Night of the Squawker

Night of the Squawker is the eighteenth book in the Goosebumps SlappyWorld book series. It is currently slated for release in 2023.

The cover illustration depicts a monstrous blue bird with glowing red eyes, a red beak and giant fangs breaking through a chain link fence with an explosion behind it. The sign "Experimental Area" can be seen hanging on a chain on the fence which has also been broken by the bird.

Blurb
Beak-a-boo, it sees you. . . Cooper Klavan and his sister Anna are fishing with their parents at a woodland pond when they come across an injured bird. Anna, a huge animal lover, insists on taking it home to rehabilitate.

But the bird really does not want to be rescued. It bites Anna, and scares Cooper. Soon, Anna is behaving very strangely. She's perching high up in trees, gathering sticks to hide in her room, and refusing to eat eggs-- once one of her favorite foods. Cooper doesn't want to jump to any conclusions, but his sister seems to be going to the birds. ..

Trivia

 * Early website listings for this book featured the book's original title, Feathers!
 * While "Night of the" has been used in many titles, this book's title is a likely reference to the 1972 horror film, Night of the Lepus, as both deal with mutated animals.
 * This is the second book to feature a bird that escapes an experimental area. The first being Bugsy from Night of the Giant Everything.
 * This book's plot shares some similarities with a few previous Goosebumps books like Chicken Chicken and The Lizard of Oz. Each feature children who begin to transform into animals.
 * While it is highly coincidental, this book's title is similar to the title of the nineteenth book in the Bone Chillers series, The Night Squawker.