller machine named Madame Doom and soon find themselves being targeted by an evil organization led by Inspector Cranium that wants to control that power and the danger doesn't stop once they get to Horrorland, where they join the rest of the Very Special Guests and meet a couple of surprising faces from the past. | |||||
| 11 | Escape From Horrorland | June 1, 2009 | 132 | 0-439-91879-0 | |
Luke and Lizzy Morris have returned to Horrorland, intending to save the Very Special Guests from their mysterious enemy, but even their best efforts cannot keep them from escaping to Panic Park, a strange world where the 16 must confront some old foes from their pasts like Captain Long Ben One Leg, and the Haunted Mask and finally meet the man behind everything - The Menace. | |||||
| 12 | The Streets of Panic Park | July 1, 2009 | 136 | 0-439-91880-4 | |
Continuing from the previous story, Luke, Lizzy and the other Very Special Guests escaped from Horrorland, but they ended up trapped in the streets of Panic Park instead at the mercy of The Menace. In order to escape the nightmare for good and foil The Menace's evil plans, the 14 Very Special Guests and the Morris siblings must face their fears. With the help of Slappy the Dummy, Captain Long Ben One Leg, Dr. Crawler, Dr. Maniac, The Haunted Mask, Tutten Rha and Inspector Cranium, will the horror finally be at an end? | |||||
| 13 | When The Ghost Dog Howls | January 1, 2010 | 160 | 0-545-16194-0 | |
12 year old siblings Andy and Marnie had a great week in Horrorland even though they were freaked out by Murder the Clown and a zombie mob. When the park's Chiller House store offers Andy a free souvenir, he doesn't ask any questions despite the shopkeeper saying he'd have to pay "next time you see me" or that the souvenir hound's tooth is said to be haunted. He thinks it's worth the risk to have a dog's tooth that grants wishes, but when he hears howling in the night and Marnie starts behaving oddly, she thinks again about the gift from Horrorland. | |||||
| 14 | Little Shop of Hamsters | March 1, 2010 | 160 | 0-545-16195-9 | |
| 15 | Heads You Lose! | May 1, 2010 | 160 | 0-545-16196-7 | |
Jessica Bowen and Ryan Chang arrive in Jonathan Chiller's shop upon entering the Forever Box in Mondo the Magical's magic shop. They bring along a souvenir: a 2 headed coin which transports them back in time to meet Prince Beaufort, the coin's original owner and were faced with losing their heads unless they can reunite the prince with his head! | |||||
| 16 | Weirdo Halloween: Special Edition | July 1, 2010 | 192 | 0-545-16197-5 | |
On October 30th, the siblings Chris and Meg Oliver rescue a young child in a costume from a hedge, only to discover the "kid" is really Bim, a smelly alien known as a Weirdo with a lot of disgusting habits who promptly swears allegiance to them. The following day, the Weirdos invade the Earth and the twins find their souvenir from Horrorland may be the only thing that can save or harm them! In the second part of the story, Meg is summoned back to Horrorland by Jonathan Chiller to participate in one of his bizarre games. | |||||
| 17 | The Wizard of Ooze | September 1, 2010 | 160 | 0-545-16198-3 | |
Marco and Gabriella were fans of The Ooze, a graphic novel series about a mutant made of oil sludge and Jonathan Chiller's shop happens to have a rare edition of The Wizard of Ooze with instructions on how to gain one's own super powers, but when Marco mentions the book at a comic convention, he finds himself pursued by some shady characters. | |||||
| 18 | Slappy New Year! | November 1, 2010 | 160 | 0-545-16199-1 | |
Ray Gordon loves scaring his wimpy brother Brandon especially with the new dummy Slappy he got from Chiller House in Horrorland. His parents command him to stop or they'll cancel his New Year's Eve party, but the dummy his own ideas too. | |||||
| 19 | The Horror At Chiller House | January 1, 2011 | 160 | 0-545-16200-9 | |
Jonathan Chiller told 6 of his customers that they could each take a souvenir home and that they would pay him back the next time they saw him. Now the time has come for him to come and now the 6 kids must compete in a scavenger hunt searching all of Horrorland for 6 red chests that can each send 1 kid back to their home, but Chiller has no intention of letting them escape. In the guise of Murder the Clown, Mondo the Magical, Madame Doom, and the Horrors Chef Burr P. Belcher, Winner Taikall, and Symour Winn-Doe, he will be doing his best to block them at every turn and in doing so make sure the horror never ends. | |||||
| Hall of Horrors | |||||
| 01 | Claws! | March 1, 2011 | 160 | 0-545-28933-5 | |
