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- Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction novellas by R. L. Stine. 62 books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from 1992 to 1997; the first was Welcome to Dead House; the last was Monster Blood IV. Some of the books were reprinted in 2003-2004 with slightly altered covers. A reprint series unofficially referred to as "Classic Goosebumps" reprinted 22 Goosebumps books from 2008 to 2011 with new artwork and bonus features such as interviews with the author; ten more books were given a similar treatment in 2015 and four more in 2018 for a total of 36 books in the "Classic" reprint series. Of these, 32 are from the original series, three (Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls, The Haunted Car, and Bride of the Living Dummy) are from Goosebumps 2000, and one (Please Don't Feed the Vampire) is from Give Yourself Goosebumps. 10 books were also made into comic books under the title Goosebumps Graphix. These were released in 4 groups: Creepy Creatures, Terror Trips and Scary Summer. The last book was 4 Goosebumps books in one called Slappy's Tales of Horror. There were also two hardcover reprint collections: Goosebumps Collection and Monster Edition. Nine books were released under the Goosebumps Collection title and were split into three groups: Living Dummy Collection, Campfire Collection, and Monster Blood Collection. Another 12 books were released under the Monster Edition title and were split into four groups, the first three of which were simply numbered while the fourth was called Fright Light Edition. 57 of the books were reprinted with original artwork, all except for #24, #47, #60, #61, and #62. All books, except #5, #7, #17, #18, #19, #29, #33, #38, #42, #43, #45, #47, #51, #52, #53, #56, #59, #61, and #62, were also adapted for television. Retro collector's tins containing 5 books each have been released every few years since 2015. These reprints feature the original cover art, but lack the embossed titles of the original printings. They also lack the numbers on the spines indicating each book's position within the series. The "Retro Scream Collection" (October 27, 2015) includes Welcome to Dead House, Say Cheese And Die!, Night of the Living Dummy, The Haunted Mask, and One Day at HorrorLand. The "25th Anniversary Retro Set" (September 26, 2017) includes Monster Blood, Why I'm Afraid of Bees, A Night in Terror Tower, The Beast From the East, and Legend of the Lost Legend. The "Retro Fear Set" (September 1, 2020) includes Stay Out of the Basement, Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, Werewolf of Fever Swamp, Cuckoo Clock of Doom, and The Haunted School. (en)
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- Aspiring photographer Alex goes in search of werewolves in his aunt and uncle's small town — and discovers that these werewolves are closer to him than they think. (en)
- Klutzy wimp Gary Lutz finds an online advertisement for a clinic that specializes in body-swapping. However, the experiment goes awry when, instead of the body of a cool jock named Dirk, Gary finds himself in the body of the one thing he fears the most — a bee. (en)
- Marissa and Justin, the children of famous writer/storyteller Richard Clarke, decide to help their father find an ancient parchment called "The Lost Legend," and soon find themselves in the woods of Brovania, home to silver-coated dogs, thousands of mice, and Vikings thought to have been dead long ago. (en)
- While at their grandparents' house in a swamp, step-siblings Gretchen and Clark decide to put their differences aside when they find themselves trapped in the house with a swamp monster. (en)
- On vacation on the Caribbean island of Ilandra, Billy Deep is rescued from the jaws of a hammerhead shark by a mermaid who is targeted by Billy's uncle Dr. Deep for scientific experiments about rare sea life. (en)
- While on a road trip with their parents, Elliot and his sister Wendy get inside their parents' trailer and crash into a sports camp called King Jellyjam's Sports Camp. The two decide to stay and participate in the activities until their parents can come for them, but while Elliot is enjoying the competitive spirit, Wendy finds it all too bizarre – especially when the winners end up missing, one of the counselors survives a bone-crushing hit to his chest, everyone is disappointed in Wendy who is not sharing their obsessive competitive spirit, and the ground begins to shake at night. (en)
- Sick of his overprotective mom keeping him from having fun, Marco sneaks off to play baseball — and gets hit in the head. While recuperating at home, Marco begins getting strange calls from someone called "Keith" who wants someone to take care of him, and the more Keith is around Marco, the more Marco's reality becomes warped. (en)
