All together, 43 of the original 62 books were adapted, along with nine stories from the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series, and two books from Goosebumps Series 2000. The Chillogy three-parter was a completely original story, while the episode More Monster Blood was an original story based on existing characters. Brad MacDonald composed the underscore to 42 Goosebumps episodes.
Carly Beth Caldwell steals a Halloweenmask from a new store, against the storekeeper's warnings. However the mask begins to change her personality and meld with her body when she wears it. Upon realizing this, Carly Beth tracks down the mask store salesman for a way to break the spell and remove the Haunted Mask.
Michael Webster vandalizes his father's new cuckoo clock by twisting the bird's head backwards so his annoying, bratty, trouble-making younger sister Tara will get blamed for it. However, the plan goes wrong when Michael finds himself reliving his disastrous birthday party – and going backwards in time. The only way to stop it is to fix the bird's head. Though Michael succeeds as a toddler and returns to his normal self, he inadvertently knocks off the year 1988 which was part of the clock and removes/erases Tara from existence. Michael decides to replace the year back on the clock to restore Tara, but not for a while.
Lucy Dark discovers the monstrous dark side of the town librarian during closing time, but no one else believes her. And what's scarier is that this librarian's been invited to dinner!
Part 1: Billy's summer camp turns scary when Camp Nightmoon becomes Camp Nightmare! Why are all the counselors acting so weird? What is hidden in the forbidden bunk? What lurks around the camp late at night? The counselors are not answering any of Billy's questions. The campers are disappearing one by one, and the counselors do not even care. Billy wants to know the secrets about Camp Nightmoon, but can he find the answers before he disappears?
Part 2: Billy finds out the secret about Camp Nightmoon when the counselors announce a manhunt for a female camper who escaped from the girls' side of the camp where the same scary things are happening.
When Zeke gets to play as the Phantom in the school's titular play The Phantom, strange things start happening. A piece of scenery comes crashing down with a message saying "Last warning. Stay away Esmerelda or else!". Could Zeke be trying to ruin the play? Or could there really be a phantom living under the stage?
Jerry Hawkins moves to a new house and discovers a piano in the basement. He starts taking piano lessons to impress a neighbor, but he realizes something is very odd about his teacher, Dr. Shreek. He is always talking about how Jerry has perfect hands. And the janitor Mr. Toggle is weird too. But Jerry is about to find out that Dr. Shreek loves to steal the hands of his students...
Gabe and his cousin, Sari, are trapped in a pyramid belonging to an Egyptian princess disguised as a modern-day journalist who is controlling a four-thousand-year-old mummy.
Amy Kramer receives a replacement ventriloquist dummy named Slappy, who she accidentally brings to life. Slappy wants Amy to be his slave to the point of framing her for things she did not do. It is up to Amy to stop Slappy and save her family. In the end, Slappy is destroyed by another dummy.
Larry Boyd and his friends try on an old bottle of Instant Tan, but they vanish - and Larry gets hairy! Larry freaks out as he finds out that there are more dogs in the neighborhood than usual.
Part 1: Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. He's been acting strange. And he spends all his time in the basement. What is he doing in the basement? Margaret and Casey are about to find out. Dr. Brewer is doing experiments with plants. But Margaret and Casey become even more worried when they "meet" some of his experiments in the basement.
Part 2: Margaret and Casey discover that the man they thought was their father is really a plant copy of him who trapped their real father in a closet in the basement, which was caused after his blood was mixed with his experiments by accident. Soon both men attempt to convince the siblings that they are their real father until Dr. Brewer calls Margaret a nickname he used when they were younger, as Casey and Margaret then spray the copy with herbicide killing it.
Kat finds a sponge under the sink of her new house that's actually a monster that causes and feeds on bad luck. When Kat, Daniel, and Daniel's friend Carlos give away the sponge, they find out from Carlos that the sponge is called a Grool and that anyone who has it and gets rid of it, will die...
Sue and Eddie take a trip to England to visit a castle. When they wander away from their group in the torture chamber, they get chased throughout the castle by an executioner. When they manage to escape, they soon begin to lose their memories of their family and themselves. Sue and Eddie are then sent back in time to the Middle Ages where a man named Morgred reveals that the siblings are really a missing prince and princess whom the executioner, under the king's orders, wanted dead.
Grady Tucker adopts a dog suspected of terrorizing the livestock by his family. Grady tries to prove that Vandal (the dog) is not responsible, but is shocked to find out that a real werewolf may be on the loose.
