Escape From Horrorland

Goosebumps HorrorLand #11

by R.L. Stine

Goosebumps available soon on Disney+! Lizzie and Luke have uncovered secret information about the freaky amusement park. Lizzie wants to help the others, but since the twins don't trust her, they're all in a deadlock. Did someone say DEAD? A trip through the hall of Mirrors lets the kids escape HorrorLand and enter Panic Park. Safe at last! Or are they? Why are there no exits? What's in the Tunnel of Hate? Have they been tricked again?

Genres: Horror, Middle Grade, Childrens, Audiobook, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller

132 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Veronica Morfi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: 3.5/5

Review to come...

[Kitkat · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the ending! I'm so excited for the next book!

[Gavin Hetherington]

I read all 25 Goosebumps HorrorLand and Hall of Horrors books in one movie-length vlog on YouTube, check it out: https://youtu.be/DsKCfCAAt7g

[clumsyplankton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remember as a kid that this was one of my favourite books that I constantly reread and I think it holds up pretty well all things considered

[Alysia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still a good one. I've read it 3x now.

[Krystin | TheF*ckingTwist · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Honestly, I'm not rating and reviewing this series for real because...



But this was the least interesting in the Horrorland series so far. The dead twins in The Shining do it better.



⭐⭐½ | 2.5 stars rounded up

[Bronwyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Galen read March 9-10, 2024

“At the beginning I didn’t feel I was reading a Goosebumps Horrorland book. The book doesn’t go with the name because most of the time they’re not even in Horrorland. And it was also good.”

[Josiah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book would land in the two to two-and-a-half star range for me.
In some ways, "Escape from Horrorland" diverges from the normal path taken by the first ten books in this series. For example, there is no "Enter Horrorland" section in the back, due to the fact that all fourteen of the Very Special Guests (plus Luke and Lizzy) are all in Horrorland for the entire story.
R.L. Stine has taken on a challenging task in the writing of these books, attempting to include sixteen different main characters without neglecting any one of them. Of course, Luke and Lizzy are given special attention in this volume, which makes sense since they are the newest characters to be added to the plot, and the plot is told from Lizzie's first-person perspective.
I'm glad that we get to see Luke and Lizzy in these new stories. After having read the original Goosebumps books, revisiting the characters in all-new stories is a fun and rewarding experience, and R.L. Stine in this series has done some of his best work, in my opinion. "Escape from Horrorland", like the previous eleven entries in the series, contains some excellent creative twists and some suspenseful, thrilling action.

[Araceli · Rating 5 out of 5]

To readers who love Goosebumps, you should read this book. I was dying to find out the way out of horrorland. When i read this book, it was a cool book. My favorite character was Carly Beth because she was one of my favorite goosebumps character (the haunted mask). I recommend this book to lovers of goosebumps. Enjoy the book, and the twists.

[Nicolas Fitzgerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was very intriguing to read. I can't even count how many plot twists there are. You HAVE to read this, but start from the beginning. Great book and totally recommend it!

[Gage Kent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Favorite of the series speller I loved the tunnel of haet part it was so entertaning.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent first part to the HorrorLand Arc 1 finale. Starting off with positives, the monster cameos were all exceptional in their own ways. Not to name the main three, they were each really cool to see and having their correlated kid deal with it was quite cool. There was also a cameo from a popular Goosebumps hero for their tv show appearance early on, not saying who though but it was really cool. The whole Midnight Maze thing was awesome, no complaints besides something for the book overall. Byron was good as always, and the characters had something interesting and well-handled relationships with each other (the boys getting along well, Robby being the more sensible one, Carly and Matt being the leaders and the main two new characters and the twins from book 10 hating each other’s guts). The tunnel of hate was cool and the certain moment towards the end of that was awesome. Panic Park is cool as shit, remind me of the Haunted School. But the book has the giant flaw of shitty pacing. Its first 30 pages rush the kids everywhere and it’s kind of a headache. From there, the book D-R-A-G-S. It felt like a five hour reading session for some reason, and probably was at least an hour above normal length of time for being a 132 page book. Still, the book rocks. 9/10, could’ve used more of a direction I guess. Should’ve been called Escape from Panic Park instead lol.

[Candra Hodge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Horrorland- can they escape?

