How many of you read these?

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Upstairs_Hat_9131@reddit

Wow…that literally brought back memories. I remember one of those books describing how the cat would circle and circle before they finally laid down, contrasted by the dog who just flopped down.

I have no idea why I remember that from 30 years ago.

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ww8431@reddit

I read these, anybody read the plant that ate the dirty socks?

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Imaginary_Angle7437@reddit

Oh wow! I forgot all about these! Read all of them. Holy nostalgia batman. 🤗

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CSWorldChamp@reddit

I must’ve read Howliday Inn 20 times. Formative.

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ericscottf@reddit

I can't read the word bungalow without being transported to a very specific moment in my childhood.

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DigitalxDevilx@reddit

It's funny you say that. That is where I learned the word!

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DigitalxDevilx@reddit

Howliday Inn was how I learned the word "bungalow".

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RarelyHere1345@reddit

Remember them and hated them. I was a hard core Little House on the Prairie girl.

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GreatGlassLynx@reddit

Oh fuck yes. I think Bunnicula kicked off my lifelong love of reading.

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GrauntChristie@reddit

I read them all, but I can’t remember a single bit of any of them.

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I don't know if I read Nighty Nightmare, but I definitely read the other three. I tried reading Bunnicula to one of my kids when they were little, but they just didn't get in to it. I, however, remembered and appreciated how increasingly unhinged the cat gets in that one.

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Miserable-Age3502@reddit

I LOVED THESE SO MUCH!!! These and "I Want to Go Home" by Gordon Korman were my most re-read books.

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Boomgoesmybrain@reddit

Read them? I still have them!

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More-read-than-eddit@reddit

Me. Somehow this, ghost squad, and the Miss Bianca books are not in a nice anthology/omnibus format and it drives me nuts.

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MonkeyChoker80@reddit

I found a nice hardcover with three Bunnicula books in it at a thrift books store, and was all “score!”

Only to discover, when I read them to my kiddos at Halloween-time, that it was, like, books 1, 3, and 5.

So, “Return to Howliday Inn”, but not the original “Howliday Inn”.

Kiddo was minorly confused, but the books were ‘stand-alone’-ish enough that it was fine, and they still enjoyed them.

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More-read-than-eddit@reddit

Yeah I owned celery stalks at midnight which was very “in the middle of some sort of arc” but still stood alone

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Lawrenceburntfish@reddit

Holy... Crap ..

I haven't thought about Bunnicula since I was single digits.

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AwkwardPersonality36@reddit

BUNNICULA!!!

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margaritabop@reddit

Bunnicula is now available as a graphic novel as well! Bought it for my daughter.

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Gorkymalorki@reddit

Also it was a cartoon, too.

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MonkeyChoker80@reddit

Tried watching some of it on YouTube, after reading my kiddo some of the books.

The cartoon felt very… ‘stereotype heavy’.

The cat was a ‘cool cat’ who ‘knew it all’

The dog was a ‘dopey dog’ who was ‘too dumb to live’.

After my reading, where Chester was all paranoid and neurotic, while Harold was calm and unflappable and just mildly annoyed by Chester’s antics…? Kiddo hated the cartoon series immensely.

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JustACasualFan@reddit

Read them all up to Nighty-Nightmare. Also read a good chunk of Hobie Hanson.

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AskTheAdmin@reddit

Everyone of them!

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Shoehornblower@reddit

My 3rd grade teacher Ms. Graham read these to us…

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Goofygooberz@reddit

Those books helped us move to Stephen King as we got a little older

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

I read all of them. We somehow owned a copy of The Celery Stalks at Midnight. Then I came in 3rd in my 4th grade spelling bee and got a bundle of books that included Nighty Nightmare. So having read those two multiple times I finally got Bunnicula and Howliday Inn from the library to read those two as well.

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javaper@reddit

I love these! We still quote them in my family.

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Any-Baseball-6766@reddit

Pretty sure I read them all. When my kids were cartoon age there was a bunnacula cartoon they used to watch. It wasn’t anything like the books but it was pretty entertaining.

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fermentedradical@reddit

What great books!

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ScagWhistle@reddit

ALL OF THEM.

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chozopanda@reddit

Yes I loved those books! If I see a rather anemic looking vegetable I still say it looks like Bunnicula got it

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FeistyFoundation8853@reddit

My friend and I still quote it. “Sing “Feelings,” Chester.”

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elphaba00@reddit

I just made a reference to Bunnicula today. My teen is taking an ag class at school, and the classroom has a bunny. The bunny is mean. She bites. And apparently yesterday it was my son's day to get his leg humped. So today there's a petting zoo at the elementary school, and I joked that they're going to need to put a sign on Bunnicula's cage. My son texted back that the biting, humping bunny was left at the high school.