Clumsy 12-year-old Samantha "Fly Away" Byrd (as dubbed by the bully, Judith) helps a strange woman named Clarissa find her way home. The woman gives Samantha an amulet that grants wishes – but Samantha learns that any wish granted, when not careful with the wording, comes with a price. In the end, she decides to wish everything back to normal. Samantha decides her friends and family are important and discards the amulet, which is found by Judith. When she makes a vain wish to be beautiful and looked at forever, it literally turns Judith into a park statue.
Part 1: Skipper Matthews finds out his favorite comic book villain, the Masked Mutant, is real after discovering his lair.
Part 2: Skipper Matthews fears he is losing his grip on reality after a visit through the Masked Mutant's lair and discovers that his new best friend is not who she seems.
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.
Todd Barstow uses his test worms to pull pranks on his little sister, Regina. Then, his test worms show up in his lunch container and in his bed. Thinking that it was Regina, he goes to the woods on a rainy night to search for more worms in order to pull a prank on Regina, but uncovers a cave that is inhabited by a giant worm hell - bent on killing Todd for mistreating her offspring.
Joe Burton's dad buys a pair of garden gnomes for a lawn contest, but Joe and his sister Mindy discover that the lawn gnomes are alive and cause destruction to their militant neighbor's garden at night with Joe being framed for it. The siblings learn that the gnomes can only move in the dark, so they try to prevent the gnomes from attacking another garden but are caught by their neighbor who chases them away and attempts to throw the gnomes away only to be attacked and turned into one himself.
When Drew Brockman, Walker, Shane, and Shana trick-or-treat with their rivals, Tabby and Lee, they come upon two pumpkin-headed creatures who force them to trick-or-treat forever.
Steve Boswell takes an old man-like mask from the same store that Carly Beth went to and begins to become an old man. Meanwhile, the original Haunted Mask returns and, through Steve, plans to exact its revenge on Carly Beth.
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.
Jodie and her brother, Mark, are sent to spend a month with their grandparents and their shifty farmhand on the farm, only to realize the scarecrows there have been brought to life and haunt the farm at night.
Evan Ross and his friend Andy discover a novelty slime called Monster Blood that devours everything in its path, and makes whatever eats it grow-- uncontrollably!
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"More Monster Blood"
Timothy Bond
Dan Angel, Billy Brown & Rick Drew
Original, based upon characters from Monster Blood & Monster Blood II.
November 16, 1996 (1996-11-16)
N/A
Evan travels back home, only to find that the Monster Blood he thought was destroyed is aboard the plane.
Gretchen Hughes and Clark Boretski stay at their grandparents' house in the middle of a swamp that has a seemingly invincible monster locked in a room.
Ricky Beamer plays a prank on his rival Tasha McClain that calls the attention of school bullies named Wart, David and Brenda, all of which are actually reptilian aliens bent on world domination by converting humanity.
The Benson family moves into a house in a neighborhood where its residents were killed in an accident from a chemical factory and want the family's blood to survive.
Zack Beauchamp and his best friend Alex wander into an abandoned antique shop and find a typewriter that Zack uses to type up a story about an oozing blob monster that terrorizes the video store at the mall. When Zack goes to the video store the next day, the blob appears in real life and frightens the customers and soon devours everything in its path. The owner returns and tells Zach that the typewriter makes whatever is written on it real and that he must write an ending to his story in order for the blob to disappear.
After being taken to the O'Dells family, who owns a collection of ventriloquist dummies, Slappy is brought back to life and plans to test out Zane, a cousin of Trina and Daniel. With the help of another dummy named Rocky, Slappy conspires to turn the three children into dummies. In the end, Slappy is destroyed by a lightning bolt.
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.
Mischievous friends Lori, Nathan, and Robbie convince the new kid in town, Chris Wakely, to join their club, Danger, Inc. The catch is that Chris must spend one hour in an old house, allegedly haunted by the ghosts of a married couple, who died in the house. However soon the catch is on Lori and her friends, when they head inside to collect Chris. To their horror, he had made the deal with the ghost of the married couple in exchange for his freedom, Lori and her friends would have to spend eternity with the couple as a replacement for their own lost child.
After being told that he can't have the attic as his room, Matt Amsterdam goes to sleep in there and finds himself in a chain of alternate worlds and on the run from a police force bent on nabbing anyone who messes with reality.
Seth Gold mail-orders a remote control that controls his TV, his VCR, his stereo and as he discovers, reality itself, at the gradual cost of the remote taking over his mind.
While being babysat by their Aunt Dahlia, Tom and John are forced to eat prune cookies, which turn them into old men as part of a plot to get sold out to two of Aunt Dahlia's widow friends who want husbands.
