"Where Nightmares Come to Life!"
- –The park's slogan
HorrorLand is a horror-themed amusement park in an unknown location run by creatures known as Horrors.
Description[]
HorrorLand was a little-acknowledged part of the Goosebumps world up until the release of the Goosebumps HorrorLand book series in which monsters from throughout the Goosebumps series join in an attempt to get rid of their enemies, the main characters from the original Goosebumps series. HorrorLand was created by a man named Kit Katzman in the 1970s and its staff is mostly creatures called Horrors.
History[]
The Past[]
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One Day at HorrorLand and Return to HorrorLand[]
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Enter Horrorland Arc[]
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Chiller House Arc[]
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Hall of Horrors Arc[]
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Park Layout[]
Books and Websites[]
In the books and companion website, the map of HorrorLand is roughly divided into 12 sections, often with their own individual theming. The map's layout of the park differs somewhat from how it is described in the park.
Outside the Park[]
Guests enter the park's outer grounds through the wide-open mouth of a ten-foot tall purple dragon statue, leading into the expansive parking lot. Ahead of it is a green-and-purple billboard welcoming guests to the park.
The park itself is surrounded by a tall green fence resembling the body of a monster that prevents those outside from seeing inside. Funerary organ music plays through speakers.[1]
Entrance[]
Enter HorrorlLand: Map 7. It depicts the entrance gate, multiple ticket booths, the Monster Police station, the Bat Barn, and a bridge over a river leading further into the park.
It is labelled as Map #7 in the book series, its illustrated version located in the back of My Friends Call Me Monster.
The park is entered through a large iron front gate shaped like a green monster's mouth, part of the park-wide green fence resembling its body. A nearby sign states that guests must be at least two feet tall to enter. A single ticket booth, resembling a purple castle, sits next to the entrance.
To enter the park, guests must either purchase or present their tickets to the Horror inside (in the case of the latter, the Horror will pretend to eat the ticket), and then scream into a microphone; their screams are kept on file so that they can be later identified in the park's system and by staff. Once permitted to enter, guests walk through the gate, which closes behind them. The ticket booth Horror will take out a flamethrower and pretend to torch their luggage. A Last Ride Cab Co. taxi will then arrive to take the guests on a speeding tour throughout the park on their way to Zombie Plaza and the neighboring Stagger Inn.[1]
Stagger Inn[]
Enter HorrorLand: Map 1
It is labelled as Map #1 in the book series, its illustrated version located in the back of Revenge of the Living Dummy.
The Stagger Inn is the official hotel of HorrorLand.[1][2] It resembles a European castle. Two sculpted Horrors wielding axes at the bottom of the staircase leading to the hotel entrance. Many screams and roars can be heard from inside.
It was built in the mid-1970s by world-famous architect Tripp N. Stagger along with the rest of the park. Tripp wanted his creation to be as authentic as possible, and so had pieces of an actual haunted castle brought over from Eastern Europe to incorporate into it, such as the heavy wooden doors, oil paintings, chandeliers, and ghosts.
The hotel has at least 13 floors and a basement level. Floors are accessed by a narrow elevator, which lacks lighting and occasionally gets "stuck" between floors.
Its main lobby includes a check-in and concierge desk and an organ played by Headless Trevor. There are many couches and chairs, all with skeletons. Huge oil paintings of children screaming decorate the walls.
The hotel's check-in time is 4 P.M., but has no known check-out time, since nobody has ever checked out. The twenty-four hour concierge, located in the main lobby, can help guests with things such as purchasing tickets to Haunted Theater shows, obtaining Line Slasher passes for busy attractions, requesting taxis from the Last Ride Cab Co., finding one's way out of their room, or finding people (or limbs) one may have been separated from.
