R.L. Stine was the keynote speaker when I graduated from college for the first time. In his speech, he mentioned how he couldn't remember who gave the keynote speech at this graduation, and he couldn't remember who the keynote speaker was at his son's graduation. With that in mind, he decided to tell us a ghost story. That way, we would always have something to remember our own keynote speaker by.
@@Thatguy55595 Much to my shame, I don't actually remember. All I remember is that it took place on Trick 'r Treat Night, and it involved a jack 'o lantern.
When I was in elementary school I went to a garage sale and saw a milk crate packed full of goosebumps books. I walked up to the owner and asked him how much the books were. He was surprised and replied, “for all of them..?? Uhh…. $2” There must have been over 30 goosebumps books. Rest assured I read damn near all of them and loved those books. Thank you garage sale man. I did so many school book reports on those books and your hospitality of basically donating them to me was so much appreciated!
Yup I agree. On the other hand I think one of the other winning titles "I Am Your Evil Twin" isn't a particularly good name for a story, there's nothing clever about the title. But the idea of telling a story from the perspective of an evil twin is pretty neat so that's probably why they picked it.
Seriously tho I mean.. judging by my profile pic alone you could probably tell I'd think that. 🙂 I originally envisioned a bittersweet story about a kid & his best friend (the doggo) & him saving his dog from the grim reaper or some kinda grim reaper or angel of death esque being
Poor Jimmy. Imagine being a kid, the sheer excitement of knowing _your title_ is going to adorn a _real Goosebumps book!_ And then it just… never happens. And you never get an explanation. Crushing. I'd rather lose the contest than experience that, I don't think I'd ever get over it.
I'm an aspiring writer. I spent literally all of last year (2022) battling writers block trying to continue one of my stories, I can't even imagine completing something in just a month or less and I don't have anywhere near the amount of pressure on me to make something good that Mr. Stine does. Props to him
@@break_the_galaxy I have ADHD and love writing. So I can pound stuff out that quick, then just as quickly lose all interest in it and shelf it for months or years.
They'd have never gotten so popular if they didn't look so cool on a shelf. I guarantee that there were lots of people who collected them without bothering to read most of them.
@@CeeJayThe13th that probably was me, it’s been so long that I can’t remember but what I do remember was being absolutely mesmerized by those book covers. Scary yet comforting to look at in a way.
@@CeeJayThe13th the dude who drew the covers did 60 of the original 62 books.(same colorful style) So yes, the covers had something to do with it. Notice the series fell off when he no longer did the artwork for it. Even R.L admited that he had no idea why the series blew up in popularity over night.. ...it was the covers.
The only missing story that wasn’t featured is “Something Evil, Something Cruel” which was the Goosebumps Creepstakes finish the story contest in Series 2000. We recently found the contest winner and now it’s a matter of reaching out! Great video, this is a new favorite watch of mine!
@@empoleonmaster6709 Last night I just realized there was more than one winner announced for the Creepstakes contest, meaning there are multiple versions of "Something Evil, Something Cruel" out there.
Hey man :) when everyone was collecting Goosebumps I was the weird kid collecting the Bone Chillers series 😂 it was basically the same kind of ongoing series of shorter one off book stories. But I still own them, and love them. 💕 wondering if you’ve ever heard of that series too?
I remember in elementary school, I would always rent " The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" from the school library. It came to a point that the librarian actually let me keep the book because she noticed how much I loved reading it. One of the coolest moments of my childhood.
There was a rare Goosebumps book I read as a kid and then couldn’t find it again for years. I think it was called The Haunted School. It was about this entire class of kids who were transported to a secret classroom in the school when the school photographer “Mr. Chameleon” snapped their photo. The longer they stayed in the classroom, the more they lost their color and turned gray. It was the coolest story but for some reason not the most popular book.
That one TRAUMATIZED me when I was a kid. I distinctly remember having nightmares about that scenario for weeks after reading it. No clue why that one in particular stuck with me so much but I do wish it had been more popular, it's a great story. It is indeed called The Haunted School by the way
I have this !!! I still have 7 or 8 of my goosebumps and this was by far the one which affected me the most. It’s missing the cover but I still read it to this day
@@break_the_galaxy I think every kid had that "one" book that specifically "got" them... or several that played off of a specific fear, and yeah, that was one of mine too. The Haunted School, Don't Go to Sleep, and the Beast From the East I remember messed with me - made me feel helpless I guess, but the one that "got" me was the Scarecrow Walks at Midnight. I lived in a small town surrounded by endless cornfields so I guess it makes sense lol
This is the one i remember the most. The cover with the locker hanging open and the three sets of eyes peering out from inside was real creepy. The twist ending of this one was DEVASTATING too
This was my favorite one as a kid, and still is!! I never knew it was rare. I just thought it wasn't very popular. It's so good, and the only one with plot I actually remember, besides a few of the choose your own adventure ones.