Cooper Holmes and his new friend Fergie Ferguson are tricked into switching bodies with ghostly canines (Formerly a pair of thieves named Grimm and Scratch that were attacked by search dogs 3 centuries ago). The dogs then start to take the kids' lives while Cooper and Fergie are kicked out of Cooper's home by his own parents. Cooper and Fergie then manage to trick the dogs into the spot where they swapped and manage to return to their normal lives, not knowing that Cooper's brother Mickey had followed them and switched bodies with a chipmunk.
Part 1: The Morris family get trapped in a theme park called "Horrorland" run by monsters called Horrors.
Part 2: The Morris family compete on a game show run by the Horrors of Horrorland.
Note: Unlike the original book in which the Morris family escapes—only to find a Horror hanging on to their rear bumper which offers them free tickets to return to Horrorland-there was a twist ending in which they do escape—only to find that their car has been controlled by the Horrors to teeter on the edge of a literal cliffhanger; the ending then cuts to a Horror couple watching the event on their TV set... and then switching it off!
Part 1: Having caused trouble once too often, Brian O'Connor gets sent to an all-boys boarding school that he tries to escape.
Part 2: Brian discovers the secret of the Perfect School; the students are cloned and programmed into being well-behaved so they can be sent home to their parents while the real students are locked away in a basement prison. And also that his best friend is an agent for the faculty and tries to escape before his clone supplants him, Brian stages a breakout only to be caught by his clone. "Brian" is returned to his family but they see that he is too perfect for them until he pulls a prank on them, it is revealed that Brian managed to pose as his clone who was mistaken for Brian and locked in the basement. Brian then hacks into the boarding school's security and opens the doors freeing the students and exposing the school's secret.
Part 1: Visiting his aunt and uncle in rural Wolf Creek, budding photographer, Alex Blackwell, discovers a secret about the werewolves that live in the woods.
Part 2: Alex confronts his aunt and uncle about the werewolf skin they use to turn themselves into actual werewolves.
Slappy is brought back to life and now plans to marry a little girl's doll who proves to be just as evil as Slappy. In the end, Slappy and Mary-Ellen were destroyed by a razor blade and their souls emerge from the dummies. As a result, Slappy possessed Harrison.
Greg Banks tries to prove to his English teacher that the evil camera he found really exists so he doesn't have to flunk his class. When Greg unearths it, he accidentally takes a picture of Sherri which comes out as a negative, foretelling that she'll be so thin, she'll waste away. In order to get back at him for taking her picture, she takes a picture of him that predicts that he'll become so fat, he'll explode.
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"Chillogy"
William Fruet
Billy Brown & Dan Angel
Original
April 25, 1998 (1998-04-25)
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May 2, 1998 (1998-05-02)
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May 9, 1998 (1998-05-09)
Part 1 - Squeal of Fortune: Jessica, a greedy girl, gets sucked into a toy town called Karlsville where she cheats the people during a lemonade sale and as punishment she turns into a piglike humanoid as the town chases her down.Part 2 - Strike Three... You're Doomed: Matthew gets sucked into Karlsville and gets caught in a twisted baseball game that may cost him his life.Part 3 - Escape from Karlsville: Matthew and Jessica re-enter the toy town to prevent Matthew's younger brother Todd from being turned into a plastic figurine as part of a contest prize.
Part 1: Mark Rowe is given a shrunken head from his explorer aunt, only to discover that it has dark powers. Mark then must travel to the Pacific jungle island of Baladora in order to find her.
Part 2: Mark learns of the jungle magic hidden in his shrunken head while searching for his aunt, and learns that her assistants want the shrunken head too.
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.
Part 2: After learning of her past and the dark figure's plan to kill Danny, Hannah must save him from a fiery fate so her soul can rest in peace and Danny can be safe.
Part 1: Allison Rogers, a teen actress starring in the upcoming movie Cry of the Cat, gets scratched by a strange cat named Rip who she accidentally ran over with her bike and starts acting like a cat.
Part 2: After an accident on the set of Cry of the Cat, Allison is put in a hospital where she learns why the cat who turned her into a monster, Rip, won't stay dead and how it affected her friend's mother.
Part 1: Billy and Sheena Deep are visiting their uncle Dr. Deep in the Caribbean, where they stumble upon a plan to turn normal fish into mutants.
Part 2: Billy, Sheena, and Dr. Deep try to escape from an island that Jacob Ritter – Dr. Deep's assistant – marooned them on but encounter some of Ritter's test subjects along the way. The mutants capture Dr. Deep believing he is responsible for their condition until the children claim that Ritter is the one responsible as he plans to use Deep's formula. As Ritter prepares to flee with the rest of the formula, he is confronted by the mutants. Soon the mutants are cured while Ritter (having been turned into a gill fin man) is put on display at an aquarium.