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sugarturtle88@reddit

I always reference Bunnicula when citing why I won't eat cauliflower (looks like broccoli Bunnicula got to first)... the uncultured swine who haven't read the books stare like I've grown an extra head... those who have read the books delight!

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ResidentHooman@reddit

Oh hell yeah!

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engrish_is_hard00@reddit

I member

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melodyomania@reddit

I loved reading these books and watching the cartoon specials.

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jackfaire@reddit

I might have? I've honestly read so many books in my life that there's ones I've forgotten and ones I can describe but not find

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EvergreenHulk@reddit

Read them, hell I named my cat Chester after them.

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MidSerpent@reddit

All four of those, they were among my favorites as a kid.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

All 4 of them. There’s something in o e of those books that made me laugh so much but I can’t remember we what it was. Maybe time for a reread, should be quick

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TinyLittleWeirdo@reddit

I DID! Omg I loved those books so much! Thanks for the happy memories!

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concreteghost@reddit

Crazy to think about publishing companies not find this niche age for reading profitable anymore. Idk maybe I’m wrong

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MetaVulture@reddit

I did! I loved them!

Sad about Deborah Howe though.

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trixie1013@reddit

Woah. I had no idea what you meant so I looked it up. Cancer and passed away at 31 is way too short. Her husband kept the Bunnicula series alive- as recent as 1999 and 2006- plus so much more. He was busy.

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NurkleTurkey@reddit

God I loved James Howe.

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aftorpheus@reddit

I only read Bunicula because the bunny was cwute

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cowhand214@reddit

I think I read Bunnicula. I know I read and re-read Howliday Inn countless times

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remoteworker9@reddit

I had Bunnicula!

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Methuselahdacannibal@reddit

Holiday inn

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nochickflickmoments@reddit

The first 3, and I read them to my students during October!

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detourne@reddit

Bunnicula scared me for some reason!

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Harbinger_Pulsar@reddit

Great books. Also The Plant that Ate Dirty Sox series

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pineapples_are_evil@reddit

Yes! I also just lifted my 9 yr old niece Bunnicula! I'm excited to see what she thinks. It may not be up her alley, unrepentant Horse Girl... but it's my mission to get them reading "old" books... lol

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CayseyBee@reddit

Bunnicula is one of my all time favorite books and I fully blamed for my love of supernatural books.

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OntologicalParadox@reddit

You are missing Return to Howliday Inn

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navy_yn2000@reddit

I loved Bunnicula.

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rqny@reddit

I loved Bunnicula 🩷

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LysandraTheDragon@reddit

Omg omg omg, I forgot about all of these and I loved all 4

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johnvalley86@reddit

Didn't read the others but bunnicula was definitely a must read back in the day

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Ignignokt73@reddit

I read these, The Cricket in Times Square series, and all the John Bellairs books (Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull, House with a Clock in its Walls) in elementary school. All favorites.

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louiselebeau@reddit

I loved those. I kinda want to read them again now.

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palec39682@reddit

Bunnicula was the first book in English I could read back in 6th grade

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rangeghost@reddit

My Mom read them to me and my brother when we were kids, although I think I remember the fifth book, Return to the Howliday Inn, the best.

The Celery Stalks at Midnight's cover is permanently burned into my memory.

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Gabby_Johnson2@reddit

Bunnicula and the Celery Stalks at Midnight I did read, they other two I didn't. Both were good reads if I remember correctly

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Slippery-Pete76@reddit

Pretty sure I read those two as well. Probably got them at a Scholastic book sale.

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Morriganx3@reddit

I read all of them, but I only remember the first two. Bunnicula is an absolute classic

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FoXym0r0n@reddit

Same here, I loved the series. I did a book report on Bunnicula when I was in 4th grade. 😄

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_wiz_@reddit

I also did a Bunnicula book report! I got a wave of Sunday night procrastination panic from seeing the cover again

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Flimsy_Situation_506@reddit

Celery Stalks at Midnight was a favourite of mine.

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

I can’t remember if this was a fever dream or not. I know I read this book. But I also swear they killed a vampire vegetables by driving toothpicks into it.

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Minnow_Minnow_Pea@reddit

Yeah, that was The Celery Stalks at Midnight.

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

Better nab a copy for my kids then. Also the plant that ate dirty socks.

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nitrot150@reddit

I think I read Howliday in too, loved those books

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CockroachMammoth4229@reddit (OP)

I was never a big reader, unlike my sister who would consume a book a week or more. These were some of the few I remember reading repeatedly, along with The Hobbit and The Dark is Rising series.

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SanchoPandas@reddit

Same same! Loved em.

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shrimpcreole@reddit

I read my copies until they fell apart. The stories are great!

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fenwoods@reddit

All of them! I loved them so much.

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xt0rt@reddit

Hells yeah B!

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starryeyeddynamo@reddit

Loved those books growing up!! My sister sent me this anniversary edition last year!

