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Characters introduced in the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series:

Tales to Give You Goosebumps

Danger Inc. Kids

Appear In: The House of No Return (story #1 of 10)

Nathan, Lori, and Robbie

Portrayed By: Jeff Davis, Lauren Annis, and Robin Weekes (Robbie, Lori, and Nathan) (TV)

Three kids named Robbie, Lori, and Nathan, who claim to be the boldest kids in the neighborhood and are looking for a fourth member.

• Asshole Victim: The episode ends with them being trapped in the House of No Return with the ghostly couple... FOREVER.
• Laser-Guided Karma: They force Chris to spend an hour in the house as an initiation into their club. When the hour's up and they go inside to get him, they encounter two ghosts who inform them that they let Chris escape because he promised that if they did, three other kids would take his place.
• Terrible Trio: One that is desperately trying to become a Four-Man Band.

Chris Wakely

Appears In: The House Of No Return (story #1 of 10)

Portrayed By: Dylan Provencher (TV)

A boy who first moved to town. He is the new target for Danger Inc. to get a new member.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: He is described to have white-blond hair in the book. The actor who portrays him in the episode IS a blonde, but has a darker shade of it.
• Chekhov's Skill: He shows off his deal-making skills in the episode adaptation which even his mom notes. He uses these with the ghost couple: if they let him go, then he can assure them they can get three new children for the price of one.
• The Dog Bites Back: Danger Inc. tricks him and drags him into the haunted house in order for a forceful initiation. And when a ghost couple there want to keep him hostage for eternity, he convinced them to have the Danger Inc. members instead in exchange to be let go.
• Guile Hero: He convinces the ghosts to spare him because instead of just having him, why not have three kids to love forever, knowing that Danger Inc. will enter the house wondering what happened to him.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: He is desperate for friendship in his new town. Unfortunately for him, this comes true in a very bad way.
• Momma's Boy: He loves his mother very much and is very polite with her. In return, she makes sure he's well fed and encouraging towards his ambition to make new friends.
• Naïve Newcomer: When moving to town, he had no idea what Danger Inc. was and what they do. This makes him the perfect target for them to go after for recruiting.

Ashley and Jordan

Appear In: Good Friends (story #5 of 10)

Ashley

Dylan's best friend and little sister, respectively. Jordan alternates from being defensive of Dylan to Dylan's cruel older brother Richard to mocking Ashley's imaginary friend, Jaclyn.

• Big Brother Bully: Jordan to Ashley.
• Imaginary Friend: Ashley's is named Jaclyn. And Jordan and Ashley are imaginary themselves.
• Tagalong Kid: Ashley to Jordan and Dylan. They even call her "The Pest."
• With Friends Like These...: Averted. Jordan is totally faithful to Dylan and openly loathes his asshole brother.
• You Are What You Hate: Dylan's mocking of Ashley having an imaginary friend is most likely internalized self-loathing from Richard calling Dylan an embarrassment for having imaginary friends.

Seth Gold

Appears In: Click (story #8 of 10)

Portrayed By: Dan Warry-Smith (TV)

"Why did I sit for hours, clicking from channel to channel with the remote control? I guess I loved the feeling of power it gave me"

A lazy boy who loves watching television, in the short story Click he acquires a remote control capable of manipulating reality.

• Achievements in Ignorance: In the short story, the universal remote had no power until Seth accidentally threw it and crossed some wires in an attempt to fix it. This somehow allowed the remote to control the real world.
• Adaptation Expansion: In the TV episode, he gets a best friend named Kevin. There's also a minor subplot where Seth decides to pause his family after he fights with his sister over the remote, only for the remote to stop working.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Downplayed. While calling him ugly is a bit of a stretch, Seth - who is implied to be tall and thin with a nice haircut - is considerably a bit less attractive in the TV series. He's short, he's chubby and has an unflattering, curly haircut. Justified, though, as he is played by the same person who played Skipper Matthews.
• And I Must Scream: After accidentally hitting the power button on the remote, Seth "turns off" the world and is sent to a dark, empty void. And even worse, the batteries in the remote are now dead.
• Asshole Victim: His selfishness and laziness makes it impossible to feel bad for him when he dooms himself to an eternity trapped in the void.
• Big Eater: He uses the universal remote to rewind dessert so he can have as much pudding as he wants.
• Control Freak: Seth himself says the reason he loves TV so much is due to the total control he has thanks to his remote.
• Didn't Think This Through: He didn't consider what might happen if he couldn't switch off the remote's effects, or what others might do if they saw him using the remote on people. He also didn't check to make sure the batteries had enough power.
• Fat Bastard: In the TV show adaption he's a rather chubby kid.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Abuses the power at his hands for petty gain, is sentenced to eternity in an empty void.
• Lazy Bum: His hobby is sitting on his ass flipping through TV shows.
• Too Dumb to Live: After repeated warnings to stop abusing the remote, he can't find it in him to stop.
• With Friends Like These...: In the TV show adaption, Seth's given a friend named Kevin who tries to act as a voice of reason and convince Seth to stop using the remote before he does something he'll regret. Seth turns the remote on him to shut him up.