It would be incredible if there was a Goosebumps story about a horror novel writer being sued and not being able to publish several of his books. But it turns out the people suing him are actually the monsters from the books.
I vividly remember being six and TERRIFIED of the Say Cheese And Die cover. His art was so good it unintentionally got stuck in my mind well over a decade later
Its the book I remember most reading too. I read lots of his books in school, and its the story that stuck with me the most. I later learned that The Twilight Zone had a VERY similar premise that he likely took inspiration from.
Same! I was a big fan of horror as a kid, and when I hit middle school, I started reading slightly more mature horror. Did you ever read Cirque Du Freak or any Anthony Horowitz?
Stine was also kind enough to do a podcast with my friends in college (one where around 2005) where we made our own Goosebumps story with him based on The Metamorphosis… I have the audio somewhere
@@bomt6259 there were people making podcasts back then. ricky gervais had a podcast that started around that time which became popular and was turned into its own tv show
Funny, I feel like I missed out on Goosebumps because I wasn’t allowed to read them as a kid, but I will never forget how morbidly fascinated I was by the covers. They still fascinate me. Some of them are still downright creepy to me as an adult!
Spooky spice you're never too old for the TV show adaption 😅 I still enjoy occasional episodes, I like to think of it as our generations Twilight zone.
I always contributed his overnight success to the boom in school book fairs! At least here in the US. Thats how i was introduced to all of the "Goosebumps" books and couldnt wait every year for the next set of stories. I spent my lunch money every time.
Moreso scholastics just pushed the book marketing hard since its part of their IP... so you like many others just gridded what was pushed infront of you
@@kgold01 so you think scholastics didn't ram their own content to the front of the queue to turn a profit... maybe infront of better written stories they didn't have a stake in... so much so that: book fair = guerrilla book marketing to kids Basically if it didn't have the front and centre placement it did then it wouldn't have near the following it does.. Sorry to ruin your nostalgia
@@shibarmyburnz1978 not really sure what you are on about, guerilla marketing may have got people to pick up one and read it, but if they werent enjoyable I wouldnt have gone to the library to read the new ones when they came out, yes there were a few that the stories werent as good as the others, but your comment makes it seem like the only reason anyone actually read any of them was marketing? Makes 0 sense considering how widely popular they were.. but keep telling yourself whatever you want to make yourself feel good? If they were terrible I wouldnt have tried to read whatever I could get my hands on and just stuck to x-men and other comics that I also heavily enjoyed.
@ShibArmyBurnz which would be fine if he wasn't also hugely popular in territories that don't only sell children books once a year (and the fuck is that anyway? Do kids in the US really only buy books once a year? Do you not have book shops?). He is also still popular now, I work in a library and regularly have his books cross the counter.
These books were absolutely huge here in Australia too when I was growing up. I remember they were like drugs in terms of how addictive they were for us kids in school. It was a frenzy to see who could borrow the books in the school library.
By any chance, do you remember a contest Pizza Huts in Australia were apparently holding in 1997 where people could write their own Goosebumps stories on special placemats?
This dude wrote ONE BOOK A MONTH?! God damn, I'm surprised only some of them suck instead of most of them, that kind of schedule should have been a disaster. Mad respect.
My math teacher in elementary made it a point to say that he has ghostwriters. Hard to not believe to some degree as once a week is achievable through amphetamines maybe.
Seeing goosebumps books is like instant nostalgic trip for me. In elementary school they were a big deal, you were the cool kid if you checked one out from the library, God tier if you actually owned the book
As a kid, the cover for "Night of the Living Dummy" (90's edition) always unsettled me. I remember turning the book face down a lot, so Slappy's piercing gaze wasn't on me.
I was completely obsessed with goosebumps as a kid. I really think that children's media like goosebumps are a big reason why I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre now. goosebumps books were the first time I can remember seeking out something that I knew would scare me, and the rush that comes with being scared. RL Stine is truly a legend and a writing machine.
