Episode
Goosebumps: How to Kill a Monster
Overview
Gretchen and her brother, Clark, hate staying at their weird grandparents' house. they live right in the middle of a dark, muddy swamp. And things just keep getting spookier as there's something really weird about Grandma and Grandpa's house. Something about that room upstairs. The one that's locked and has those strange noises coming from it...
Details
- Series
- Goosebumps
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1997-02-01
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
How to Kill a Monster is Episode 18 in Season 2 of Goosebumps. It aired on 1997-02-01. The runtime is 21 min.
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