Now all the stories converge into just one- the kids in horrorland. Will they escape? Do they want to esacpe?

[Jasleen Kaur · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was way too exciting to visit old horrors in one book. I loved to experience a whole new face of horrorland.

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Alana · Rating 2 out of 5]

The bone-chilling tale of Lizzy and her brother, Luke, takes place at the scary amusement park called Horrorland. When they meet a group of kids who are trying to escape from the monsters that run the park, the Horrors, they help them escape. One of the Horrors that is on their side, Byron, helps them get to the house of mirrors. There they travel through the mirrors into Panic Park. Half of the group is waiting there. As they travel through Panic Park, they find ghostly people who were present when the park was still functioning. As they make their way to the Midnight maze (that leads them out of there), they fall into mysterious traps that they all find familiar. What happens next?

I find this book quite mysterious and exciting. Then again, it gets a little boring for the age level. But the writing is tasteful and alive, and I truly am a fan of R.L. Stine. The movement of scene and details is crazy and exciting, what I like to read about! I would recommend this book to a friend who likes horror stories.

[Yolanda Sfetsos · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the previous Goosebumps HorrorLand books were novels with a shortie at the end, this entire installment takes place in HorrorLand. Well, actually, that's not right. It takes place in Panic Park.

That's right, Lizzie and her brother, Luke, along with some of the other regulars find themselves in this very bleak, black and white world full of shadowy people. And while here, they have to find the other kids before trying to return to the place they were trying to escape: HorrorLand. 👀

I enjoyed this a lot more than the last few books because Lizzie is a cool narrator and the mystery of what's going on kept me interested. I mean, I want to know where this is going next. Except, it ended in a cliffhanger. 😳

The biggest pet peeve I had with this tale is that many of the obstacles the characters faced in previous stories happened here again, which was a bit repetitive.

Anyway, this was cool.

[Edgar B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book Escape from Horrorland is a really good book. I liked this book because it is a mystery book which makes it really interesting. I recommend this book to everyone because they can get really interested in this series of books. The book is about two kids finding secret information about a freaky amusement park. They go from one amusement park to another one. I really encourage people to read this book.

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

i read this book as a lil baby. this is like the 2nd book in the trilogy of the psychic twins. it is sooo goood. real page turner. I think it is definitely a better read the younger you are. 3/5.

[Atlantis · Rating 2 out of 5]

My son brought this home from the school library and I kept running into it as I was picking up the house so I decided to just read it! Not going to be fan...just being honest.

[Tarissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tricky Horrland strikes again -- with new twists and turns these kids didn't see coming. Even once they do escape... did they really escape the horror?

[Natalie HH]

My 12 year old self would have been absolutely obsessed with this!

[Katrina McCollough · Rating 3 out of 5]

I need to find some original RL Stines from the 90s this was disappointing

[Chris R · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Their fists were clenched tight. And their eyes were shooting darts at us.” This is what thirteen year old, Lizzy Morris, and her eleven year old brother, Luke, see when they begin an adventure in HorrorLand. HorrorLand is a strange and scary amusement park that Lizzy and Luke visited before. They were getting mysterious e-mails from a park worker at HorrorLand who told them a group of kids were in big trouble. It seems that a group of fourteen kids were invited to HorrorLand to spend a free week as “Very Special Guests”, but quickly things go badly for them. Now, Lizzy and Luke go to help them. Lizzy and Luke discover that eight of the kids had gone through mirrors to get to Panic Park, and the remaining six are suspicious of Lizzy and Luke, since they are unsure who to trust. Matt and Carly Beth Caldwell seem to be the leaders of this group. The twins, Jackson and Jillian Gerard, and Robby Schwartz, and Julie Martin go along with the Caldwells, because they are scared and unsure of what to do. Eventually, all of them end up in Panic Park, and they realize the people there are from the past. They call themselves “the shadow people” and said “they vanished”. They were the gray shadows left behind when the park disappeared. There was no color there, and everything was in black and white. They find the other eight kids safe, but know they don’t have much time to find a way to escape. There is danger around every corner. Is this a parallel universe? Can they get out in time? Or will they become trapped like the others?