Im surprised this video didn’t mention his post-goosebumps series that was another horror series for older teens similar to fear street but as a collection of short stories in each book -R.L Steins A Haunting Hour. Those books genuinely scared me as a kid,they where far more intense than the horror of goosebumps in my opinion, and the television show spinoff of the series was also really really good. The book I had I remember had a spinoff story about Slappy, one where a kids father is an archeologist and he goes with him to a pyramid ends up in a sarcophagus left to die, one where 2 siblings and their parents run out of gas on a road trip and end up at a motel and the parents leave to get food and don’t return,only for the kids to go looking for them and find out everyone else in the hotel is dead, one where a babysitter makes voodoo dolls of the kids and borderline mutilates one of them before they make one of the babysitter and kill her, and one where this boy has an imaginary friend thats continuously getting him in trouble until he ends up in hospital because the imaginary friend tried killing him
My favorite Haunting Hour was the life size doll dolls modeled after the kid who would receive said doll. And then, ya know, spooky shit commences. Pretty sure it was 2 parts!
Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark and Goosebumps are the reason I'm a horror fan today! Kids today will never know what it was like living in a mostly analog world where books unlocked entire worlds.
I find that with some of the subject matter in your videos I was never super into them growing up, just a vague interest mostly. Yet KLS, the way you dive into and present whatever specific or niche topics you find across mediums never fail to absolutely engross me and make me want to explore these stories myself as well. I think I will start with taking your (unsponsored) recommendation and check out a copy of this art book I didn't know existed until today and see how far down the rabbit hole takes me. So thank you!
like you, the covers will always bring back memories of anxious intrigue. I would pick out which book to read by how scary or cool looking the cover art was. By the time I left elementary i read all of the goosebumps books in my schools library The memories of walking into the library every couple of weeks, when our class was assigned library day, will always be some of my most beloved memories.
I wasn't born when goosebumps peaked in the 90s but I'm sure glad I had a childhood in the 2010s to read the books and watch the show!!! An experience I wish I could get all over again 😭
4:45 Those two kids floating down the river in caskets… I just wanted to know where that was from so if anyone else is curious… It’s from goosebumps season three episode eight. “One day in horror land“. I’ve spent half my life (i’m in my mid 30s) in boats and kayaks on creeks and rivers, and honestly thought it just looked really fun and it gave me an idea. After some depressing googling I found the answer on Reddit…… but Apparently caskets floating around town with decomposed remains in them is pretty common in flood prone areas.
Live in southeast Louisiana where hurricane Katrina hit. Can confirm the floating of caskets with corpses during extreme flooding events down here. Its quite an eerie sight.
god dude I fucking love the visuals in this video. the way ai generated imagery is implemented, certain things being shown on screen together in a really coherent and satisfying way, the font choices, etc etc, it's just 👌👌👌👌
I was in fifth grade 1996-1997 and I had already collected about 50 Goosebumps books on my little bookshelf. I always credit R.L. Stine for my early reading skills and vocabulary. I outgrew Goosebumps by middle school and I started reading Stephen King novels.
Wait wait wait....SCOTT WESTERFELD was a Stine ghostwriter? Hard to believe he went from Goosebumps to the Leviathan trilogy but weirder things have happened...
Lots of people got their start there. I'm trying to remember who else, but Katherine Applegate was a ghostwriter on Sweet Valley High, and Michael Grant HER ghostwriter because writing a book a month is insane. When THEY had to hire ghostwriters for "Animorphs," Grant says he became a paranoid taskmaster and didn't give them the latitude they'd previously enjoyed, which is why he's sworn off the practice since. Some people do, some people manage - and you can be terrible at managing, too. Makes me wonder how heavy a hand Stine had.
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 also I did digging and he doesn't site work for uglies, but for his other works he sites a work from 1906 called a trip to Mars. Also there is another quartet he's working on in the universe of uglies!
Not only was I big into Goosebumps as a kid, but I also worked at the Scholastic Bookfair for six years and got paid in free books and other items. This video is catnip for me. I loved it!
Goosebumps will always have a special place in my heart. Helped me get through elementary school as an antisocial awkward kid, those books were escapes to another reality.
The covers of the books were phenomenal, I remember my first one was Ghost Camp and it grabbed my attention because of the cover. I ended up reading half of the original series. I also just assumed Welcome to Camp Nightmare was a spiritual sequel to Ghost Camp only because I got that book later.
The nostalgia of this is delicious! The feeling I get when the cover of one of the books I read appear is delightful - unnerved, afraid, but like safe silly exciting fear. It's a unique feeling. Or the intro music... I have thought about making videos like this for years - but I wouldn't have been able to make them as engaging, entertaining and well researched as this! Thank you, great work. Looking forward to more. Please do start on the mysteries of the tv series!
