Title: The Halloween Party, a.k.a. “The Haunting of Mr. Moviefone”

Author: R.L. Stine

Summary: Just in time for Halloween, Moviefone has a brand new story written by the horror master himself, R.L. Stine, author of the classic ‘Goosebumps’ series.

But oh, no — this story doesn’t have an ending! R. L. Stine needs you, the reader, to write your own ending to his story, ‘The Halloween Party.’

Send your own ending to StoryEndingEntry@AOL.com by 12PM EST on Monday, Oct. 18 to be officially entered into our spook-tastic Story Starter Contest. NOTE: Ending must be 100 words or less. [Wing: Just to be clear, this is no longer an active contest, nor is it a Devil’s Elbow contest. Alas. I would love to team up with my arch nemesis Stine.]

Initial Thoughts

It’s time for us to put the WEEEEEEEE in Hallo-WEEEEEEEEn this year at Point Horror. Unfortunately the lost media well is starting to run dry. My investigations into the Strange Matter contest have hit nothing but dead ends and uninterested responses, and unless I’m willing to start making phone calls I’m not sure what else I can find.

That said, the well’s not completely tapped out just yet. Earlier this year I found yet another contest story created by R.L. Stine, this time an exclusive for the Moviefone website. Remember Mr. Moviefone? He got his ass whooped in Josie And The Pussycats.

I have to admit this one recap is a bit… tricky. See, the winning entry was unfortunately narrated by Stine using Adobe Flash. And as we all know, that program doesn’t run anymore (unless you’re playing games on Newgrounds with their special engine). I tried everything I could to make the video run and nothing worked. I tried Youtube as well. Nothing.

It looked like I wouldn’t be able to fully recap this and Halloween was ruined.

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Which is what WOULD have happened if I hadn’t noticed the one person who commented on the winning entry was “Nicholas Priolo,” congratulating “Adam.” See Wing, Stine’s not the only one busting out needlessly tense cliffhanger endings. [Wing: RUDE.]

I went back to the main page with the story and found an ending submitted by Adam Priolo. Until anything arises to contradict this, I have to believe Adam’s comment was the winning ending to Stine’s story.

And that’s the story of how Jude’s deductive reasoning saved Halloween. [Wing: *insert confetti here* Yay!]

Recap

Stacy thought this was a totally corking [INSERT TITLE HERE]. Like completely cash money. With her Dora the Explorer mask, [Wing: Swiper, no swiping!] she got all them trifling bitches twisted up in her game. Her best pal Andy chilling in his Darth Vader costume, thought it was the best party ever.

But hey, who turned off the music?

The MC was totally harshing the mellow when they announced it was close to midnight, which meant everyone had to take off their masks.

Not wanting to not follow the crowd, Stacy and Andy did as they were told to look like the cool kids. They removed their masks. And so did everyone else.

Wh-wh-wh-wh-whaaaaaaaaat????

Wing, all these other kids have got fangs! A-and snouts! A-and sunken eyes!

Oh my GOD! Stacy and Andy are surrounded by monsters!

It was at this point Andy realized… they were fucked.

Or they WOULD have been fucked if Andy hadn’t broken out his trusty light saber! [Wing: OH GOOD, ANOTHER NEEDLESSLY DRAMATIC CLIFFHANGER.]

As two ghouls closed in on Andy and Stacy, a flick of his wrist and those ghouls found their hands severed from their wrists, landing on the floor in a pool of blood!

Monsters to the left, monsters to the right, Andy fought ’em all until he and Stacy were safe and clear in the cool October night.

Boy, it’s a good thing he wore his Darth Vader costume or they might’ve been in some serious trouble!

Final Thoughts

Oh that’s nice. You know I like it when nice things happen to nice people, don’t you Wing?

[Wing: So, uh, is this a thing where they became their costumes? Because I love that kind of story. Or were the kids always monsters and Andy just happens to have a working lightsaber? Because that’s a big boooooo from me.

Costumes coming to life it is!

… all those times I’ve donned a werewolf costume and yet never has it become real. Booooooooo.]