Top 10 Scariest Goosebumps Books

It is the scariest book of all! I read it as the first book of the Goosebumps series, and it really gave me goosebumps. I couldn't sleep for three days.

The part where they melted by the sun is completely nightmare fuel. One of the main character's friends has a black skull. I think Stay Out of the Basement should be higher because the doctor/father kills the clone with an axe splattered with green gore. Completely messed up.

I like this book because I enjoy a lot of scary and adventurous books, and I think his books are the best things to ever read.

Very clever and underrated book. Also surprisingly scary! It's almost like an episode of The Twilight Zone.

Amazing book! I couldn't sleep for two days, and I didn't look at the clock for a few months until I thought it was safe.

First book I ever read... couldn't sleep for a fortnight after that.

This was definitely one of the eerie ones but had a great plot.

I loved the ending and horrible twist in this book. This is one of my favorite books.

When you read this one, you feel like the monsters are in your bedroom.

The cover reminds me of Let's Get Invisible! and My Best Friend Is Invisible.

People turn inside out in great detail. Goosebumps doesn't get much scarier than that!

First Goosebumps book. The ending was damn terrifying for me.

I borrowed the book from the library, and I read it. As a kid, I was pretty freaked out by the ghost kids and the ghost in the cave. Even though it gave me nightmares (no joke), I still loved the plot and the book. Vote for this.

I know all Goosebumps series are jokes, but if I had to choose one, this would be it. By far (in my opinion), this is the best effort Stine has made in his life as a writer.

This should be number one. I had nightmares as a kid when I read this. I even slept with the light on.

Slappy is my favorite Goosebumps monster. This book is so scary that I locked myself in my room for a month.

I watched the episode way back in first grade. That's the first time I ever heard about Goosebumps. The scenes with the basement plants, and Margaret and Casey entering the basement, creeped me out a lot. My friends cried a lot!

The giant praying mantis was a really sick idea. Who doesn't like praying mantises? Especially in the film, it looks so sick! Just from the title, I already knew it was going to be an awesome book. The name is totally cool - Shocker on Shock Street. Shock is the best word for praying mantis, especially in the major motion picture version.

This is one of those Goosebumps books with everything in it - skeletons, giant praying mantises, zombies, werewolves, robots...
R.L. Stine went crazy with this one, and it turned out pretty awesome!

The way he described the snowmen was creepy. I also really like the setting in this one.

Being stuck on a jungle island with mad scientists who want to kill you and shrink your head! It can't get much scarier than that!

This is the best Goosebumps book I ever read!

The counselors are very scary!

Curse of the Mummy's Tomb and How I Got My Shrunken Head are higher than this? A kid stabs himself with a pole in the foot, and a girl sticks her hand into the fire. Oh yeah, How I Got My Shrunken Head sucks.

I have read this book, and it was a little less scary. Hannah is actually dead, and Danny isn't, so the shadowy figure tried to hurt Hannah! Geez, that frightened me when Hannah didn't touch Danny, but Danny's arm goes through her!

This book made me pyrophobic. Kinda. I always blow out the scented candles in my house to make sure they don't burn the house down like Hannah's house did. Yikes.

Out of all the Goosebumps books I read as a kid, this one stuck with me. I still remember it two decades later as the most frightening thing I read as a kid.

This book was pretty terrifying and the darkest Goosebumps book. I'm surprised it wasn't on the list.

The book should be number 1. The floating masks really made me want to point my gun at my TV. It's great.