Pranksters Duane Comack and Stephanie Alpert find themselves trapped in a seaside house haunted by a headless ghost, along with a ghost of a boy who died falling through a dumbwaiter and the ghost of a sea captain who takes the form of a friendly, but firm tour guide named Otto, the latter of whom has malignant plans in mind for Stephanie. The same year, a hearing by the Anoka-Hennepin School District to ban the books was broadcast by C-SPAN. Samantha decides her friends and family are important and discards the amulet, which is found by Judith.

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In the hearing, most of the parents and children felt the books should not be banned, [79] and the school district's book review committee decided to keep the books. Stine says the name for the book series came to him after he saw a TV station's ad in TV Guide that stated "It’s goosebumps week on Channel 11".Scholastic sold 19,125,700 copies of Goosebumps frontlist titles in 1995, and 12,906,800 backlist titles, for a grand total of 32,032,500 copies sold". Individual Goosebumps books appeared in the New York Times Best Seller list for children [51] and the USA Today bestseller list. But Margaret and Casey become even more worried when they "meet" some of his experiments in the basement. For example, the character Slappy the Dummy was inspired by the literary classic The Adventures of Pinocchio. Tim Swanson steals the bag of tricks from his favorite magician Amaz-O and finds himself unable to control the magic.

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The German complete series set is also currently the only Blu-Ray release of the series (although the episodes are still in standard definition). 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.L. Stine "whose scary characters literally leap off the page, forcing him to hide from his own creepy creations" with Dylan Minnette as Zach Cooper, [96] and Odeya Rush was cast as R. Part 1: Hannah Fairchild mistakes a boy named Danny Anderson for a ghost of a kid that died in a house fire until she learns from a dark figure, who resembles a shadow, that she's the ghost. The series was originally published in English by Scholastic Press in the United States and Scholastic Hippo in the United Kingdom. In the 1990s, a Goosebumps TV series was produced in Canada by Protocol Entertainment in association with Scholastic Productions. Sammy Jacobs visits a house that's supposedly haunted by the ghost of a lonely boy named Brent, who ends up following him home and becomes his "invisible" friend.

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A comic book series, titled Goosebumps Graphix, was written based on books from the original series. The first book of the spin-off series Goosebumps Most Wanted, Planet of the Lawn Gnomes, was released in October 2012. Clumsy 12-year-old Samantha "Fly Away" Byrd (as dubbed by the bully, Judith) helps a strange woman named Clarissa find her way home. You're Doomed: Matthew gets sucked into Karlsville and gets caught in a twisted baseball game that may cost him his life. Two common themes in the series are children triumphing over evil and children facing horrid or frightening situations and using their own wit and imagination to escape them.Parachute Press filed a lawsuit, which followed with numerous other suits and counter lawsuits [126] over who controls certain rights to the series. Max and Noah Thompson find a mirror in the attic that turns its users invisible, but on the other side is a world where the evil mirror reflections want to switch places with real people. Roderick McGillis, from the academic journal Bookbird, described the books as camp, writing the books "are so artificial, so formulaic, so predictable, so repetitive".