Goosebumps Series

by R.L. Stine

A long-running horror series for young readers in which every book delivers a self-contained scary story with a twist ending, covering everything from haunted masks and living dummies to mysterious theme parks and cursed objects. The books are designed for maximum suspense with short chapters and fast pacing, making them accessible to readers who enjoy a good fright without graphic content.

Books in The Goosebumps series in order:

Welcome to Dead House Book cover
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1
Welcome to Dead House
Recommended For Ages
8
+

A family moves into an old house in a strange town and the children begin to suspect something is deeply wrong with their new neighbors.

Stay Out of the Basement Book cover
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2
Stay Out of the Basement
Recommended For Ages
8
+

A scientist father becomes increasingly strange after beginning secret experiments in the basement, and his children suspect something terrible has happened to him.

Monster Blood Book cover
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3
Monster Blood
Recommended For Ages
8
+

A boy visiting his great-aunt for the summer discovers a strange green substance called Monster Blood that just keeps growing, with increasingly scary consequences.

Say Cheese and Die! Book cover
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4
Say Cheese and Die!
Recommended For Ages
8
+

A group of kids finds an old camera that seems to photograph the future, but only the terrible parts, setting off a frightening chain of events.

Night of the Living Dummy Book cover
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7
Night of the Living Dummy
Recommended For Ages
8
+

Two sisters compete over a ventriloquist dummy they both want, until the dummy begins to show signs of a terrifying life of its own.

The Haunted Mask Book cover
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11
The Haunted Mask
Recommended For Ages
8
+

A girl finds a terrifyingly realistic Halloween mask that she cannot remove, and must race to break free before it takes over her identity permanently.

One Day at HorrorLand Book cover
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16
One Day at HorrorLand
Recommended For Ages
8
+

A family accidentally ends up at a mysterious theme park called HorrorLand where the rides are genuinely dangerous and getting out is harder than getting in.

The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight Book cover
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20
The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
Recommended For Ages
8
+

A girl visiting her grandparents' farm notices the scarecrows seem to have come alive and are moving around the fields at night.

A Night in Terror Tower Book cover
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27
A Night in Terror Tower
Recommended For Ages
8
+

A girl and her brother get separated from their tour group in a London tower with a dark history and begin to suspect they have been there before, in a past life.

Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes Book cover
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34
Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
Recommended For Ages
7
+

A boy suspects his family's new garden gnomes are responsible for a series of pranks in the neighborhood and sets out to prove it before things get worse.