The hotel's food services serve breakfast from 6 A.M. to 11 A.M. (offering cereal, fruit bat salad, The Yolk's On You egg dishes, and assorted squeezings), lunch from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. (offering mummy wraps, cow vein, Monster Blood soup, and personal "Gravestone" pizza), and dinner from 4 P.M. to midnight (offering filet of soul, fettuccini afraid-o, mesquite-grilled mosquitoes, and various sides). The kid's menu (offering "chicken" fingers, growled cheese, and Frank-furter) and dessert menu (offering black eye scream, caramel heads, and crepe Suzette) are available all day. Beverages include coffin coffee, tea-rex, big juice, sour milk, and bottled swamp water. The kitchen is closed from midnight to 6 A.M. for daily repairs and to round up escaped ingredients.
The hotel Gift Chop is located off the main lobby and is open twenty-four hours a day, and offers souvenirs from the Inn itself and other park attractions. These include Stagger Inn t-shirts, a Bat Barn Play Set, Doom Slide: The Home Game, and videos such as Dancing with the Squids LIVE! stage show, The Secret History of HorrorLand documentary, and Creepy Eyes Staring Back At You.
The hotel's gym-nauseum is located on the 10th floor, and offers equipment such as dreadmills, munching bags, dead weights, a casket-ball court, and gut ropes. Its hours run from midnight to 4:30 A.M.
Rooms are accessed by key cards.[1] They come stocked with a flat-screen TV with web-browsing functionality and no mirrors. Some in-room entertainment includes the Welcome to Horrorland video tour, the Close-ups of Spiders Channel, the HorrorLand Hidden Camera Chanel, Dancing with the Squids, and the Creepy Eyes Staring Back at You Channel. More than half of the hotel's rooms come with "THE GHOSTLY GUARANTEE", the hotel's promise that a guest's stay will be interrupted by all sorts of creepy noises and eerie sights provided by the hotel's ghosts, such as singing showers, floating mini-fridges, and ghosts sleeping in one's bed.
Very Special Guests all stay on the 13th floor, separate from their families. These rooms are very large and include a small kitchen, a dining room, a long couch in front of a large flat-screen TV, twin-sized beds with many pillows, and large closets stocked with designer clothes, and also lack mirrors.[1]
The hotel's dungeon is a dimly-lit basement containing an Olympic-sized slime-ing pool, yuk-uzzi, and the Spooky Spa, whose hours run from 9 P.M. to 9 A.M. The pool and yuk-uzzi are filled with a warm, soothing mix of dirty water, ooze, and innumerable creatures. The Spooky Spa offers a variety of treatments such as Spider Massage, Skin Peel, the Scream Room, and Aroma-scare-apy. The basement also contains water pipes connected to each guest's room, with options for both "hot water" and "cold slime".
Some of the hotel's known employees include:
- Earl E. Grave: The hotel's InnKeeper.
- Headless Trevor: A headless man that plays the organ in the lobby. Not even the employees know where he came from, but he has never stopped playing his music for even a minute in all the years he's been there. His music is noted to be quite bad.
- Kitchen staff:
- Frank: The hotel kitchen's dishwasher. He has gone missing, and incidentally has the Frank-furter meal named after him.
- Chef Gurgitate: The hotel's chef. His proud motto is "EAT OR BE EATEN!"
- Suzette: Presumably a cook, she was dying to know the crepe Suzette's secret ingredient.
- Linda: The hotel's sole housecreeper, who is thirteen-and-a-half feet tall. She performs her duties whenever she feels like it. Her services include replacing dirty, slime-covered sheets with clean, slime-covered ones, sending trash to be recycled at the park's restaurants, and vacuuming the oversized bugs that nest under pillows.
- Ray Scarr: A hotel bellboy. When dealing with Very Irritating Persons, such as those that give him lousy tips on how to carry their luggage, he will go to the Inn's basement and switch their shower pipes from "hot water" to "cold slime", tell Linda to put extra spiders in their sheets and pillowcases, and make sure crocodiles "accidentally" find their way into their bathtubs.
