But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R.L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling "Goosebumps" series.

They’re fighting ghosts, they’re fighting monsters, and they know they ... and that was the ugliest one. The two “Goosebumps” movies with Jack Black, they made Slappy look like Jack ...

While co-creator Rob Letterman previously cast a bug-eyed Jack Black as Stine in the first of the Goosebumps movies, he arranged only a vocal cameo for the kid-lit author in the first season of ...