The Story-Keeper hears Mickey Coe's story on how he and Amanda have been put in charge of their vacationing neighbors' cat, Bella. But when she escapes from the house and gets hit by a truck, Amanda has an idea to replace the cat with a look-alike from the local pet store Cat Heaven. When the owner refuses to sell them the cat they pick out, they decide to steal it... but unfortunately, the cats at the store are more than what they seem. | |||||
| 02 | Night of the Giant Everything | May 1, 2011 | 160 | 0-545-28935-1 | |
The Story-Keeper hears 11-year-old Steven Sweeney's story of the time he was tricked into drinking a strange mixture of chemicals, things begin to get strange, as he starts shrinking and must navigate his way through gigantic dust bunnies, enormous birds, and other once seemingly harmless, everyday items to get to his best friend's house for help. | |||||
| 03 | The Five Masks of Dr. Screem: Special Edition | July 1, 2011 | 192 | 0-545-28936-X | |
The Story-Keeper hears a Halloween story from Monica Anderson about the time she and her little brother have just gotten involved in a terrifying adventure that pits them against the evil Dr. Screem who wants to obtain five sacred masks with the power to manipulate the world around them. | |||||
| 04 | Why I Quit Zombie School | October 1, 2011 | 160 | 0-545-28932-7 | |
The Story-Keeper hears Matt Krinsky's story about the time when he was enrolled in a new school where he excels at everything -- because the other students are zombies bent on taking over the city. | |||||
| 05 | Don't Scream! | January 1, 2012 | 160 | 0-545-28937-8 | |
The Story-Keeper hears Jack Harmon's story about the time he found a cell phone on the bus and gets a call from a girl -- who turns out to be an invisible entity haunting him through electronic devices and looking for a human body. [16] | |||||
| 06 | The Birthday Party of No Return | April 1, 2012 | 132 | 0-545-28938-6 | |
The Story-Keeper hears Lee Hargrove's story about the time he wished he could be lucky like his friend Cory Duckworth. He even has a crush on Laura Groden. Lee receives a good luck charm in the mail - but it brings nothing of the sort. [17] | |||||
The main protagonists in the HorrorLand series.
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| Book | Book Number | Character | Goosebumps HorrorLand Series | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Own Book | HorrorLand | Chiller House | Hall of Horrors | |||
| Revenge of the Living Dummy | #1 | Britney Crosby | Main | |||
| #1 (s) | Molly Molloy | Main | ||||
| Creep From the Deep | #2 | Billy Deep | Main | |||
| #2 (s) | Sheena Deep | Main | ||||
| Monster Blood for Breakfast | #3 | Matt Daniels | Main | |||
| #3 (s) | Livvy Daniels | Main | ||||
| #3 (s) | Bradley Wormser | Main | ||||
| The Scream of the Haunted Mask | #4 | Carly-Beth Caldwell | Main | |||
| #4 (s) | Sabrina Mason | Main | ||||
| Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz | #5 | Robby Schwartz | Main | |||
| Who's Your Mummy? | #6 | Abby Martin | Main | |||
| #6 (s) | Peter Martin | Main | ||||
| My Friends Call Me Monster | #7 | Michael Munroe | Main | |||
| Say Cheese And Die Screaming | #8 | Julie Martin | Main | |||
| Welcome to Camp Slither | #9 | Boone Dixon | Main | |||
| #9 (s) | Heather Dixon | Main | ||||
| Help! We Have Strange Powers! | #10 | Jillian Gerard | Main | |||
| #10 (s) | Jackson Gerard | Main | ||||
| Escape From HorrorLand | #11 | Lizzy Morris | Main | |||
| #11 (s) | Luke Morris | Main | ||||
| The Streets of Panic Park | #12 | (a) | Main | |||
| When the Ghost Dog Howls | #13 | Andy Meadows | Main | |||
| #13 (s) | Marnie Meadows | Main | ||||
| Little Shop of Hamsters | #14 | Sam Waters | Main | |||
| Heads, You Lose | #15 | Jessica Bowen | Main | |||
| #15 (s) | Ryan Chang | Main | ||||
| Weirdo Halloween | #16 | Meg Oliver | Main | |||
| #16 (s) | Chris Oliver | Main | ||||
| The Wizard of Ooze | #17 | Marco Gonzales | Main | |||
| #17 (s) | Gabriella Smith | Main | ||||
| Slappy New Year | #18 | Ray Gordon | Main | |||
| #18 (s) | Brandon Gordon | Main | ||||
| The Horror at Chiller House | #19 | (b) | Main | |||
| Claws! | #20 | Mickey Coe | Main | Main | ||
| #20 (s) | Amanda Underwood | Main | ||||
| Night of Giant Everything | #21 | Steven Sweeny | Main | Main | ||
| #21 | Ava Munroe | Main | ||||
| #21 | Courtney Jackson | Main | ||||
| The Five Masks of Dr. Screem | #22 | Monica Anderson | Main | Main | ||
| #22 (s) | Peter Anderson | Main | ||||
| Why I Quit Zombie School | #23 | Matt Krinsky | Main | Main | ||
| #23 (s) | Jamie Krinsky | Main | ||||
| Don't Scream | #24 | Jack Harmon | Main | Main | ||
| #24 (s) | Eli Grassman | Main | ||||
| The Birthday Party of No Return | #25 | Lee Hargrove | Main | Main | ||
| #25 (s) | Cory Duckworth | Main | ||||
| #25 (s) | Laura Groden | Main | ||||
The series is complemented by companion websites.