Tamara Baker

Appears In: Broken Dolls (story #9 of 10)

A girl who likes to collect dolls, but unfortunately for her, her younger brother likes to break them. Regardless, Tamara discovers she has to save her brother from being turned into a doll thanks to a mysterious old woman.

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• Cool Big Sis: While Neal certainly doesn't think of her as this, and while they do argue a lot, Tamara proves that she cares about him a lot by putting herself into mortal danger in order to save him from spending the rest of his life as a doll.
• Genre Savvy: At the end of the story, she receives a doll that looks just the dollmaker who terrorized her and Neal. Knowing what this could lead to, she gives it her brother. Said brother usually destroys most of his toys the first chance he gets.
• Kid Hero: When she realizes something strange is happening to her brother, she puts two and two together and figures out the dollmaker is most likely responsible. She then takes it upon herself to save Neal from becoming a doll. By extension, she ends up saving hundreds of other victims and puts a permanent end to the Dollmaker once and for all.
• Police Are Useless: She tries to avert this by going straight to the police after learning what the Dollmaker is doing. Unfortunately she doesn't get far.
• Sibling Rivalry: With Neal. When she's not trying to stop him from ruining her dolls, she has to keep him out of trouble period.

The Dollmaker

Appears In: Broken Dolls (story #9 of 10)

"It's time for you to go away, dearie. Young people disappear so often in this century. You'll just be one more..."

A creepy old woman who creates fantastic dolls by stealing souls, and targets Tamara and Neal Baker.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be a kind and grandmotherly figure to everyone she meets, when in reality she's anything but.
• Evil Old Folks: She acts very doting to Neal when she meets him, but that's a ruse to use her "dolly jelly" on him. She's actually one of the cruelest villains in the series, and as revealed in the finale has claimed many victims with her dolly jelly.
• Faux Affably Evil: Talks very sweet and gives kids sweets, but she quickly drops the nice routine when Tamara threatens to go to the police.
• Hate Sink: Despite only appearing in a short story, the Dollmaker is one of the most twisted, sadistic characters in the Goosebumps universe. From the predatory way she chooses her young victims, to the blatant joy she takes in their suffering as dolls, to her mocking of one victim's sister for trying to save her brother, everything about her is repulsive and bound to make the reader elated when she comes to a nasty end.
• He Knows Too Much: Tries to murder Tamara at the end to prevent her from exposing her.
• Karmic Death: Turned thousands of peoples into dolls, ends up as one herself and is promptly destroyed by her last would-be victim.
• Living Doll Collector: Her dolls are all alive with the souls of the people they are modeled after, and they beg for help.
• Mad Artist: Her dedication to her craft extends to stealing the lives of helpless victims to make her dolls perfect.
• No Name Given: Is only really referred to as an old woman.
• Older Than They Look: She already looks old, but her comments have implied she is far older.
• Outgambitted: Someone sends Tamara a doll that looks exactly like the old woman. Said someone didn't think Tamara would get her brother to break it.
• Would Hurt a Child: Makes idle comments about how often young people go missing with plans to make Tamara one of them.

Helga Nuegenstorm

Appears In: A Vampire In The Neighborhood (story #10 of 10)

A new student at school who seems very strange. This makes the main characters of the story (Maddy, Carrie, Yvonne, and Joey) very curious about her.

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• Actually Not a Vampire: She is not actually a vampire, just a misunderstood girl. But the problem is, the children facing her turn out to be the real deal, and they just wanted to see if she was like them.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: When Maddy repeatedly asks her if she and her can hang out, Helga always coldly refuses her offer.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: The story ends with the four main characters about to bite her, turning her into one of them.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Her skin is so pale, her hair is so black, and her demeanor most of the time is very strange and unfriendly.
• Goth: Seems to be this way, given her love for wearing such black clothing, acting very serious, and wearing black lipstick.
• I Was Just Joking: When the main characters ask Helga to show them her fangs, she teasingly asks them to show THEIRS instead. They do so, and she says in shock this trope word for word as they close in on her.
• Icy Blue Eyes: She has very gray eyes that makes Maddie think they’re strange, like "ghost eyes."
• Limited Wardrobe: She constantly wears the same skirt, blouse, and shoes every day.
• Outdated Name: Again, Helga. Maddy even lampshades this in her narration.
• Outdated Outfit: She keeps wearing an old-looking skirt, a pale grey blouse, and heavy black shoes. Maddy notes that this makes her look as if she had stepped out of an old movie.
• Uncertain Doom: The story, as well as the book, ends with her being circled by the four protagonists who turn out to be vampires. It is never revealed if she managed to evade their fangs.