Fantastic video! I grew up with these novels, they were just so BIG! My mother read to me #1 on a cloudy night in the city and I've forever associated light pollution with horror ever since. And then later we had Scholastic Book Fairs in Canada, & Goosebumps was a huge cover draw, and I can still distinctly remember how hype I was to pick up each new instalment. Ever think of covering Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing series? I feel like they're sorely underappreciated.
I looked up the series and have a memory of seeing the cover somewhere, book fair or library, probably 25 years ago. Will read the series this year for sure! Also Canada is giving it some love and appreciation- it's apparently assigned reading for middle schoolers. 💪
It is a SHAME that the UA-cam algorithm is punishing you for not uploading often. This is a masterpiece and deserves just as many views as your other videos.
As a small child in the 90s, I remember being absolutely terrified of the cover art of The Curse Of Camp Cold Lake. So much so, I never read it and always had bad dreams about the ghost on the front cover. As an adult, it's still unsettling to look at, but no longer nightmare-inducing.
Goosebumps has a really special place in my heart. I watched the show when i was like 5 but started reading the books when i was 9. Little did i know it would spark my love for horror. I'm 20 now and I've read countless stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Alan Poe, Stephen King and Bram Stoker and horror has gone far beyond just literature for me for it influenced my artistic self aswell, I am now the vocalist and songwriter of a Horror themed Black Metal band. I've made it this far and i owe it to Stine for sparking my passion for horror all those years ago.
Same, I read the hell out of Goosebumps when I first came to America, they were my first English books. Magic the Gathering art got me also. I miss the 90s and early 2000s.
I knew for a while that some of the GB books were ghost written, but I'm happy to hear the first 16, the best ones IMO, were written by Stine. My childhood wasn't a COMPLETE lie, at least. I can't blame Stine though, when you have to write two to three novellas a month, who wouldn't call for help eventually?
Your videos are so damn good, man. I haven't thought of Goosebumps in years, but I remember checking out the max number of books every week from the library when I was a kid.
Same here! And also studying recommended titles each book listed, trying to memorize the ones I hadn't read yet or trying to imagine what some of the books were about just from their cover art alone
Fantastic video. Loved Goosebumps as a kid and I still enjoy occasionally revisiting the tv show when Halloween rolls around. My favorite part of your videos is you keep things simple and to the point. A lesser youtuber would draw things out and artifically extend the video but not you. Keep up the great work.
These books were so popular even here in India. I remember scouring my local libraries and the school scholastic book fairs to get copies of goosebumps. Very memorable stuff.
I loved how you used the soundtrack from the n64 game, Glover. Such an under-rated game that I always loved. This video brought back good memories from this time period!
This was an amazing video! I actually didn’t know about many of those contest winners, would’ve been cool to see Dead Dogs Still Fetch actually become a full story.
I remember DEVOURING the classic Goosebumps books (and Animorphs) that were available in my school library, and being gifted almost every horror land book that was available at the time. I was so enthralled by fiction aimed at kids that felt like it gave them (and the reader) agency and put them in actually dangerous situations, which wasn’t really common for kids content I was exposed to at the time. They were my middle and elementary school (2011-2013ish) era favorite books
I glanced over some Goosebumps books in the bookstore the other day, and noticed something really weird. I definitely remember the series numbering into the 40s, perhaps 50s as a kid, but Goosebumps books being printed today only list some 20-ish books existing in the series. So while there are plenty of "lost" Goosebumps books that never came into existence, it looks like a ton of them just have no plans of being reprinted. The modern Goosebumps brand is slowly phasing them out. It's weird to think of such an influential, iconic series falling into the depths of Lost Media™, but it seems to be inexplicably headed that way. Not that these books will be impossible to recover, but they'll become rare and extremely expensive. I hope the wikifolks and other fans are working to preserve the culture. Also, I always thought the whole "ghostwriters" issue was common knowledge. I mean, I recall the series "Ghosts of Fear Street" (which I loved) being KNOWN for featuring ghostwriters, hence the name. For me it's not a far stretch to imagine the OG Goosebumps series featuring ghostwriters, but I don't think the series or Stine are any lesser for it.
The care that went into compiling and polishing this video is top notch - I had a blast watching it. Sorry for messing up the editing with Dead Dogs Still Fetch! :D
The artwork for _The Incredible Shrinking Fifth Grader_ looks extremely familiar. I swear it was the cover of a published book. I remember seeing it in my elementary school's library's horror shelf, which was tiny.
