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Give Yourself Goosebumps — by R.L. Stine
Give Yourself Goosebumps Series in Order: 42 books
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Escape From the Carnival of Horrors
Book - 1
TAKE A RIDE OF YOU DARE... Late one night you and your friends visit the old fairgrounds. They're putting up rides and booths for the annual carnival. But this year things look really different. Really odd. Really scary. The place is lit up by a hu...
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Tick Tock, You're Dead
Book - 2
GET TRAPPED...IN TIME! B-O-R-I-N-G. That's how you'd describe your family vacation in New York City. Instead of visiting all the cool spots, like Rockefeller Center and the Statue of Liberty, your parents drag you to a bunch of stupid museums. Then...
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Trapped in Bat Wing Hall
Book - 3
JOIN THE HORROR CLUB... Being the new kid in school is no picnic. At your old school you had tons of friends, but flow you don't even have one. Then you meet Nick. He asks you to join the Horror Club. The Horror Club meets in an old mansion known as...
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The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek
Book - 4
HE'S OUT TO TAKE OVER...YOUR LIFE! Top secret and dangerous. That's what your mom, a famous scientist, calls the research she's been doing at the labs of Dr. Eeek. You're dying to know what it's all about. Then one day you get lost in the labs. Bef...
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Night in Werewolf Woods
Book - 5
WOODSWORLD? OR WEREWOLFWORLD? Get out your bathing suit! You and your family are off on a summer vacation to a place called WoodsWorld. You can't wait to mess around down at the lake. Then at the Kids Only Campfire you hear the rumor about WoodsWor...
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter
Book - 6
Choose your fate out of a mysterious refrigerator in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with more than twenty super-spooky endings. Your aunt and uncle told you to stay out of their basement. So, of course, you check it out. That's wher...
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Under the Magician's Spell
Book - 7
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!You, and your little sister, and your best friend just found a new magic shop at the mall. The man inside calls himself the Magician. He's pretty creepy. Before you know it, your little si...
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Curse of the Creeping Coffin
Book - 8
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!You're off to visit your grandmother, whose house backs up to a graveyard. At first the tombstones seem far away. But every day they move a little closer. Then you discover the headstones ...
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The Knight in Screaming Armor
Book - 9
It was a knight to dismember. . . Your cousins, Kip and Abbey, have come to visit you from jolly old England -- and guess what they brought with them? Two huge crates, each containing a suit of armor and a curse. But it doesn't matter, 'cause you'r...
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The Diary of a Mad Mummy
Book - 10
ALL WRAPPED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO While you're on vacation, you get a chance to check out an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts and a pretty cool mummy. But when you get to where the mummy is supposed to be, all you find is a pile of bandages and a really...
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Deep in the Jungle of Doom
Book - 11
IT'S REALLY A JUNGLE OUT THERE!! You're headed to a South American jungle with your nature-study class. Everything seems pretty cool at first, but then you start to get bored. Where's the beach? Where's the excitement? So you and your friend deci...
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Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum
Book - 12
TOO HOT TO HANDLE!! Your teacher thinks it'll be good for your class to hang out at the new wax museum in town. Yeah, right! Once you get there, your teacher starts blah-blahing about something or other and that's when you and your friend see the re...
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Scream of the Evil Genie
Book - 13
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!As usual, it was a pretty long day at school. So before you do your homework you decide to grab a soda. But when you open the can, out pops a genie who offers you three wishes. She seems p...
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The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock
Book - 14
HE'S INTO HEAVY METAL. . .REALLY HEAVY METAL You and your friends decide to check out a new part of town. That's when you notice an old house with a sign that says "BEWARE -- DANGER" on one side, and "PLEASE COME IN" on the other. Of course, you dec...
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Please Don't Feed the Vampire!
Book - 15
HIS BARK IS NOT WORSE THAN HIS BITE! You buy something called "Vampire in a Can." At first you think it's just a goofy vampire costume with a cape, plastic fangs, and a tattoo of teeth marks. But then you find a packet in the bottom of the can label...
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Secret Agent Grandma
Book - 16
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!Your parents are going away so your super-cool grandma is coming to stay with you. But when you go to meet granny at the train station you start seeing double -- double grannies!There's on...
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Little Comic Shop of Horrors
Book - 17
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!You're walking through a creepy part of town when you find a new comic shop--Milos Comics Dungeon. Dungeon is right. The place is dusty, dingy, and really dark. You can see the comics are ...
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Attack of the Beastly Babysitter
Book - 18
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!Rats! You're too old for a baby-sitter. But your mom hired one anyway. And that's the good news. The bad news is the baby-sitter works for a company called KidScare.So what do you do? If y...
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Escape from Camp-Run-For-Your-Life
Book - 19
ON YOUR MARK. GET SET. SCREAM! Heads up! You're on your way to sports camp! If only Uncle Ed can find the place. He's the lamest driver ever. A sign up ahead says CAMP RUNNING LEAF. Hey! That's not the name of the camp you signed up for! But Uncle E...
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Toy Terror
Book - 20
The original series from the Master of Fright--now a major motion picture in theaters August 7, 2015!Great news! You've won a contest! You get to choose between two really cool prizes: a toy robot or a tour of the Hasley Toy Factory. If you choose th...
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Twisted Tale of Tiki Island
Book - 21
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!You and your cousin Gina are vacationing on Tiki Island. It's so beautiful, you don't even care when you hear a rumor that people have been mysteriously disappearing from the island.While ...
