Goosebumps (original series)

Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction books created and authored by R.L. Stine.

The series consists of 62 books and was the first series in the Goosebumps franchise.

Original series

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 * 1) Welcome to Dead House
 * 2) Stay Out of the Basement
 * 3) Monster Blood
 * 4) Say Cheese and Die!
 * 5) The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
 * 6) Let's Get Invisible!
 * 7) Night of the Living Dummy
 * 8) The Girl Who Cried Monster
 * 9) Welcome to Camp Nightmare
 * 10) The Ghost Next Door
 * 11) The Haunted Mask
 * 12) Be Careful What You Wish For...
 * 13) Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
 * 14) The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
 * 15) You Can't Scare Me!
 * 16) One Day at HorrorLand
 * 17) Why I'm Afraid of Bees
 * 18) Monster Blood II
 * 19) Deep Trouble
 * 20) The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
 * 21) Go Eat Worms!
 * 22) Ghost Beach
 * 23) Return of the Mummy
 * 24) Phantom of the Auditorium
 * 25) Attack of the Mutant
 * 26) My Hairiest Adventure
 * 27) A Night in Terror Tower
 * 28) The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
 * 29) Monster Blood III
 * 30) It Came from Beneath the Sink!
 * 31) Night of the Living Dummy II
 * 32) The Barking Ghost
 * 33) The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
 * 34) Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
 * 35) A Shocker on Shock Street
 * 36) The Haunted Mask II
 * 37) The Headless Ghost
 * 38) The Abominable Snowman Of Pasadena
 * 39) How I Got My Shrunken Head
 * 40) Night of the Living Dummy III
 * 41) Bad Hare Day
 * 42) Egg Monsters from Mars
 * 43) The Beast from the East
 * 44) Say Cheese and Die — Again!
 * 45) Ghost Camp
 * 46) How to Kill a Monster
 * 47) Legend of the Lost Legend
 * 48) Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns
 * 49) Vampire Breath
 * 50) Calling All Creeps!
 * 51) Beware, the Snowman
 * 52) How I Learned to Fly
 * 53) Chicken Chicken
 * 54) Don't Go To Sleep!
 * 55) The Blob That Ate Everyone
 * 56) The Curse of Camp Cold Lake
 * 57) My Best Friend Is Invisible
 * 58) Deep Trouble II
 * 59) The Haunted School
 * 60) Werewolf Skin
 * 61) I Live in Your Basement!
 * 62) Monster Blood IV

2003 - 2007 series
From 2003 to 2007, 57 out of the 62 of the original Goosebumps books were reprinted with a new cover base and used different colors. Some of the covers were also mirrored and given new taglines. Two books, Stay Out of the Basement and Be Careful What You Wish For..., were given new cover art created by Tim Jacobus, as he did not make the originals for those two. The series of reprints were discontinued shortly after Classic Goosebumps was introduced.

Phantom of the Auditorium, Legend of the Lost Legend, Werewolf Skin, I Live in Your Basement!, and Monster Blood IV were the only books not reprinted in this series. However, Phantom of the Auditorium was later reprinted in the Classic Goosebumps series, and Legend of the Lost Legend is included in the Goosebumps 25th Anniversary Retro Set.

Classic Goosebumps

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Classic Goosebumps was a series of reprints originally made to coincide with the release of Goosebumps HorrorLand books. All of the Classic Goosebumps books featured new cover art by Brandon Dorman and a new Goosebumps logo. In addition, the font used for numbering chapters was redesigned and bonus features were added to the end of each book.

Monster Blood Pack
Monster Blood Pack is the first Goosebumps book collection ever released. It contains Monster Blood, Monster Blood II and Monster Blood III, plus a container of green slime. It was released in September 1995.

The official description reads: This Halloween won't be complete without this totally cool Goosebumps special item, which includes three top titles from the #1 bestselling kids' series-- Goosebumps #3: Monster Blood, #18: Monster Blood II and #29: Monster Blood III--plus a container of green slime.

Goosebumps Monster Edition
Between 1995 and 1997, Scholastic Inc. released four hardcover books under a series titled Goosebumps Monster Edition. Each book contained three Goosebumps books. The books also included special features, such as a greeting sound when opening the book, as with Monster Edition #1 and #3.

Monster Edition #1 and #3 were reprinted in 2003. The covers shown on the back of the books were updated to match their 2003 reprints look. Oddly enough however, the Monster Edition books' front covers were not updated to reflect the 2003 - 2007 reprints look.

