The author of The Art of Goosebumps, Sarah Rodriguez, wrote that "Jacobus used blues and muted greens to suggest loneliness and abandonment, with the amusement park lit slightly with orange to hint that night is falling". Cover artist Tim Jacobus sketched two covers with pencil before the final sketching, and then completed a color mockup. The book was originally published in February 1994.
The monster offers them free passes for their next visit. The Morris family and Clay escape HorrorLand in a different car, but in a twist ending, find out that a Horror held onto the back of the vehicle until they reached their home. The visitors proceed to pinch all of the monsters, resulting in them deflating like balloons. Lizzy then remembers signs within the park that said "No pinching". As an apology, the monsters say that they will lead them towards a new car, but they are led to carnivorous animals.Īfter the family survives the animals' attack, the monsters attempt to murder them. The Horrors explain that they are monsters, but that the visitors' experiences were part of a television show. In anger, Lizzy tries to remove a mask from one of the monsters, which she discovers is actually the Horror's face. The two reveal that they experienced similar problems, so they all decide to confront the Horrors.Īfter the Morris family and Clay discover that the gates have been locked to prevent their escape, the monsters surround them. After a ride in which Lizzy is locked in a casket traveling down a river, the three of them attempt to convince the Morris parents, Carl and Peggy, that they all should leave. The children, Lizzy, Luke and Clay, explore the theme park and get on the rides.
Shortly after parking, their car explodes, but the ticket-taker reassures them that it will be taken care of. The Morris family and their friend Clay become lost, accidentally finding the HorrorLand theme park. The book and episodes received positive reception. The two-part episode was released on VHS and DVD. The HorrorLand theme park was expanded upon in the book series Goosebumps HorrorLand.
A sequel in the spin-off series Goosebumps Series 2000 titled Return to HorrorLand was published in 1999.
There were two video games, an audiobook, and an adult-aimed interactive show based on the book. A comic adaptation of the book was included in the graphic novel compilation Terror Trips, part of the Goosebumps Graphix series. It was adapted into a two-part episode for the television series, which was later released on VHS and DVD. One Day at HorrorLand was originally published in February 1994 and is the sixteenth children's horror novel in R.
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