Disney+’s Goosebumps series premiered Oct. 13, 2023, and its David Schwimmer season, The Vanishing, followed in 2025. Disney+ canceled it after two seasons. Here’s how to watch.
If you want some R.L. Stine this Halloween, Disney+ has two full seasons of Goosebumps.
The first season premiered Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, on Disney+ and Hulu, Disney announced at the time. The second, “Goosebumps: The Vanishing,” starring David Schwimmer, dropped all at once on Jan. 10, 2025.
There won’t be a third, at least not on Disney+. The show was canceled in August 2025, Variety reported.
Is Goosebumps on Disney+?
Yes. Both seasons are on Disney+, listed as two separate titles, “Goosebumps” and “Goosebumps: The Vanishing,” according to JustWatch.
Season 1 has 10 episodes, and Season 2 has eight, Variety reported.
What is the Goosebumps Disney+ series about?
Season 1 follows five high schoolers pulled into a dark mystery about a teen named Harold Biddle, who died decades earlier, Variety noted. It borrowed from classic Goosebumps books, including “Say Cheese and Die!,” “The Haunted Mask,” “The Cuckoo Clock of Doom,” “Go Eat Worms!” and “Night of the Living Dummy,” Disney said in its premiere announcement.
Justin Long and Rachael Harris starred, along with a younger cast that included Zack Morris, Isa Briones, Miles McKenna, Ana Yi Puig and Will Price.
Season 2, “The Vanishing,” is a new story with a new cast. Fraternal twins move in with their recently divorced dad, a botanist played by Schwimmer, in Gravesend, Brooklyn, according to Variety and Disney. Ana Ortiz, Jayden Bartels and Sam McCarthy co-starred.
The mystery goes back to four teenagers who vanished in 1994. Schwimmer’s character, Anthony Brewer, is a former botany professor, and the season pulls from books like “Stay Out of the Basement,” “Monster Blood” and “Welcome to Camp Nightmare,” Disney said.
Why was Goosebumps canceled?
Disney+ didn’t give a public reason.
Variety broke the news on Aug. 7, 2025, that the show wouldn’t return for a third season at Disney+. Sony Pictures Television, which made the show, planned to shop it to other outlets, an unnamed source told Variety.
The two seasons drew 75 million hours of viewing in the U.S., plus 43 million hours across 16 international markets, Variety reported.
As of now, we couldn’t find any report of the show landing somewhere new. We covered the cancellation when it happened.
What did R.L. Stine think of the Disney+ Goosebumps?
He liked it, with a caveat.
“I thought it was pretty good,” Stine told Popverse at New York Comic Con 2025. He also called it “a weird series,” since it was Goosebumps, just not aimed at kids.
That’s a fair note. Disney+ rates the first season TV-14.
Here’s Disney+’s official trailer for “The Vanishing”:
Who made the Goosebumps series?
Nicholas Stoller and Rob Letterman developed it, and Sony Pictures Television produced it for Disney, Variety reported. Letterman directed the 2015 “Goosebumps” movie with Jack Black, too.
Scholastic, which publishes the books, was part of the producing team, Disney said.
When did the Goosebumps books start?
In 1992, with “Welcome to Dead House,” NPR noted when the series turned 30.
Scholastic said in 2023 that there were more than 400 million Goosebumps books in print in 32 languages, calling it one of the bestselling book series of all time.
Stine is still writing them, too. Scholastic’s newest Goosebumps line, House of Shivers, started with “Scariest. Book. Ever.” and keeps adding titles.
“I don’t have the same sales as the 90s. We love the 90s,” Stine told NPR in 2022.
He also has one rule for his younger readers, and the TV-14 Disney+ show didn’t have to follow it.
“My one rule for writing for 7 to 11 year olds is they can’t think it’s going to be real,” he said.
How did the Goosebumps movies do?
Better than you might remember.
The 2015 “Goosebumps” movie, with Jack Black as a fictional version of Stine, opened at No. 1 with $23.6 million. It beat “The Martian” that weekend and finished with about $158.3 million worldwide, Box Office Mojo shows.
“Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween” followed on Oct. 12, 2018. It opened with $15.8 million and made about $93.3 million worldwide.
Is Goosebumps on Freeform for Halloween?
Not this year. “Goosebumps” isn’t on Freeform’s 2026 “31 Nights of Halloween” schedule, by our check of the full listing.
Freeform did air the first two episodes of Season 1 the day it premiered back in 2023, Disney said at the time.
What are some fun facts about Goosebumps on Disney+?
It premiered on a Friday the 13th. Disney picked Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, for Season 1, so the show turns 3 on Oct. 13, 2026.
Season 2’s date was a birthday present. Disney announced “The Vanishing” premiere date on Oct. 8, 2024, R.L. Stine’s birthday, according to its press release. Stine turned 83 this Oct. 8.
It’s not the first Goosebumps TV show. The original series started on Fox Kids in 1995 and ran four seasons and 74 episodes, Bloody Disgusting noted. It isn’t on Disney+. JustWatch lists it on Netflix and Paramount+ channels instead.
Disney World once had a Goosebumps show. The “Goosebumps HorrorLand Fright Show and Funhouse” opened at what was then Disney-MGM Studios on Oct. 8, 1997. It was named after Stine’s book “One Day at HorrorLand” and took over part of the park’s Streets of America area. Amaz-O the Magician hosted, Slappy showed up, and it closed Nov. 1, 1998, according to Laughing Place and Bloody Disgusting.
Two seasons, a Friday the 13th premiere and Ross from “Friends” as a creepy botanist dad. Not a bad run for a Goosebumps show that was never meant for little kids.
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Hat Tips:
Disney+ press, Sept. 7, 2023: Goosebumps set to premiere Oct. 13 on Disney+ and Hulu
Disney+ press, Oct. 8, 2024: Goosebumps: The Vanishing premieres Jan. 10, 2025
Joe Otterson, Variety, Aug. 7, 2025: Goosebumps canceled after two seasons at Disney+
Grant DeArmitt, Popverse, Dec. 31, 2025: R.L. Stine on the Goosebumps streaming series (NYCC 2025)
Freeform, Sept. 16, 2026: 31 Nights of Halloween schedule 2026
JustWatch and Disney+: Goosebumps and Goosebumps: The Vanishing U.S. listings, checked Oct. 11, 2026
Disney Plus on YouTube: Goosebumps: The Vanishing official trailer
Elizabeth Blair, NPR, Oct. 31, 2022: Goosebumps is turning 30
Scholastic, Sept. 7, 2023: New series Goosebumps set to premiere Oct. 13 on Disney+ and Hulu
Box Office Mojo: Goosebumps (2015), the Oct. 16-18, 2015 weekend chart and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)
Bloody Disgusting: Goosebumps and how R.L. Stine brought gateway horror to the small screen
Laughing Place, May 16, 2019: Extinct Attractions: Dinosaurs Live! and Goosebumps HorrorLand Fright Show; Bloody Disgusting, May 27, 2026: Goosebumps HorrorLand Fright Show photos
Biography.com: R.L. Stine
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