Slappy the Dummy/History

The following page contains a detailed history of Slappy the Dummy's appearances.

Previous owners
The following is a list of characters who have acquired Slappy throughout the franchise:
 * Ephraim Darkwell / Darkwell the Magician: Creator of Slappy
 * Kanduu: Possible creator of Slappy
 * Franz Mahar: Possible creator of Slappy, Mr. Wood and Snappy
 * Lindy Powell: Night of the Living Dummy
 * Amy Kramer: Night of the Living Dummy II
 * Dan O'Dell Sr.: Night of the Living Dummy III
 * Zane O'Dell: Night of the Living Dummy III
 * Jimmy O'James: Bride of the Living Dummy & Slappy's Nightmare
 * Jillian Zinman: Bride of the Living Dummy
 * Georgia Boonshoft: Slappy's Nightmare
 * Ethan Crosby: Revenge of the Living Dummy
 * Lizzy Morris: The Streets of Panic Park
 * Jonathan Chiller: Slappy New Year!
 * Ray Gordon: Slappy New Year!
 * Grandpa Whitman: Son of Slappy
 * Jackson Stander: Son of Slappy
 * Ian Barker: Slappy Birthday to You
 * David Harrison: I Am Slappy's Evil Twin
 * Mr. Hanson: The Ghost of Slappy
 * Shep Mooney: The Ghost of Slappy
 * Mandrake the Great: The Dummy Meets the Mummy!
 * Aaron Riggle: The Dummy Meets the Mummy!
 * Colin O' Connor: The Dummy Meets the Mummy!
 * Billy McGee: Diary of a Dummy
 * Dean "The Dream" Harrigan: Diary of a Dummy
 * Jillian Jones: Diary of a Dummy
 * Barton Suggs: My Friend Slappy
 * Richard Hsieh: Slappy in Dreamland
 * Ephraim Darkwell: Slappy, Beware!
 * R.L. Stine: Goosebumps (film)
 * Sonny Quinn: Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Face Off: Gaslighted
In 2014, the International Thriller Writers organization published an anthology, together with Simon and Schuster, entitled Face Off. Edited by David Baldacci, the premise of the anthology heavily involved famous writers pairing up and collaborating with short prose tales that allowed certain established characters to cross paths with other characters created by the other author involved in the respective story. In the story Gaslighted, which was written by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the character Aloysius Penderghast was exposed to a type of gas that allowed him to seemingly hallucinate and catch sight of a ventrilonquist dummy as he lay imprisoned. Although the dummy was never named in the story itself, the synopsis on the book and R.L. Stine's brief foreword for the short story confirmed that it was Slappy who was seen in the tale.

Goosebumps SlappyWorld
On July 5, 2016, a fan asked R.L. Stine on Facebook about future Goosebumps Most Wanted books. Stine replied to him, saying that The Lizard of Oz would be the final book in the Most Wanted series. Stine also revealed that he was writing a new series called, Goosebumps SlappyWorld. The series is about Slappy telling his own twisted tales and scary stories, although Slappy is the narrator of all the books. He only appears in part of the plot in the first book, Slappy Birthday to You, and in the third book, I Am Slappy's Evil Twin. This is also the third time Slappy has been redesigned, looking more closely to his movie appearance. He appears in the sixth book The Ghost of Slappy as the main antagonist, as well as in the eighth book, The Dummy Meets the Mummy!, where he is not the main villain. He appears as the main antagonist once again in the tenth book, Diary of a Dummy. His next appearance was in the twelfth book, My Friend Slappy, once again in the role of main antagonist. Following that, he returned once more in Slappy in Dreamland, yet again in the role of main antagonist. His next appearance will be in the special edition book Slappy, Beware! where he serves the role of protagonist for the first time since Slappy's Nightmare.