Tales to Give You Goosebumps

Tales to Give You Goosebumps is a series of six books that contain ten short stories in each book, making a grand total of sixty tales in total. Every book in the series came packaged with Goosebumps themed merchandise, from booklights, to even undergarments. Some books were based around certain themes, such as Halloween and Christmas.

Ghostwriters
According to Scholastic, R.L. Stine's contract for the series Tales to Give You Goosebumps did not stipulate that Stine had to be the sole author of the series (unlike Stine's contract for the original Goosebumps series).

The story Fun With Spelling from the book More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps was ghostwritten by author Carolyn Crimi, an author who also ghostwrote two books in the Ghosts of Fear Street series. Another Ghosts of Fear Street writer, Kathryn Lance, ghostwrote Why I Hate Jack Frost from More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps. Currently, Crimi and Lance are the only authors to openly claim to have ghostwritten for the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series.

Books

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 * Tales to Give You Goosebumps
 * "The House of No Return"
 * "Teacher's Pet"
 * "Strained Peas"
 * "Strangers in the Woods"
 * "Good Friends"
 * "How I Won My Bat"
 * "Mr. Teddy"
 * "Click"
 * "Broken Dolls"
 * "A Vampire in the Neighborhood"
 * More Tales to Give You Goosebumps
 * "The Werewolf's First Night"
 * "P.S. Don't Write Back"
 * "Something Fishy"
 * "You Gotta Believe Me!"
 * "Suckers!"
 * "Dr. Horror's House of Video"
 * "The Cat's Tale"
 * "Shell Shocker"
 * "Poison Ivy"
 * "The Spirit of the Harvest Moon"
 * Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps
 * "The Chalk Closet"
 * "Home Sweet Home"
 * "Don't Wake Mummy"
 * "I'm Telling!"
 * "The Haunted House Game"
 * "Change for the Strange"
 * "The Perfect School"
 * "For The Birds"
 * "Aliens in the Garden"
 * "The Thumbprint of Doom"
 * Still More Tales to Give You Goosebumps
 * "Pumpkin Juice"
 * "Attack of the Tattoo"
 * "The Wish"
 * "An Old Story"
 * "The Scarecrow"
 * "Awesome Ants"
 * "Please Don't Feed The Bears"
 * "The Goblin's Glare"
 * "Bats About Bats"
 * "The Space Suit Snatcher"
 * More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps
 * "The Haunted Guitar"
 * "Tune in Tomorrow"
 * "Live Bait"
 * "Something Strange About Marci"
 * "The Ghost Sitter"
 * "Fun With Spelling"
 * "Matt's Lunch Box"
 * "Stuck in 1957"
 * "Mirror Mirror on the Wall"
 * "What's Cooking?"
 * More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps
 * "Don't Sit on the Gronk"
 * "Nutcracker Nightmare"
 * "The Ice Vampire"
 * "A Holly Jolly Holiday"
 * "Why I Hate Jack Frost"
 * "Marshmallow Surprise"
 * "Monster on the Ice"
 * "The Double-Dip Horror"
 * "Santa's Helpers"
 * "Attack of the Christmas Present"

Reprints
In 1997, the first three books in the series were reprinted to match the cover style of the final book in the series, More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps. The reprints did not include the original merchandise for the books. A hardcover collection book titled 30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps was released in April 2004, featuring stories from the first three books in the series. It was also available in paperback.

Covers
The series marks the debut of Curly the Skeleton, who became the mascot of the series and the Goosebumps franchise as a whole. The cover of the first book depicts Curly as a ghost-like figure with long curly hair. Scholastic wasn't a fan of the design, and asked the cover artist, Tim Jacobus, to redesign him. From the second book onward, Curly took the form of an actual skeleton with a buzz cut. Book three onward also featured Curly's Bulldog, Drool.

The cover design used on books one through five matched the slime aesthetic used for the original Goosebumps. The final book in the series, More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps, ditched the slime aesthetic in favor of one resembling that of a picture frame. The first three books in the series were reprinted in 1997 to match the new aesthetic.

Television adaptations
The story "Don't Wake Mummy" from Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps was adapted into an episode for season two of the television series Goosebumps. Season three adapted the stories "The House of No Return", "Teacher's Pet", "Strained Peas" and "Click" from Tales to Give You Goosebumps ― "The Haunted House Game" and "The Perfect School" from Even More Tales to Gve You Goosebumps, with the latetr being a two-parter ― and finally "An Old Story" and "Awesome Ants" from Still More Tales to Give You Goosebumps.

Trivia

 * The French version of the stories were released separately, instead of a short story collection.
 * The cover artwork for Tales to Give You Goosebumps would later be reused for the 2005 DVD cover of "Scary House".
 * Oddly, stories from the second entry More Tales to Give You Goosebumps did not receive any television adalptions.