A book a month! R.L. Stine is insane, no wonder why he has so many stories though also it was clear that he couldn’t keep up with that I write too (mainly comics but also some books) and despite I can get to do a book in about a week I wouldn’t do it in monthly bases, it’s exhausting. My respects for R.L. Stine, I loved the show and the movies
goosebumps was always an enigma to me. i came to own a couple of them and have no clue where they came from, but never finished any of them despite being an avid reader at that time! i wasn't scared really, they just hit an uncanny nerve in my mind and i couldn't ever get passed the first few pages. the only one i remember the name of was Say Cheese And Die. despite not being interested in reading it, i was *obsessed* with the cover, i'd carry it with me everywhere. i would look at it constantly and analyze every detail of the artwork. it really stuck with me. honestly, considering how i am now, maybe i just wasn't into the horror aspect! i'm not a fan of horror now and even avoid cheesy horror movies and books. pretty sure i've only seen a handful in my lifetime. i used to be very, very scared of ghosts and the unknown; i remember after watching The Woman In Black i couldnt sleep because the ticking of my clock sounded so much like her rocking chair. at this point, i've seen bits and pieces of the goosebumps tv show and watched a video of someone reading one of the choose your own adventure books in the series. the theme song is so fire though. looking back, the books that i was obsessed with seem like a good parallel to goosebumps: the bailey school kids series. was never scary at all, but because it was a continuous series that could be picked up at any point i was very into it. i remember so many of the covers and even quite a few plot points even though its been nearly two decades since i touched them. i really liked the Aliens Don't Wear Braces book because i thought the "alien" art teacher was really pretty and even back then i was getting into art. also have memories of the Special books and was always so excited when i found one in my school's library. honestly i would have probably continued to read them in jr high/high school as a guilty pleasure if my libraries there had them.
Genuinely wasn't sure what to expect with this video, but I watched the whole thing. It was so well presented and really took me back to my childhood ❤️ awesome content, thank you ❤️
I think the saddest story is Haunted School, the movie Pleasantville makes me think of this story. My favorite story is about Lindy, Kris and Slappy, my favorite ending is Let’s Get Invisible.
The Petscop clap sound effect followed by "Footnote:" at 05:45 has to be one of THE best subtle nods to another UA-camr I've literally EVER seen, and I want you to know there was someone out there who caught it.
Great stuff! I was hugely into Goosebumps as a kid, and even the wannabe imitators like Deadtime Stories and Spinetinglers. So many haunting scenes and cover images that influenced my own writing
I either didn't have access to the alternate works you mentioned or just wasn't grabbed and hooked on to them as securely as I was Goosebumps. But, after reaching middle school and feeling too "old" for the majority of the series, I did come across an older, early teen promoted title R. L. Stine also wrote. Well, maybe not an entire series but random standalones of the genre with a more mature style like blood featured on the cover art of some books. Any chance you might have come across these books or know what I am referring?
I’ve been a fan of Goosebumps since elementary in the late 90’s. I also enjoy Deadtime Stories and Spineringlers. Mostly Goosebumps and other book series by R.L. Stine. And I’m 30 years old.
@@danielbradley5255 Good question! The only spin-offs and other Stine series I know of are Fear Street and the Nightmare Room - perhaps he did more teenager-centered continuations of the former?
Ok I don't know why I didn't just Google the book since I had always clearly remembered the title from the moment I had picked it up about 25 yrs ago (in a K-Mart if you can believe it lol! BTW, Did K-Mart go belly up? Or has anyone seen one recently?) Back to goosebumps tho. the book was called Silent Night and I even read the sequel (S.Night II) and they were from the "fear Street / super chillers" collection. At that young age I was unfortunately a bit overactive from a likely undiagnosed case of ADHD, so smaller details irrelevant/unrelated to the book I was reading were completely skated right over. So in this case, the larger collection of the books I assumed I had no knowledge of lol
This is really informative video. I was a huge fan of goosebumps books back in my grade school days and it's so cool to revisit this. So sad a lot of books were lost or never made due to copyright issues. I feel really bad for the kid who won the first contest who never had anything come from it.
R. L. Stine doesn't get nearly enough recognition for his work in the 80s and 90s. Getting a new Goosebumps book delivered to my door every week was one of the most exciting things for my child self. I started with my aunts Fear Street books, and then Schoolastic opened up my love for horror with Goosebumps. At no other point in my life did I enjoy reading more, and it was all thanks to his spooky but light hearted stories.
