If you’re looking for a bit of nostalgia this Halloween, Tubi has you covered. The series that has brought many a classic television series to our screens for free has now made almost all of the original Goosebumps series available for streaming — just in time for an All Hallow’s Eve marathon.
Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to find all of the series somewhere — Tubi now houses all the regular episodes of the series, while twelve episodes classified as two part specials still live on Netflix. If you’re interested in A Night in Terror Tower, Welcome to the Dead House, or The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, you’ll have to hop on over to Netflix, but Tubi’s got you covered on the rest of it. (Got to love rights issues!)
The series originally premiered in 1995 with an adaptation of famed author R.L. Stine’s The Haunted Mask, which had been published two years earlier in 1993. Four seasons of seventy-four episodes were ultimately produced, each adapting one of Stine’s classic (and terrifying, if you’re an eight-year-old reading past your bedtime) children’s novels, which were written between 1992 and 1997 and went on to become the second best-selling book series in history, with 400 million copies sold as of 2022.
This, naturally, wasn’t the only time Stine’s work made it to screens. Jack Black played a fictionalized version of the author in two feature films, Goosebumps and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, and Disney+ has their own Goosebumps series, which featured horror staple Justin Long in Season 1, and returns for Season 2 — starring David Schwimmer and subtitled Goosebumps: The Vanishing — in early 2025.
There’s also the Fear Street film trilogy that premiered on Netflix in 2021, loosely inspired by Stine’s teen horror series of the same name, among many other works spun-off from his long-running career as the “Stephen King of children’s literature.” So no matter what you’re into this Halloween season, there’s probably an R.L. Stine story out there for you.
Goosebumps is now available to stream for free on Tubi, with select episodes streaming on Netflix.
