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- The Story-Keeper hears 11-year-old Steven Sweeney's story of the time he was tricked into drinking a strange mixture of chemicals, things begin to get strange, as he starts shrinking and must navigate his way through gigantic dust bunnies, enormous birds, and other once seemingly harmless, everyday items to get to his best friend's house for help. (en)
- The Story-Keeper hears Lee Hargrove's story about the time he wished he could be lucky like his friend Cory Duckworth. He even has a crush on Laura Groden. Lee receives a good luck charm in the mail - but it brings nothing of the sort. (en)
- Continuing from the previous story, Luke, Lizzy, and the other Very Special Guests escaped from HorrorLand. But they ended up trapped in the streets of Panic Park instead, at the mercy of The Menace. In order to escape the nightmare for good, and foil The Menace's evil plans, the fourteen Very Special Guests and the Morris siblings must face their fears. With the help of Slappy the Dummy, Captain Long Ben One-Leg, Dr. Crawler, Dr. Maniac, The Haunted Mask, Tutten Rha and Inspector Cranium, will the horror finally be at an end? (en)
- Twelve-year-olds Andy and Marnie had a great week in HorrorLand, even though they were freaked out by Murder the Clown and a zombie mob. When the park's Chiller House store offers Andy a free souvenir he doesn't ask any questions - despite the shopkeeper saying he'd have to pay "next time you see me"... or that the souvenir hound's tooth is said to be haunted. He thinks it's worth the risk to have a dog's tooth that grants wishes, but when he hears howling in the night and Marnie starts behaving oddly, she thinks again about the gift from HorrorLand. (en)
- The Story-Keeper hears a Halloween story from Monica Anderson about the time she and her little brother have just gotten involved in a terrifying adventure that pits them against the evil Dr. Screem who wants to obtain five sacred masks with the power to manipulate the world around them. (en)
- The Story-Keeper hears Jack Harmon's story about the time he found a cell phone on the bus and gets a call from a girl -- who turns out to be an invisible entity haunting him through electronic devices and looking for a human body. (en)
- Marco and Gabriella are fans of The Ooze, a graphic novel series about a mutant made of oil sludge, and Jonathan Chiller's shop happens to have a rare edition of The Wizard of Ooze - with instructions on how to gain one's own super powers. But when Marco mentions the book at a comic convention, he finds himself pursued by some shady characters. (en)
- Spooky legends aside, animal-loving siblings Boone and Heather Dixon can't wait to get to Camp Hither, but an infestation of snakes soon changes their minds. Even after they can get to the bottom of the trouble, more danger awaits when Boone gets to HorrorLand and is captured with the other Very Special Guests. (en)
- A promotional book filled with HorrorLand facts. (en)
- Julie Enhrit enters a picture taking competition, confident she can win. But when she gets a weird camera from a yard sale, weird and evil things begin to happen... weird and evil things that show up in Julie's camera pictures. If that's not scary enough, a trip to HorrorLand is also in Julie's future, including a nightmarish experience in the Tunnel of Screams. (en)
- Abby Martin and her little brother Peter are staying with their Egyptologist uncle Jonathan, but suspect he is keeping secrets from them in his creepy Egyptian-themed mansion - including a bunch of ancient mummies. But who's the real threat? Later, Abby visits HorrorLand, where she meets another Very Special Guest, Michael "Monster" Munroe, and the Horror named Byron. Can he really help them out? (en)
- Menaced by the scream of the Haunted Mask, Carly Beth starts to delve into its past - searching for a way to escape it. She uncovers a terrifying tale about an old stable she works near, but the mask isn't the only threat. At HorrorLand, she and her friend Sabrina team up with the other Very Special Guests, and overhear a disturbing plot to dispose of them all. (en)
- Sam Waters is desperate for a pet, but his parents insist he must prove he's responsible. To do so he takes an after-school job in the Little Shop of Hamsters, but it turns out that the hamsters have a monstrous side. Could his HorrorLand souvenirs have anything to do with this? (en)
- Michael "Monster" Munroe has had it with his teacher Mrs. Hardesty. But during an attempt to get even, he discovers a giant egg in her attic and finds out that she's not human... and soon, neither is he. Afterwards, Michael visits HorrorLand and meets Abby Martin, another one of the Very Special Guests. With Michael's help, the Very Special Guests learn more about HorrorLand and the mysterious Panic Park, but are they on the right track? (en)
