David Schwimmer is going to give you Goosebumps

We can now add a new name to the grand pantheon of horror icons, right up there with Wes Craven, Stephen King, David Cronenberg, the Cryptkeeper, etc.. Whisper his name with the respect it deserves, mortals, for he’s all too willing to let you know that he was on a break—a break of your bones!!! Ah ha ha ha ha!

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Uh, sorry about that, folks; joke got away from us. David Schwimmer’s joining the Disney+ Goosebumps show.

This news comes via THR, and not long after Disney made it clear that it’d be treating its adaptation of R.L. Stine’s kid-horror classics, now heading into its second season, as an anthology series with season-long stories. (And with most of its episodes serving as fairly episodic installments in their own right as a season-long narrative gets woven.) Schwimmer joins the cast in what might be thought of as the “Justin Long role,” i.e., the recognizable adult star working on the fringes of the teenaged stars whose characters do most of the “getting Goosebumps” work. In this case, it means he’ll be playing Anthony, “a former botany professor and divorced parent of teenage twins is juggling the responsibilities of overseeing an aging parent while having his kids for the summer.” Which does sound pretty genuinely horrific, honestly, even before the cameras that turn you into slime or wooden dummies with a knife fetish get added into the mix.

And while Schwimmer is the big marquee name, he isn’t the only cast member being added to the show today: He’ll be joined in Goosebumps’ second season by Ana Ortiz, Sam McCarthy, Jayden Bartels, Elijah Cooper, Galilea La Salvia, and Francesca Noel. Here’s the logline for the new season:

Teenage siblings discover a threat stirring, triggering a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery. As they delve into the unknown, the duo find themselves entangled in the chilling tale of four teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.