It’s fine.

It’s actually got a pretty decent story to it where a local haunted house, Hill House (not to be confused with THE Hill House), is constantly toured by two little pranksters. The tour guide tells the tale of how the house was built by a seaman who led this side there and, after he never came back, she ran away. Then his ghost appeared, roaming the halls with a light looking for her.

Pretty cool.

Then a boy accidentally finds where the ghost is hiding (ghosts just hide places. What did you think they did? DISAPPEAR?) and told him now HE can’t leave, rips the kid’s head off (not gory, he just REMOVES the head like a toy crash test dummy) and hides it.

Then the seaman leaves.

Which is hilarious.

Anyway, is the ghost of the kid roams the house.

A new kid tells them he’s seen the ghosts and convinces them to join him there at night where he confesses that he is the headless ghost. He’s been borrowing this head (as one does) and needs to return it, which is just good manners. But now he wants the boy prankster’s head!

The kids flee, stumble into hidden rooms or whatever and find the ACTUAL head. Then the ghost appears, reunited with the head, and fades away.

Weird that the headless ghost wasn’t just hiding somewhere.

Anyway, turns out this new kid is the tour guide’s nephew and they all leave.

Decent story.

But then Stine fucked it up because he just COULD NOT resist.

WEEKS go by and the kids take one last tour only to find cops waiting for them outside asking what they were doing. They said taking the tour.

“But it went out of business MONTHS ago. You must have been getting tours from ghosts!”

And, sure enough, the tour guide and his wife are in the window, ghosts.

Pretty sure those chunks of time need to be reversed to make any sense since other people were on these tours.

Or he could have just stopped when it made sense!

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