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Evil-Detecting Dog: Petey, the Benson family dog, barks at everyone in the town because they are zombies.

Not to mention, the family dog is actually killed, offscreen, by the villains. In addition to being more gruesome than usual, it has fewer chapters than later books and the chapters themselves are longer.

Early-Installment Weirdness: This is the very first Goosebumps book.

Company Town: The rural town of Dark Falls revolves around the now-defunct Dark Falls Chemical Factory, where most of the now unemployed residents used to work.

Bloodier and Gorier: This book is quite a bit more violent and gruesome than the majority of the series, with graphic descriptions of faces being melted off and bone being exposed after a villain's head is smashed.

But they've still lost their beloved Petey, as they're driving away it's revealed Dawes somehow survived and is ready to repopulate the town.

Bitter Sweet Ending: Amanda and her family escape the gruesome fate the townsfolk have planned for them and destroy most of the undead.

Especially Karen, who just wanted to be friends, and actually thanks the girl for ending her suffering.

Alas, Poor Villain: The Dark Falls residents as Amanda destroys them.

Same with the TV version of Karen, who would actually be an Affably Evil Anti-Villain since she actually seemed reluctant to engage in the "feeding" that everyone in the town had to do to survive, repeatedly saying she wanted to be friends with Amanda and Josh. Affably Evil: The antagonists are friendly with the main characters except that they have to invite them over, especially Karen Somerset, who says she wants to be a nice person but everyone needs fresh blood to survive.

It was later reissued in the Classic Goosebumps line in 2010 as a companion to When the Ghost Dog Howls. It was adapted into episodes 20 and 21 of the second season of the TV series. Everyone else wears long, heavy clothing in the middle of summer, and is never available when the sun is out.īy which we mean that everybody is dead, as you can tell from the fact that we used "dead" as an intensifier and emphasized it. The trees are really tall and dense, blanketing the entire town in shade. Petey, their dog, is aggressive to all the neighbors. For one thing, the family's new house is clearly haunted. The Benson family have just moved to the dreary town of Dark Falls after the father inherits a spooky mansion from a great-uncle he didn't know he had.