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Choose Your Own Nightmare Books in Order

Choose Your Own Nightmare contains 21 books, published between 1995 and 2016. The first book is Night of the Werewolf (1995) and the newest is Snake Invasion (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
21
Published
1995–2016
Pages on record
1,534 in 17 of 21 books
Reading time
26–38 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,534 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 21 titles with a page count on record.

See all 21 books in order Printable Choose Your Own Nightmare checklist

Choose Your Own Nightmare is a series of plot-your-own horror stories for children, with 21 books from 1995 to 2016. Night of the Werewolf (1995) is the first title, and Beware the Snake's Venom, Island of Doom and The Halloween Party appeared the same year. Subjects include werewolves, witches, islands and buried treasure. The books have a median length of 86 pages. Snake Invasion (2016) is the most recent, and the series is likely complete.

How many Choose Your Own Nightmare books are there?

Choose Your Own Nightmare has 21 books, released between 1995 and 2016.

Choose Your Own Nightmare Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 21 Choose Your Own Nightmare books in the order they were published, 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.

  1. Cover of Night of the Werewolf by Edward Packard, book 1 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1995)
  2. Cover of Beware the Snake's Venom by Ken McMurtry, book 2 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1995)
  3. Cover of Island of Doom by Richard Brightfield, book 3 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1995)
  4. Cover of Castle of Darkness, book 4 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1995)
  5. Cover of The Halloween Party, book 5 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1995)
  6. Cover of The Mummy Who Wouldn't Die by E. A. M. Jakab, book 9 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1996)
  7. Cover of It Happened at Camp Pine Tree, book 10 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1996)
  8. Cover of Something's in the Woods by Richard Brightfield, book 11 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1996)
  9. Cover of The Haunted Baby by Edward Packard, book 13 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1997)
  10. Cover of The Evil Pen Pal by Laban Carrick Hill, book 14 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1997)
  11. Cover of How I Became a Freak by Richard Brightfield, book 15 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1997)
  12. Cover of Attack of the Living Mask, book 17 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (1997)
  13. Cover of Blood Island by Liz Windover, book 19 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (2014)
  14. Cover of Eighth Grade Witch by C. E. Simpson, book 20 of the Choose Your Own Nightmare series (2014)
  1. 1
    Night of the Werewolf1995 · 86 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199586
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  2. 2
    Beware the Snake's Venom1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
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  3. 3
    Island of Doom1995 · 86 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199586
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Castle of Darkness1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Halloween Party1995 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199596
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  6. 6
    Risk Your Life Arcade1995 · 85 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199585
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  7. 7
    Biting for Blood1996 · 85 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199685
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  8. 8
    Bugged Out1996 · 88 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199688
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  9. 9
    The Mummy Who Wouldn't Die1996 · 86 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199686
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  10. 10
    It Happened at Camp Pine Tree1996 · 84 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199684
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Something's in the Woods1996 · 84 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199684
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Watch Out for Room 131996 · 103 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996103
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    The Haunted Baby1997 · 85 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199785
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  14. 14
    The Evil Pen Pal1997 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199796
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    How I Became a Freak1997 · 84 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199784
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  16. 16
    Welcome to Horror Hospital1997 · 87 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199787
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  17. 17
    Attack of the Living Mask1997 · 88 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199788
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  18. 18
    The Toy Shop of Terror1997 · 88 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199788
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  19. 19
    Blood Island2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  20. 20
    Eighth Grade Witch2014 · 123 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014123
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  21. 21
    Snake Invasion2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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Where to start with Choose Your Own Nightmare

Start with Night of the Werewolf (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Choose Your Own Nightmare book?

Snake Invasion (2016) is the newest Choose Your Own Nightmare book released so far.

Is there a new Choose Your Own Nightmare book coming?

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

Choose Your Own Nightmare at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Choose Your Own Nightmare title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Choose Your Own Nightmare books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,534 pages across the 17 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 86 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Choose Your Own Nightmare books, 18 of 21, were published in the 1990s.
Attribution
Of the 21 titles, 4 are credited to Laban Carrick Hill, 3 to Richard Brightfield, 3 to Edward Packard and 2 to Ken McMurtry. A further 6 writers are credited. 4 titles carry no credit.

What the Choose Your Own Nightmare books are about

20 of the 21 Choose Your Own Nightmare books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: plot-your-own stories is tagged on 19 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Characters in the Choose Your Own Nightmare books

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.