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2	* ActorAllusion: The episode "Pool Shark" had Boo Boo Stewart playing a teenage boy who inherited a shape shifting gene.
3	* ActingForTwo: Creator/TomKenny not only plays Uncle Howee on the episode of the same name, but is also the voice of the rabbit puppet, Loomis.
4	* AllStarCast: The series is pretty much a who's who of child and teen actors that were popular or at least well-known in the first half of the 2010's, as well as a few cases of RetroactiveRecognition.
5	* CreatorsOddball: "How to Bargain with a Dragon" is set in a DungAges fantasy world, being a sequel to "The Most Evil Sorcerer" from ''Literature/NightmareHour'', contrasted with Stine's usual modern horror stories, including the other short stories in this collection.
6	* CreatorCameo: Showruners Billy Brown and Dan Angel both have cameos in ''Grampires''.
7	* ExecutiveMeddling: ''Scarecrow'' was supposed to just have the one ending, where [[spoiler: Bobby becomes a scarecrow.]] The network thought it was too dark and had them make the alternate ending. Both endings were aired and viewers were asked to vote on which one was better, most likely as a compromise.
8	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Zigzagged. Season 1 is available on DVD, but only the first few episodes of Season 2 were put on DVD. As for the rest, you'll have to settle for torrent downloading for most of them and video website viewing for the rest, as those episodes haven't been released on DVD yet and Discovery Family doesn't rerun the show anymore.
9	** The entire series is available on Creator/{{Tubi}}, but only in Spanish.
10	* OnlySoManyCanadianActors: A good number of modern Canadian actors have played at least one role in this show.
11	* PlayingAgainstType: Happens to a lot of the actors who are on the show, sometimes even in comparison to characters they played ''in other episodes''. Specifically:
12	** Debby Ryan as Steffani in ''Wrong Number'', who's a complete AlphaBitch in comparison to NiceGirl Bailey from ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life on Deck]]''.
13	** Calum Worthy as ''Game Over's'' Kell-Raiser, who's nowhere near TheDitz / GeniusDitz like Dez is in ''Series/AustinAndAlly''.
14	** Willow Shields as Eve in ''Intruders'', whose BrattyTeenageDaughter contrasts [[Film/TheHungerGames Prim's]] HairOfGoldHeartOfGold.
15	** Creator/TomKenny as Uncle Howie, which is not only one of the rare times Kenny has done live action (the other times were on the sketch shows ''The Edge'' and ''Mr. Show''), but also shows Kenny playing a cartoonish and goofy character in yellow as a villain rather than as a protagonist (like on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'') or as comic relief (as seen with Heffer Wolfe on ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'').
16	* ProductionPosse: Showrunners Dan Angel and Billy Brown, who had previously helmed ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' and ''Series/NightVisions'' brought over some writers from those shows, along with others they worked on to work on this show as well, such as Rick Drew, and Erik Patterson & Jessica Scott. Additionally, James Head and Neil Fearnly previously directed episodes of ''The Fearing Mind'' prior to this.
17	* RecycledScript:
18	** The season four episode "Mrs. Worthington" is pretty much a DarkerAndEdgier take on the season three episode "Uncle Howee", only Cynthia doesn't realize (or care) that Uncle Howee's powers can harm Jared (in fact, the episode makes it clear that Cynthia cares more about Uncle Howee than her own brother), while in "Mrs. Worthington," Nate does realize that Mrs. Worthington's black magic and sadistic punishments (which he actually drew himself) may be going too far, especially when Mrs. Worthington decides to go after Nate's mom for not disciplining Molly.
19	** "Intruders" has many similarities to R.L. Stine's short story "Make Me a Witch", which was also about a girl who was overshadowed by her baby brother, but with witches instead of fairies. Also, unlike ''Intruders'', [[spoiler: the girl in the short story actually ''hands her brother over''.]]
20	** "Night of the Mummy" is basically just the ''Goosebumps'' book/episode ''A Night in Terror Tower'' but with mummies.
21	** ''My Imaginary Friend'' has basically the same payoff as the Goosebumps short story ''Good Friends''. In both, the protagonist deals with a real friend and imaginary friend, and in both cases [[spoiler: it turns out the "friend" is imaginary too.]]
22	** Once we enter the mirror world in "Scary Mary," a lot of viewers were reminded of "The Tale of Many Faces" from ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' In fairness, some versions of the "Bloody Mary" myth have her as a WickedWitch who killed girls for their blood to maintain her own youthful beauty, meaning Scary Mary's girls were lucky to just end up slaves...
23	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''In spades''. Despite being a very popular show, having amazing ratings, and even plans for a ''fifth season'' (or sixth, if you believe part two of season three is a separate season), The Hub changing over to Discovery Family pretty much killed this show's chance of ever continuing. After the ChristmasEpisode "Goodwill Toward Men," the series was taken off the schedule and R.L. Stine himself said on his Twitter that the show was canceled and no new episodes were going to be made.
24	* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The writer for "Uncle Howee" explains in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhTQENm8AJY a review for said episode]] that there was a tight budget and time constraints which explains why the episode was taken indoors.
25	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to [[https://archive.is/20130731205337/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/dvd/features/article_1350640.php/M&C_Interview_R_L_Stine_talks_The_Haunting_Hour_Don_t_Think_About_It an interview]] with Stine, The "Don't Think About It" movie was supposed to be the start of a franchise that would adapt the stories from his Haunting Hour collection, but the writers came up with an original idea for them to do first, and the other movies never got made.
26	** Ken Friss' original draft of ''Scarecrow'' was much more straight forward and would have simply ended with [[spoiler: the characters discovering that everyone in town is gone.]]. Billy Brown and Dan Angel fleshed it out and added all the deeper existential themes.
27	** ''Pumpkinhead'' was [[https://spongey444.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/an-interview-with-erik-patterson/ originally]] supposed to end with [[spoiler: all the kids dying at the hands of the Pumpkinheads]] but the network asked them to tone it down.
28	* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: In-Universe example with ''Brush With Madness'': Alan Miller became a ReclusiveArtist after being stalked by a homicidal fan eight years prior to the episode's story and snapped at Corey because he foolishly said "I follow you on Twitter" (though why a reclusive artist would be on a social media site like Twitter is a mystery).

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