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[Syphon Filter]

Since it's Halloween I was thinking about related things and remember Goosebumps books as a kid. I loved these book covers and art but the books were good reads too. I believe my favorite was the scarecrow one but there are several classics such as the mummy one and the dummy one. The show was decent too and wished it lasted longer than it did. What were your favorite goosebumps books, memories?

 

[OmegaSupreme]

That had a great collectibility aspect to them. Almost like comics. I probably had at least 30 of them. I read maybe a third of them. They were good little horror stories. There was one about a mask that I remember liking.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

I had quite a few of them too. I'd be reading them in my bunk bed at night. Good times.

 

[Doom85]

Haunted Mask 1 and 2 I loved as a kid. Also the ones where kids go back in time and an executioner pursues them, the superhero one (Adam West was in the TV version, hell yeah), the two that have that camera that takes deadly photos, and the one where kids are forced to play a more complex version of tag with these creatures (especially the last few sentences are hilarious in delivering a “here we go again” sort of ending). Definitely others I’m forgetting but it’s been a long while.

Scholastic book fairs were the bomb ass shit in middle school, Goosebumps and Animorphs were amazing to read during that period of my life.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[dorkimoe]

I had the original set 1-53 or something. Sold them for like 200 bucks a few months back. I loved all those stories though, they need a full fledge tv series of every single book

 

[jshackles]

I read a few of these but they were pretty "kiddie" for me by the time they came out.

Fear Street was more my jam, but a few of these books were fun!

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

The GOAT...

I was all about these books in middle school...okay high school and first two years of college.

Had like 30+ of them as a kid. I remember them getting pretty stupid near the end. Like RL Stein ran out of horror tropes to use.

 

[Sybrix]

First ever book I read was Say Cheese and Die

Was 9 years old, can still remember the cover

 

[jshackles]

First ever book I read was Say Cheese and Die

Was 9 years old, can still remember the cover

#NotMyGoosebumps

 

[I_D]

I must have read about 50 of those damn books, yet I only remember a handful. I haven't checked one out since I was a kid, but I'm betting they're not too spectacular.

If you check out the pace, though, it's super impressive. R.L. Stine was releasing those things basically monthly for almost six years straight.

 

[Porcile]

I vaguely remember one about a giant hamster fucking up shit on an airplane

 

[Cutty Flam]

I remember reading this one. Did a project on it too in fifth grade. I still remember the protagonist's name is Gabe, and I think he had a friend named Jessica? Setting took place somewhere in Egypt? Exciting book, I remember the climax being a page turner

 

[Hoppa]

I remember they used to always be loaned out at the school library until one day I managed to get this

I think it was the first time I had ever been immersed while reading lol. I wanted to read the others but they were never in

 

[Rien]

First ever book I read was Say Cheese and Die

Was 9 years old, can still remember the cover

Was this the one where the photos told the future?

 

[Sybrix]

Was this the one where the photos told the future?

Yeah, group of kids find a camera and take photos that capture future events

 

[Rien]

Yeah, group of kids find a camera and take photos that capture future events

Loved that book

 

[Tschumi]

Best thing about goosebumps books was getting them in a little packet from the school book order thing, and their smell. Which was probably toxic.

 

[Impotaku]

I remember they used to always be loaned out at the school library until one day I managed to get this

I think it was the first time I had ever been immersed while reading lol. I wanted to read the others but they were never in

That one looks like the kid has hanged themselves lol

 

[Doom85]

That one looks like the kid has hanged themselves lol

From hundreds of feet in the air?!

 

[Impotaku]

From hundreds of feet in the air?!

Probably offed themselves from a redwood, those trees below don't look so far away so they are near a forest lol

 

[Soodanim]

It's weird. I know I had and read some of these as a kid, and I remember liking them. I remember one with a pouch of slime built into the front cover, and I remember a few "Choose your own story" books.

I don't remember a single thing about any of the stories.

