Dr. Crawler

Dr. Crawler appeared in the Goosebumps HorrorLand books, Welcome to Camp Slither and The Streets of Panic Park.

History
Dr. Crawler is a were-snake. Originally a scientist with his Uncle Jerry, he wanted a cure for snake venom. He and Jerry injected themselves too soon, along with all the workers and they all became poisonous snakes like rattlesnakes, copperhead, cottonmouth, etc. Ever since, they ran a camp called Camp Hither. Anybody who came was kidnapped and chosen to do tests on and they eventually became snakes too. They start children off like this: Spray them with a sunscreen called Sun-Glo which is actually snake DNA. Then they captured the children and inserted them into weird machines. The machines' laser counter the snake DNA and transform them into snakes on. When they change the child to a full human- not a were-snake, they figure out how to change themselves back to humans. It never worked.

Goosebumps HorrorLand
Dr. Crawler was defeated in the ninth book, Welcome to Camp Slither, by Boone and Heather Dixon by accidentally poisoning himself.

In the twelfth book, The Streets of Panic Park, Boone and 15 other children found out he is alive with other HorrorLand villains. He appeared wrapped around the lab coat of a villain named Inspector Cranium. Both of them along with five other villains helped the Very Special Guests escape Panic Park.

Physical appearance
Dr. Crawler is tall and thin and very tan. He had a black mustache and sleek, shiny black hair brushed straight back from his forehead. He wore baggy khaki shorts and a brown sweatshirt with a large coiled snake printed on the front. The snake had its jaws open as if it was ready to snap. In his snake form he was a large copperhead.

Trivia

 * In the Portuguese release of Welcome to Camp Slither, Dr. Crawler is called 'Dr. Snake'.
 * In the Q&A included in the Classic Goosebumps reprint of Night of the Living Dummy, Stine refers to Dr. Crawler as Mister Slither. This might have been his original name.