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Goosebumps HorrorLand is a series of books written by R.L. Stine. The series is a serialized adventure welcoming fans to HorrorLand theme park, a vast theme park run by creatures called Horrors. It ran from 2008 - 2011 with nineteen books spanning over two story arcs, a Goosebumps first.

Premise[]

Each book had two stories. The first ten books had its own self-contained storyline which takes place outside the gates of HorrorLand, with a secondary story thread which leads its main character to HorrorLand only in the final few chapters. The secondary story also focuses on a certain ride, attraction or section in the park that the main character goes on. The next two books in the series served to wrap up the HorrorLand plot, uniting the characters and villains from the first ten books in a single climactic storyline. This arc featured characters from the original series meeting each other, such as Slappy the Dummy, Carly Beth Caldwell, Sabrina Mason, Billy and Sheena Deep, and Lizzy and Luke Morris.

A new storyline with different characters was introduced in book thirteen. The storyline centered around a HorrorLand gift shop and the protagonists who shopped there. The nineteenth and final book in the series wrapped up the story and brought all the characters from the last six books together.

Books[]

No. Book Publish date Pages
1 Revenge of the Living Dummy April 2008 135
2 Creep from the Deep April 2008 137
3 Monster Blood for Breakfast! May 2008 137
4 The Scream of the Haunted Mask August 2008 139
5 Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz October 2008 122
6 Who's Your Mummy? January 2009 133
7 My Friends Call Me Monster January 2009 138
8 Say Cheese — and Die Screaming! March 2009 125
9 Welcome to Camp Slither April 2009 133
10 Help! We Have Strange Powers! April 2009 133
11 Escape from HorrorLand June 2009 132
12 The Streets of Panic Park July 2009 137
N/A Welcome to HorrorLand: A Survival Guide October 2009 166
13 When the Ghost Dog Howls January 2010 137
14 Little Shop of Hamsters March 2010 135
15 Heads, You Lose! May 2010 136
16 Weirdo Halloween July 2010 214
17 The Wizard of Ooze September 2010 142
18 Slappy New Year! November 2010 141
19 The Horror at Chiller House January 2011 140
N/A Write Your Fright! July 2011 64

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Enter HorrorLand (story)[]

Main article: Enter HorrorLand (story)

The first twelve books in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series are interconnected. The first ten books in the series tell independent stories, but each book features an "Enter HorrorLand" section at the end of each story. In this section, the protagonists of each book received an invitation to HorrorLand. The eleventh and twelfth books in the series are entirely focused on concluding the combined Enter HorrorLand story.

Other entries[]

Welcome to HorrorLand: A Survival Guide is a bonus book that was released between books twelve and thirteen (serving as a divider between the two arcs). There is no consistent plot, as it's mainly a humorous book that describes the creatures and attractions of HorrorLand. This book is unnumbered, but is sometimes referred to as book 12.5 or book 0. In the Goosebumps Horrorland 1 - 20 boxed set, it is referred to as book 20.

A promotional book titled Write Your Fright!, which let the reader partake in writing a Goosebumps story, was released after the main series concluded.

Slappy New Year![]

The eighteenth book, Slappy New Year!, shares the same name as a book from the Goosebumps Gold series, which was a series canceled in the early 2000s due to R.L. Stine's fallout with Scholastic. Although the titles are nearly identical, Stine confirmed that the Goosebumps Gold version of Slappy New Year! did not have the same plot as the Goosebumps HorrorLand book.[citation needed]

Continuity[]

The idea of a shared Goosebumps universe ⁠— a concept explored throughout Goosebumps HorrorLand ⁠— was first seen in Return to HorrorLand, which seemingly tries to establish a continuity between Monster Blood, One Day at HorrorLand, and Bad Hare Day. While the books in Goosebumps HorrorLand don't completely contradict Return to HorrorLand, they seem to retcon it to some degree. In Goosebumps HorrorLand, Lizzy doesn't seem to know that anything truly evil is going on in the park until a Horror emails her. Meanwhile, the concept of HorrorLand being evil is presented to Lizzy early in Return to HorrorLand and reaffirmed at the end.

The series also features direct sequels to Deep Trouble and The Haunted Mask that takes place a year after the original books. This conflicts with the events of Deep Trouble II and The Haunted Mask II, as those too take place a year after their predecessors. This is either an oversight or the HorrorLand sequels take place in an alternative timeline where the sequels from the original series never happened. HorrorLand also features books that take place in the Monster Blood and Say Cheese and Die sagas, but they do not feature established characters from previous entries.

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References in other Goosebumps media[]

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