Goosebumps

This article is about the book series by R. L. Stine. For the bumps that form on skin, see Goose bumps.

Goosebumps is a very popular American series of children's horror fiction books created by author R. L. Stine. Sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from 1992 to 1997.

Like the later Harry Potter books, the books of the Goosebumps series were often challenged in libraries; they were 15th on the American Library Association's list of most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 1999 [1] (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/top100challenged.htm).

The series spawned a gamebook spinoff, also written by R. L. Stine called Give Yourself Goosebumps. Several of the titles in the series were made into movies; the series also inspired a television series named Goosebumps which ran from 1995 to 1998. The book Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask inspired two videos.

After the original series ended, Stine began writing Goosebumps: Series 2000 books, although this spinoff of the original series did not last long, due to declining popularity. There are 25 Series 2000 books, including one sequel to an original series (Night of the Living Dummy).

Contents

1 Plots and common features 2 List of Goosebumps books 2.1 Goosebumps 2.2 Goosebumps Series 2000 3 Related topics 4 External links

Plots and common features

The Goosebumps series is clearly written for a younger audience, avoiding graphic scenes or seriously disturbing storylines. Stine's plots conform to stereotypes of the horror genre, allowing for easy categorization of his books according to plot (monsters, ghosts, etc.). Even so, Stine did come up with a few interesting variations, for instance in Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes. Settings are always generic, suburbs, summer camps and such. Most of the stories have a small twist at the end, but they almost always end happily. Some of the books spawned sequels; Monster Blood had no less than four appearances. These sequels seemed merely to repeat the type of story from the original, and tended not to expand very far on the plot.

The narrative is nearly always first-person. The protagonist is almost always eleven years old, except in the case of sequels starring the same character. The protagonist is also often picked on by older siblings, or jealous of younger ones.

List of Goosebumps books

Most of the titles are now out of print, although as of 2004, the most popular ones have been reissued.

Goosebumps

1. Welcome to Dead House
2. Stay out of the Basement
3. Monster Blood
4. Say Cheese and Die!
5. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
6. Let's Get Invisible
7. Night of the Living Dummy
8. The Girl Who Cried Monster
9. Welcome to Camp Nightmare
10. The Ghost Next Door
11. The Haunted Mask
12. Be Careful What You Wish For...
13. Piano Lessons can be Murder
14. The Warewolf of Fever Swamp
15. You Can't Scare Me!
16. One Day at Horrorland
17. Why I'm Afraid of Bees
18. Monster Blood II
19. Deep Trouble
20. The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
21. Go Eat Worms!
22. Ghost Beach
23. Return of the Mummy
24. Phantom of the Auditorium
25. Attack of the Mutant
26. My Hairiest Adventure
27. A Night in Terror Tower
28. The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
29. Monster Blood III
30. It Came From Beneath the Sink
31. Night of the Living Dummy II
32. The Barking Ghost
33. The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
34. Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
35. A Shocker on Shock Street
36. The Haunted Mask II
37. The Headless Ghost
38. The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena
39. How I Got My Shrunken Head
40. Night of the Living Dummy III
41. Bad Hare Day
42. Egg Monsters From Mars
43. The Beast from the East
44. Say Cheese and Die - Again!
45. Ghost Camp
46. How to Kill a Monster
47. Legend of the Lost Legend
48. Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns
49. Vampire Breath
50. Calling All Creeps!
51. Beware the Snowman
52. How I Learned to Fly
53. Chicken Chicken
54. Don't go to Sleep
55. The Blob that Ate Everyone
56. The Curse of Camp Cold Lake
57. My Best Friend is Invisible
58. Deep Trouble II
59. The Haunted School
60. Werewolf Skin
61. I Live in Your Basement!
62. Monster Blood IV

Goosebumps Series 2000

1. Cry of the Cat (1998)
2. Bride of the Living Dummy (1998)
3. Creature Teacher (1998)
4. Invasion of the Body Squeezers: Part One (1998)
5. Invasion of the Body Squeezers: Part Two (1998)
6. I Am Your Evil Twin (1998)
7. Revenge R Us (1998)
8. Fright Camp (1998)
9. Are You Terrified Yet? (1998)
10. Headless Halloween (1998)
11. Attack Of The Graveyard Ghouls (1998)
12. Brain Juice (1998)
13. Return to Horrorland (1999)
14. Jekyll and Heidi (1999)
15. Scream School (1999)
16. Mummy Walks, the (1999)
17. Werewolf In The Living Room, the (1999)
18. Horrors of the Black Ring (1999)
19. Return to Ghost Camp (1999)
20. Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid! (1999)
21. Haunted Car, the (1999)
22. Full Moon Fever (1999)
23. Slappy's Nightmare (1999)
24. Earth Geeks Must Go! (1999)
25. Ghost In The Mirror (2000)

Related topics

• Goosebumps (television)

External links

• Goosebumps Home from Scholastic Press (http://www.scholastic.com/goosebumps/)

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