Goosebumps is something that you can never forget if you read them growing up. And the Covers are even less forgettable. I remember my mom finding the one with the Co-Co Clock cover and I never forget it, and more memories returned watching this video. And the TV show was the next level of terror for 7 year old me
I remember I got In trouble when I was younger with the law had to do time in the juvenile detention, a month. All I read was goosebumps they had them in the library there. I'd sit there in my cell when we couldn't come out and read them all day . Best books ever the stories take you to another place
Thoroughly enjoyed this despite never reading the books myself. I love it when a content creator can make a topic entertaining to people even outside of it's initial target audience.
I honestly believe Stine that he physically wrote every Goosebumps book because they absolutely read like someone wrote them all in 10 days. If ghost writers where more involved, they would probably be better books.
@@piccolo54trunks2 Even compared to other kids books at the time, they don't rank very highly in my memories. I did read ton of at the time, to be fair, but I think Tim Jacobus' cover art did most of the work tbh. Although, it's been a very long time since I've read Goosebumps book obviously, what did you like about them?
They're not high art, but they're absolutely perfect 8-10 year olds they're aimed at. Spooky to a kid, while still being easily consumable, and highly collectible.
@@hobbified Yeah and they prefer bad writing. That's why RL Stine, Junie B Jones, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, sold like hot cakes and why no average kid growing up enjoys reading Great Expectations for English class
I loved goosebumps and fear street growing up I remember one of my teachers even gifted a goosebumps book to each student for Christmas (which I still have). I always wanted a reboot of the og series because while they’re definitely nostalgic some of the acting and effects does not hold up today
Man, I love your videos. When I saw your first video, the Malcolm in the Middle one, I knew this would be a great channel. The only complaint I have is that I wish you made more videos. Keep up the good work!
Was never a big Goosebumps kid but I love deep dives like this. Awesome vid. Also, did you just hit me with a Nightmare Masterclass bit at 5:45? I swear I've heard him use the same "*clap* Footnote" in his Petscop series.
I’m so glad I found your channel! You produce such quality content that honestly deserves a lot more attention. I really enjoyed this one and I can’t wait for the next!
I immediately ordered that Goosebumps art book. I still read Goosebumps books and collect forgotten ones that I find at our local thrift stores. I really love the books. There's just something incredible about them, something that makes me feel content. Also, as an aspiring writer, they have a lot to teach me about what I loved about writing when I was little. :)
My favorite series was the Give Yourself Goosebumps ones;I LOVED Choose Your Own Adventure stories when I was a kid, and to this day, I _still_ enjoy them. And this series was my absolute _favorite_ of those kinds of stories. 😁.
3:23 He told that same joke at a festival of books around 2012ish! I wish so bad I'd have recorded the panel bc this kid asked him "Where'd you copy Slappy from?" and I can't remember his funny answer.
I remember my elementary school had Goosebumps books but nobody was allowed to read them, since we were "too young for it". What was the point in having them, then?
As someone who was easily frightened as a child, I was terrified of these books. I only ever read one, the choose-your-own-adventure one where the MC gets turned into a bat, and it freaked me out so bad. That said, I would still go to the school library and read the blurbs on the backs of the books, which were enough to frighten me. I find it funny that a part of me still wanted to be scared.
That Max Keeble snippet of the kid crying over Mr McGoogles 😂 I loved that film! McGoogles is mi name, la di da di da I can’t remember the words but I got the tune stuck in my head now 😭
R.L. Stine was the keynote speaker when I graduated from college for the first time. In his speech, he mentioned how he couldn't remember who gave the keynote speech at this graduation, and he couldn't remember who the keynote speaker was at his son's graduation. With that in mind, he decided to tell us a ghost story. That way, we would always have something to remember our own keynote speaker by.
What was the ghost story about
@@Thatguy55595 he doesn't remember.
I would remember if it's gdamn R.L Stine😂
@@Thatguy55595 Much to my shame, I don't actually remember. All I remember is that it took place on Trick 'r Treat Night, and it involved a jack 'o lantern.
He forgor 💀
When I was in elementary school I went to a garage sale and saw a milk crate packed full of goosebumps books. I walked up to the owner and asked him how much the books were. He was surprised and replied, “for all of them..?? Uhh…. $2”
There must have been over 30 goosebumps books. Rest assured I read damn near all of them and loved those books. Thank you garage sale man. I did so many school book reports on those books and your hospitality of basically donating them to me was so much appreciated!
Was this before or after the new millenium? It would've been CRAZY if this was during the 90s!