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Brian

Appears In: The Werewolf's First Night (story #1 out of #10)

A boy who's concerned after hearing that there are werewolves at the summer camp he's going to.

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• Bad Liar: Brian tries to get out of attending the campfire at the kids' camp by saying he might need his tonsils removed. Brian's mom wearily reminds him that he had his tonsils out a couple of years ago.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He is a werewolf and plans to feed on the other campers.
• The Dog Bites Back: Or more like a literal case of The Wolf Bites Back. He is tormented by the older campers who use a fake werewolf getup to scare him. The short ends with the revelation that he is a REAL werewolf and he attacks the campers.
• Parental Neglect: His parents leave him at a "summer camp" that has no counselors, it's just a place for kids to hang out whilst their parents are at a nearby vacation resort. Since he's one of the youngest campers, he's basically just left at the mercy of the older kids.
• Tomato Surprise: The story ends with the revelation that he is the only werewolf around.

Ashley

Appears In: Suckers! (Story #5 out of #10)

A girl who is on vacation on Black Island with her younger brother, Jack, and her cousin, Greg. They come across a rusted old chest that contains an octopus-like creature that grabs onto them.

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• Badass Normal: She fends off an octopus monster by distracting it with gummy worms, to which she traveled far and wide for, in order to protect Greg from it. And with a little help, she manages to lure the creature back into the chest.
• Big Sister Instinct: She is willing to protect her younger brother, as well as her younger cousin, from getting sucked to death by the monster. Fitting, considering she's one of the few Goosebumps protagonists who's 13 years old.
• Curiosity Killed the Cast: She, Jack, and Greg find an old treasure chest by a cave, and they open it to see what's inside. It turns to be a sucking creature that almost kills them.
• Didn't Think This Through: She races with her brother to the store to get more gummy worms to distract the monster from killing Greg. But when they try to buy them, they realize that they don't have any money to pay for them. Luckily, the owner hears that it's for Greg (who is his best paying customer), so he lets the kids take them for free.
• Does Not Like Spam: She is disgusted by gummy worms, and is grossed out by how Jack and Greg like to eat them. But when it comes to feeding them to the chest monster to save her relatives, she doesn't hesitate.
• Kid Hero: Ashley is quite the brave person for a 13-year old.
• The Nondescript: She does not describe her physical appearance at all.
• One of the Boys: She constantly hangs out with Jack and Greg, even if they annoy her.
• The Rival: Alex Pratt and Jimmy Stern, two residents of the island, view her as this. They constantly pick on her by threatening to drop a jellyfish on her head, stealing her brother's and cousin's gummy worms, and teasing them constantly. And when trying to get some more gummy worms to the chest monster to rescue Greg, the two boys get in her way and she has to fight them off.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She manages to get the octopus monster back into the chest with gummy worms. But Alex and Jimmy, who followed her, see the worms on top of the chest and decide to go for it. This action might have gotten the two boys killed. Granted, they sort of deserve it, but still.
• Women Are Wiser: She is above the antics of her brother and cousin.

Marla

Appears In: The Cat's Tale (story #7 out of #10)

A girl who adopts a mysterious cat she finds after moving to a new house.

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• City Mouse: She is disappointed at having to move from New York City to a small town in the countryside.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: She wants to take in Misty, a stray cat she found. It doesn't end well for her.
• New House, New Problems: She meets Misty right after moving in.
• Puppeteer Parasite: She falls victim to Misty the cat, which is trying to possess her body.

Tara Bennett

Appears In: Shell Shocker (story #8 out of #10)

A girl who really likes collecting shells for some reason

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• Asshole Victim: She is very mean to her younger brother and attempts to find a giant seashell mainly to get rich, impress her friends at school, and possibly abandon her family when she's old enough. But then she is given to a giant crab as a meal.
• Big Brother Bully: Well, Big Sister. While she's nowhere near as bad as the character with the same name in Cuckoo Clock Of Doom she's still kind of a bitch to her little brother Tommy (including taking a shell even though he found it first).
• Bolivian Army Ending: She finds a giant shell with a Giant Enemy Crab living in it. The story ends with it grabbing her, although it doesn't explicitly say it eats her.
• Cloudcuckoolander: She thinks that she has a voice inside her head when the shell speaks to her. This apparently isn't the first time this has happened to her.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: She has her leg caught in a sharp claw, and then is dragged to the giant crab to be probably eaten.
• Death by Materialism: She finds a beautiful shell which has a voice of someone claiming to be trapped inside, she follows it but it leads to the creature's Giant Enemy Crab mother
• Icy Blue Eyes: She's described as having them as well as blonde hair.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: When she catches sight of her parents relaxing on beach chairs nearby, the shell tells her not to talk to them, because they might convince her not to come to her treasure, so she continues on her journey without saying goodbye. She then meets said "treasure" which probably kills her.
• Uncertain Doom: The last time she is seen, she is shown to a hungry giant crab to be used as food, which has a claw clamped on her arm so she can't run away. It is unknown if she manages to pry from her grasp and avoid the monster. However, the story is written in third person narration, which is usually a death sentence for protagonists in Goosebumps.

