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Books like Goosebumps: 9 series to read next
Goosebumps is horror and ghost stories, set in our world and contemporary, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.
Goosebumps is 234 books across 16 series, 1992–2026.
“Each book is its own self-contained nightmare, narrated by an ordinary boy or girl whose ordinary street has quietly turned against them — and every one snaps shut on a twist that pulls the rug out one last time before the lights come up.”
from the catalogue description
- Jerusalem's Lot
- Small Spaces
- Spooksville
- Bone Chillers
- Shock
- The Supernaturals
- Southern Reach Trilogy
- Shadow House
- Haunted Places (Boris Bacic)
- Jerusalem's LotSeries
seriesStephen King3 books1975
About vampires and grief and loss.
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- Small SpacesSeries
seriesKatherine Arden4 books2018
Horror and ghost stories, eerie and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and our world.
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- SpooksvilleSeries
seriesChristopher Pike24 books1995
Horror, set in contemporary and small town.
matchedcontemporaryhorrorsmall townnorth america
- Bone ChillersSeries
seriesBetsy Haynes, David Bergantino, Daniel Ehrenhaft, Gene Hult, Dahlia Kosinski, Elizabeth Winfrey, Michael Burgan, Ryan Chipman & Sherry Shahan23 books1994
Horror, set in contemporary and our world.
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- ShockSeries
seriesRichard Matheson4 books1961
About madness.
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- The SupernaturalsSeries
seriesDavid L. Golemon2 books2011
Horror and ghost stories, eerie and tense in tone, set in contemporary and north america.
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- Southern Reach TrilogySeries
seriesJeff VanderMeer4 books2014
Weird fiction, about madness.
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- Shadow HouseSeries
seriesDan Poblocki4 books2016
Horror and ghost stories, set in contemporary and our world.
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seriesBoris Bacic6 books2020
Horror, eerie and tense in tone, set in contemporary and our world.
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Read next in Goosebumps
Why these
No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.
Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.
Questions readers ask
- What should I read after Goosebumps?
- Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Goosebumps on what it is about, not on what sells.
- Where do I start with Goosebumps?
- Revenge of the Living Dummy. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Goosebumps, which is a whole world rather than one run.
- How big is Goosebumps?
- Goosebumps is 234 books across 16 series, 1992–2026.