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It's hard to choose. Stay Out of the Basement, in my opinion, features one of the darkest scenes in a Goosebumps book (Spoilers ahead). I'm talking about the part where the kids are trying to find out who is their real father. Margaret's idea of hitting one of them with an axe in order to find which one has human blood... man, that part scared me to death when I was a kid. I remember having nightmares because of a movie in which the protagonist's parents are turned into pigs, and she isn't able to recognize them anymore. It was a really bizarre movie.

(Spoilers again) Frankenstein's Dog features a much tamer version of that scene from Stay Out of the Basement, when she has to choose between dozens of robot clones of her uncle. That one isn't scary at all.

The scariest book... I would say Chicken Chi-- I'm joking. I think maybe A Nightmare on Clown Street is one of the darkest books, but not exactly the scariest.