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Return to the Carnival of Horrors
Book - 22
IT'S THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE... AGAIN! Oh, no! Could it be? Yes. You're back at the Carnival of Horrors! You escaped the first time. But Big Al, the evil carnival manager, wants your second visit to last forever! You've got to get out of there -- be...
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Zapped in Space
Book - 23
Highlighting a newly designed front-cover look for the Goosebumps series, the newest installment takes the reader on a visit to a virtual reality theme park where the scares are all too real. Original....
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Lost in Stinkeye Swamp
Book - 24
Readers are placed in a new home that proves to be a swamp house and the site of a hidden treasure, a sewer ghoul, and a swamp thing, in a spooky story with more than twenty possible endings. Original....
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Shop 'Til You Drop...Dead!
Book - 25
Readers are placed in the character of a young person who is trapped in the huge shopping mall known as Mayfield's Bazaar, where scares are packed from floor to floor, in a story with several possible endings. Original....
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Alone in Snakebite Canyon
Book - 26
The gift shop at the Lonestar National Park is filled with the usual cheesy souvenirs, but these magic souvenirs draw the reader into some scary adventures, which include coming face-to-face with a gigantic spider and a hungry panther. Original....
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Checkout Time at the Dead-End Motel
Book - 27
The reader can choose from more than twenty different endings to the terrifying tale that begins with the reader and friends checking into the Dead Hotel--where the guests are all ghosts--after breaking down on a deserted highway. Original....
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Night of a Thousand Claws
Book - 28
A summer vacation on Cat Cay Island is turning into a nightmare as the reader's brother mysteriously vanishes and Katrina the Cat Woman sets out to make the reader the next Keeper of hundreds of evil mutant cats, in a scary adventure featuring more t...
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Invaders From the Big Screen
Book - 29
In a scream-a-thon with more than twenty different endings, movie creatures such as Godzilla and half-alligator mutants virtually jump out of the movie screen when the reader sneaks into the Movie Magic Multiplex. Original....
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The Werewolf of Twisted Tree Lodge
Book - 31
DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES? "The Revenge of the Werewolves" -- that's the title of your horror story that just won first prize. Too bad you didn't actually write it. Too bad you decided it would be a good joke to turn in the story you found in the trash...
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It's Only a Nightmare!
Book - 32
Readers are placed in the character of a young person who is spending the night at a strange inn and suffering horrible nightmares about being changed into a bat, parents turning into aliens, and more. Original....
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It Came From the Internet
Book - 33
In a story that offers twenty different endings, the reader contracts a computer virus and can receive help from such characters as a bizarre teenage computer hacker or a doctor who prescribes computer chips and dip. Original....
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Elevator to Nowhere
Book - 34
With twenty different endings to choose from, this story puts the Transdimensional Transvator in readers hands, enabling them to travel to other dimensions, each one more frightening than the last. Original....
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Hocus-Pocus Horror
Book - 35
In a story where the reader can choose from more than twenty different endings, the reader finds Mysterio's magical bag of tricks, and even though the label on it says "DO NOT TOUCH," explores what's inside...
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Ship of Ghouls
Book - 36
In a fantasy story that features more than twenty different endings, a two-week cruise to Japan brings the reader face to face with a wacky scientist who turns humans into fish-like slaves, an evil stranger with a bomb, hostile natives, and sharks. O...
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Escape From Horror House
Book - 37
After things begin to move on their own and strange writings appear on the wall, it becomes apparent that a poltergeist has moved into their home in this latest edition to the Goosebumps series for middle readers. Original....
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Zombie School
Book - 40
When the reader gets selected to attend Ranewash, the best boarding school in the country, he or she may find that class is not quite what they expect, in a spine-tingling tale with more than twenty different endings...
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Series Premise
The Give Yourself Goosebumps series places the reader as the protagonist in interactive horror adventures. You make decisions at key moments—such as whether to enter a haunted house, trust a stranger, or use a mysterious object—while navigating twists involving monsters, curses, and supernatural threats that change the outcome of the story.
Give Yourself Goosebumps Series Reading Order
🟢 Fully Standalone · Start Anywhere
Each book is fully standalone and can be read in any order.
The Give Yourself Goosebumps books can be read in any order. Each book is a fully self-contained story with its own conflict and multiple possible resolutions based on the choices you make. There is no overarching storyline or required character progression between volumes. Reading out of order does not affect understanding, since every book introduces new characters, settings, and adventures that stand completely alone.
Explanation of reading order types
Give Yourself Goosebumps Series Characters
You, the reader, serve as the main character in every book, making decisions as a child or young teen facing the horror. Supporting characters vary widely—such as mysterious carnival workers, sinister neighbors, or magical creatures—depending on the specific story and the path you choose.
Setting of the Give Yourself Goosebumps Series
Settings change with each book and range from everyday locations like neighborhoods, schools, and amusement parks to fantastical or cursed places such as haunted mansions, time-warped forests, and monster-filled museums.
Tone & Themes of the Give Yourself Goosebumps Series
The tone is spooky, suspenseful fun aimed at middle-grade readers with light horror and humor. Central themes include facing fears, the consequences of choices, quick thinking in dangerous situations, and the thrill of interactive storytelling.
Is the Give Yourself Goosebumps Series Worth Reading?
This series appeals to readers who enjoy choose-your-own-adventure formats, light horror, and stories where their decisions directly affect the ending.
Content Warnings and Heat Level
Mild scares, monsters, and spooky situations; no gore or mature content. Suitable for ages 8–12.
The Give Yourself Goosebumps series delivers interactive horror adventures where every choice matters. Since the books are fully standalone, readers can pick any title and immediately jump into a new thrilling story with multiple endings to explore.
Books in this series fall into the following genres
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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