No problem kid, I didn’t need them anyways glad you had use for them, are you 21 yet? How about a few beers and we can talk about goosebumps
@@andrestherooster4354 you’re weird
@@jessejive117 🤌🏻
@@jessejive117I think they were trying to make a joke
Dead Dogs Still Fetch is honestly SUCH a good story name.
Yup I agree. On the other hand I think one of the other winning titles "I Am Your Evil Twin" isn't a particularly good name for a story, there's nothing clever about the title. But the idea of telling a story from the perspective of an evil twin is pretty neat so that's probably why they picked it.
Thanks very much!
I KNOW like maaan I got chills from JUST reading it
Would be an awesome name for a metalcore band.
Seriously tho I mean.. judging by my profile pic alone you could probably tell I'd think that. 🙂
I originally envisioned a bittersweet story about a kid & his best friend (the doggo) & him saving his dog from the grim reaper or some kinda grim reaper or angel of death esque being
Poor Jimmy. Imagine being a kid, the sheer excitement of knowing _your title_ is going to adorn a _real Goosebumps book!_ And then it just… never happens. And you never get an explanation. Crushing. I'd rather lose the contest than experience that, I don't think I'd ever get over it.
This is that kid's villain origin story
You’re Jimmy aren’t you
I mean, it would be sad but I hope you’d get over it eventually.
Honestly I would just go on to write my own story with the title. What's Stine gonna do, sue over copying a book that he never made?
As silly as it sounds it would’ve devastated me as a kid
Honestly I have a lot of respect for Stine. He wrote a book a month. That is crazy. A lot of people can’t even write a chapter a month
I'm an aspiring writer. I spent literally all of last year (2022) battling writers block trying to continue one of my stories, I can't even imagine completing something in just a month or less and I don't have anywhere near the amount of pressure on me to make something good that Mr. Stine does. Props to him
When he's got it, he's got it.
@@break_the_galaxy I have ADHD and love writing. So I can pound stuff out that quick, then just as quickly lose all interest in it and shelf it for months or years.
@@break_the_galaxybrooo same! God bless you!
It would have been impressive to write a book a month if they'd been _good_ books.
They say they never judge a book by its cover but the aesthetics of the Goosebumps Templet is so iconic.
Really that whole scholastic era of kids books all looked cool. Bruce Coville and Scary Stories etc.
They'd have never gotten so popular if they didn't look so cool on a shelf. I guarantee that there were lots of people who collected them without bothering to read most of them.
@@CeeJayThe13th that probably was me, it’s been so long that I can’t remember but what I do remember was being absolutely mesmerized by those book covers. Scary yet comforting to look at in a way.
@@CeeJayThe13th the dude who drew the covers did 60 of the original 62 books.(same colorful style) So yes, the covers had something to do with it. Notice the series fell off when he no longer did the artwork for it. Even R.L admited that he had no idea why the series blew up in popularity over night..
...it was the covers.
@@chillvibed yeah 💯
I wouldn't have been interested if it weren't for the cover. I would say it's even more important when marketing to kids.
The only missing story that wasn’t featured is “Something Evil, Something Cruel” which was the Goosebumps Creepstakes finish the story contest in Series 2000. We recently found the contest winner and now it’s a matter of reaching out! Great video, this is a new favorite watch of mine!
Holy shit, go you, you absolute madlads!
@@empoleonmaster6709 Last night I just realized there was more than one winner announced for the Creepstakes contest, meaning there are multiple versions of "Something Evil, Something Cruel" out there.
Hey goosebumps completionist
Nice job!! :)
Hey man :) when everyone was collecting Goosebumps I was the weird kid collecting the Bone Chillers series 😂 it was basically the same kind of ongoing series of shorter one off book stories. But I still own them, and love them. 💕 wondering if you’ve ever heard of that series too?
I remember in elementary school, I would always rent " The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" from the school library. It came to a point that the librarian actually let me keep the book because she noticed how much I loved reading it. One of the coolest moments of my childhood.
I still have that!! A friend gave it to me in 5th grade. We still talk
I had to make a presentation about a book and bought the "The Werewolf of Fever Swap" book
That's actually cool.
Same thing happened to me except it was a Arthur Book. My elementary librarian let me keep the book
Yasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss 👐
What did you love about it so much?
There was a rare Goosebumps book I read as a kid and then couldn’t find it again for years. I think it was called The Haunted School. It was about this entire class of kids who were transported to a secret classroom in the school when the school photographer “Mr. Chameleon” snapped their photo. The longer they stayed in the classroom, the more they lost their color and turned gray. It was the coolest story but for some reason not the most popular book.
