Tales to Give You Goosebumps is the first book in the Goosebumps series of the same name. It was first published in 1994, and was originally sold with a Goosebumps book light.
Four of the ten short stories in the book were adapted for television. Those stories being "The House of No Return", "Teacher's Pet", "Strained Peas", and "Click".
The cover of the book depicts a giant ghost with long hair resembling a skeleton in front of an old house.
Blurb[]
From an evil baby sister, to a remote control that can control more than just the television set, to a teacher who's obsessed with snakes, to a cute, cuddly, teddy bear gone bad, here are ten creepy, spooky stores guaranteed to give you Goosebumps all night long!
Featured stories[]
- "The House of No Return" - Three children dare a new boy into entering a house where a couple had died upon losing their baby daughter.
- "Teacher's Pet" - Two friends get a new teacher who has an interest in snakes.
- "Strained Peas" - A boy receives a baby sister that is not what it seems.
- "Strangers in the Woods" - While staying with her great-aunt, a girl notices some unusual stuff happening.
- "Good Friends" - Two friends plan to scare the sister of one of them with a prank.
- "How I Won My Bat" - A boy gains a magical baseball bat.
- "Mr. Teddy" - A young girl discovers that her new teddy bear is alive.
- "Click" - A boy gets a remote control that controls everything around him.
- "Broken Dolls" - A girl with dolls discover that her young brother is acting strangely.
- "A Vampire in the Neighborhood" - A group of middle school students think the new girl at school is a vampire.
Reprints and rereleases[]
| Book | Release date | Type | Media |
|---|---|---|---|
1997 reprint  |
1997 | Standalone | Paperback |
30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps  |
April 2004 | Collection | Hardcover / paperback |
International releases[]
| No. | Book | Country | Translated title | Release date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tales to Give You Goosebumps |
United Kingdom
English |
Tales to Give You Goosebumps | October 1, 1995 | Scholastic |
| 3 | On Ne Touche Pas aux Tarentules! (Good Friends)  |
France
French |
Do Not Touch Tarantulas! | 2003 | Bayard Poche |
| 6 | La Télécommande Diabolique (Click)  |
France
French |
The Diabolical Remote Control | 2003 | Bayard Poche |
| 1 | Edición Especial 1  |
Spain
Spanish |
Special Edition 1 | 1999 | Ediciones B |
| 1 | Das unheimliche Buch der Schauergeschichten  |
Germany
German |
The Eerie Book of Horror Stories | 1996 | Omnibus Verlag |
| 18 | Kippenvel 8x/10x |
Netherlands
Dutch |
Goosebumps 8x/10x | 1999 | Kluitman Alkmaar BV |
| 16 | منزل بلا عودة  |
Egypt
Arabic |
The House of No Return | 1999 | Dar Nahdet Misr |
| 1 | Kisah-Kisah Hantu  |
Indonesia
Indonesian |
Ghost Stories | N/A | Gramedia Pustaka Utama |
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Trivia[]
The Nancy Drew CD-ROM game's box art, featuring the reused art of the house from the book cover.
- The ghost on this book's cover is considered to be an early prototype of what would later become Curly the Skeleton.
- The book's cover art would later be reused for the 2005 cover for the DVD "Scary House".
- The house on the cover would be repurposed for the box art of 2000's Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion CD-ROM game.
- This is the longest Tales to Give You Goosebumps book.