- Guards: The hotel no longer employs security guards due to too many of them going missing. In the event of an emergency, the hotel recommends guests run to the nearest Monster Police station.
When the Very Special Guests are invited to HorrorLand, they and their families and friends are taken to the Stagger Inn for their stay. Britney Crosby and Molly Molloy stayed in Room 1313 on the 13th floor, while Britney's parents Sean and Roz stayed in Room 202 on the 2nd floor.[1]
Enter HorrorLand: Map 4
Zombie Plaza[]
It is labelled as Map #4 in the book series, its illustrated version located in the back of The Scream of the Haunted Mask.
The Horror driver will lead guests to believe the car's brakes and steering are jammed, jump out, and the car will appear to be ready to crash into a brick wall that rises from the ground in front of it, but stop just before doing so. In actuality, the taxi is on a track, and the driver merely a stuntman. After the guests exit the taxi unharmed, the taxi turns around and both it and its driver return to the park's entrance for the next riders.[1]
Enter HorrorLand: Map 2
Black Lagoon Water Park[]
- Black Lagoon Water Park is one of the known water parks in HorrorLand.
- Quicksand Beach is a beach that resides in Black Lagoon Water Park and is made entirely out of quicksand. HorrorLand visitors are given special quicksand (semi-)resistant shoes and are told to walk across the beach. They sink, no matter what, into tubes hidden underneath the beach that take them to another part of the park.
- Loch Ness Lake is a lake that is part of the Black lagoon water park and has quicksand beach as it's shores. As it's name implies, it resembles the Loch Ness monster. It is rumored that a giant squid lives in the lake.
- The Bottomless Canoe Ride is a ride in the water park. It gets it's name due to it lasts almost forever.
- The Alligator Swimming Pond is a small inlet of water which people can swim in, even though alligators live in it. It is waist-deep and warm.
The front of Chiller House.
Chiller House[]
Chiller House is a souvenir Horror shop owned by Jonathan Chiller.
Coffin Cruise[]
The Coffin Cruise is an attraction where a person is put inside an open casket that floats down a river until the casket slams shut and the person is left in the darkness. Near the end, spiders crawl over the person. The coffin cruise is said to be lethal. It crosses the Mind Swamp in which brains float in the water. It is between Black Lagoon Water Park and Vampire Village.
Deadly Doom Slide[]
The Deadly Doom Slide is an attraction. Way back during the park's 10th Anniversary Year, attendance started to die off. People were bored with the same old rides all over again. But, then Bill Board: Head of the HorrorLand Advertising came up with a plan to make the park frightening again. First, the Horrors bought the ten haunted acres of the cemetery next to it and used the tombstones to build several things over the park leaving many ghosts homeless and unhappy. Then a contest came in to design the scariest slide ever. Instead of picking one, the horrors picked 10 random designs and constructed the Doom Slide.
The slides in the Doom Slide are:
- The Ear Wax Alley
- The Electric Banshee
- The Worm Belly
- The Dragonbreath Drive
- The Just-a-Drop
- The Hairy Luge
- The Carpenter's Delight
- The Sewer Slide
- The Infinity Dreadful
- The So That's were all the Axes Went!
Free Fall[]
The Free Fall is a large, green building which is "the only bungee jump without a cord".
Good-Bye Land[]
Good-Bye Land is the last attraction guests at HorrorLand will attend. It serves as the exit point for the theme park.
Guillotine Museum[]
The Guillotine Museum is a large, yellow building found near the Monster Zoo and the Vampire Village.
Hall of Horrors[]
The Hall of Horrors is a large building hidden somewhere in HorrorLand. This location can't be found on the map of HorrorLand, it is located in the darkest shadows of the park. The Hall of Horrors is an ancient castle where visitors go and share their scary stories, only for the Story-Keeper to store it. It appears in the Goosebumps Hall of Horrors series.