- While visiting their grandparents' home on the farm, Jodie and Mark discover that the farm is haunted by demonic scarecrows brought to life by a farmhand's black magic. (en)
- After her mother died, Jaclyn and her aunt Greta move to an Arctic town called Sherpia, where everyone lives in fear of an evil monster disguised as a snowman living in the mountains. When Jaclyn goes searching for it, she finds that the snowman knows about her missing father and her dead mother's secret hobbies. (en)
- Steve Boswell goes to the mask shop that Carly Beth went to in the first book and buys an old man's mask to scare the little kids he is forced to coach in school as punishment for a prank – and much like Carly Beth in the first book, Steve finds out that the mask he bought is bent on warping the personality of anyone who wears it for too long. (en)
- In this third installment of the Monster Blood books, Evan Ross accidentally ingests some of the evil green slime after his nerdy cousin Kermit uses it in a chemistry experiment and grows into a giant. (en)
- Lindy Powell finds a ventriloquist dummy in the trash named Slappy and keeps it, prompting her bratty twin sister to get one named Mr. Wood as well. However, when destructive pranks begin happening, the siblings begin to wonder if their dummies have anything to do with it. (en)
- Trina O'Dell's dad used to be a famous ventriloquist, but now he only collects and refurnishes old ventriloquist dolls in his spare time. Trina's dad finds Slappy in the trash and adds him to his collection. After reading the words that come with Slappy, not only does the evil dummy comes to life, but so does his entire collection. (en)
- Lucy Dark likes tormenting her younger brother into thinking that monsters are real – till she learns that her librarian Mr. Mortman is one. (en)
- During an air-hockey game, Freddy and his best friend Cara accidentally knock over a china cabinet and find a secret room housing a coffin and a bottle labeled "Vampire Breath," which brings to life a vampire named Count Nightwing in search of his fanged dentures. (en)
- Max and his brother Lefty find a mirror in the attic that can turn its users invisible, but the more Max, Lefty, and their friends use it, the harder it becomes to return. (en)
- Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Harmless, he says. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they see some of the plants he is growing down there. Then things get real strange when they notice their father developing plantlike tendencies. (en)
- Gabe Hassad is spending Christmas in Egypt with his Uncle Ben. He is invited to explore a tomb by his Uncle Ben, an excursion on which he gets lost, and encounters some of its ancient residents in the form of mummies. (en)
- Grady Tucker and his sister Emily have moved to a rural area in Florida near a swamp notorious for werewolf sightings. When a strange dog becomes Grady's new pet, the entire town suspects the dog of being the werewolf that is terrorizing the swamp. (en)
- To prove to his English teacher Mr. Saur that the camera he found in the first story is real so he can raise his failing grade on a class assignment, Greg goes back to the abandoned house to retrieve the camera – and finds that it still works. But after accidental snapshots, he finds as Shari becomes skinnier and skinnier, Greg grows fatter and fatter. (en)
- Comic book addict Skipper Matthews finds out his favorite comic book supervillain the Masked Mutant is real, but a visit through the lair has Skipper losing his grip on reality after seeing comic book panels with himself as the hero. (en)
- To get payback on two bad kids who always ruin her Halloween, Drew and her friend Walker recruit the help of twins Shane and Shana, but instead of the twins, two pumpkin-headed monsters appear and force all four of them to trick-or-treat all night so they can be fattened up for eating. (en)
- Sarah hates her summer at Camp Cold Lake because of the apathetic campers and the myriad safety rules so she pretends to drown herself to win friends. Unfortunately, the plan backfires when Sarah has a near-death experience and meets a ghost girl named Della, who will stop at nothing to make Sarah her friend in the afterlife — even if it means killing her. (en)
- Cooper Holmes and his new friend, Fergie, are stalked by two ghost dogs who haunt the woods and produce a bone-chilling bark. (en)
- Despite his mother's admonitions, Matt spends the night in the empty guest room of his house – and ends up waking up in a new world, and on the run from a police force bent on stopping those who warp reality. (en)
- Ginger Wald, a former nature camp survivor, and her twin brothers, Nat and Pat, end up lost in the woods, where beaver/bear-like monsters calling themselves Beasts challenge them to a dangerous game of tag called Beast from the East. (en)
