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Books like Goosebumps HorrorLand: 9 series to read next

Goosebumps HorrorLand is horror, set in contemporary and our world, tense and eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Goosebumps HorrorLand is 19 books, 2008–2011.

“There was an almost ten-year gap between the publication of Return to HorrorLand and the initial installment of the Goosebumps HorrorLand spin-off series.”
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Jerusalem's Lot
Small Spaces
Rats
Bone Chillers
Horror in Small Towns
Horror Lurks Beneath
Shadow House
Skeleton Man
Southern Reach Trilogy

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Dark in tone, about vampires and grief and loss.

“Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger.”
from the catalogue description

Start with 'Salem's Lot →

Small SpacesSeries

seriesKatherine Arden4 books2018

Horror and ghost stories, tense and eerie in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Small Spaces →

RatsSeries

seriesJames Herbert4 books1974

Dark in tone, set in british isles and big city.

“The Rats, James Herbert's 1974 debut novel, imagines a plague of giant mutant rats overrunning London, told through a rotating cast of victims and survivors in the tradition of British disaster horror.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Rats →

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.

Start with Beware the Shopping Mall →

Horror in Small TownsSeries

seriesBoris Bacic5 books2020

Horror, tense in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

“The town of Woodberry seems perfect at first glance but, this quickly changes when he starts asking about the radio tower perched on top of the highest hill in the town.”
from the catalogue description of Radio Tower

Start with Radio Tower →

Horror Lurks BeneathSeries

seriesBen Farthing3 books2021

Horror, tense and eerie in tone, about survival, set in contemporary.

“A tech billionaire wants the building's secrets for herself.”
from the catalogue description of It Waits on the Top Floor

Start with It Waits on the Top Floor →

Shadow HouseSeries

seriesDan Poblocki4 books2016

Horror and ghost stories, set in contemporary and our world.

“Some houses are more than just haunted . . . they're hungry.”
from the catalogue description of The Gathering

Start with The Gathering →

Skeleton ManSeries

seriesJoseph Bruchac2 books2001

Horror, tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and north america.

“Ever since the morning Molly woke up to find that her parents hadvanished, her life has become filled with terrible questions.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Skeleton Man →

Southern Reach TrilogySeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer4 books2014

Science fiction and weird fiction, about madness.

“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Annihilation →

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 HorrorLand?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Goosebumps HorrorLand on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Goosebumps HorrorLand?: Revenge of the Living Dummy. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Goosebumps HorrorLand.
How big is Goosebumps HorrorLand?: Goosebumps HorrorLand is 19 books, 2008–2011.

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