 

[Happosai]

Goosebumps were okay. There's a slight similarly to the stories being a bit lackluster but the illustrations being creepier to the Scary Stories to tell in the Dark trilogy. Alvin Schwartz was a great researcher and loved the folktale aspect of scary stories similar to R.L. Stine. However, the illustrations for Goosebumps and those for SttitD are why people remember the books. Stephen Gammel had a gift for warping creatures out of ink. Good memories. I still have the original Scholastic prints of Scary Stories but Goosebumps have been gone for awhile now.

 

[Big Baller]

Shit was fun as was the tv show

 

[jshackles]

Shit was fun as was the tv show

The TV show had nothing on Are You Afraid of the Dark?.

 

[MaestroMike]

even tho I had the books I just watched the show haha since I was scared of chuckie at the time I was scared of the ventriloquist dummy one the most probably. another question I wonder is if chuckie from rugrats was based on chuckie from child's play mofos look alike

 

[Ikutachi]

I thoroughly enjoyed ones that let us pick a path.

 

[Neolombax]

Never really got into Goosebumps. I much preferred Christopher Pikes' Spooksville series.

 

[Patrick S.]

Were these a thing where you live? I think the author is German, these were everywhere when I was a kid. Really really loved them. In fact, I'm gonga go to the bookstore later and see if I can grab some of them

 

[SentientStone]

These were da shiz when I was young, had too many.
I still preferred Are You Afraid of the Dark on YTV over the Goosebumps show overall though.

 

[carlosrox]

I was so gay for these books when they first came out when I was like 7 or 8.

Loved the covers. Barking Ghost is a great example of the awesome cover art those books had. It even creeped me out a little bit.

They had such a great atmosphere and those books just felt like their own little world.

 

[carlosrox]

Was 9 years old, can still remember the cover

This is definitely not the cover I remember. The one I know was way better!

Going back to the covers again, man the art was so good and it just totally sold what you were reading. I just loved that the art and books had their own feel to them.

 

[bitbydeath]

The TV show had nothing on Are You Afraid of the Dark?.

Did you get Round the Twist?
It’s an Australian show which was better than both IMO.


Goosebumps books were great, I had 30 or 40 of them but think I threw them out when I got older which I now regret.

 

[Syphon Filter]

These were da shiz when I was young, had too many.
I still preferred Are You Afraid of the Dark on YTV over the Goosebumps show overall though.

These editions are awesome since you can choose and switch sections which made them unique. The one I remember reading was this one

 

[Kraz]

That one looks like the kid has hanged themselves lol

Or a big fast one is carrying the kid away for a feast. Did I say feast? I meant friend.

 

[haxan7]

#NotMyGoosebumps

I remember exactly where I was when I first started reading that one. Kmart parking lot with the family, possibly waiting for my dad to come out of the store. That would've been 1992, with me age 7-8. It's crazy how details like that can stick with you.

 

[Susurrus]

I read the shit out of these when I was a kid. IDK how far I got in it but I definitely had quite the collection, including a bunch of those choose your own adventure books.

 

[Tams]

Did you get Round the Twist?
It’s an Australian show which was better than both IMO.


Goosebumps books were great, I had 30 or 40 of them but think I threw them out when I got older which I now regret.

We had that in the UK. I only remember the opening and none of what the show was like.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I liked the parody books better. I think there was 2 or 3 of them.

 

[Sidney Prescott]

These are my favourites:

I also really liked the TV series. I know it was a bit cringeworthy with the dialogue and acting, but it added to the charm. The episode based on Haunted Mask is geniunely good.

 

[Rest]

I never had any Goosebumps books. I had one book called "Eyeballs for Midnight Snack," apparently the Eyeballs series was trying to be like a second tier Goosebumps. It was totally lame, nothing scary happened. Also nothing interesting happened.

 

[killatopak]

Probably had a dozen of these books as a kid. I loved them but soon outgrew it.