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Jane Meyer

Appears In: Change For the Strange (story #6 of 10)

A girl who's transformed into a snake after trying on a snakeskin jacket from a mysterious vintage clothes emporium.

• Cursed with Awesome: She chooses to turn into a bunny to improve her ability to jump.
• Forced Transformation: The story is based around her being changed into a snake and later a bunny after trying on clothes from a mysterious store.
• The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: The titular shop, "Change For the Strange", is a clothes store that just happened to appear from nowhere.
• Passionate Sports Girl: She is very athletic and plays a lot of sports.
• Shout-Out: It is mentioned that she's a fan of Animaniacs.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Jane is the tomboy and her friend Lizzie is the Girly Girl. Jane loves to play sports and buys a leather jacket, while Lizzie likes to wear skirts and buys bunny slippers.

Kim Peterson

Appears In: For The Birds (story #8 of 10)

A girl who feels as if she's the only normal one in her family. Her family takes her to a bird-watching sanctuary, which drives her crazy.

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• Affection-Hating Kid: She can't stand how her parents constantly hold hands and smooch each other in public.
• Black Sheep: She is the only one in her family who is not interested in birds at all. This poses quite the problem, considering that she has to stay at a bird sanctuary with her family.
• Celibate Hero: Judging by her complaints of her parents' open affection, she isn't interested in romance at all. Though, she does admit that it might be because she's 12 years old, which is a little young for that sort of thing.
• Deadpan Snarker: She voices her incredulity and snark at the fact that the owner of the bird sanctuary is Mr. Dove.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Because she's staying in "The Cuckoo Room" at the sanctuary hotel, her brothers find it hilarious and call her "Cuckoo Kim", much to her fury.
• Forced Transformation: With his magic hedge clippers, Mr. Dove turns her family into birds. That is, except for her, who is turned into a cat.
• Self-Made Orphan: Considering she has just been turned into a cat while inside of a cage with her family (whom have all been turned into birds instead), this is probably what will happen to her.

Carla

Appears In: The Thumbprint of Doom (story #10 of 10)

A superstitious girl. She tries to warn the kids in her new neighborhood whenever they're about to do something she sees as unlucky, and they quickly grow annoyed with her.

• Ambiguously Brown: She's described as having olive colored skin.
• Evil All Along: The kids try to scare Carla by paying a fortune teller at the local carnival to give her the "Thumbprint of Doom." However, Carla reveals she knew it was a joke, because only she has that power, revealing the reason why she is so superstitious is because she's a witch. She then gives the other kids the actual Thumbprint of Doom, marking them for death. Except she doesn't actually have powers. Carla just pulled a joke on them as payback because the fortune teller they paid to trick her, Madame Wanda, is her mother.
• Not So Harmless: Carla's one of a few characters who manages to circumvent the usual "nasty prank done by friends" plot used so often in these books. Trisha and the others pay Madame Wanda, a fortune teller working at a nearby carnival, to pretend to give Carla the Thumbprint of Doom she fears. What they didn't count on was that Madame Wanda is Carla's mom, and told her what happened. So Carla staged a little prank of her own.
• 13 Is Unlucky: She stopped a girl from hitting a home run because it was thirteen minutes after one in the afternoon, which made the time 13:13.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She legitimately thinks she's helping people by warning them against doing something unlucky, and doesn't see it as annoying.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The one thing she fears above all her other superstitions is the Thumbprint of Doom. If someone marks it on someone's forehead, something horrible will happen to them in 24 hours.
• With Friends Like These...: Subverted. Trisha and her friends are genuinely annoyed at how Carla's beliefs can be aggravating, but they do seem to actually like her. The prank they set up isn't to get rid of her, but to make her see her superstitious behavior is foolish. Of course, Trisha and the others prove they're also susceptible to acting foolish.

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Aunt Dahlia

Appears In: An Old Story (story #4 of 10)

Portrayed By: Patricia Gage (TV)

An old woman that makes a business of aging children into elderly people using special prune-based recipes, then sells them into marriage with her equally old friends. She gets away with this by passing herself off as a distant relative to different families, helped by oblivious parents not asking questions.

