Checkout Time at the Dead-End Hotel was the twenty-seventh book in the Give Yourself Goosebumps gamebook series. It was preceded by Alone in Snakebite Canyon and followed by Night of a Thousand Claws. The artwork on the cover was a yellow-green skeleton bellhop at a reception desk handing a key to a customer. Other keys were on the wall behind him. It was released in April 1998 and was 140 pages long. The tagline was "You can check in, but you can't check out!".