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''Goosebumps HorrorLand'' is a horror novella series by R.L. Stine, a spin-off of his popular ''Goosebumps'' books. There was an almost ten-year gap between the publication of the initial installment in the ''Goosebumps Horrorland'' series and the previous publication of other ''Goosebumps'' novels.〔Scarafile, Andrew (October 21, 2010). ("Goosebumps is BACK!" ). ''Scholastic''. Retrieved on November 21, 2010.〕 == Overview == R.L. Stine is currently writing what was originally announced as a twelve-book series titled ''Goosebumps HorrorLand''. The series, based loosely on ''One Day at HorrorLand'' (sixteenth in the original series) and ''Return to HorrorLand'' (thirteenth in the ''Goosebumps 2000'' series), is the first Goosebumps series where each book is part of the same plot, and the first ''Goosebumps'' fictional crossover, with characters, villains and locations from distinct ''Goosebumps'' continuities interacting. The first twelve books were announced with the following details: The new series will be an immersive storytelling experience welcoming fans to HorrorLand, a vast theme park which R.L. Stine describes as “the scariest place on Earth.” In a Goosebumps first, the new series will be a serialized adventure, and the story won’t end on the final page of book one, Revenge of the Living Dummy. Instead, the spine-tingling and funny bone-tickling adventures will continue on the Internet and in books #1-12, each of which can also stand alone. The first nine HorrorLand books all will feature a combination of frightful new faces as well as the vilest villains from the original Goosebumps series. Ordinary kids are being summoned to HorrorLand—but why? Readers are in for the ride of their lives as the cast of characters trapped in the theme park grows larger with each book, and their situations become more and more perilous. Each book had two stories.〔(Reading Is Fundamental | Reading Planet | Book Zone | Meet the Authors and Illustrators )〕 The purpose of the first, considerably longer, story is to introduce the villain and protagonists; the second story shows what happens to the protagonists when they get to HorrorLand, and are united with the other characters. The books also include a case file that links to material on the EscapeHorrorLand.com tie-in website. The final two books in the series serve to wrap up the 'HorrorLand' plot in a single climactic storyline. Scholastic's reprints of classic ''Goosebumps'' titles to accompany the series have all-new covers and bonus material. They are known as "collector's editions,"〔''One Day at HorrorLand'' collector's edition (bonus material)〕 and are marketed under the title "Classic Goosebumps." Since not all the books in ''Goosebumps HorrorLand'' are connected to classic books, some of the reissues relate to the ongoing Enter HorrorLand storyline, or are simply reissues of bestsellers. For example, ''Be Careful What You Wish For...'' is a Classic reissue because the character Clarissa was used as the basis for HorrorLand's fortune-teller dummy, Madame Doom.〔(Escape HorrorLand - Ebook Index ) - Chapter 4, pages 6-7〕 Ultimately, there were some deviations from the original announcement; the tenth book did not take place exclusively in HorrorLand, and reissues of classic ''Goosebumps'' book continued on past the tenth, probably due to their sales success. Finally, shortly before the publication of the twelfth and concluding book in the series, it was revealed that a new story arc, running for seven books and bringing the total to nineteen, would begin in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rights and Coeditions )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rights and Coeditions )〕 This was confirmed in the back of the Survival Guide, in which there was a three-chapter preview. In May 2010, Stine revealed via a video interview that he had just agreed to write six more books in the series, bringing the total to twenty-five, and that he hadn't yet come up with any ideas for them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goosebumps HorrorLand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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