Goosebumps Collection
Four hardcover books under a series titled Goosebumps Collection were released between 2003 and 2005. Each book contained three books from the Goosebumps franchise. The Campfire Collection, Monster Blood Collection, and Living Dummy Collection contained three stories from the original series. While the third book, 30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps, featured the first three books in the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series.

Goosebumps Bind-Up
Goosebumps Bind-Up is similar to the Goosebumps Collection series, in that they are collection books that contain three Goosebumps books. However, these books are only available in paperback, and the cover design is the same used for the 2003 - 2007 reprint series.

Goosebumps Retro Collector's Tins
The Goosebumps Retro Collector's Tins include five of the all-time best selling books in the series. The lids of the tins features a raised, Goosebumps logo, with the cover art from three of the books included behind it. The sides of the base of the tin feature the covers of the books repeated through out. Under the base of the tins features the splat. While the books do sport the original cover art and design, there are some differences from the original prints, which include the following:
 * The Goosebumps logo on the front covers is not raised.
 * The logo and chapter designs in the books use the Classic Goosebumps designs, rather than the originals.
 * The books are thinner and more "floppy" than the originals.
 * The Scholastic logo is featured under the book title instead of being at the bottom left.
 * The cover for Why I'm Afraid of Bees uses white text for the tagline. The original cover used black text.

Graphic novels

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Ten Goosebumps books were adapted into graphic novels via Goosebumps Graphix. The four Goosebumps Graphix books were titled Creepy Creatures, Terror Trips, Scary Summer, and Slappy's Tales of Horror.

Cover artists
The first two books in the Goosebumps series were illustrated by separate artists. The first book cover, Welcome to Dead House, was illustrated by artist Tim Jacobus. The next book cover, Stay Out of the Basement, was illustrated by artist Jim Thiesen. Scholastic Inc. eventually chose Jacobus as the main series artist because of his use of saturated colors. Of the 62 books in the original series, Jacobus illustrated 60 covers. With the exception of Stay Out of the Basement, the only other book to not be illustrated by Jacobus was the book Be Careful What You Wish For..., which was illustrated by Stanislaw Fernandes.

The first reprints of the Goosebumps series reused Jacobus's art. In addition to this, Jacobus illustrated new covers for the books Stay Out of the Basement and Be Careful What You Wish For....

The Classic Goosebumps reprints used new, digital cover art created by Brandon Dorman. Some of the new covers created by Dorman were based on covers from the original series.

Follow-ups and spin-offs
After the success of the original series, various spin-off series were made. The first spin-off series debuted in 1994 with the release of Tales to Give You Goosebumps. It spawned five sequels, and each book featured 10 short stories. The other spin-off series was the Give Yourself Goosebumps gamebook series, which debuted in 1995.

After the original series was discontinued in December 1997, it was followed up by Goosebumps Series 2000 the month after.

TV series

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Goosebumps was adapted into a TV series in 1995. The show started out adapting the original series of books, then eventually several stories from Tales to Give You Goosebumps, and Goosebumps Series 2000. The show ceased production in 1998 with a total of 58 episodes made, or 74 if counting the two-part episodes as separate episodes. R.L. Stine would sometimes make appearances at the beginning and end of some episodes, mainly the earlier ones. Only 19 books from the original series didn't receive a TV adaptation.

Film

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A feature film based on the Goosebumps franchise was released by Sony and Columbia Pictures on October 16th, 2015. The film includes many references to the original books, and various monsters and villains from the franchise make an appearance. Slappy the Dummy, the Abominable Snowman, Will Blake (werewolf form), the Lawn Gnomes and the Giant Praying Mantis are among the more notable monsters in the film. There were also quite a few background monsters, many of which come from the original series.

Trivia

 * During the 1990s, Stine revealed several titles for books that never ended up coming to fruition. These titles include: The Good, The Bad, And The Very Itchy, Feeding Frenzy, and 43 Freakout Street.
 * The title of Brain Juice was first teased in 1996 — prior to the release of Beware, the Snowman. However, at the time, Stine had difficulties coming up with a plot. The book was reportedly finished by March of 1998, making it a part of Goosebumps Series 2000 rather than the original series.
 * Early first edition copies of books 1-6 feature no number on the spine.
 * When ignoring punctuation and capitalization, there are 16 books in the original series where the title appears as a line that's worked into the story.