• Breakout Character: Dahlia is one of the few characters from the short stories that are widely remembered by fans, and as a result was included as an enemy in the Goosebumps video game.
• Evil Aunt: One who isn't even an actual relative to the kids she torments (at least in the novel).
• Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: She invades homes by pretending to be related to the family living there, and when she is left in charge of the kids, she mutates them and sells them into slavery. By the time the parents realize Dahlia was never related to them, it's too late.
• Karmic Death: One of the most loathsome villains in the series canon, so it's pretty fitting that her demise is one of the most graphic. She gets an overdose of her own juice, which ages her to a shriveled corpse before she explodes. You actually get to mete this out yourself in the Wayforward game.
• Knight of Cerebus: While appearing as another strange and goofy villain on the surface, the woman kidnaps and artificially ages children whom she then sells to elderly people who know their supposed husbands and wives are really kids.
• Lethal Chef: Her food will turn you into an old person and can only be counteracted with anti-wrinkle cream (baby food in the TV series).
• Not Quite Dead: The ending of the short story implies that, somehow, Dahlia survived being aged into dust and returned under a different name to bewitch another family. And she actually does return in the most recent video game.
• Rape by Proxy: The implications of her actions are that she is taking children, forcing them to ingest food that rapidly ages their bodies until they are old and feeble, and then sells them to her friends as a form of "marriage," which basically leaves said children too weak and feeble to understand what is going on or fight back as they are taken from their families and forced to live with depraved elderly men and women.
• Rapid Aging: Her cooking taken in liberal dosages will age a person over a couple of days, but being completely drenched in her prune juice turned her into dust in a few seconds.
• Related in the Adaptation: In the original story, she was a witch who was impersonating as Tom and Jon's aunt. In the TV series, she actually is their aunt.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: It's especially evil in her case because she's selling children into sexual slavery.

Cuddle Bears

Appears In: Please Don't Feed The Bears (story #7 of 10)

Mascots of the Cuddle Bear Land amusement park in where all the employees dress up like Cuddle Bears. However, it turns out they aren't wearing costumes...

• Assimilation Plot: They turn people into Cuddle Bears by getting them to eat Honey Crackers, but the change is only permanent if someone eats an entire bag of them.
• Bears Are Bad News: They actually look more like stuffed animals than real bears, but they still count.
• Distaff Counterpart: To the Horrorland Horrors. Whereas the Horrors operate an amusement park built around scaring people with the intent to kill their guests, the Cuddle Bears run a cutesy themed park with the intent of getting people to join their ranks.
• Not a Mask: None of the employees are wearing costumes because they are Cuddle Bears.
• Sugary Malice: An adorable theme park that's really a front for mutant bears trying to convert human beings to join their race.

Dorrie Morrow

Appears In: Bats About Bats (story #9 of 10)

A sweet girl who is very interested in bats. She plans to be a bat scientist like her parents when she grows up. Literally.

• Anti-Villain: The only villainous thing she does is scare Liz and Suzanne by revealing her bat form, and even then the only thing that's implied about her actions is that she wants to scare them as payback for scaring her. That said, she's one of the least malicious monsters in the series.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She pays back her friends a scare for a scare.
• Collector of the Strange: As the title indicates, she's bats about bats. She even has a stuffed teddy bat she sleeps with.
• Cute Monster Girl: Depending on how you see cute, but she can turn into a human sized bat, just like her family.
• Fluffy Tamer: She's able to calm down frantic bats and doesn't see it as anything strange.
• Nice Girl: She doesn't hold it against Liz and Suzanne that they think bats are creepy, but she also doesn't understand how anyone could not like bats. Though she does get mad at them when they hurt a bat that flew into her room. Even when her true form is revealed, she doesn't even try to hurt or kill her friends. All she does is scare them.
• Non-Malicious Monster: There's no indicator that Dorrie was ever going to do anything to her friends beyond freaking them out.
• With Friends Like These...: She's incredibly hurt when Liz and Suzanne have Liz's brother scare her for the sake of proving that bats are creepy. Unusually for this series, the two regret what they've done when they realize Dorrie was really hurt, but it doesn't last long.

Laura Nesbit

Appears In: The Space-Suit Snatcher (story #10 of 10)

The protagonist of the story. She frequently uses a CB radio to send messages in outer space to try and communicate with aliens. She eventually goes to a Garage Sale and gets a space suit.

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• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: She is the Redhead, while Tamara is the Blonde and her friend Liz is the Brunette.
• Born in the Wrong Century: She is a girl growing up in the 1990s, yet she is interested in communicating with aliens and working on CB radios like a kid growing up in the 1950s.
• Classical Music Is Boring: Averted with her. She seems to like it, and occasionally includes it in her broadcasts to entertain the aliens. But played straight with the aliens themselves, as while they appreciate the gesture, they tell her before leaving that they prefer rock and roll.
• Commonality Connection: She briefly bonds with the elderly seller at the Garage Sale who gives her the alien space suit. They both are fascinated with aliens and like to do broadcasts for them.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Zigzagged between her and her older sister, Tamara. Tamara is more stoic and reserved, but likes to pull pranks such as fooling Laura into thinking that the aliens are out to get her for getting their spacesuit. Yet Laura seems to be more of a Nice Girl, yet she is adamant on believing that aliens are nearby and tries communicating with them. It turns out though, that she was right all along.
• Gadgeteer Genius: She was able to make a CB radio and transmitter by scratch.
• Halloween Costume Characterization: For Halloween, she dresses up as a radio, just like what she uses as a hobby.
• The Klutz: When scared by what appears to be an alien at her window one night, she quickly backs behind her and accidentally knocks her precious radio transmitter to the floor, destroying it. And when trying to run away from an alien in her spacesuit (actually Tamara in disguise as pat of a prank), she tumbled into a shrub.
• Properly Paranoid: With her mishaps, she is afraid to try on the alien spacesuit she got. It turns out that if she actually DID do that, she would be automatically volunteered for a space program by aliens, which Tamara ended up with.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She apparently likes peanut-butter and banana sandwiches.
• You Have to Believe Me!: She at first tries not to, thinking her dad wouldn't believe her, but eventually does.

