Goosebumps
Five of the Scariest Episodes of R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour
If you’re unfamiliar with R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, just imagine a modernized version of Goosebumps without the awful acting and lame twists. Unlike its fairly tame ’90s prede...
R.L. Stine on the Magic of a Perfect ‘Goosebumps’ Title, and the ‘Bloodbath’ of ‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ [Written in Blood]
Welcome back to Written in Blood, a Wicked Horror interview series featuring novelists and screenwriters specializing in genre output. When it comes to Goosebumps, author R.L. Stine has something in c...
The Haunted History of Goosebumps’ Haunted Mask
Halloween may have been over for a spell, but true horror is timeless. One of the most well-known staples in a ’90s child’s Halloween is undoubtedly the day the very first episode of the o...
Sometimes Slime DOES Pay
Last year, I reached out and interviewed Jim Smylie about his participation in a Goosebumps title contest held in 1994. Jim won with his title “Slime Doesn’t Pay,” and was told it wo...
These Christmas Tales Will Give You ‘Goosebumps’
Christmas horror can be a tricky thing to pull off. The most common trope seems to be evil Santa stories. While Fear Street had a plethora of holiday-themed novels, Goosebumps mostly avoided Chri...
Unearthing Four Goosebumps Stories That Time Forgot!
For decades, fans have been aware of a failed attempt to create an American version of the popular anime Sailor Moon. All that existed was a pilot, blending animation and live-action, created by a gro...
Whatever Happened to Slime Doesn’t Pay? Unearthing a Long Lost Goosebumps Story [Interview]
In 1998, Braden Thomas Gardner won the “Brain Juice Terrifying Title Contest” and got to create a Goosebumps short story with R.L. Stine and all his classmates at Southeast Warren Intermed...
Unearthing a Goosebumps Story Lost to Time [Exclusive]
During its original publication run in the 1990s, there were several Goosebumps short story contests. The Goosebumps Wiki and archived news articles reported Braden Thomas Gardner of Lacona, Iowa...
These Rare Goosebumps Books Have Been All But Forgotten
There’re plenty of Goosebumps stories that have fallen out of print. With each passing day, they grow more and more expensive online. It’s to the point where people charge hundreds of dol...