There were a handful of horror scenarios that Romero returned to repeatedly over the years but which never made their way into a finished film: bigfeet, golems, Frankenstein's monsters, etc. The state of living death experienced by the residents stemmed from a supernatural power that Devries has now shared with/imposed on the town. Romero makes the capitalistic origins more emphatic: the town patriarch, the wealthy Foster Devries, has in death possessed the town.
In the Stine book, the zombification comes, a la Return of the Living Dead, because of a mysterious gas that escapes from a local factory. Romero retains the basic scenario and all of the major character names but tweaks the story in revealing ways. Every year, the town must feed on the blood of a new family to sustain their undead existence. When the Benson family moves in, young Josh and Amanda discover that a flashlight beam is sufficient to crumble the town’s residents into dust. The Stine book is set in a town called Dark Falls whose inhabitants are, secretly, the living dead. Romero's script was a far more straightforward adaptation of Welcome to Dead House, albeit one with a very distinct take on the story. Stine" in a town plagued by a host of monsters from his books. It would not have been uncommon for the studio to commission multiple scripts over the course of a few years, as Universal did with The Mummy, for which scripts were written and/or revised by Romero, John Sayles, Mick Garris, and Alan Ormsby, among others, resulting in a complicated arbitration process to determine the credited writers for the 1999 film.) The eventual Goosebumps film, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, takes a meta-approach, with Jack Black playing "R.L. (It seems unlikely that Burton's film would have used anything substantial from Romero's script. The exact timeline of the production and Romero's place within it is unclear, but Fox at one point placed a Goosebumps movie on their tentative release schedule for Halloween 1996.
That effort seemed to have eventually started moving forward with Tim Burton, but, according to Stine, the project was delayed by Burton's aborted Superman project and eventually abandoned. In the wake of the Goosebumps' initial sucess, George Romero was one of the filmmakers who explored the possibility of a feature film adaptation.
But it wasn't until 2015 that it hit the big screen. TV quickly pounced on it, with an ongoing series premiering in 1995. For a stretch in the 1990s, Stine was the best-selling writer in America, aided in no small part by his incredible productivity, publishing dozens of books in that span. It was creepy, it was spooky, and it was MASSIVELY popular, introducing countless young readers to the horror genre and spawning a series that would sell hundreds of millions of copies around the world. Stine debuted Welcome to Dead House, the first Goosebumps book.
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