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Elizabeth Lisa Stephens

Appears In: Tune In Tomorrow (story #2 of 10)

A girl who moves with her family to Westgate, because her father became the Chief of Police there. She ends up watching a TV show that seems to mirror her life, about a girl named Elinor, which includes very recent events.

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• Boys Have Cooties: When her mother claims that Elizabeth and Lauren hang out a lot to talk about boys. Elizabeth herself responds to this by scoffing in disgust.
• City Mouse: She used to live in Philadelphia before moving to this small town. There are some advantages to this trope, however, as she finally can get cable television unlike what she had at her previous home.
• Dumb Blonde: She has this, as she’s mostly Genre Blind and investigates a strange noise upstairs even though the TV just predicts that a Rottweiler is in there to attack her. Averted with the real Elizabeth, or Lisa, who points this out and claims that she must be very stupid.
• Lost Pet Grievance: She has to give her pet hamster , Lucky, that she shared with her friend, Mary, when moving because Mrs. Stephens does not like rodents. And she later gets a letter from Mary saying that she found Lucky dead in her backyard. This causes her to become distressed as the TV predicted and she balls the letter up in fury and sadness.
• Significant Anagram: The real name of her actress, Lisa, is short for Lizzie or Elizabeth.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Both her and Elinor have similar names, have blonde ponytails, have similarly named beagles for pets, and have very recent events happening one after another. It turns out that this is because the story itself is mostly an episode based on her actress, who has a similar name.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Is the Tomboy to her friend Lauren’s Girly Girl. Elizabeth likes to ride a hardcore bike and watch TV, while Lauren likes to go shopping and talk about boys.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: She keeps her blonde hair in a ponytail, just like Elinor.

Marci

Appears In: There's Something Strange About Marci (story #4 of 10)

A mysterious girl who appears to be stalking the protagonist. The more that's revealed about her, the more sinister she becomes.

• Conveniently an Orphan: The protagonist learns Marci has no family and lives in a tent. Subverted in that Marci is an adult woman and not a kid, so she most likely does have parents.
• Good All Along: Marci is actually a scientist doing research on the protagonist and his friends, who are all orangutans.
• Stalker without a Crush: Is following the main character and their friends for seemingly unsavory reasons.
• Torture Technician: Owns a collection of strange instruments that terrifies the protagonist. They're actually recording equipment for her studying.
• Walking Spoiler: "That's when I realized Marci wasn't an orangutan."

Shanna Smith

Appears In: Stuck in 1957 (story #8 of 10).

A girl who, after moving to a new house, is magically sent back to the past when the house had just been built in 1957.

• Alliterative Name: Shanna Smith.
• Newspaper Dating: A variant - her new room being covered in Elvis memorabilia helps her realize what time she's in.
• Pink Is Feminine: Her entire bedroom and most of her stuff in the 1950s are all pink.
• Traumatic Haircut: While she's in 1957, her "mother" chops off Shanna's hair, upsetting her greatly. So much so that she decides to return to the past rather than go to school with this haircut.
• Vanity Is Feminine: She is very vain about her hair in particular.

Bonnie-Sue Bowers

Appears In: Mirror Mirror on the Wall (story #9 of 10).

A vain girl whose reflection begins tormenting her because of the excessive amount of time she spends in front of the mirror.

• Brainless Beauty: She is very pretty (or at least describes herself as such) but none too bright.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: She's blonde and certainly thinks this trope applies to her.
• Full-Name Basis: Insists on going by her full name.
• Meaningful Name: "Bonnie" is another word for pretty.
• Mirror Self: She has one, and it ends up imprisoning her in the mirror and taking her place in the real world.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Sees herself as the most beautiful and captivating girl in the world.
• Vanity Is Feminine: Is both very feminine and exceedingly vain.

Chop Suey

Appears In: What's Cooking? (story #10 of 10).

She was a cafeteria worker whose disgusting dishes caused a revolt from the students she served them to, and was fired after she attacked some kids with a meat cleaver. If her name's said three times while standing on your tip toes, it summons her back as a vengeful ghost.