- Robby Schwartz creates comic strips on his computer, starring bizarre supervillains. His favorite is the crazy Dr. Maniac, but fantasy and reality collide when Dr. Maniac appears in Robby's hometown with a dastardly plot. It's Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz, and even after Robby is invited to HorrorLand their fight continues... with more friends and enemies appearing on the scene. (en)
- Twins Jillian and Jackson Gerard need help. They've developed some really strange abilities after an encounter with the Madame Doom fortune teller machine and soon find themselves being targeted by an evil organization led by Inspector Cranium that wants to control that power. And the danger doesn't stop once they get to HorrorLand, where they join the rest of the Very Special Guests and meet a couple of surprising faces from the past. (en)
- Think you can out-scare the Master of Horror, R.L. Stine? Write your own endings to six of his scariest stories and keep your work safe behind the oozing hand lock, which screams in alarm when opened. (en)
- Jonathan Chiller told 6 of his customers that they could each take a souvenir home and that they would pay him back the next time they saw him. Now the time has come for him to collect. And now the six kids must compete in a scavenger hunt searching all of HorrorLand for 6 red chests that can each send one kid back to their home, but Chiller has no intention of letting them escape. In the guise of Murder the Clown, Mondo the Magical, Madame Doom, and Horrors Chef Burr P. Belcher, Winnner Taikall, and Symour Winn-Doe, he will be doing his best to block them at every turn and in doing so make sure the horror never ends. (en)
- Luke and Lizzy Morris have returned to HorrorLand, intending to save the Very Special Guests from their mysterious enemy. But even their best efforts cannot keep them from escaping to Panic Park, a strange world where the sixteen must confront some old foes from their pasts like Captain Long Ben One-Leg, and the Haunted Mask, and finally meet the man behind everything - The Menace. (en)
- R. L. Stine commented in an interview that he thought Revenge of the Living Dummy, the first Goosebumps Horrorland book, was one of his scariest stories. Revenge of the Living Dummy was listed as the 39th bestselling children's paperback frontlist book for the year 2008, with over 184,000 sales.
Terry Miller Shannon from KidsReads.com described this book as "a fun, fast-paced, spine-chilling thriller for kids who love to be scared". Publishers Weekly stated in a starred review that this book was "a suspenseful opener" that was "broken into two equally enjoyable sections". An excerpt from this book was published on The New York Times and NPR. Revenge of the Living Dummy was adapted into an audiobook released in August 2008, narrated by Alissa Hunnicutt. The School Library Journal stated that Hunnicutt did a "more than capable job reading these two related stories" and "Effective and nearly constant sound effects enhance the telling and increase the tension". (en)
- In a follow-up to Deep Trouble and Deep Trouble II, Billy and Sheena Deep always expect adventure when they visit their uncle Dr. Deep, the marine biologist, and encounter another creep from the deep - the fearsome pirate captain Long Ben One-Leg, even though he's been dead for centuries... Later, an invitation to HorrorLand leads the siblings and their new friend Matt into another terrifying situation. (en)
- The Story-Keeper hears Matt Krinsky's story about the time when he was enrolled in a new school where he excels at everything -- because the other students are zombies bent on taking over the city. (en)
- Ray Gordon loves scaring his wimpy brother Brandon, especially with the new dummy Slappy he got from Chiller House in HorrorLand. His parents command him to stop or they'll cancel his New Year's Eve party. But the dummy has its own ideas too. (en)
- Athletic Matt Daniels and his sister Livvy can't stand their neighbor Bradley "Worm" Wormser, who copies Matt in every way he can. Bradley orders a plastic egg full of Monster Blood on Matt's computer, but a backfiring prank leaves Matt with Monster Blood for breakfast. Even after solving that problem, Matt is faced with another: An invitation to HorrorLand, where old and new dangers may be lurking around! (en)
- Jessica Bowen and Ryan Chang arrive in Jonathan Chiller's shop upon entering the Forever Box in Mondo the Magical's magic shop. They bring along a souvenir: a two-headed coin which transports them back in time to meet Prince Beaufort, the coin's original owner... and are faced with losing their heads unless they can reunite the prince with HIS head! (en)
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