All good things must come to an end. Is that why the Goosebumps franchise is still going strong? (We kid.) We would like to thank everyone for embarking on this journey with us. It was a passion project devoted to nostalgia and friendship with no expectations or real direction. We never expected to find so many thoughtful, passionate, and hilarious like-minded people along the way and for that we are truly grateful. You'll always be our Cute Little Stine-Heads. Jizzingly yours,  Matt & Dave

Calling All Creeps: A Goosebumps Literary Review

The Calling All Creeps Podcast Finale

You know how most people finish off their grand projects with a big bang? Not our boy RLS. "Fizzle and Die" is the best way to describe the ending of the Goosebumps original 62. He was already working on the Goosebumps 2000 series at this point. (Insert that meme of the guy with the girlfriend looking at the other girl.) Also, this is the final Goosebumps book and we are free of this curse.

Ep 62. Monster Blood IV

Friend of the pod and artist Gene (@melt.gif) helps Matt and Dave tackle one of the final books in the original 62 Goosebumps! We are super happy that RL Stine has returned to a tried and true plot device. Our good friend Head Trauma returns in this action packed book about misremembering and taking baseball bats to the dome!

Ep. 61 I Live in Your Basement

RL Stine has been holding back this whole time. Severed heads, people peeling off their skin, murdering neighbors, near death car accidents, home made doughnuts, this book has it all!  Only three more books in the original 62 Goosebumps and this one is helping it end with a high note!

Ep 60. Werewolf Skin

Evan is tired of this mother f*#$'n Monster Blood, on the this mother f*#$'n plane! The Monster Blood books have always been extremely popular, but due to budget constraints Monster Blood 2 could not be made into a television episode. So what did we get? Flight Monster Blood! A retconned Monsterblood 1.5 that was not written by RLS. Weird? You bet!

More Monster Blood: Goosebumps Television Series

Students, please find your seats! Today we will be covering school dance posters, mannequin modern art memorials for dead kids, disembodied voices, black and white child purgatory... This kind of thing is pretty much the curriculum for an RL Stine school. Matt and Dave grab their Jansports and take a step into the halls of The Haunted School!

Ep 59. The Haunted School

The original Deep Trouble was one of the best selling Goosebumps books in the series and also won the prestigious Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award. The fans wanted more, so RLS delivered. The Deep family are in deep sh*t again. No mermaids this time, but I'm pretty sure Sheena gets swallowed by a female reproductive organ. I don't know, just read it. 

Ep 58. Deep Trouble II

What is it about the invisibility books? They're all bad. Just plain awful. Matt & Dave mix literature with alcohol and bathroom humor to make it through book number 57!

Ep. 57 My Best Friend is Invisible

You can fit so many dead kids in this cold, cold lake. RL Stine is sick of letting children live in book 56 and starts swinging the scythe around! If things weren't spooky enough, Ashley of Lloyd's Pub Podcast (@lloyds_pub_podcast) joins Matt and Dave to discuss the book and her ghostly experiences (she is super haunted). 

Ep. 56 The Curse of Camp Cold Lake

Ed, Matt, Dave, and the Bailey School gang are back! I mean, they haven't really gone anywhere because this is the normal show and not the long running April fools joke.  The Bailey School DropOuts have done it! They have ready every book in the series! What is there to do now, but dream of what comes next?

Bailey School DropOuts: April Fools Jokes Don't Always Happen In April

In a sea of stinkers, The Blob That Ate Everyone is a shining gem in the back-end of the Goosebumps library. This is a book worth savoring like a fine wine. Matt and Dave pop the cork with returning guest Lou Morgue and ArtfromAnt. Blobs and punguses, all aged to perfection...

Ep 55. The Blob That Ate Everyone

Don't judge a book by its cover. While you're at it, don't judge a book by its title either. We only mention that because this book has a pretty cool cover and title. I believe that says all that needs to be said...

Ep. 54 Don't Go to Sleep

This is a very bad book that sucks and is bad. Goth-Jock super friend of the pod, Brian returns to help shoulder the burden. 

Ep 53. Chicken Chicken

This isn't a scary book but it says "Goosebumps" on the front so we read it. Who cares if a kid flies? Is he a vampire? Maybe a gargoyle? Nah, just a kids flying because he is upset about rollerblading with a cute girl or something. Who knows...

Ep. 52 How I Learned to Fly

Do you want to build a snowman? This book doesn't have too much in common with the hit Disney film Frozen, but there is a dead mom, so it has that going for it! Disney hates living parents like the small arctic village of Sherpia hates ice caves and the monstrous snowman that inhabits them.

Ep 51. Beware, the Snowman

Hosts Matt Ryan and Dave Potosnak combine equal parts comedy and literary criticism in this Goosebumps appreciation podcast.

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Calling All Creeps: A Goosebumps Literary Review

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