- Billy Harlan's stay at Camp Nightmoon turns to horror when word of the monster Sabre lurking in the woods crops up, followed by a series of events leaving campers injured and missing. (en)
- Farm girl Crystal and her brother Cole find themselves out of luck when a mysterious woman in black named Vanessa shrieks, "Chicken, chicken!" after the two accidentally knock her down in front of the grocery store while walking home, and the siblings begin growing feathers and beaks. (en)
- Out on a day trip, the Morris family get lost on their way to Zoo Gardens and end up in a theme park called HorrorLand which is run by monsters called Horrors. (en)
- Jordan and Nicole Blake are sick of living in California especially during the winter months where kids in other states get to enjoy snow. The two get their wish when their father is assigned to travel to Alaska to find the Abominable Snowman, but trouble ensues when the Abominable Snowman is brought back to California. (en)
- Evan, Andy, Kermit and Conan once again battle the monstrous slime — but they soon discover that this Monster Blood is an excessively thirsty purplish-blue slug-like creature that can multiply. (en)
- To get back at his bratty sister Tara for ruining his birthday party, Michael vandalizes his father's new cuckoo clock by twisting the bird's head backwards so Tara will get blamed for it. His plan backfires when he finds himself reliving his disastrous birthday party — and goes back in time every time he goes to sleep. (en)
- Sick of being the butt of everyone's practical jokes and appalled that her mother made her a lame duck-costume for Halloween, Carly Beth Caldwell decides to buy a mask from a strange costume shop; but the more Carly Beth wears it, the more her personality changes and the harder it is to take the mask off. (en)
- Amateur magician Tim sneaks out to a midnight magic show held by his idol Amaz-O. After Amaz-O puts Tim in a box, he drops backstage and stumbles upon Amaz-O's dressing room. Tim steals Amaz-O's magic bag – and finds that Amaz-O's magic is more than he can handle. (en)
- While staying with his weird great-aunt Kathryn, Evan Ross visits a funky old toy store and buys a dusty can of monster blood. It is fun to play with at first, until Evan notices something weird about the green, slimy stuff--it seems to be growing, and growing. (en)
- During a dance at his new school, Tommy and his new best friend Ben go into an elevator in search of banner paper and find themselves in a black-and-white world, where most of the school's missing class of 1947 now resides, thanks to evil photographer Mr. Chameleon's magic camera while the rest of them have descended into madness and started a cult bent on ridding the world of color. (en)
- Mark, a chubby twelve-year-old boy who prefers the company of video games to actual humans, is given a shrunken head by his jungle explorer Aunt Benna's assistant. The assistant suggests that Mark be brought down to the jungle island of Baladora to visit Aunt Benna, but soon discovers that the assistant Dr. Richard Hawlins, Carolyn Hawlins, and their daughter Kareen are plotting to shake Mark down for information on the jungle magic the shrunken head possesses. (en)
- A klutzy and unnaturally tall 12-year-old Samantha "Fly Away" Byrd is given three wishes by the elderly named Clarissa, which give Samantha what she wants at the price of everyone else around her. (en)
- Brooke Rogers and Zeke Matthews are chosen to play Esmeralda and The Phantom in their school's version of The Phantom of the Opera, but a chain of accidents impede production and threaten to have Zeke kicked off the cast. (en)
- Billy and Sheena are back on summer vacation with Dr. Deep in the Caribbean. When the two go swimming, the two discover an evil plot to breed mutant sea life. (en)
- Todd Barstow loves collecting and experimenting on worms. Things get sticky when the worms begin appearing in Todd's lunch and his homework — and Todd soon comes face-to-face with a giant worm wanting to get revenge on him for mistreating her babies. (en)
- Jerry Hawkins and his parents have just moved into a new house where Jerry finds an old piano in the attic. Jerry's parents decide to put the piano to good use by making Jerry take lessons, but Jerry discovers a disturbing truth about the piano – and the insane piano teacher who just loves Jerry's hands. (en)
- Erin Wright and her friend Marty are big fans of a series of horror movies made under the Shock Street banner and are picked by Erin's dad as the first kids to tour his new Shock Street theme park ride. But while the two are on the ride, all the "animatronic" creatures like the giant praying mantis, Wolf Boy, Wolf Girl, and other creatures start to get out of control and try to kill them. (en)