The website EnterHorrorLand.com is a "gameplay experience which immerses fans in HorrorLand itself". [18] It is based around twelve map sections corresponding to each HorrorLand book, each of which includes numerous mini-games. The premise of each map section is that the antagonist of the corresponding book is trying to take over that area of HorrorLand; the minigames tell the story of each antagonist's defeat by the player. Strangely, the player is frequently represented by Mr. Wood, the main antagonist from Night of the Living Dummy. Guidance and help are provided by the automated fortune teller named Madame Doom. The front page features two short animated movies, "What to Expect in HorrorLand" and "An Interview with Slappy", with a blank option suggesting a third to come. The site opened on February 20, 2008. [19] The site was redirected to Scholastic.com/Goosebumps/HorrorLand in November 2009.
The website EscapeHorrorLand.com was a "serialized, story-driven, fact-finding experience" hosted by the protagonists of One Day at HorrorLand. [18] It was ostensibly a blog that sought out, posted evidence and information about the HorrorLand theme park, [20] and was written by Luke Morris of One Day at HorrorLand. [20] His sister Lizzy also contributed to the site, largely in the form of extracts from a "Welcome to HorrorLand" guidebook [21] (ultimately printed separately as Welcome to HorrorLand: A Survival Guide). Luke's friend Clay was also mentioned. [22] Luke and Lizzy received HorrorLand correspondence from Madame Doom, [23] the mysterious "MONSTER-X", [24] who tells the Morrises that HorrorLand has changed, [25] and Slappy the Dummy. [26] [27] [28] Several of the correspondence props appear within the HorrorLand books themselves. The site opened on February 14, 2008, and ceased updating its blog on August 22, 2008; the HorrorLand survival guide had only ten of its twelve chapters posted. The site was closed and redirected to Scholastic.com/Goosebumps/HorrorLand in November 2009.
Scholastic Book Company released a Goosebumps HorrorLand video game on October 28, 2008, to tie into the series, on the Nintendo DS, [29] Wii, [30] and PlayStation 2 [31] platforms. Developed by Gusto Games in Derby, the plot follows a young child and his/her friends trapped in HorrorLand, where they must make their way through challenging levels to escape the evil theme park. Reports indicate the game is similar to the original Goosebumps HorrorLand game Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland , in which players had to beat the minigames of various levels to reveal who was behind events in the park and get back home. The official website reveals that HorrorLand in the game would have five main areas: Vampire Village (which serves as a hub connecting all the others), Mad Labs, Terror Tombs (an Egyptian-themed area), Fever Swamp, and the Carnival of Screams. [32] Several of these areas are references to classic Goosebumps books or previous depictions of HorrorLand.
The Haunted Mask is the eleventh book in the original Goosebumps, the series of children's horror fiction novels created and written by R. L. Stine. The book follows Carly Beth, a girl who buys a Halloween mask from a store. After putting on the mask, she starts acting differently and discovers that the mask has become her face; she is unable to pull the mask off. R. L. Stine says he got the idea for the book from his son who had put on a Frankenstein mask he had trouble getting off.
Robert Lawrence Stine, known by his pen name R.L. Stine, is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history. The series spawned a media franchise including two television series, a video game series, a comic series, and two feature films. Stine has been referred to as the "Stephen King of children's literature".
Goosebumps is a series of horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine. The protagonists in these stories are teens or pre-teens who find themselves in frightening circumstances, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. Between 1992 and 1997, sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title. R. L. Stine also wrote various spin-off series, including, Goosebumps Series 2000, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Goosebumps Triple Header, Goosebumps HorrorLand, Goosebumps Most Wanted and Goosebumps SlappyWorld. Additionally there was a series called Goosebumps Gold that was never released.
