R.L. Stine’s Cult TV Collection ‘The Nightmare Room’ Has Hit Tubi

Right here’s enjoyable bit of reports for followers of horror reveals or R.L. Stine particularly: The Nightmare Room, the creator’s kids’s horror anthology sequence that wasn’t Goosebumps, is now streaming free on Tubi.

First launched on KidsWB! in 2001 for a single 13-episode season, the sequence featured childhood fears such like ghosts and monsters. Stylistically, it was much like The Twilight Zone with its opening and shutting narration from Contemporary Prince’s James Avery, and its large declare to fame is every episode starring younger little one stars who’d go on to develop into well-known, together with Shia LeBeouf, Kaley Cuoco, and Brenda Tune. It’s additionally the primary of solely two live-action reveals to ever air on KidsWB!, preceded by the sci-fi puppet sequence Brats of the Misplaced Nebula.

Like Fox’s Goosebumps sequence, the Nightmare Room present was primarily based on a sequence of youngsters books Stine wrote, which wrapped with a trilogy again in 2001. Within the a long time since, we’ve seen new diversifications of Goosebumps and Fear Street, so perhaps it’s only a matter of time earlier than a studio decides to take one other stab at Nightmare. Both manner, it does sound just like the present’s been lost to time—so in the event you want one thing new and scary to observe for Halloween, perhaps give this one a shot.

[via BloodyDisgusting]

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