Every Original Goosebumps Book, Ranked
Rank all 62 original Goosebumps books by R. L. Stine head-to-head, Night of the Living Dummy vs The Haunted Mask and Say Cheese and Die! vs Monster Blood. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Stay Out of the Basement#2 · 1992
The Barking Ghost#32 · 1995
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 62 start.
How the Goosebumps Books bracket works
This Goosebumps book ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Welcome to Dead House or Stay Out of the Basement? Monster Blood or Say Cheese and Die!? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 62-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 62 books. The draw is seeded: the same for everyone today, different tomorrow, and different again whenever you press New draw. You can also play it at 8 or 32 or 62 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 62 entrants
All 62 entrants are listed below, including Welcome to Dead House, Stay Out of the Basement, Monster Blood and Say Cheese and Die!.
- Welcome to Dead House#1 · 1992
- Stay Out of the Basement#2 · 1992
- Monster Blood#3 · 1992
- Say Cheese and Die!#4 · 1992
- The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb#5 · 1993
- Let's Get Invisible#6 · 1993
- Night of the Living Dummy#7 · 1993
- The Girl Who Cried Monster#8 · 1993
- Welcome to Camp Nightmare#9 · 1993
- The Ghost Next Door#10 · 1993
- The Haunted Mask#11 · 1993
- Be Careful What You Wish For...#12 · 1993
- Piano Lessons Can Be Murder#13 · 1993
- The Werewolf of Fever Swamp#14 · 1993
- You Can't Scare Me!#15 · 1994
- One Day at HorrorLand#16 · 1994
- Why I'm Afraid of Bees#17 · 1994
- Monster Blood II#18 · 1994
- Deep Trouble#19 · 1994
- The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight#20 · 1994
- Go Eat Worms!#21 · 1994
- Ghost Beach#22 · 1994
- Return of the Mummy#23 · 1994
- Phantom of the Auditorium#24 · 1994
- Attack of the Mutant#25 · 1994
- My Hairiest Adventure#26 · 1994
- A Night in Terror Tower#27 · 1995
- The Cuckoo Clock of Doom#28 · 1995
- Monster Blood III#29 · 1995
- It Came from Beneath the Sink!#30 · 1995
- Night of the Living Dummy II#31 · 1995
- The Barking Ghost#32 · 1995
- The Horror at Camp Jellyjam#33 · 1995
- Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes#34 · 1995
- A Shocker on Shock Street#35 · 1995
- The Haunted Mask II#36 · 1995
- The Headless Ghost#37 · 1995
- The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena#38 · 1995
- How I Got My Shrunken Head#39 · 1996
- Night of the Living Dummy III#40 · 1996
- Bad Hare Day#41 · 1996
- Egg Monsters from Mars#42 · 1996
- The Beast from the East#43 · 1996
- Say Cheese and Die—Again!#44 · 1996
- Ghost Camp#45 · 1996
- How to Kill a Monster#46 · 1996
- Legend of the Lost Legend#47 · 1996
- Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns#48 · 1996
- Vampire Breath#49 · 1996
- Calling All Creeps!#50 · 1996
- Beware, the Snowman#51 · 1997
- How I Learned to Fly#52 · 1997
- Chicken Chicken#53 · 1997
- Don't Go to Sleep!#54 · 1997
- The Blob That Ate Everyone#55 · 1997
- The Curse of Camp Cold Lake#56 · 1997
- My Best Friend Is Invisible#57 · 1997
- Deep Trouble II#58 · 1997
- The Haunted School#59 · 1997
- Werewolf Skin#60 · 1997
- I Live in Your Basement!#61 · 1997
- Monster Blood IV#62 · 1997
Tier list instead?
Load all 62 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Choose the book you would press into a friend's hands first, not the one you think you should rate higher.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 62 so more of the 62 books make the field.
- Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Questions people ask
How many books are in the Goosebumps Books bracket?
The pool holds 62 books. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32, 62 slots.
Which books are included?
Welcome to Dead House, Stay Out of the Basement, Monster Blood, Say Cheese and Die!, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Let's Get Invisible, Night of the Living Dummy, The Girl Who Cried Monster, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, The Ghost Next Door, The Haunted Mask and Be Careful What You Wish For..., plus 50 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Goosebumps Books bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
Is this a goosebumps books tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other book grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two books that never met. If you would rather place the books into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 62 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community goosebumps books ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Goosebumps Books community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 62 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which books are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own books, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 62 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.