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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...

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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...

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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, won...

Haunted Library

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 dollars on...

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How Revenge R Us Succeeds at Being Even Worse than Chicken Chicken [Goosebumps Rewind]

Goosebumps Rewind is a feature where we take a look back at the best (and worst) of the R.L. Stine-created youth fiction series. In the inaugural installment, we will be looking back on ‘Revenge R Us”...

Haunting Hour

Five of the Creepiest 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...

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Was the Goosebumps TV Series Too Disturbing for Children?

Everyone has those nostalgic movies and shows they wish they could re-watch for the first time every time. My favorite horror TV series from my youth was Goosebumps. It terrified me to my core. One ep...