• Ax-Crazy: Or rather, Cleaver Crazy.
• Berserk Button: Calling her "Chop Suey" or not eating her food.
• Companion Cube: Her beloved cleaver. It's rumored she died after accidentally falling onto it.
• Embarrassing Nickname: She got her nickname because her "Chinese Surprise" was consider the worst.
• Fat Bastard: She's considered a very large woman.
• I'm a Humanitarian: After becoming a ghost, she hunts after those who summon her and/or don't eat her cooking with plans to chop them up and make lunch out of them. Although this is a subversion in the sense that it's never mentioned if she actually eats anyone, just that she's going to make lunch meat out of them.
• Lethal Chef: As mentioned, her culinary talents leave much to be desired. The whole reason she got her nickname was because of how badly kids reacted to her "Chinese Surprise" lunch.
• Punny Name: Sue Chopman's her actual name. When she's brought back, she calls herself "Aunt Sue."
• Say My Name: Saying it three times summons her. And saying "Suey Chop" three times sends her away.
• Stout Strength: Judging by her hefty size and how easily she's able to chop things up with her cleaver.

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Mrs. Boren

Appears In: Nutcracker Nightmare (story #2 of 10)

Sam's babysitter whom she loathes. She used to look after Sam when she was younger but refused to let her do anything fun (according to Sam), to the point Sam calls her "Ol' Boring." She invites Sam's family to a showing of The Nutcracker, and decides to teach Sam a lesson about patience when Sam says she's about to be "Bored to death."

• Babysitter from Hell: Subverted. While she was strict when she was Sam's babysitter, she doesn't reveal how bad she actually is until after she's formally stopped looking after Sam.
• The Bore: To Sam, hence her nickname.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Okay so yes, Sam was being a bit of a brat, but in hindsight it's clear she didn't want to go with her parents to the ballet because she had an unpleasant history with this woman. And if Boren wanted to torment Sam into learning what boredom is, she didn't necessarily have to drag everybody else into it.
• Embarrassing Nickname: "Ol' Boring."
• Mind Rape: It's not clear if everyone in the audience was getting older or if this is just what Boren made only Sam see.
• Nothing Is Scarier: The story ends as Boren reminds Sam, who has aged several years by this point, that there's still a second act in the ballet to get through. One can only imagine just how badly things get from that point.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: In her effort to terrorize Sam into learning patience, the spell she cast may not leave others aware of what's happening but it still effects them. Sam can see her mother's aging and so is pretty much everyone else in the audience. Boren also frequently tells Sam, as sweetly as she can, that if she wants the ballet to be over she'll simply have to be patient.
• Time Master: She has the power to manipulate the passage of time. In order to show Sam what real boredom is, she casts a spell that makes the ballet drag on for so long that by the end of the first act Sam's grown out of the dress that was originally too big for her. She also makes it impossible for Sam to leave the theater, and Sam is the only one besides Boren who is aware of what's going on.

Susie Snowflake

Appears In: A Holly Jolly Holiday (story #4 of 10)

The disgustingly sweet heroine of the Christmas movie A Holly Jolly Holiday. If anyone watches a cursed video tape containing said movie, they slowly transform into duplicates of her, regardless of gender or species.

• Age Lift: In the original story, Susie's a grown woman due to Beth explicitly mentioning she has children. Her Horrortown counterpart is clearly meant to be a young girl.
• Assimilation Plot: Prolonged viewing of the video tape gradually makes the viewer turn into Susie Snowflake. They become obsessed with baking, their hair turns red and curly, and their disposition becomes disgustingly sweet.
• Bright Is Not Good: She's all Christmas colors and Christmas cheer, but she's pure evil.
• Character Catchphrase: "Pretty please with Christmas trees!"
• Happy Fun Ball: She seems cute and happy, but she's basically a mind raping virus that overwrites and possesses viewers into becoming carbon copies of herself.
• Kill It with Fire: The only way to stop the possession is to destroy the video tape, which Beth accomplishes by throwing it in the fireplace.
• Mind Rape: It's shown that victims gradually have their identities and emotions overwritten by the video tape, so that by the time they can finally act, it's too late. Although Beth is briefly able to snap out of it by seeing her favorite wrestler on TV.
• Plucky Girl: In her movie, she goes around spreading Christmas cheer everywhere she goes.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: In a video tape.
• Sugary Malice: The video tape brainwashes people into becoming baking obsessed, redheaded airheads who'll do nothing but watch A Holly Jolly Holiday over and over again.

Bobby Judd

Appears In: The Double-Dip Horror (story #8 of 10)

An annoying little boy who twin sisters Rachel and Wynona meet while working as ski instructors. He keeps pestering the girls into racing him one-on-one on the black diamond course, the Double Dip. A race he'll make sure one won't survive.