- A year after his previous encounter with the mummies, Gabe flies back to Egypt to attend the grand public opening of the pyramid Uncle Ben was excavating in the last book. Gabe and his cousin soon find themselves trapped in a pyramid and the news reporter they trusted named Nila soon reveals that she is not who she seems as she wants to awaken the Mummy of Prince Kho-Ru. (en)
- After visiting an abandoned house said to be haunted, Sammy Jacobs soon gets a new friend — a boy named Brent whom no one can see. (en)
- To one-up his rival Wilson and win the heart of his crush, Mia, Jack Johnson finds a book that teaches humans to fly — but soon finds out that Wilson has also learned how to fly and after stunning everyone with a race, the two become reluctant celebrities. (en)
- After getting kicked off the school newspaper club, Ricky pulls a prank on newspaper head Tasha by putting a message for "all creeps" to call Tasha after midnight in the next issue of the school paper. However, Tasha shows that she is wise to his trick and puts Ricky's name in the message instead — leading to Ricky being stalked by lizard-like creatures posing as the school's bullies who need Ricky to plant metamorphosis seeds to enslave all of humanity. (en)
- Hannah Fairchild is startled to wake up from a horrific nightmare of her house burning, to find that the empty house next door has suddenly been sold, as if overnight, and the son of the family somehow has the ability to survive a series of near-fatal accidents. After she investigates, Hannah discovers to her shock that Danny Anderson might be a ghost. A mysterious shadow follows her throughout the story. (en)
- Amanda and Josh Benson move with their parents into a creepy old house in the strange town of Dark Falls and meet new friends who are unlike any kids they have known before. (en)
- Aspiring writer Zack is given a typewriter and pen by a woman whose shop was destroyed in a lightning storm. The typewriter is just what Zack needs to finish his story about a monstrous blob, but Zack and his best friend Alex soon discover that life has a horrifying way of imitating art. (en)
- Joe Burton's dad buys two garden gnomes, but Joe and his sister Mindy discover that the garden gnomes are alive and cause destruction at night. (en)
- Amy Kramer gets a replacement ventriloquist dummy named Slappy, which she accidentally brings to life by reading a spell from the dummy's coat pocket. (en)
- Siblings Eddie and Sue are vacationing in London, England, when they become lost in a medieval torture chamber called Terror Tower and have to run from the Lord High Executioner. Things get weirder when they begin losing their money and their memories. (en)
- Larry Boyd freaks out when his hands become hairy, presumably as a result of expired tanning lotion. Things get weirder when his friends begin to disappear and dogs who share their physical features appear in their place. (en)
- During a disastrous Easter egg hunt in the backyard, Dana Johnson finds a strange, blue-veined egg and keeps it. When it hatches, Dana discovers a pile of scrambled eggs with eyes known as an "Egg Monster." Dana shows it to a scientist, but the scientist ends up imprisoning Dana with his discovery. (en)
- Evan and his friend Andy once again contend with the evil novelty slime called Monster Blood. This time, Andy is revealed to still have some of it left and accidentally feeds it to the class hamster Cuddles. (en)
- The Sadler siblings, Terri and Jerry, try to solve the mystery of the ghostly resident living in a mountain cave near the beach. (en)
- Katrina and her brother Daniel find a living "sponge" underneath the sink in their new house that turns out to be a monster called a Grool that causes bad luck for anyone who finds it. (en)
- Two pranksters team up to scare a fearless girl named Courtney in the town of Muddy Creek. When all of their pranks backfire, they decide to use the local swamp, said to be the cursed burial ground for the town's original settlers who died in a mudslide and were reborn as Mud Monsters. (en)
- Greg Banks thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he and his friends found. The photographs keep turning out wrong. Very wrong. (en)
- Pranksters Duane and Stephanie love to visit Hill House, a place said to be haunted by a ghost of a young boy who was decapitated by an evil sea captain. One night, they decide to go to the house after it closes to find the boy's head, but actually end up encountering the headless ghost as well as a few other restless spirits. (en)
- Harry Altman and his brother Alex go to Camp Spirit Moon, where the campers turn out to be ghosts who want to use Harry and Alex's human bodies to escape. (en)
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