Happy Tooth Game[]
The Happy Tooth Game is probably the most horrific and painful ride in HorrorLand. It involves a monster dentist's office, where the Horrors drill through human's teeth. There is blood on the spit sinks and the Horrors threaten to drill through the lips of people who do not open their mouths. The only way to escape is to twist the nose of a dentist, who are all robots, which shuts them down.
Horror Rapids[]
Not much is known about Horror Rapids, although it can be found near the House of Mirrors.
House of Mirrors[]
The House of Mirrors is a small building made out of glass. Once inside, a person will sooner or later get trapped inside a room of glass where the walls will close in and try to crush them until a chute opens and they slide out. The official story is a horror supermodel trashed the place, but it obviously was closed to avoid guests escaping to Panic Park.
Roller Coaster[]
An out-of-order Roller Coaster found near the Bat Barn. Despite it being broken, people can still ride it....if they dare.
Madame Doom[]
Madame Doom is actually a robotic wooden fortune telling dummy that resides inside a small purple booth. She is said to be possessed by the ghost of a Russian fortune-teller.
Mad Labs[]
Mad Labs is an area in HorrorLand which mainly consists of Mad Scientist-like buildings/architecture. It also has a "Horrors Only!" den where the player has to go into to get the 5th piece of the ticket. The place also has a "Face Off!" mask shop where the player buys a Horror mask that he/she can't get off.
Known rides in Mad Labs include:
- Buzzwire - You have to move a loop across a wire to the end with the brain watching you
- Shock 'N' Roll - Similar to Bumper Carnage but with 2 extra green lights and shockers
- ThunderVolt - You ride across a lab till you get to the end while throwing orbs at Brain Bots, robots, and asteroids
- Brain Drain - Similar to Flash Fright but with a brain fluid drainer gun
- Treadmill - Similar to Swamp Stomp but on a coveter belt and objects are coming at you
- Toxic Gunk Dunk - Hit targets with slime to dunk the horror before time runs out
Monster Zoo[]
The Monster Zoo is a viridian-colored building where "horrible shrieks and howls can be heard from within" according to Lizzy Morris.
The Play Pen[]
The Play Pen is a mini-arcade where you can play games like the Vampire Darts, Mirror Mirror, and The Trick or Treat Wheel.
Terror Tombs[]
Terror Tombs is an area filled with Mummies. It is the last place that the player has to go to get out of HorrorLand.
Known attractions:
Mummy Run - Similar to Horrorland Derby but the mummies are chasing you and you have to escape the tomb
Snakes on a Chain - Similar to Buzzwire but with a snake watching
Beetle Battle - Similar to Batting Cage but with beetles and a racket
Scorpion Speedway - Similar to Bumper Carnage and Shock 'N' Roll but you have to race three laps
Pharoah's Fairways - Similar to Putt Cemetery but you play to win the final piece of the ticket
Certain Death - Similar to Calamity Canyon and the final ride you go to escape Horrorland
Werewolf Village[]
The Werewolf Village is one of the many monster villages found throughout HorrorLand. It is a real working neighbourhood inhabited exclusively by Werewolves. It was created because at HorrorLand's start when its monsters were all roommates, a werewolf's roommate would disappear on every full moon. A forest spot called Wolfsbane Forest was picked and added a few things.
The main attractions are:
- Make Me Howl! - A shop where they will transform you into a werewolf digitally.
- Moment of Paws - A werewolf-run spa where it turns out that werewolves are really good masseuses and hairdressers.
- Wolfgang's Music Shop - A place where you can purchase werewolf howl recordings, moon-themed songs, and CDs of the most famous all-werewolf band ever called Howie and the Howlers.
- Fur Sure! - A clothing store where all the clothes are made of shredded werewolf fur.
- Over the Moon Souvenirs - A gift shop selling silver bullet key-chains, wolf cub dolls, miniature Werewolf Village play sets, jars of authentic werewolf drool, and wolf's tooth necklaces.
