Stay Out of the Basement
- 128
- Pages
- about 2.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Stay Out of the Basement” is an early “Goosebumps” book that plays an absurd premise completely straight. Margaret and Casey grow worried as their father, Dr. Brewer, fills the basement with strange plants and starts to turn rather leafy himself. Some adult readers find it more weird than frightening, but younger readers are its real audience, and for them the chills can be genuine.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, he says. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they...meet...some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plant like tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy-and seedy. Is it just part of Dr. Brewer's 'harmless' experiment? Or does Dad have more than just a green thumb...?
Reading order · Goosebumps
Full order & progress →- Welcome to Dead HouseStart here
7.57.5 / 10 - Stay Out of the BasementThis book
7.37.3 / 10 - Monster Blood
–Not ranked yet - Say Cheese and Die!
7.47.4 / 10 - The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
–Not ranked yet - Let's Get Invisible!
–Not ranked yet - Night of the Living Dummy
7.37.3 / 10 - The Girl Who Cried Monster
–Not ranked yet - Welcome to Camp Nightmare
–Not ranked yet - The Ghost Next Door
–Not ranked yet - The Haunted Mask
–Not ranked yet - Be Careful What You Wish For...
–Not ranked yet - Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
–Not ranked yet - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
–Not ranked yet - You Can't Scare Me!
–Not ranked yet - One Day at HorrorLand
7.57.5 / 10 - Why I'm Afraid of Bees
–Not ranked yet - Monster Blood II
–Not ranked yet - Deep Trouble
–Not ranked yet - The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
–Not ranked yet - Go Eat Worms!
–Not ranked yet - Ghost Beach
–Not ranked yet - Return of the Mummy
–Not ranked yet - Phantom of the Auditorium
–Not ranked yet - Attack of the Mutant
–Not ranked yet - My Hairiest Adventure
–Not ranked yet - A Night in Terror Tower
–Not ranked yet - The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
–Not ranked yet - Monster Blood III
–Not ranked yet - It Came from Beneath the Sink!
–Not ranked yet - Night of the Living Dummy II
–Not ranked yet - The Barking Ghost
–Not ranked yet - The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
–Not ranked yet - Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
–Not ranked yet - A Shocker on Shock Street
–Not ranked yet - The Haunted Mask IIThe Haunted Mask II–Not ranked yet
- The Headless Ghost
–Not ranked yet - The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena
–Not ranked yet - How I Got My Shrunken Head
–Not ranked yet - Night of the Living Dummy III
–Not ranked yet - Bad Hare Day
–Not ranked yet - Egg Monsters From Mars
–Not ranked yet - The Beast from the East
–Not ranked yet - Say Cheese And Die-Again!
–Not ranked yet - Ghost Camp
–Not ranked yet - How to Kill a Monster
–Not ranked yet - Legend of the Lost Legend
–Not ranked yet - Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns
–Not ranked yet - Vampire Breath
–Not ranked yet - Calling All Creeps!
–Not ranked yet - Beware, the Snowman
–Not ranked yet - How I Learned to Fly
–Not ranked yet - Chicken, Chicken
–Not ranked yet - Don't Go to Sleep!
–Not ranked yet - The Blob That Ate Everyone
–Not ranked yet - The Curse of Camp Cold Lake
–Not ranked yet - My Best Friend Is Invisible
–Not ranked yet - Deep Trouble II
–Not ranked yet - The Haunted School
–Not ranked yet - Werewolf Skin
–Not ranked yet - I Live in Your Basement!
–Not ranked yet - Monster Blood IV
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 81 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 36% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 7 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 6.8 | 74 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Stay Out of the Basement?
It has 128 pages — shorter than 96% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Horror — with scores between 7.2 and 7.3, closest to this book.
