Welcome to Dead House

Give them the answer? Yep.

Welcome to Dead House.

Welcome to Dead

House.

Stine's particular brand of like a cheesiness.

Well, I think some of that comes from being adaptations mostly from the books to like condensing a fairly short book into a half an hour episode or sometimes hours, you know, with like Welcome to Dead House and Horrorland and stuff.

It's also like, you know, it's fun to see the correlation between Are You Afraid of the Dark and Goosebumps because you get Ron Oliver back for directing a lot of the Goosebumps episodes.

He actually wrote a few of the episodes as well.

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Welcome to Dead House.

Yeah.

Uh, this is the book that I will be talking about tonight at the Bookcrafters.

Okay, I went off of the beginning of the books because I didn't read a lot of the ones that were probably, like, the last 20.

I didn't really go through those stories too much, or if I did, I would start reading them and not... you know not finished but okay so my favorites i put them in order of what they came out and i kind of stopped like at the beginning but i loved welcome to dead house

that

one got me with the the cover art um the haunted mask of course never actually read the haunted mask too I loved Say Cheese and Die.

It's pretty much the same thing over and over again, I think.

Well, the second and third one.

So the first one is Welcome to Dead House.

I'm sorry if I don't get these exactly in order.

So, [laughs] um, once he, once he came on the name, uh, Goosebumps, he was like, "All right, I'm gonna do this." So he, he did a four-book run, I think, um, that was what it was supposed to be, just as, like, a tester.

Um, and, uh, yeah, he wrote the f- he published the first Goosebumps novel, Welcome to Dead House, in 1992.

Um, and it was just, you know, a smash success, I think, o- you know, over the, over the course of those, those next few books.

Um, and then immediately got that adaptation we talked about in '95, which was really only three years later, so pretty quick.

The, the crazy thing to talk about too is, like, the development of this film because, uh, it was in the works for a long, long time with some really interesting people, uh, attached at times.

So we talked about how Night of the Living Dummy is a play on George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead.

Um, and in the mid-'90s, George A. Romero wrote a script for a film adaptation of the first original Goosebumps book, Welcome to Dead House.

It was rejected and was kept at the University of Pittsburgh.

Yeah.

One Night in Pain House, Return to Terror Tower, Escape From Shutter Mansion, Scream School, or Welcome to Dead House.

[sighs] My instinct is Welcome to Dead House.

My instinct is Welcome to Dead House as well.

Okay.

Let's go with that.

Yeah

... on the cover.