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That is my new favorite book.

You okay? I think.

Let's get out of here.

What are you guys doing in there?

Oh, no big deal, really. Just being mauled

by my favorite comfort food!

Wait. Just stop. Stop, stop!

What are you guys even talking about?

Everything is alive, Sarah. Even candy.

Well, is that the book? Let's read it.

There's something you need to know about this book.

What?

Look out!

Whoa!

That's what.

This is not a normal book, Sarah.

Who would write this?

Oh, what is this?

Okay.

Huh? Oh!

Hyah! Oh, you rehearsed that, did you?

Best costume of the night, sir.

Go!

Look out, look out! Ah!

What's going on?

There! Let's take the alley. It's empty.

Wait, wait!

We need to read the book and see how we can end this.

Let me see.

"It was nearly Halloween in the town of Wardenclyffe..."

Blah, blah, blah. Here!

"His revenge was to create a family

by bringing Halloween to life, but that wasn't enough."

That seems like plenty of revenge to me.

"Because he wanted more than a family. He wanted a mother."

"His plan was to..."

Was to what? Keep reading.

I-I-I can't.

That was the last page. It's an unfinished manuscript.

What?

Okay, great. What do we do now?

Slappy's gonna go after Mom.

That book is the only thing we have to stop him.

We have to go to the nursing home and save her.

Mom's not at the nursing home.

Where is she?

On her way home to save us. What?

She called while we were attacked by gummy bears.

Why answer at a time like that?

Maybe because unlike you, Sarah, I pick up Mom's phone calls.

Really? Guilt trip much?

We need to find your mom before Slappy does.

Now, come on, let's go!

Your woodworking skills are impressive.

Yes.

This will do nicely.

Oh, I used to manage a hardware store.

Walter. Focus, please. Yes.

Now tell my monsters to get me Mama and get me that book.

Yeah. Yes.

Run!

Duck!

Look out!

What the...?

That's Mr. Peters!

Nice doggy. It's right behind you!

Ah! Not on my leg!

Help!

That's Mom! That's Mom! Come on!

You bunch of scallywags!

Kids, watch out!

Behind you!

Okay, now's our chance.

Give me the book. I'm gonna protect Mom.

You get the ladder and meet me at that tree.

Wait till it's safe, then go. Okay.

Okay, okay.

Oh, my God! We're all gonna die! Run for your life! Ah!

Oh, my God.

Oops. Not a monster.

All right, let's go!

Come on!

Halt!

My orders are to guard this porch!

No way.

You like carving pumpkins, huh?

Look what you did to poor Terry.

Hiya! I'm round.

Sergeant Squash, open fire.

Oh. Ow!

We need to find another way in!

No. This is my house.

I'm hit! Medic!

What are you doing? Put me down!

Hiya! Happy Easter.

No, no! Ugh!

Yes! Let's go.

Sarah, I was so worried. Are you okay?

I'm fine. Just hang tight.

I'm gonna get you down. I promise.

I just need you to trust me.

Don't worry about me. Run. Hide!

Ghost at 11 o'clock!

No, no, no! Get back here!

That's my book! Ah!

We gotta go.

Sarah! Sarah, let go of that ghost!

Do not let go of that ghost!

You okay? No, that ghost took the book.

Mom! Oh, kids. Help!

No, no, no!

Sarah! Mom!

It's heading for the Tesla lab.

Slappy brought the tower to life.

That's why this is happening.

We have to stop him.

Uh, guys?

Sonny, what do we do?

I don't know. You're the older one.

No, no, no. It's me, Mr. Chu!

Mr. Chu?

Shh! Follow me! To the basement now!

Don't ruin the Mylar.

I'm saving it for next year. Go, go, go.

Let me get this straight.

We are living a Goosebumps story right now?

Okay, clearly you're a fan.

This is the greatest thing I've ever heard!

Hold on. Let me guess, let me guess, let me guess. Um...

Monster Blood.

No, too on the nose. Yeah, you're right. Um...

The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight.

No. Haunted Halloween.

I don't know that one. How does it end?

That's the problem.

It doesn't.

Mm! Mm!

Hello, Mama.

Remember me?

You put me on your lap.

Put those cute words in my mouth.

