Awesome / Tales to Give You Goosebumps

• Chris in "The House of No Return" TV adaptation plays smart with the ghosts. He convinces them to let him go because instead of having him, they can have three new children in Danger Inc., because they'll be curious as to why he's not screaming or running out of the house and insead go inside to search for him. All while he walks out a free man.
• Tamara, the protagonist of the "Broken Dolls" short story, does something incredibly smart for a Goosebumps character. When someone sends her a doll that's an exact double of the old woman whom attempted to transform her brother and herself into dolls, her immediate reaction is to goad her brother into breaking the doll before anything happens.