Sony Pictures has premiered the first trailer for "Goosebumps," the upcoming horror comedy that casts Jack Black as a cantankerous R.L. Stine.

Directed by Rob Letterman, the film centers on teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette), who moves to a small town and meets new neighbor Hannah (Odeya Rush). Her father, “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine, keeps all the ghosts and monsters from the series locked up in his books, When Zach unintentionally releases them, he, Hannah and Stine must team up to return the ghouls before it’s too late.

“Goosebumps” arrives Oct. 16.