'The Haunting Hour' Returns Oct. 12

The eerie anthology series, which won the 2013 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Series, ranges from kooky stories (“Poof de Fromage” comes to mind) to hardcore scares (“Dreamcatcher”). Premiere night features two back-to-back episodes, and the first one looks really good.

“Séance”
Naomi (Julia Sarah Stone) and her friend set up a fake séance to scare her naïve little sister, Carla (Joey King). When the prank goes wrong, the girls learn the truth about a neighborhood legend.

Yikes! The brief ad with King gasping really sells this one because she looks petrified.

“Detention”
The second half of the double feature follows “an unlikely group” of high school students sentenced to afternoon detention. When creepiness ensues, they must make tough decisions, or risk being stuck in school forever.

Is it me or does this one sound a bit like a supernatural “Breakfast Club”? The mere thought of being stuck in school may be enough to scare some viewers, but I suspect this one will include a heavy-handed moral.

New episodes of “R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series” hit the Hub Network on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. Beginning Oct. 19, new episodes will air weekly on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.