Based on The Ghost Next Door, book #10 of the original Goosebumps series.
Hannah Fairchild starts to suspect the new kid next door is actually ghost.
The episode provides examples of:
- Ascended Extra: The Shadow Figure is a Plot-Irrelevant Villain in the book, but gets a larger role in this adaptation.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Mr. Chesney, the mailman, doesn't use a shotgun to threaten kids. While Hannah assumes he's ignoring her and Drives Like Crazy, he legitimately couldn't see her. In the climax, he rescues Danny from his house when Danny accidentally sets it on fire and gets locked in, showing no hard feelings while creeped out about a piano playing on its own.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Hannah is a blonde in the book. The actress who portrays her here is a redhead.
- Also, Danny is a redhead in the book, but a blonde in this episode.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: In the book, Hannah's family are around but disappear once she finds out they all died in the fire. Here, they're gone because her parents left to take her brothers to camp, when actually they already moved on to the afterlife, and show up at the end for Hannah.
- Cassandra Truth: Danny tries to tell Hannah that she's a ghost, but his mother never believes him since she's deaf.
- Chekhov's Skill: Hannah is shown to practice piano regularly. She uses it to alert Mr. Chesney that someone is inside his house while it's burning. He rushes inside and gets Danny out before he's burned alive.
- Died Happily Ever After: Shown more prominently here. Hannah is allowed to reunite with her family in the afterlife after saving Danny's life. Even better, this destroys the shadow who was stalking her all day. She goes to hug her mother, having missed her parents and siblings all day, before waving to Danny and fading away.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: It's not confirmed in the book if Danny lied that his mother was deaf one way or the other. Here, we see that she actually is; Danny uses sign language to speak with her, and it explains why she can't hear Hannah. Hannah apologizes to Danny and says she wants to learn sign language to speak with his mother. She never gets the chance, finding out she was dead and only Danny could see her.
- Foreshadowing: Just like in the book, there are plenty of points that foreshadow the reveal that Hannah is a ghost.
- Hannah, thinking there's a prowler outside her house, tries to call the police, but her voice can't seem to get through to the operator.
- Hollywood Darkness: When Hannah goes outside at the beginning of the episode, the scenery around is supposed to indicate nighttime, even though it looks as though it was filmed during daytime.
- Once More, with Clarity: At first, Hannah thinks that some prowler threw a rock through her window to scare her. Upon realizing she is a ghost, and finding her burned down house in shambles, she realizes it was actually the work of some passing vandal.
- Standard Snippet: Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E plays as a Leitmotif for Hannah throughout the episode.
