Dead Dogs Still Fetch

Unreleased

Dead Dogs Still Fetch is an unpublished short story for the Goosebumps series. The short story was conjured up for a Goosebumps contest in Fall of 1998 and though the concept and story would be written by R.L. Stine, the story was never officially published in any Goosebumps book.

Background
In Fall 1998, Parachute Press and General Mills partnered to host the Goosebumps Brain Juice Terrifying Title Contest. The contest encouraged kids all across the country to submit a scary Goosebumps Title, and the winner would have R.L. Stine visit their school to write their story live. The contest recieved thousands of submissions, and the winner was Bradon G. The ten-year-old aspiring author in Lacona, Iowa won the contest with his title: Dead Dogs Still Fetch.

R.L. Stine visited Bradons' school and came up with the story in front of an audience of students, Though the story was written by Stine, it would only stay unpublished, and would never be seen an any future Goosebumps book, or any spin-off books.

In 2022, pointhorror.com worked with the original contest winner, Bradon G, to find remnents of the original story. In doing so, a video recording of the original meeting with R.L. Stine surfaced online, detailing the entire session and fully exploring the story, which prior had been lost to time.

Story
TBA