• The Bad Guy Wins: The ending implies that he will succeed in killing Rachel.
• Dead All Along: When Wynona tells the ski instructor that she is looking for Bobby Judd, said instructor tells her Bobby Judd has been dead for years.
• Divide and Conquer: He's able to get the girls to separate by making it look like he's disappeared.
• Evil Twin: To his still living brother, although said brother is never seen.
• Ghostly Goals: He haunts the ski lodge looking for identical twins to kill.
• Serial Killer: He only goes after identical twins.
• Undead Child: Bobby was the son of a ski instructor who died when he tried skiing on the Double Dip, the black diamond course. He now haunts the Ice Cream Cone Ski Lodge, looking for unsuspecting victims to challenge to races so he can kill them.

Spenser and Beth Mayhew

Appears in: "Santa's Helpers" (Story #9 of 10)

Two siblings whom love to pick on their younger sister, Diana. They get mistaken for elves and are brought to Santa's workplace to work there.

• Asshole Victim: They pay dearly for teasing Diana and pretending that she's not their sister. She doesn't even seem all that bummed about possibly never seeing them again.
• Big Brother Bully: And Big Sister Bully. They lie to Diana by saying that because she looks so different from the rest of the family, she can't be their sister. They also refuse to let her join them for sledding.
• Cassandra Truth: They try to tell the elves and Santa that they don't really work for them. But because they look so much like elves, they don’t believe them. And when they go back to their house wanting Diana to back up their claim, she simply tells them that they are not her brother and sister.
• Dragged Off to Hell: When they fail their one chance to prove that they’re not elves, the real ones drag them back into the sack, intending to bring them back to the North Pole for hard labor year-by-year. As this is going on, Diana tells them to let Santa know that she has been good this year.
• Half-Identical Twins: They look very much alike, with the only difference being that they're a boy and a girl. They are both short with red hair and green eyes.
• Jerkass: Along with teasing Diana, they whine to their mother about bringing her along with them while they go sledding. They even tell Diana to her face that Santa Claus isn't real and that their parents are the ones who get her presents on Christmas, which is a terrible thing to say to an eight year old.
• Laser-Guided Karma: They claim to Diana throughout the beginning of the story that she is not really their sister. And when Spenser and Beth come back to the house with the elves asking her to prove that they are her siblings, she says that she cannot. Because they told her constantly that since they could not be her brother and sister, she could not be related to them, she began to believe it herself. This is all the proof the elves need to bring Spenser and Beth back to Santa's workshop.
• Redhead In Green: They end up wearing snowsuits that are dyed green.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: They are both this. And since their parents are too, they tease Diana into thinking that she's not part of their family because they look so different from her.
• Spell My Name With An S: Instead of "Spencer", the main protagonist's name is "Spenser".
• Spoiled Brat: Spenser and Beth are probably this. Their mother makes sure to get them new snowsuits each year, and she lets them go sledding out in the snow well after sundown.
• Too Dumb to Live: Spenser and Beth go sledding way dangerously in darkness, and end up not watching where they are going. Needless to say, they almost die by crashing into a tree, and they end up being kidnapped.
• Uncertain Doom: The story ends with them being dragged back into the sled, intended to be sent back to the North Pole to work as elves. When they get there, they could just prove themselves by saying their names and that they’re naughty, and Santa could check them on his list. However, Santa DID say that they only had one chance to prove themselves, and since they failed that one chance with Diana, Santa probably wouldn't go back on his word. It should be noted that they are 11 and 12 respectively, which means they still have plenty of years to grow. They should eventually get tall enough for Santa and the elves to realize their mistake.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Their mother gets them snowsuits that they can go sledding in. They say that they hate them, and that they're ugly.

Santa Claus

Appears In: "Santa's Helpers" (Story #9 of 10)

The man in the red suit. Unlike most portrayals, he isn't very Jolly

• Adaptational Dumbass: It's doubtful that Santa in most versions would mistake human children for elves.
• Adaptational Jerkass: This Santa is NOT a Benevolent Boss. He's a cruel overseer who forces the elves to work endlessly and sends his other elves to recapture runaways so he can sentence them to 18 hour shifts for the next five years.
• Bad Santa: While he's not really evil, he's unjustly harsh on the elves, giving them workloads that would never be allowed by labor laws.
• Fat Bastard: He's fat and a Mean Boss.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He's probably justified in being angry with workers who ran away from the workshop when it's almost Christmas and he needs all the help he can get. Not that it justifies giving them 18 hour shifts for 5 years straight.
• Pet the Dog: He does give the kids a chance to prove that they are not elves.
• Real After All: The kids thought he was just a myth, but he really exists.
• Santa Claus: An unusually negative portrayal.

Robot Tag

Appears in: "Attack of the Christmas Present" (Story #10 of 10)

A toy robot that Jack, the protagonist, receives on Christmas. Apparently, it turns out to be sentient.

• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Jack spends the story terrified that it is trying to attack him. The ending reveals it just wanted to play tag with him.