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jediphoenix1976@reddit

Read Bunnicula and Howliday Inn when I was a kid, read the entire series to my kids for bedtimes when they were younger.

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DigitalBoy05@reddit

Who remembers Hank the Cowdog?

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Beansie_Wish2182@reddit

Bunnicula! Wow, talk about a throwback. I loved that book so much.

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Dame_Ingenue@reddit

I reread Howliday Inn a few years ago and it held up! I was surprised how much I enjoyed it as an adult.

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Morganmayhem45@reddit

Loved these and read them to my kid. They are still good.

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chibi75@reddit

I know for a fact that I read Bunnicula and Howliday Inn. The other two I don’t recall at the moment.

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dishwasher_mayhem@reddit

The first book series that I truly fell in love with.

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Awkwrd_Lemur@reddit

I loved them!!!!

my own kids thought they were lame.

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learningstepdad23@reddit

Read them all! Multiple times…

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statuesqueandshy@reddit

I remember those books!!

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Away_Worldliness4472@reddit

I read all of these!!!

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Cuenta_de_preguntas@reddit

Woooow wow wow wow. Flooded with nostalgia at the sight of these.

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Rude-Kaleidoscope298@reddit

The author came to my school! My teacher read them all to us.

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Miserable-Total6682@reddit

Binnicula

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paul-cus@reddit

Just seen the cover for Bunnicula and thought it was funny. Never read it.

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KDOGTV@reddit

Bunnicula still sits on my shelf to this day.

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lungsnstuff@reddit

Uh I just bought Bunnicula and re-read it like 2 months ago. Classic piece of literature chefs kiss

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majorjoe23@reddit

I read them to my son within the last few years.

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vespers191@reddit

Bunnicula!

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CoffeePieAndHobbits@reddit

Loved these books!

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3490goat@reddit

I actually got them to read to my daughter. She loves them too!

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Other-Opposite-6222@reddit

Not bad adult rereads. So fun

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johnnyroboto@reddit

I reread all of these to my daughter and they don’t hold up particularly well. They’re not very well written, as someone else mentioned they talk a lot about how the dog loves eating chocolate, and they have a lot of bad (for real bad) jokes.

Some of the Goosebumps books hold up better. The Roald Dahl books are all very well written, Matilda is especially good.

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diggsyb@reddit

Bunnicula!!!!

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lost-in-binary@reddit

YES!!!

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IpeeInclosets@reddit

I don't read much these days.

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Ok-Potato-4774@reddit

I only remember reading Bunnicula, and I thought he looked so cute on the cover!

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Competitive-Phase-75@reddit

Aside from suggesting that it's perfectly fine to give chocolate to dogs, I remember all of these books fondly. Still have my copy of Bunnicula on the shelf next to Watership Down

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themuck@reddit

Bunnicula was the first book I read for required summer reading. It fostered a lifelong love of books.

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GreenZebra23@reddit

Read and reread them all many times. They were all fun but the first one was magic

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lavasca@reddit

I was stressed out last year and re-read Bunnicula.

Sometimes re-reading such books helps me get into the mindset and care-free feeling that I had back then.

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Brave-Panic7934@reddit

Holy shit, I haven’t seen these in years! Read them all except Nighty-Nightmare. TIL there was a fourth and final piece to make me whole again 🥹

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wartgood@reddit

I don't know that I've read them all, but I know I've read the first two. Loved the white, drained carrots with the bitemarks.

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ScaledFolkWisdom@reddit

I think I read all of them except Nighty Nightmare. I remember being convinced to give them a chance (because it always sounded dumb) and found them more entertaining than I expected.

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Salt_Flatworm5363@reddit

OMG! I read all of those as a kid! Great memories!

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trkyN3St3w@reddit

“The Celery Stalks at Midnight“ - such a great title. Loved these!

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nygibs@reddit

I still have them! Saved them for my kids.

Pale, pale vegetables found in the bottom of the fridge, with two mysterious teeth marks in them..

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OldCreezy@reddit

Loved them! Our daughter loved them, too!

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

Yes all of them. I wrote a book report in 2nd or 3rd grade about Howliday Inn.

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OmegaRainicorn@reddit

The Celery Stalks at Midnight is still one of the best word play titles I know to this day.

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Demolished-Manhole@reddit

I read these but I don’t remember the plots because I was probably in first grade at the time.

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phantomtaxman@reddit

These were the best 🙌🏼

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JennShrum23@reddit

I have the whole set next to my chair in the living room.

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MasticatedDorks@reddit

I think the only one I haven't read is Nighty-Nightmanre...

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DirtMcGirt9484@reddit

Got my kid into these. He loves them.

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mobtown_misanthrope@reddit

Well, I made a Bunnicula paper mache sculpture for an art project in 2nd grade, so yeah.