Goosebumps HorrorLand #11 Escape From HorrorLand by R.L. Stine is a fiction book in a series. R.L. Stine is very famous for his Goosebumps books around the world. They are popular with older elementary and middle school students. Boys and girls would equally enjoy this book. It is easy to read and geared to preteen and teen readers because of the informal writing style. The characters in the book are likeable. There are also a variety of other characters in the book that the reader can relate too just like in real life. It is set in the present, except when they go to Panic Park which is the past. The author’s vivid descriptions of characters and other details makes you feel you can picture what is happening in your mind. I especially liked the way the author described the “dummy” they discover. The description of the worms coming from its eyes would gross out any reader, and I am sure that this is what the author was trying to do to get his point across. The characters in the book are facing a challenge of trying to escape from evil. They learn also about friendship and trust along the way.

This book was hard to put down. Every chapter ends suspensefully. It makes you want to continue reading to find out what happens next. It is a fun book to read. This is the first time I have read a Goosebumps book. I thought that it would be too scary when I was younger, so I never read one. The reader is told that Lizzy and Luke had been to HorrorLand previously, so I don’t know if #10 is part of the HorrorLand series, but I do know that there is one after this book that is called #12 The Streets of Panic Park. Overall, this book is a good choice for readers who enjoy a little suspense, a bit of gore, and to be entertained.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Escape from HorrorLand is different stylistically from the previous ten books in the series. They all start with a traditional Goosebumps story followed by the main character being invited to HorrorLand. All of these stories are connected. But in Escape from HorrorLand, we start out at HorrorLand. We follow Luke and Lizzy Morris, the protagonists from the original One Day at HorrorLand, which in my opinion is the best Goosebumps book there is. Overall, there is a lot to like here but a few parts I think could have been better.

Luke and Lizzy say they have researched Panic Park and believe the other kids who are trying to escape HorrorLand for Panic Park, are making a mistake. Here is the first part that I wish would have been expanded. I would have liked a bit more of the information the two kids got from research. We get some but I feel like the backstory could have been a bit more robust.

When they finally get to Panic Park, the book gets quite good. Stine created a very good ambiance. I could truly picture it in my mind. The black and white environment and the ghostly characters really create a creepy picture.

The “attractions” at the park are also done really well. First, they go to the Tunnel of Hate. On this boat ride, the kids begin to actively hate each other. Two kids fall off a boat and are so full of hate for each other that they continue to fight underwater, ignoring that they are drowning. Another boat of kids has been in the tunnel for so long that the kids have become nothing more than wild animals, even trying to attack the throats of the other kids. It is all very terrifying and gruesome.

Then they go to the Midnight Maze. This kind of reminded me of the maze in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, where the characters face foes from earlier in the story. Here we get the Egg Monsters, Haunted Mask, and Captain Ben. This is the second portion that I think could have been improved. The battle against the Egg Monsters is spectacular. Honestly one of the best chapters in any Goosebumps books. But how Captain Ben and the Haunted Mask were defeated was pretty underwhelming. I also would have liked them to face more villains here. There were ten different villains in this story. Maybe they will show up in the next book but I would have loved to see a few more in the maze.

All in all, this was a very good Goosebumps offering. There was ambiance, scares, twists, and some very gruesome portions. It also left me wanting to continue to the next book by leaving quite a bit unanswered. Why did Lizzie lie about her powers? Who really is Byron? Who brought them to HorrorLand and why?

So where does it rank? Well, it’s kind of hard to rank it because how different it has been from the rest of the books. I ranked the previous books based on the storm before HorrorLand. But this book is all HorrorLand and pretty dependent on the other stories. It is really good though. It joins Revenge of the Living Dummy and Who’s Your Mummy as books from this series that are all time greats.


1. Revenge of the Living Dummy
2. Escape from HorrorLand
3. Who’s Your Mummy
4. Say Cheese and Die Screaming
5. Creep from the Deep
6 Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz
7. My Friends Call Me Monster
8. Help! We Have Strange Powers
9. Monster Blood for Breakfast
10. The Scream of the Haunted Mask
11. Welcome to Camp Slither

[Benedict · Rating 3 out of 5]

The previous ten Horrorland books have all contained a main standalone story, and finished with a segment dubbed 'Enter Horrorland', which consisted of a continuing story where the book protagonists are invited to Horrorland as VIPs. The 'Enter Horrorland' segments gave us little snippits of their increasingly concerning adventures in the park, with their allies going missing, or being led astray. They are aided by seemingly friendly Horror, Byron, who advises that they escape to adjoining theme park, Panic Park.

