The book series also spawned a successful TV series, which ran for four seasons on the Fox Kids programming block and reran for two years on Cartoon Network (usually around Halloween time, but it lasted a bit longer in 2007 due to the Writers' Guild going on strike and producers scrambling for filler programming until the strike ended), and an unsuccessful stage show that closed after only a few months. Stine cites the horror comics published by EC Comics as a source of inspiration. It was The Twilight Zone for preadolescents, with a twist at the end of every book.
The original Goosebumps series lasted for all of 62 books, including such famous ones as The Haunted Mask, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, A Night in Terror Tower, the Night of the Living Dummy series, and the Monster Blood series. It was through this simple idea that one of the most successful and controversial pre- Harry Potter-era book series began. Stine had an idea, "Why not write scary books for children?" Includes Lucy-Ann, her parents, and her seven siblings.In the 1990s, R.L.Includes Crystal, her parents, and her brother Cole.
While it's never stated explicitly, the reader is informed that the story takes place in Ohio at the protagonist's school, they sing Ohio's state song, " Beautiful Ohio."īelow is a list of people who live in, work in, or frequent Goshen Falls: Even though she describes the entire town as "three blocks long", it is unclear if she's literally referring to the entire town or just Main Street, the most central part of the neighborhood where the businesses are located. Crystal's parents own chickens, which Crystal hates.Ĭrystal describes Goshen Falls as tiny, saying there's nowhere to go at nights. When Crystal was four years old, her parents-two computer programmers-moved their family to the small farm town of Goshen Falls. 4.1 References in other Goosebumps media.
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