What was it you called me? "Bobo"? Ha-ha-ha.

Can't talk?

Don't you worry.

From now on, I'll do the talking for both of us.

I'm gonna make you so proud, Mama.

Onarrak unolom

amol

annodo irram

urrak.

It's working.

Yes.

My mind is literally blown right now.

I mean, we get to finish our Goosebumps story!

This isn't a creative-writing exercise, Mr. Chu.

Slappy has our mom!

Yeah, and then you get to save your mom. It's Chapter 22:

"The kids save their mom from the demonic dummy."

Well, the only thing I had to save my mom

was that book, and I lost it. So...

Sarah. This is not your fault.

If anything, it's my fault.

I'm the one who found the book and brought Slappy to life.

And I even told Slappy about Tesla.

Mom trusted me to take care of you guys,

and I told her I would save her.

I failed.

I know I always say that I can't wait

to go to college and get started on my real life,

but you guys are my life.

This is a classic Goosebumps moment.

Do you remember Say Cheese and Die...?

This is real life, Chu! Okay.

Guys, Slappy is using the Tesla Tower to power Halloween.

If I can get in there, maybe I can

shut it off, and we can save Mom.

But there's monsters everywhere.

How are we gonna get past them?

Easy.

Camouflage.

Welcome to my crafts lab.

Wow.

Jeez, they're still everywhere.

It's actually working.

Come on. We gotta get to that tower.

I can't believe we're really here.

I can barely see out of this thing.

Is it cool? Is it awesome?

Hey, fanboy. Let's focus.

Right. Sorry.

Let's go.

Don't. Move.

Come on, let's go. Come on!

Look at this place.

It's so creepy.

Stay close.

No wonder Tesla abandoned this place.

Shh, shh, shh. Do you hear that?

Come on.

Oh, no.

Not Haunted Halloween.

Oh, my writing was so cliche back then.

I knew it! I knew I came up with that first.

That clever little dummy's writing his own ending.

Not in my book, he's not.

Oh, gnomes.

Don't you dare.

Stay.

Ow! Son of a... Ah!

Oh, witches!

Get away, witches!

Guys, do you hear that? Shh!

Wow.

Whoa.

Welcome.

Slappy.

Walter?

Where's my mother?

Don't you mean our mother?

There's my sweet little babies.

I just love a family reunion.

Mom. What did you do?

I had a papa once!

He let me down.

But a mother's love is forever.

Turn her back now, you psycho!

Oh, should I?

Unfortunately, I have other plans.

Walter! The book, please.

Yes.

This book.

Go prepare the tower!

I'm going to do what Stine couldn't:

Finish this book, once and for all.

Spoiler alert:

The manuscript gets destroyed in that tower,

and my Halloween family lasts forever!

Mama, babysit the children for me.

Yes, dear.

We can't let him destroy that book.

Sonny, turn this thing off. I'm going after Slappy.

Just you and me now, Slappy.

Can't hear you. I'm too far ahead of you. Hee-hee-hee!

This is amperage and this is voltage?

None of these cables make any sense.

What about here? Start pulling levers.

No, no, Sam, don't! Ah!

Slappy booby-trapped all this stuff.

Careful, Sarah. It'd be a shame to fall from that height.

Plenty more where that came from.

Come on, Sonny, turn this thing off.

Oh, no. Sonny hurry up.

Slappy's at the top. Do something.

I can't do it, Sam.

Come on, Sonny. You are the smartest kid I know.

Sam, I couldn't even do my little science project.

Slappy did that.

And even that one shorted out.

Wait. That's it.

We turn it up. All the way up. We blow the fuse.

Yes! The fuse is over there.

And now to finish this story and destroy the town.

No!

What do you think you're doing?

Writing my own ending.

Spoiler alert: I save the town

and put you back where you belong.

What's the matter?

Writer's block?

Again?

Grab that lever. Yes. This one?

On my count, we push up at the same time.

Ready? Go!

Give me the book.

You're not gonna get this book, Slappy.

I have a friend who might think otherwise.

Nowhere else to run, sis!

Fine. You win, Slappy.

I'll give you the book, but you gotta turn my mom back.

Deal.

It all ends Slappily ever after.