This book is the first in the series to focus soley on the Enter Horrorland narrative, where our gang of previous progatonists are joined by Lizzie and Luke Morris, the original kids from the book One Day in Horrorland, which inspired this series. This series is set one year after the events of the original. Our gang instantly distrust the Morris newcomers, who turn up out of nowhere and advise them to avoid Panic Park, directly opposing their plans as had been advised by Byron throughout.

It continues to be exciting and fast-paced, going from adventure to adventure rapidly throughout. The audiobook version remains excellent, with a good narrator and effective use of sound effects and musical stings.

Silly kids book, but thoroughly enjoyable. Clearly a two-parter though, leaving on a cliffhanger, hopefully to be resolved in book 12.

[Jess Castz · Rating 5 out of 5]

¡Sí! Abrimos fuerte este mes, pero no podía ser de otra manera. Ya había oído de los libros dobles que sacó R.L. Stine sobre una de sus tramas más exitosas de la serie de Escalofríos, pero, siendo honesta, no esperaba que reaparecieran héroes y villanos de otras historias en esta nueva trama.
De hecho, este primer libro me dejó con la boca abierta por todo lo que vivieron los personajes, pues siento que el autor aumentó unos grados más el horror y los momentos de tensión. Literal, por ahí hubo un par de escenas que me dejaron con la boca abierta, pues no esperaba que me los hiciera sufrir tanto.
Claro que todavía tenía ases bajo la manga, pero de eso ya estaré hablando en el segundo tomo del libro.
Por lo pronto, si extrañan a sus personajes favoritos de la serie de Escalofríos o quieren encontrarse nuevamente con algunos villanos de aquellas historias, no dejen pasar la oportunidad y lean los tomos dobles de esta historia. Los llevará a un viaje nostálgico y aterrador, por las calles de un parque aún más macabro que Horrorlandia.

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

C+

Goosebumps Horrorland 11

Lizzy and Luke Morris from One Day at Horrorland and Return to Horrorland are back. This time, they're trying to help the kids from the Horrorland series find a way out of the theme park. The Morris siblings lead the way through a mirror dimension into a black-and-white theme park called Panic Park, but is Panic Park the way to escape Horrorland?

Escape from Horrorland does not follow the Horrorland series formula. Instead of starting with a story and then moving into the Horrorland subplot, Escape from Horrorland focuses entirely on the kids trapped in Horrorland. Stine's choice to focus on the Horrorland subplot is overdue.

Although Escape from Horrorland starts slow, the pace picks up around the halfway mark, then moves into overdrive once villains from the previous books return. Making the Horrorland subplot the primary focus was the kick in the pants the Horrorland series needed.

[Ketekun Phanith · Rating 3 out of 5]

[Escape From Horrorland (Goosebumps HorrorLand #11) - R.L. Stine]

Rating: 3.21/5.00

"Alright, I am happy that this book finally explores the depths of Horrorland, as the series stated. As much as I enjoy reading the terror that this Horrorland brings to the characters, it ends up slightly underwhelming as I approach the end of this literary piece. This occurrence could have happened because I left it on the shelf for more than a year as I was on the other side of the globe for academic pursuits. Still, it did not fully live up to the unbiased expectation I maintained before reading it.

Despite this slight disappointment, I cannot wait to read the remaining books in this Goosebumps Horrorland series. Cheers!"

#EscapeFromHorrorland #RLStine #GoosebumpsHorrorLand #ChildrenHorror

[Nicole Canosa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is AMAZING because it has MANY twists in the plot that you could NEVER expect from the beginning. In the beginning it seems like a very basic, predictable book, but I know that R.L. Stine makes better books then that. I decided to keep reading (thankfully). As soon as I know it, it gets interesting and makes me love the book. This book is a somewhat short book however, it gets twists and turns in the book. It is a holiday-type reading book, but I could not resist reading a goosebumps! They are to good to skip! A classic series that is still very, very appreciated till today! I would recommend this book to basically, anyone!