In the book, Stanley is mentally disabled and childlike, being afraid of scary stories and being noted as "slow". Instead of accidentally bringing a stuffed bear to life, Stanley accidentally animates the farm's thresher to life, which immediately advances toward the house to try and kill everyone, leaving their fates uncertain. Once the scarecrows turned out to be evil and tried to kill Stanley, Sticks, and the grandparents, he used his spell book to de-animate them, but missed some like in the book. He is not mentally disabled like in the book, and instead of bringing the scarecrows to life to intimidate the grandparents into treating him better, he did so to make them more effective scarecrows. In the episode, Stanley is changed to the point of not being an antagonist at all. However, the story is narrated in past tense first person perspective from Jodie's point of view, implying she did somehow survive.
The book ends with the hungry bear looking at Jodie and preparing to eat her, while she has nobody in the house to protect her apart from Stanley in the next room, who may not even be able to cast the spell to de-animate the bear given he seemed unable to de-animate the scarecrows earlier after accidentally reanimating them again and was left needing to be saved by Sticks with the others.
The next day, he is reading a different chapter and accidentally says the spell needed to bring stuffed bears to life, resurrecting the taxidermy bear in the living room where Jodie is sitting. With the scarecrows gone, Stanley vows to never again read the chapter of the book detailing how to bring scarecrows to life, but still keeps the book itself. Sticks manages to destroy the scarecrows with torches. The scarecrows quickly turn on Stanley and attempt to kill him along with his son Sticks and the others. Stanley tries to use a spell to make all the scarecrows inanimate again, but accidentally brings them all back to life. Eventually, they learn the truth, and Stanley does as well. When the protagonists, Jodie and Mark, arrive on the farm, they notice that their grandparents are acting different and begin to notice scratching sounds from the windows at night. Unknown to Stanley, not all of the scarecrows were made inanimate again, and some walk around at night. Satisfied, Stanley made the scarecrows inanimate again. Fed up with being teased, Stanley used a spell to bring the scarecrows on the farm to life, using them to intimidate the grandparents into never teasing him again, making food that he likes, and no longer telling scary stories (which frightened him). He has somehow acquired a book of superstitions, which explains bad omens and teaches spells. He has been teased by his employers, the grandparents, because of his mental disability. He lives on the farm with his son, nicknamed Sticks. Stanley is the mentally challenged farmhand of the protagonists' grandparents.
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