Give Yourself Goosebumps is a children's horror fiction gamebook series by R. L. Stine. After the success of the original Goosebumps books, Scholastic Press decided to create this spin-off series in 1995. In fact, Stine had written gamebooks in previous years.
Goosebumps Series 2000 is a spin-off of the original Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine. The cover design of the Series 2000 books was different from the original books, though the cover art was again by the same person, Tim Jacobus. There was no back tagline anymore, and the paragraphs at the back were excerpts from the book rather than a short summary of the story as the original books' back covers had. There was another difference with back covers too, as the "Reader Beware, You're In For A Scare!" of the original series was changed to "2000 Times The Scares!" and "Welcome to the new millennium of fear". Only 25 books were printed because of a dispute that R.L. Stine had with Scholastic. A 26th book, called The Incredible Shrinking Fifth Grader was planned and while it was canceled, Stine retooled it into a standalone book called The Adventures of Shrink Man.
Goosebumps is a children's anthology horror television series based on R. L. Stine's best-selling book series of the same name. It is an anthology of stories involving children and young adults in strange situations. The series is centered around the same supernatural or occult elements featured in the novels with most episodes being direct adaptions of the novels.
Slappy the Dummy is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the Goosebumps children's series by R. L. Stine. He is the main antagonist of the Night of the Living Dummy saga and one of the series' most popular villains, as well as its mascot. He is also the main antagonist of the franchise's film adaptation and its sequel, described by their interpretation of Stine as having a "serious Napoleonic complex" in the former. He comes alive when the words, "Karru Marri Odonna Loma Molonu Karrano," which roughly translates to "You and I are one now" and can be found on a sheet of paper in the coat pocket of Slappy's jacket, are read aloud. After being brought to life, Slappy will try to make the person who did so serve him as a slave, to the point of framing them for his evil deeds.
One Day at HorrorLand was originally published in February 1994 and is the sixteenth children's horror novel in R. L. Stine's Goosebumps series. It was adapted into a two-part episode for the television series, which was later released on VHS and DVD. A comic adaptation of the book was included in the graphic novel compilation Terror Trips, part of the Goosebumps Graphix series. There were two video games, an audiobook, and an adult-aimed interactive show based on the book. A sequel in the spin-off series Goosebumps Series 2000 titled Return to HorrorLand was published in 1999. The HorrorLand theme park was expanded upon in the book series Goosebumps HorrorLand. The two-part episode was released on VHS and DVD. The book and episodes received positive reception.
Goosebumps is a 2015 American horror comedy film directed by Rob Letterman and written by Darren Lemke, based on R. L. Stine's children's horror book series of the same name. The film stars Jack Black as a fictionalized version of Stine, who teams up with his neighbor and his teenage daughter, to save their hometown after all the monsters from the Goosebumps franchise escape from his works, wreaking havoc in the real world. It also stars Amy Ryan, Ryan Lee, and Jillian Bell in supporting roles.
Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction novellas by R. L. Stine. 62 books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from 1992 to 1997; the first was Welcome to Dead House; the last was Monster Blood IV. The cover illustrations for this series was done primarily by Tim Jacobus.
Escape from Horrorland is a Goosebumps video game that was released in 1996. Attack of the Mutant and Goosebumps HorrorLand are other video games of the series. The game has Jeff Goldblum making a special appearance as Dracula and Isabella Rossellini as Lady Cadaver.
Goosebumps video games are a series of action-adventure games based on Goosebumps book series.
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.
Goosebumps Most Wanted is a line of Goosebumps books by author R.L. Stine, described as "a brand new take on terror."
Goosebumps SlappyWorld is a series of Goosebumps books by author R. L. Stine.
From 2006 to 2019, several comic book adaptations have been printed, based on the Goosebumps books by R. L. Stine. The first was Creepy Creatures, a graphic novel compilation book in the Goosebumps Graphix line. This series began when Stine starting receiving letters from fans asking him to write more Goosebumps books. The comics have been adaptations from 10 original books and new stories from various artists. IDW Publishing would produce Goosebumps comics that were more original stories but contain characters from the books.
Goosebumps is an American supernatural horror television series developed by Rob Letterman and Nicholas Stoller for Disney+ and Hulu. It is based on the book series by R. L. Stine. The series abandons the episodic anthology format of the 1995 original TV series to focus on a serialized-anthology style of storytelling instead, changing storylines from season to season instead of episode to episode while still featuring some of the existing Goosebumps monsters and items episodically.
Blind Date is a 1986 young adult horror fantasy novel by R.L. Stine, and while written as a standalone, it was published as the first book in Scholastic's Point Horror series. The story follows Kerry, a young man who becomes obsessed with the sexy voice of a woman on his telephone despite having never seen her.
