Goosebumps Books in Order

How many Goosebumps books are there?

Goosebumps has 230 books, released between 1992 and 2024. 205 of them belong to the 12 main-line series (Goosebumps, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Goosebumps 2000 and others), and 25 related titles sit outside it: short stories and novellas, graphic novels and film tie-ins.

Who wrote Goosebumps?

R.L. Stine wrote the Goosebumps books: every one of the 230 catalogued titles is credited to R.L. Stine.

Goosebumps Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 230 Goosebumps books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

Goosebumps Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the books of the 12 main-line series run from Welcome to Dead House (1992) to Friiight Night (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Goosebumps in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Goosebumps books in order?

You should read the 12 main-line series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 25 related titles (short stories and novellas, graphic novels and film tie-ins) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Goosebumps book also stands alone.

What order should you read Goosebumps books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with Welcome to Dead House (1992), the earliest published book in the 12 main-line series. After it come Stay Out of the Basement (1992), Monster Blood (1992), Say Cheese and Die! (1992) and The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1993); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the first Goosebumps book?

Welcome to Dead House (1992) is the first main-line Goosebumps book, and the numbered table above starts with it.

When did the first Goosebumps book come out?

Welcome to Dead House, the first main-line Goosebumps book, was published in 1992. The newest main-line book, Friiight Night (2023), came out 31 years later.

What is the newest Goosebumps book?

Friiight Night (2023) is the newest book in the 12 main-line series. The newest related title is The Haunted Mask (2024).

Is there a new Goosebumps book coming?

No next Goosebumps book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Goosebumps at a glance

Paused

No new main-line Goosebumps title has appeared for 3 years. The last was Friiight Night (2023).

Release pace

Goosebumps books have appeared more than one a year on average.

Length

25,913 pages across the 199 of 230 books with a recorded length, a median of 135 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Goosebumps books, 160 of 230, were published in the 1990s.

Corroboration

14 of the 230 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

Attribution

Of the 230 titles, 230 are credited to R.L. Stine, 1 to Tracey West and 1 to Rick Drew.

What the Goosebumps books are about

228 of the 230 Goosebumps books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horror is tagged on 188 of 228. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Horror 188 of 228 books
• Children's fiction 155 of 228 books
• Monsters 41 of 228 books
• Plot-your-own stories 33 of 228 books
• Ghosts 24 of 228 books
• Amusement parks 19 of 228 books
• Halloween 14 of 228 books
• Brothers and sisters 12 of 228 books

More books by R.L. Stine

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.

• R.L. Stine books in order 589 books

Series that include Goosebumps books

Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.

• Give Yourself Goosebumps books in order 42 books
• Goosebumps 2000 books in order 25 books
• Goosebumps SlappyWorld books in order 19 books
• Goosebumps Most Wanted books in order 10 books