R.L. Stine's 'Goosebumps' is getting a TV reboot. 'We wouldn't have done the show without his blessing,' its producers say.

What's chilling, thrilling and goes bump in the night? Goosebumps is back.

R.L. Stine's 1992 worldwide best-selling Scholastic book series is getting a TV reboot. The show, which stars Justin Long and Rachael Harris alongside newcomers Zack Morris, Isa Briones, Miles McKenna, Ana Yi Puig and Will Price, premieres on Disney+ and Hulu Oct. 13.

The 10-part series takes viewers on a rollercoaster of mystery through the lens of five high schoolers who start to investigate the death of a teen three decades earlier named Harold Biddle. They discover the home where he died and go down a suspenseful journey to uncover secrets from the past.

It was a meaningful experience to bring the stories back to the screen for Goosebumps executive producers Pavun Shetty and Conor Welch. Shetty told Yahoo Entertainment that he and Welch grew up reading the books, which "came out during our formative years."

"I had an older sister ... and she had a lot of [Goosebumps] books. So I used to sneak into a room and steal them and read them on my own," he explained. "I think the feeling of the books that I got was that you are reading something that's a little bit too old for you that you shouldn't be a part of and that was part of the thrill ... That was the dynamic we took into developing the series."

How Stine influenced the new series

Shetty and Welch said the show draws on five of the most popular Goosebumps books, which include Say Cheese and Die!, Night of the Living Dummy, The Haunted Mask, Go Eat Worms! and The Cuckoo Clock of Doom. These books "really tapped into the emotional story that the characters were going into at that moment," Shetty said.

Welch told Yahoo Entertainment that the books help to introduce the five main high schoolers as well, "so they each sort of have a little bit of their own episode."

In the first episode, the characters meet at a Halloween party at the old Biddle house, which has been abandoned for years since a tragedy in the '90s.

The executive producers said it was important to imbue a mix of humor and horror into the series.

"We talked a lot about how both comedy and horror have a lot of the similar rhythms and cadences," Welch said. "We really were invested in trying to fluidly cross between both of those [genres] and create a rhythm that was maybe funny when you expected it was going to be scary [and] scary when you expected it was going to be funny."

Welch continued, "Even R.L. Stine himself has said that he endeavored to write scary Stephen King-like books, but pepper in a lot of humor and so that was a North Star for us."

"It's important that everyone know that we really honored the original books. We know how beloved the book series is," Shetty said. "We wouldn't have done the show without his blessing."

Just how involved was the horror-master in the making of the show?

"He read scripts, he watched cuts. We got an email from him saying he loved the first episode," Shetty said of Stine's involvement." He was always looking over our shoulder in a good way."

Something for everyone

Welch said Goosebumps was "the first series that made me a reader for pleasure, as opposed to just for homework or a task for my parents and so I poured through them, they always felt a little bit scarier and a little bit funnier than I expected."

Welch recently introduced his oldest daughter to the books, and "she's just absolutely ripping through the series and loves them as well."

“It's a little dangerous, but again, never inappropriate," he said. "It's super thrilling that this is the first thing that I have worked on that I can watch with my daughter."

“It was purposeful that we really built out two generations of characters and stories in the show so that it would be appealing and authentic to everyone,” Shetty added.

Goosebumps will stream on Disney+ and Hulu on Friday, Oct. 13. The 10-part series will launch with a five-episode drop as part of Disney+’s "Hallowstream" and Hulu's "Huluween" celebrations, with subsequent new episodes streaming weekly.

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