Welcome to HorrorLand: A Survival Guide

Goosebumps HorrorLand

by R.L. Stine

Want to make it out of HorrorLand alive? You'll need this survival guide--filled with all the background, tips, and insider info we could find.

Luke and Lizzy Morris weren't sure who-or what-would see their ad. It was a risk, but they had to find out the TRUTH about HorrorLand, otherwise the kids who were lured there would never make it out alive. Between the pages of this cool survival guide, readers will get closer to discovering whether or not there are werewolves in Wolfsbane Forest, why kids are disappearing, and why there aren't any mirrors at HorrorLand. One thing is for certain: something very wrong is happening in HorrorLand, and this guide is the only thing that will help you figure out what.

Genres: Horror, Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Novels

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2009

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Marco De La Rosa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This extremly interesting survival guide informs you about the different several dangers you nee4d to avoid to survive the Horrorland Theme Park. I can see different arkings on this survival guide written on them to warn you, looks like a human. Anyways, this survival guide explains to you the different employees, rides, service, plans, or any other help or information and history about this scary park full of mysterious hoorors.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most entertaining HorrorLand book, and maybe of all time. Really informative as well. 10/10.

[Holli · Rating 2 out of 5]

The puns were quite groan-inducing. The only thing I really hated about the book was the font. Did they have to make it so small and difficult to read? I felt like my eyeballs were being pulled out trying to read this.

[Anish Nair · Rating 5 out of 5]

Only for horrorland lovers

If u like the concept of horrorland theme park, this book is for u. The descriptions of the rides is absolutely perfect for creating a horrorland theme park. In case you don't know, this book is nt a story.

[House of Goosebumps · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10

Amazing for what it is

[Summer Rain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starting off my reread of one of my favorite R.L. Stine series, I decided to delve into “Welcome to Horrorland: A Survival Guide”, and I’m so glad I did! This quirky companion novel is a joy to flick through, adding background and creativity to the already well fledged world of the Horrorland series. Stine is obviously an inner child himself, with no difficulties being imaginative and full of ideas. Horrorland itself is a clever idea; a twist on the classic theme park location that is less about having safe fun and more about having dangerous thrills.
The survival guide introduces humorously named employees of the park, like Clem Muncie or Doug Hisgrave. It not only goes over many of the different locations, such as the Werewolf Village and Vampire Village, or the lovely Staggering Inn. I love the details- which, I believe, make even more significance to adults than children- such as the maid, Linda, who only cleans the rooms “whenever she feels like it”.
R.L. Stine’s humor runs rampant through this book, all appropriate for children but just as amusing for adults, and with enough gag jokes to be interesting instead of boring. I also love that there is representation in his work- like including vegetarian dishes on the horrific menu, and little nods to the way the attractions work, like having to rent special shoes in order to sink faster in the quicksand.
Well thought out and a great representation of all the possibilities in the actual novels, this book makes you want to dive right into the series. My only complaint is, perhaps, the formatting and the number of advertisement pages. There was a good section at the end that I merely skimmed instead of fully processing, because it didn’t seem relevant to the rest of the book. Overall, though, a great little guide to start with and enjoy what’s to come.

[UK Goosebumps · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow there’s a lot to say about this book! There is so much information and back story about horroland and to think someone put in that much effort is very respectable. Definitely the best goosebumps spin off book and I love how they go into small details and talk about specific events that happened throughout horrolands history! Great book and even though R.L. Stine didn’t write it, it’s definitely worthy of the goosebumps title

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

I use to read all these kinds of books when I was just a kid and loved them when I was a child.

[Clover · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this after reading all of the Horrorland books and I think that enhanced my experience. It was a lot of fun reading this, I liked reading about some of the places the kids went and more about the Horrors. Horrorland is quite vast, more than the books show, which is quite interesting given how many books are based there. I loved the graphics and the whole vibe of it.

I don't know if I would have loved this as much as I did if I read it first, but I do think it is a fun little addittion.

[KNG · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s a fun starter to the horrorland series, nothing too special.

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

So fun! Part of Autumn 2018 retro reads marathon.

[Apoorva Nair · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating this book a 3/5 solely cause if the fact that my choices lead me to certain death almost all the time.

[royaevereads · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not spooky, just silly.

[Books and Roller Coasters · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hoped it was better.

[The_Books_Music_Life · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: 3.5 stars.

This was a fun addition to the Horrorland experience. This was very nostalgic for me as Goosebumps and the Horrorland books were some of my favorite books when I was a kid.

[Grayson Lang]

found this in my garage. felt like a kid again. hell yeah.

[Josiah · Rating 1 out of 5]

For the most part, Welcome to Horrorland: A Survival Guide is a compilation of the type of Horrorland joke ads that appeared at the beginning and end of each book in the Enter Horrorland series.

Anyone familiar with the series will recognize the ghoulishly punny humor, which at times really can be quite funny. This book is significantly longer than most others in the various Goosebumps series, and doesn't have any central plot of which to speak. Aside from the Horrorland ads, the reader will spot an occasional hand-written comment from "LM1", aka Lizzie Morris, warning the reader about what's really going on at the monster-run theme park known as Horrorland.

Welcome to Horrorland serves as a nice supplement to the twelve-book series from which it proceeds. Readers expecting to get one of R.L. Stine's famously scary suspense stories might be disappointed if they don't realize that this book is going to be completely different, but it's good, for what it is. I would give it one and a half stars.

[Hansel]

i learned that all the rides were very scary but the kids found there way out of it and later met upp with there parents and escaped on a horrorland bus

[Joel Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

fun and life saving

[Emma D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

A funny great guide! You could read this even if you've neber read a goosebumps.

[Jayshaun Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

its just telling you how to escape from hoorrorland

[Ruhee · Rating 5 out of 5]

best scary book. creepy

[Zack]

cool

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

very cute book :) well spooky cute lol! loved it!

[Luca · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was funny, they want to KILL us.

[Pranjal · Rating 5 out of 5]

please leave me i want only to read

[Alexandria Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the Goosebumps books!!!!

[Gautam Girdhar]

awsome########################3

[Kunwar]

ijh;oj

[Harrison Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

So funny