Disney Announces 'Goosebumps' Replacement, New Series On the Way

In 2023, Disney delighted audiences by bringing writer R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series to life with a spooky new show on Disney+. The first season featured episodes titled after Stine’s classic tales, like Say Cheese and Die!, Go Eat Worms, and Night of the Living Dummy. During that season, a group of teenagers must discover what led to the death of teenager Harold Biddle decades earlier. The teens soon discover their parents are more involved than they want to admit and are determined to hide their upsetting pasts from their kids.

The first season was a hit with fans, and Disney renewed Goosebumps for a second season. Unlike season one, season two was released all at once, so fans could binge the creepy series. Season two starred David Schwimmer as Anthony Brewer, a man who is determined to find out what happened the night his brother disappeared thirty years earlier.

The cast of Goosebumps (Zack Morris, Isa Briones, Miles McKenna, Will Price, and Ana Yi Puig) sitting on a couch with black eyes — Credit: Video Screenshot, ‘Goosebumps’, Disney+

Unfortunately, Goosebumps was canceled after two seasons, and dedicated fans were left without a spine-tingling series to leave them on the edge of their seats.

Enter Eerie Prep, a new series that will hopefully fill that void.

According to a report from Deadline, Disney has greenlit the new series, which is based on the book series Eerie Elementary by author Jack Chabert. Jack Chabert is the pen name for Max Brallier, who also wrote The Last Kids on Earth. That series was actually turned into a series for Netflix that ran for three seasons.

An picture from the book series Eerie Elementary — Credit: Eerie Elementary, Jack Chabert

Here’s more from Deadline:

In Eerie Prep (aka Eerie Academy), when her sister vanishes from the prestigious Eerie Prep, Sam Graves (Mills) assembles a team of uniquely skilled students to uncover the truth behind a series of strange, supernatural occurrences—and to confront whoever, or whatever, is behind the disappearance.

The main cast of the pilot, written by David H. Steinberg and Keetgi Kogan, directed by Eric Dean Seaton and showrun by M. Raven Metzner, also includes Niko Ceci (I Woke a Vampire), Charlie Ellis, Madison Rojas, Michaela Russell and Alex Bar, with Hanna Huffman and Felicia Day guest starring.

Ceci and Ellis play Sam’s best friends Antonio and Lucy, respectively. Rojas plays Paxton, Russell plays Krla, Bar plays Devon, Huffman plays Quinn, and Day plays Dr. Brewster.

Eerie Elementary artwork — Credit: Eerie Elementary, Jack Chabert

Now, the new series will take some big creative liberties that will make it quite different from the book series, so fans should be prepared.

The original book series follows Sam Graves, a third-grader, on his first day of hall monitor duties at his elementary school. In the Disney series, Sam’s character is now a girl, and she is attending a prep school, not an elementary school, making everyone older than they are in the books.

There are currently ten books in the Eerie Elementary series, but we do not know how many of these books the first season will cover.

We do not yet know when Eerie Prep will premiere, but we do know that it will be shown on both Disney+ and The Disney Channel.

Are you a fan of the Eerie Elementary book series? Are you excited to see the series brought to life by Disney? How do you feel about the changes being made to the original series? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!