You forgot one thing:

Never judge a book by its cover.

What?

No!

Sonny, what's happening?

Mom.

We need to get out of here!

It's working!

Go, kids!

Hello?

Someone called for me?

Sarah? Oh! Oh... Mom!

Hello?

I got your message. I'm here.

Don't worry. Everything's going to be okay.

I need typing paper, a thesaurus,

Diet Coke, and a quiet place to compose.

Preferably in a comfortable chair with lumbar support.

Are you R.L. Stine?

Me? No, I'm Dr. Seuss. R.L. Stine was unavailable.

Yes, of course, I'm R.L. Stine!

Then I guess this belongs to you.

Don't open it.

My first book.

You realize I wrote this when I was around your age.

More of an amateur work, really, but I am sure you'll all agree

it shows the undeniable promise of a brilliant young writer.

Why do you have a typewriter?

I was going to save you with it,

although it appears you found a way to save yourselves.

A typewriter? It's been done before.

Once before.

Maybe twice.

Maybe more.

Kathy?

Walter, manager at Fred's Pharmacy.

It's nice to see you.

Hi. It's nice to see you too.

What are you doing here?

I don't know.

Walter! Walter! You got turned into a monster.

You were big, green, ugly. You were Slappy's henchman!

Weather patterns. Very strange weather patterns.

But I think everything's back to normal now.

Fine. Okay, yeah, the weather has been weird.

It's true. Okay, thanks.

What happened to your shirt?

I don't know.

Ixnay on the onsters-may.

Go ahead, ollow-fay. What?

Means "follow." Pig Latin.

Oh, the youth today.

So funny running into you.

Right? I always hoped we'd run into each other outside of work.

Yeah, me too.

Hey, if you're not busy next week,

would you wanna have some dinner?

Yeah. Yeah, heh, heh. Yeah? That's awesome.

So they don't remember what happened to them?

The transmutation process

seems to have wiped their memories clean.

All those who were affected won't remember a thing.

Tommy?

Are you okay? Oh, my God. Guys.

I had this crazy dream.

I'm so glad to see you.

You know, can't believe I'm saying this,

but I'm glad to see you too, Tommy.

Kids falling from the sky.

My work here is done.

I'm a writer too.

Well, an aspiring, very stuck writer at the moment.

My condolences.

All the horrors in the world can't compare

to the terrors of the blank page.

Um, any advice on college essays?

Well, first rule of writing: Write what you know.

Thirty years, and I couldn't figure out

how this book should end.

And somehow you figured out

how to finish it in one night.

I believe in you.

Hm. "Write what you know."

Recount a time in your life

when you faced a fear, challenge or failure.

I think most of us are afraid

that we don't have a story to tell.

That there's nothing special about us.

And then a moment comes when you least expect it

where you have to step up,

no matter how terrified you are.

But what I've learned is that

it's good to be scared sometimes.

Scared of losing the people we love.

Stop, stop! It's a ventriloquist dummy.

Oh. Really?

That's not funny, Mom. Too soon.

No, I like it.

Congratulations, Sonny.

Thank you so much, Principal Harrison.

Or scared of not achieving our dreams.

Because those moments remind us

just how special our stories really are.

Here's to us. Indeed.

Hey, Sarah! Hi, Mr. Chu.

Watch this.

I like it.

Yeah, I just made it life-size this year.

You know, just in case.

No, seriously, you know, just in case.

Right. I'll see you later, Mr. Chu.

Bye!

And maybe when you face enough of your fears

life stops being so scary after all.

Hey, honey.

What happened?

I got in.

I knew it. I knew you could do it.

Oh, I'm so proud of you!

I guess I'm proud.

Thanks, Sonny. Come on, bring it in.

Congratulations.

Here, take off your jacket.

Guys, give her some ornaments, please.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm so happy! Ha-ha-ha!

Here, put that right there. Yeah, I like that one.

Finally, a new book.

Yes.

Hello, Papa.

Slappy! I thought the book got you.

Maybe those others, but not me.

Why is that?

You know I always survive.

You wrote me that way.

In fact, I wrote my own story while I was gone.

And guess what.

You're the main character.

No.

No!

You try living in a book for a while, Papa.