Updated May 03, 2023

Best Goosebumps Books

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— Get ready for spine-tingling chills and hair-raising thrills with our list of the Best Goosebumps Books of All Time! These timeless R.L. Stine classics will transport you back to your childhood, as you navigate spooky mysteries, creepy creatures, and eerie adventures.

Discover the original bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time!Lindy names the ventriloquist's dummy she finds Slappy. Slappy is kind of ugly, but he's a lot of fun. Lindy's having a great time learning to make Slappy move and talk. But Kris is jealous of all the attention her sister is getting. It's no fair. Why does Lindy always have all the luck?Kris decides to get a dummy of her own. She'll show Kris. Then weird things begin to happen. Nasty things. Evil things. No way a dummy can be causing all the trouble. Or is there?Now with all-new bonus material revealing Slappy's secrets and more.  

Our favourite quote from Night of the Living Dummy

Discover the original bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's books series of all time. Now with all-new bonus materials!Werewolf Village. The Doom Slide. The Coffin Cruise. These are just a few of the terrifying attractions that await Luke and Lizzy Morris at HorrorLand. Step right up and join the Morris family as they ride each ride--and scream each scream--for the very first time. Because it might also be their last.Now with bonus features!  

Our favourite quote from One Day at Horrorland

Enter at your own risk: The first ever Goosebumps. Now with creepy bonus features!11-year-old Josh and 12-year-old Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block--the two siblings think it might even be haunted! But of course, their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. But the creepy kids are not like anyone Josh and Amanda have ever met before. And when they take a shortcut through the cemetery one night, Josh and Amanda learn why.  

Our favourite quote from Welcome to Dead House

Discover the bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time. Now with all-new bonus materials!Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he found. The photos keep turning out . . . different.When Greg takes a picture of his father's brand-new car, it's wrecked in the photo. And then his dad crashes the car.It's like the camera can tell the future--or worse. Maybe it makes the future!Who is going to take the fall next for the evil camera?Now with all-new bonus material!  

Our favourite quote from Say Cheese and Die!

Swimming, basketball, archery. King Jelly Jam sports camp has it all. Too bad Wendy isn't a sports freak like her brother, Eliot but how excited can you get over a game of softball? It's just a game, right? Wrong. Because Camp Jelly Jam is no ordinary sports camp and Wendy's about to find out why. Why the counselors seem a little to happy, a little too obsessed with winning and why the ground is always rumbling late at night.

Our favourite quote from The Horror at Camp Jellyjam

The best-selling scare series of all time brings you a thrilling repackage of the field of screams!Jodie loves visiting her grandparents' farm. Okay, so it's not the most exciting place in the world. Still, Grandpa tells great scary stories. And Grandma's chocolate chip cookies are the best.But this summer the farm has really changed. The cornfields are sparse. Grandma and Grandpa seem worn out. And the single scarecrow has been replaced by twelve evil-looking ones.Then one night Jodie sees something really odd. The scarecrows seem to be moving. Twitching on their stakes. Coming alive . . .  

Our favourite quote from The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight

Discover the original bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time!While staying with his weird great-aunt Kathryn, Evan visits an eerie old toy store and buys a dusty can of Monster Blood. It's fun to play with at first. And Evan's dog, Trigger, likes it so much, he eats some. But then Evan notices something weird about the slimy green ooze. It keeps growing. And growing. And growing.And all that growing has given the Monster Blood a monstrous appetite. . . .  

Our favourite quote from Monster Blood

It's the little camp of horrors! Now with bonus materials!Next summer you'll stay home...if you survive!The food isn't great. The counselors are a little strange. And the camp director seems demented. Billy can handle all that. But then strange things start to happen after dark, his parents won't answer his letters, and his fellow campers start to disappear. What's going on? Camp Nightmoon is turning into Camp Nightmare! And Billy might be next.                                  

                                                               

                                                   

                                     

Our favourite quote from Welcome to Camp Nightmare

Discover the original bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time!Gabe is exploring the tunnels of an ancient Egyptian pyramid. Unfortunately, Gabe is also lost! And Gabe is not alone. Someone else is in the pyramid, too.Someone. Or something. . .It's another fan-favorite prequel to R.L. Stine's blockbuster GOOSEBUMPS HORRORLAND series. Now with all-new bonus materials including a Q&A with the author and more!

Our favourite quote from The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

The original series from the Master of Fright--now a major motion picture in theaters October 16, 2015!The original books featuring the scariest creatures from the Goosebumps movie, in theaters October 16, 2015!A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink, slimy creature who eats up an entire town!Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned-down antiques store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there's something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous. Because now every scary word Zackie writes is starting to come true.  

Our favourite quote from The Blob That Ate Everyone

Kat and her brother Daniel are so lucky. They just moved to a new house with ones of rooms, two balconies and a lawn the size of a football field, but all that good luck is about to move out. Something that's moving, watching, waiting. Something that comes from beneath the sink.

Our favourite quote from It Came From Beneath The Sink

When Jerry finds a dusty old piano in the attic of his new house, his parents offer to pay for lessons. There's something creepy about Jerry's piano's teacher, Dr. Shreek, something really creepy, something Jerry can't quite put his finger on. Then Jerry hears the stories. Terrifying stories about the students at Dr. Shreek's music school. Students who went in for a lesson and never came out.

Our favourite quote from Piano Lessons Can be Murder

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