- Wolf It Down - The only vegetarian werewolf restaurant with the house specialties being tofu one-armed shepherd pie, cub club cheese sandwiches, and little pigs lettuce in a salad.
- The Werewolf Petting Zoo - Visitors to HorrorLand can pet many kinds of werewolves from snuggly gray little cubs to mean gigantic adult ones.
- The Wolfsbane Forest - A deep dark forest where giant bugs crawl in the trees. The Wolfsbane Forest is the feeding place for many werewolves and home to their distant, rare, and dangerous cousin called the White Wolf.
Video Game[]
Fever Swamp[]
Unlike the titular swamp from The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, this version of Fever Swamp is one of HorrorLand's known water parks.[3] A Great Gargantua show was hosted by Horrifico here.
The attractions are:
Swamp Stomp - Where you try to stay on a rolling long in the swamp and knock the horror off
Anchors Away - Where you use your strength to throw an anchor at the fright areas (Similar to Dead Ringer)
Beware the Bogtopus - On the ride you have to take out the monster's eyes on it's head, shoot slime shooting horrors and knock it's teeth down three times
Rub-A-Dub Slug - The Horrorland Slug has worms you have to get them out of the slug's holes and fill them up before the stench gets too strong
Slime Flume - Similar to Coffin Cruise but you have to make it to the end in 3:19 or your boat sinks
Tilt-A-Web - Similar to Wheel of Misfortunate but with a spider
Escape from HorrorLand (video game)[]
Carnival of Screams[]
The Carnival of Screams is the only area visitors have access to when they enter the park. They must earn 10 frights to get into Vampire Village. It is the least scary area.
It's known rides include:
- Calamity Canyon - You have to surface three laps on the rollercoaster cause it's falling apart
- Wheel of Misfortune - You run and jump to a point wheel three times to get points
- HorrorLand Derby - You roll some balls to run in a race with horrors to the finish line
- Monster Mash - You throw balls at monster targets for points but watch out for the clowns moving hands cause when landed they'll bonuce back
- Dead Ringer - Test your strength on a giant bell game
- Bumper Carnage - You bump cars until you're the last one standing
The following rides have been closed:
- Ghost Train
- Terrible Teacups
- Ferris Squeal
Vampire Village[]
The Vampire Village is one of the many monster villages found throughout HorrorLand and can be found near the Monster Zoo. Here's where most of the remaining Vampires live. It is also inhabited by vultures and bats of all kind. The main building is the Vampire State Building, a huge stairless, black and red, cape-wearing building that houses the Plasma Plaza. To get to it, you must follow the Yellow Guano Road.
In the Vampire Village are many attractions such as:
- Vulture Beach - A beach that is filled with vultures.
- Bat Barn - A barn where bats are raised.
- The Worm and Bait Shop -
- The Mind Swamp - A swamp filled with floating brains. The Coffin Cruise passes through here.
Game Only Attractions
Roller Ghoster - You ride through a castle on a spinning cup ride where you three balls at fake ghost and vampires
Batting Cage - You play baseball with bats that fly towards you
Garlic Crusher - You throw garlic at vampires who are coming out of their coffins
Putt Cemetery - You play through a cemetery like miniature golf course
Flash Fright - You're in a dark room with nothing but a flashlight to defend yourself from the vampires coming towards you
Coffin Cruise - You go through the stream to the end quickly in 2 minutes the coffin will close
Appearances[]
Books[]
- Goosebumps
- Goosebumps Series 2000
- The Goosebumps HorrorLand series.
Comics[]
Video games[]
Television and film[]
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- There is another amusement park in the Goosebumps universe called the Carnival of Horrors from the Give Yourself Goosebumps book, Escape from the Carnival of Horrors, which has a few rides that are similar to the ones in HorrorLand
- HorrorLand is the most prominent location in the Goosebumps franchise.