It is an enormous, dark, antique home with two large bay windows on the second floor that look eerily like a pair of dark eyes staring down at the street below. Then there is the creepy old house, that appears to have been built many years ago.

Dead brown leaves, shade, and shadows are everywhere. Despite the fact that it is the middle of July, the entire neighborhood seems covered in an artificial darkness created by the shadows of massive, overhanging tree limbs. Amanda Benson, her little brother Josh, and their dog Petey immediately sense that something is not quite right. Benson inherited a house that belonged to his late great-uncle that he didn't even know existed. The Benson family takes their first trip to Dark Falls to meet with the local real estate agent Compton Dawes, and see their new home. A novelization of the 1990s Canadian TV adaptation had also been scheduled under Scholastic's Goosebumps Presents TV novelization spin-off series, but the series completed its final aired season before the publication contract could be fulfilled. Subsequent editions differed from one release to the next while an early 2000s re-release of the title featured a more digitally-rendered version of Jacobus's haunted house image, the British special edition was light gray-blue in colour and featured an image of human skulls in a cemetery, an attempt to market the edition to more mature demographics who saw the Goosebumps series as wholly for children. The original cover illustration by Tim Jacobus features an old house at night, with the front door slightly ajar, and a strange figure illuminated in the window. The plot follows Amanda and Josh Benson, who move with their parents into a creepy old house located in the strange town of Dark Falls where people are unlike any they have known before. Additionally, it was re-released in 2010 as the thirteenth book under the Classic Goosebumps title, featuring new artwork by Brandon Dorman. It was first published in July 1992 along with Stay Out of the Basement and Monster Blood, the second and third books.

Welcome to Dead House is the first book in the original Goosebumps book series.

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