RL Stine's the Haunting Hour

[froodle]

Count yourself lucky if you’re a horror fan who grew up with permissive parents. As for everyone else, trying to watch scary movies at a young age was a struggle. But for all the ’90s kids out there, they had to get their horror rush somehow, right? Which explains why television shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Eerie, Indiana, and Goosebumps were popular. These series helped us get ready for the big leagues. But what about kids who were born after the new millennium? What crucial ingress did they have to horror? Well, the answer to that would be a little-known show called The Haunting Hour.

R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series walked the same path paved by Are You Afraid of the Dark? With the exception of inbuilt narrators, the show was made up of freestanding stories. Although, some tales required the length of two episodes, or on the rare occasion, they had a sequel somewhere down the line. As for its brand of horror, the series ran the gamut of straightforward, external threats to purely psychological.