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nothanky@reddit

omg totally forgot these existed until now 🤯

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Rosemadder19@reddit

Yes! I absolutely loved all of these!

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Prior-Box7277@reddit

There were more?!!! I ALWAYS read animal books in school and found Bunnicula. I thought it was so cool. Checked it out all the time. Then I graded out to middle school and haven't thought about that book until I saw they made a show of Bunnicula. And now I see this! I know Good Friday was last week but it looks like it spilled over to this Friday. Thank you for this

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DarthBster@reddit

There's also 3 more not pictured: Return to Howliday Inn, Bunnicula Strikes Again, and Bunnicula meets Edgar Allen Crow. I read the first 5 and bought the last 2 for my daughter to read, she loves them.

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DarthBster@reddit

Loved those books! I got my daughter into them as well, I purchased the last 2 in the series that I never read. Might have to take a stroll down memory lane and finish those too, haha.

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WoefulKnight@reddit

Apparently there was a whole cartoon series too. Blew my mind when I found out about that.

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lorenzo463@reddit

The cartoon is one of the funniest shows I have ever watched. It’s very loosely based on the books, and features a lot more supernatural hijinks. I will always watch when my daughter asks, and no matter how many times I’ve seen an episode, I will always laugh.

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brzantium@reddit

I know I read Bunnicula, but I couldn't tell you anything about it except the obvious.

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ky80sh83nd3r@reddit

Haaaaarooooold!!!!!

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Scrotchety@reddit

If you think I'd skip out reading these, you are sorely misshapen!

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Lazlo_Hollyfeld69@reddit

Read them all.

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

Read them all. Wow memory unlocked. I'd forgotten all about Bunnicula.... The cat trying to drive a 🥩 through poor Bunniculas heart. 😂

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lastcallhall@reddit

Owned the first three, but never got Nighty Mightmare. Might have aged out by then. Pretty sure I still have Bunnicula in my "childhood" box.

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afartinsideafart@reddit

My kitty's cat tower is called "chateau de meow meow"

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PoutyHushEtta@reddit

Royal naming for royal paws

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jessek@reddit

I loved those books as a kid.

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maltamur@reddit

Bought those exact ones at book fairs in elementary school. One of my favorite series along with the Indian in the Cupboard and Goosebumps.

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peepeeinthepotty@reddit

100%. The first one I actually listened to on tape which had some great narration. Still remember Harold trying to “stake” bunnicula with a t-bone!

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runjeanmc@reddit

I still have my copies and my kids love them! They also eat up Calvin & Hobbies. I couldn't get them into Red wall though.

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TopRamenGod@reddit

I read Bunnicula and the Celery Stalks at Midnight. Pretty sure I read Howliday Inn.

Anyone read Hank the Cowdog?

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peepeeinthepotty@reddit

I was big into the Hank series!

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JeremyJaLa@reddit

Read them all. Multiple times. One of my favorite series.

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miss_six_o_clock@reddit

Just read them last Halloween time with my son 😁

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h4nd@reddit

My Mom took me to get my copy of Bunnicula signed. He asked who my favorite character was and signed it to me from Chester.

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gooch_norris_@reddit

I was obsessed with these

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

I read Bunnicula and Howliday Inn. I loved those!

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crackedtooth163@reddit

Love them so so so so so much.

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midnight-dour@reddit

Know for sure I read Bunnicula and The Celery Stalks at Midnight

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

These were my sister's favorite books in elementary. There are a couple of cartoons based on this

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SpendPsychological30@reddit

I did when I was like in 4th grade. The only part I really remember is this hilarious image of a cat trying to pound a "steak" through the rabbits heart.

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ProSchmo@reddit

Yes!!! In fact there was a post about Catsup the other day that reminded me of these books!

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VodenGCX@reddit

Pretty sure I only read Bunnicula, but I definitely know about the others. I MIGHT have read Howliday Inn, but I don't really remember.

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bcentsale@reddit

I still have mine!

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Candle-Different@reddit

Loved them. Probably read them 20 times

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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

I don’t remember if I did, but I bought a used copy of Bunnicula over the weekend.

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atlantagirl30084@reddit

Definitely read these. I just was thinking the other day about finding kids’ books where the animal characters stayed in a boarding facility and I didn’t remember what they were

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Shatterstar23@reddit

I don’t think I’ve read nighty nightmare

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Abattoir_Noir@reddit

Still trying to find someone who read Ruth Chew!

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theladyroy@reddit

Loved them all!!

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FunTimeTony@reddit

Yooooo Bunnicula was my jammmm!

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resemblingaghost@reddit

Omg memory unlocked

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ZedArkadia@reddit

I had Bunnicula, totally forgot about it! I'm also reminded of some of the other books I read back then, there was this collection of scary stories for kids that scared the shit out of me. I also had this other book that I think I got from the same program, it was like "Death Cave" or something.

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