Give Yourself Goosebumps Books in Order

Give Yourself Goosebumps by R.L. Stine contains 42 books, published between 1995 and 2000. The first book is Escape from the Carnival of Horrors (1995) and the newest is All-Day Nightmare (2000). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
42
Published
1995–2000
Confirmed
42 of 42 titles
Total pages
5,713 across 42 books
Reading time
95–143 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,713 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute.

Give Yourself Goosebumps is R.L. Stine's gamebook spin-off from the Goosebumps horror series, created by Scholastic Press after the original books succeeded. The reader picks the path and the plot branches to different endings. 42 titles are catalogued here, among them Escape from the Carnival of Horrors, Tick Tock, You're Dead!, Night in Werewolf Woods and The Curse of the Creeping Coffin, and the run ends with All-Day Nightmare (2000). Counting the special editions, 50 books appeared between 1995 and 2000, and all but Please Don't Feed the Vampire are out of print.

How many Give Yourself Goosebumps books are there?

Give Yourself Goosebumps has 42 books, released between 1995 and 2000.

Give Yourself Goosebumps Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 42 Give Yourself Goosebumps 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. 1
    Escape from the Carnival of Horrors1995 · 135 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1995135
  2. 2
    Tick Tock, You're Dead!1995 · 135 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1995135
  3. 3
    Trapped in Bat Wing Hall1995 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1995137
  4. 4
    The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek1996 · 130 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996130
  5. 5
    Night in Werewolf Woods1996 · 133 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996133
  6. 6
    Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter1996 · 135 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996135
  7. 7
    Under the Magician's Spell1996 · 135 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996135
  8. 8
    The Curse of the Creeping Coffin1996 · 132 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996132
  9. 9
    The Knight in Screaming Armor1996 · 136 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996136
  10. 10
    Diary of a Mad Mummy1996 · 135 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996135
  11. 11
    Deep in the Jungle of Doom1996 · 136 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996136
  12. 12
    Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum1996 · 136 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996136
  13. 13
    Scream of the Evil Genie1997 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997137
  14. 14
    The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock1997 · 135 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997135
  15. 15
    Please Don\'t Feed the Vampire!1997 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997137
  16. 16
    Secret Agent Grandma1997 · 131 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997131
  17. 17
    Little Comic Shop of Horrors1997 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997137
  18. 18
    Attack of the Beastly Baby-Sitter1997 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997144
  19. 19
    Escape from Camp Run-For-Your-Life1997 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997144
  20. 20
    Toy Terror: Batteries Included1997 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997144
  21. 21
    The Twisted Tale of Tiki Island1997 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997137
  22. 22
    Return to the Carnival of Horrors1997 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997137
  23. 23
    Zapped in Space1997 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997137
  24. 24
    Lost in Stinkeye Swamp1997 · 134 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997134
  25. 25
    Shop Till You Drop ... Dead!1998 · 133 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998133
  26. 26
    Alone in Snakebite Canyon1998 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998137
  27. 27
    Checkout Time at the Dead-End Hotel1998 · 135 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998135
  28. 28
    Night of a Thousand Claws1998 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998137
  29. 29
    Invaders from the Big Screen1998 · 137 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998137
  30. 30
    You're Plant Food!1998 · 136 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998136

Is there a chronological order for Give Yourself Goosebumps?

No separate chronological order is on record for Give Yourself Goosebumps, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Give Yourself Goosebumps books in order?

You should read the Give Yourself Goosebumps books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Give Yourself Goosebumps book also stands alone.

Where to start with Give Yourself Goosebumps

Start with Escape from the Carnival of Horrors (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Give Yourself Goosebumps book?

All-Day Nightmare (2000) is the newest Give Yourself Goosebumps book released so far.

Is there a new Give Yourself Goosebumps book coming?

No next Give Yourself 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.

Give Yourself Goosebumps at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Give Yourself Goosebumps title on record dates from 2000, 26 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Give Yourself Goosebumps books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
5,713 pages across all 42 books with a recorded length, a median of 136 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Give Yourself Goosebumps books, 40 of 42, were published in the 1990s.

What the Give Yourself Goosebumps books are about

All 42 Give Yourself Goosebumps books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: collectionid:goosebumps4 is tagged on 40 of 42. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by R.L. Stine

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

Characters in the Give Yourself Goosebumps books

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

Other series by R.L. Stine

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