Reading order
Goosebumps reading order
- Welcome to Dead House1992
- Stay Out of the Basement1992
- Monster Blood1992
- Say Cheese and Die!1992
- The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb1993
- Let's Get Invisible!1993
- Night of the Living Dummy1992
- The Girl Who Cried Monster1993
- Welcome to Camp Nightmare1993
- The Ghost Next Door1993
- The Haunted Mask1993
- Be Careful What You Wish For...1993
- Every volume in order (62) ↓
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12- 62 volumes
- Volumes
- 1992–1997
- Published
- about 150 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Horror
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
62 volumes1992–1997Completed
- Sixty-two books and no order at all — every one is a self-contained scare with a new child in a new town, nothing carries over, and the numbers on the spines are publishing order rather than a sequence.
- Read whichever cover frightens you most; that is how they were read at the time.
- If you want the ones people remember: Night of the Living Dummy, The Haunted Mask and Welcome to Dead House, which was the first.
- The later Goosebumps 2000, Series 2000 and HorrorLand runs are separate shelves with their own numbering, and mixing them up is the only way to get confused here.
A plan for the whole series
62 volumes, 8,075 pages, about 150 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 6 months.
Share of volume 1’s readers who reach the last volume. Chance of reaching the last volume: medium
Stages
8 stages, with 7 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around June 27, 2027, about 6 weeks later than in one go.
- Stage 118 habout 3 weeksby November 22, 2026
- 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
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 219 habout 4 weeksby December 21, 2026
- 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 Werewolf of Fever Swamp
- 15. You Can't Scare Me!
- BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.0
- Stage 319 habout 4 weeksby January 25, 2027
- 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
- Short breakThe Emperor's Soul · Brandon Sanderson · 96 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 419 habout 4 weeksby February 23, 2027
- 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
- BreakBorn a Crime · Trevor Noah · 304 pp. · score 8.9
- Stage 520 habout 4 weeksby March 31, 2027
- 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
- BreakI'm Glad My Mom Died · Jennette McCurdy · 320 pp. · score 8.9
- Stage 619 habout 4 weeksby May 4, 2027
- 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
- Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.4
- Stage 719 habout 4 weeksby June 2, 2027
- 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
- Short breakAnimal Farm · George Orwell · 128 pp. · score 8.3
- Stage 816 h21 daysby June 27, 2027
- 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
- The end of the series
We count 1.1 min per page, the pace of an average novel reader. Faster? Move the slider.
≈ next to a page count: a volume with no page count in our data is counted at this series’s average.
Does the series hold up
Shape of the series: even. Volume scores differ by at most 0.3 points. You get the same level from the first page to the last.
Best volume: One Day at HorrorLand (7.5, 59 ratings). Weakest: Stay Out of the Basement (7.3). The series is complete; you can read it start to finish with no waiting. The last volume (7.5) scores close to the series average or above it.
How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Goosebumps books ranked, best to worst
- 1.One Day at HorrorLandBook 16 · 19947.5
- 1.Welcome to Dead HouseBook 1 · 19927.5
- 3.Say Cheese and Die!Book 4 · 19927.4
- 4.Night of the Living DummyBook 7 · 19927.3
- 4.Stay Out of the BasementBook 2 · 19927.3
Frequently asked questions
Which Goosebumps book is the best?
By reader score, One Day at HorrorLand (7.5/10). The lowest-rated is Stay Out of the Basement (7.3/10).
Which Goosebumps book is the longest?
“Welcome to Dead House” is the longest at 144 pages; the shortest is “The Haunted Mask” with 111 pages.
What should I read after Goosebumps?
Other series by R. L. Stine: Fear Street, Goosebumps Series 2000, Goosebumps HorrorLand.