History Trivia / TheHauntingHour

* ProductionPosse: Showrunners Dan Angel and Billy Brown, who had previously helmed ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' 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.

** 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. Though Scary Mary's girl were lucky to just end up slaves.

** Once we enter the mirror world in "Scary Mary," a lot of viewers were reminded of "The Tale of Many Faces" from ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark''

** Once we enter the mirror world in "Scary Mary," a lot of viewers were reminded of "The Tale of Many Faces" from ''series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark''

* GenreAdultery: "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.
* CreatorCameo: Showruners Billy Brown and Dan Angel both have cameos in ''Grampires''.

* TalkingToHimself: As mentioned above, Creator/TomKenny not only plays Uncle Howee on the episode of the same name, but is also the voice of the rabbit puppet, Loomis, and they interact with each other throughout the episode.

* ActorAllusion: The episode "Pool Shark" had BooBoo Stewart playing a teenage boy who inherited a shape shifting gene.

* 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 collection, but the writers came up with an original idea for them to do first, and the other movies never got made.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Zigzagged. Seasons one and two are available on Netflix (and the show has episodes released on DVD), but the episode "Scarecrow" has the ending where Bobby is turned into a scarecrow along with the scarecrow salesman instead of the one where Bobby burns the scarecrow salesman after he reverts to his original form. If you want to see "Scarecrow" with the "Bobby burns the scarecrow salesman's original form, then walks off into the empty world" ending, then you'll have to comb through the Internet for it. As for the episodes from seasons three (both part one[[note]]from "Grampires" to "Terrible Love"[[/note]] and part two[[note]]from "Seance" to "Uncle Howee"[[/note]]) and four, then 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.

* ShoutOut:
** The titular company from "Really You" is essentially a satire on ''Toys/AmericanGirl'', complete with outrageously expensive prices.
** Loomis sounds almost identical to [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland the Disney version of the Mad Hatter]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to 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 collection, but the writers came up with an original idea for them to do first, and the other movies never got made.

** Loomis sounds almost identical to [[Disney/AliceInWonderland the Disney version of the Mad Hatter]].

* 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).