

While many people will instantly think of adult horror authors such as Stephen King or Clive Barker when the horror genre comes to mind, authors that target a younger generation of horror fans shouldn’t be overlooked by any means.

This predates that by a long shot.Spooky stories attract rabid readers of all age groups. Unfortunately on the goosebumps board the furthest back you can go is five years. Apologies if this came off like I was trying to start a creepypasta, but I've lately gotten back into Goosebumps, and wanted to share something I've never seen mentioned elsewhere.ĮDIT: Some of the IMDB message boards are still readable on a site called FilmBoards. It's a shame those old message boards are no longer available, I'd love to hunt down that comment chain again. Course that sort of thing would be easy to fake, and it probably was. Closer to Dennis from notld 2 then Slappy). Kid actors in a staged house playing with a ventriloquist dummy (this dummy looked noticeably cheaper then what we ended up getting, but it matched Mr. And whatever he was playing looked straight from an episode of 90's goosebumps. Of course there was doubt over there legitimacy, but the pictures look liked this user somehow had a rough cut version of what was filmed, and he was taking snapshots of whatever he was playing it on.

This user also said the dummy they had wasn't the one who went on to famously become TV Slappy. It didn't take the production staff long to realize this iteration of the story was too much for kids (I really don't recall the books very well, but I can't imagine notld 1 was 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 intense). This person claimed maybe half of it was filmed, before it was canned. Somewhere down that comment chain however a user shared a variation of the popular answer, but unlike the rest they backed it up with evidence. IMO it just made more sense they skipped to the book where the most profitable villain takes center stage, nothing more. Wood, before the whole thing was scrapped and they moved on to filming Notld 2 instead). In the old days when IMDB had a comment section, someone asked that one question every Goosebumps fan asks at least once.