That one TRAUMATIZED me when I was a kid. I distinctly remember having nightmares about that scenario for weeks after reading it. No clue why that one in particular stuck with me so much but I do wish it had been more popular, it's a great story. It is indeed called The Haunted School by the way
I have this !!! I still have 7 or 8 of my goosebumps and this was by far the one which affected me the most. It’s missing the cover but I still read it to this day
@@break_the_galaxy I think every kid had that "one" book that specifically "got" them... or several that played off of a specific fear, and yeah, that was one of mine too. The Haunted School, Don't Go to Sleep, and the Beast From the East I remember messed with me - made me feel helpless I guess, but the one that "got" me was the Scarecrow Walks at Midnight. I lived in a small town surrounded by endless cornfields so I guess it makes sense lol
This is the one i remember the most. The cover with the locker hanging open and the three sets of eyes peering out from inside was real creepy. The twist ending of this one was DEVASTATING too
This was my favorite one as a kid, and still is!! I never knew it was rare. I just thought it wasn't very popular. It's so good, and the only one with plot I actually remember, besides a few of the choose your own adventure ones.
It would be incredible if there was a Goosebumps story about a horror novel writer being sued and not being able to publish several of his books.
But it turns out the people suing him are actually the monsters from the books.
Potential title: Those who Feed on Money
@@AM-yu9wy They Feed on Greed
This would be really funny but also very petty
I'm stealing this idea. See you clowns later when I get cut a check for wasting two weeks of my life for $1,000.
the title could be something like “lawyers are real sharks” with sharks in suits
Came for "Dead Dogs Still Fetch", stayed for "I'm Trapped In R.L. Stine's Body" & "Pop, I'm for Supper"
Deez nuts on an open fire?
T E All I want for Christmas is a White Woman
Honestly, having kids write Goosebumps titles seemed very effective due to how amazing some of them were
I vividly remember being six and TERRIFIED of the Say Cheese And Die cover. His art was so good it unintentionally got stuck in my mind well over a decade later
say cheese and die, a classic
Thank God you don't write goosebumps lol
I remember the same! I saw it on my older cousin’s bookshelf and was terrified.
As a kid I think with movie covers they scared me off watching them... Like the chucky movie covers are scarier than the films
Its the book I remember most reading too. I read lots of his books in school, and its the story that stuck with me the most. I later learned that The Twilight Zone had a VERY similar premise that he likely took inspiration from.
I wasn’t born until 2005 and I still remember Goosebumps being a thriving series and a huge part of my childhood well into the 2010s
Yeah I remember them being pretty popular in the 2010s too
Same! I was a big fan of horror as a kid, and when I hit middle school, I started reading slightly more mature horror. Did you ever read Cirque Du Freak or any Anthony Horowitz?
@@squish5299 tbh I haven’t heard of either before now, but I’ll have to check them out
My daughter has about 20 of them she loves right now!
They were at my elementary book fairs, im also a 2005 kid
Stine was also kind enough to do a podcast with my friends in college (one where around 2005) where we made our own Goosebumps story with him based on The Metamorphosis… I have the audio somewhere
Please publish the audio online 👉👈
who was making podcasts then? hmm
Please publish the audio
PLEASE publish the audio 🙏!
@@bomt6259 there were people making podcasts back then. ricky gervais had a podcast that started around that time which became popular and was turned into its own tv show
Finally someone who understands the complex and nuanced history of Goosebumps.
*"The Grim Reaper Lives in My Locker!"* really should have won that first contest, IMHO.
true and if it got turned into a real book feel like it would have been really interesting as a concept
I love that title too! Probably be something like Death Note lol
by Mike Sneed? Hmmm
I like how it sounds like a regular thing you’d see on The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy
It honestly fits the horror comedy elements of the books.
Funny, I feel like I missed out on Goosebumps because I wasn’t allowed to read them as a kid, but I will never forget how morbidly fascinated I was by the covers. They still fascinate me. Some of them are still downright creepy to me as an adult!
Read them they are still good.
I can’t even fathom a parent not allowing their kids to read these that musta sucked
Spooky spice you're never too old for the TV show adaption 😅 I still enjoy occasional episodes, I like to think of it as our generations Twilight zone.
I also wasn’t allowed to read them, but seeing the covers and imagining what it could be about still scared me
I remember actually enjoying the books in school as a kid, but never really liked the TV series for some reason.
Goosebumps cover art should be a genre all of it's own. Love the style of them.
Me too! It's really like a glimpse into another world.
As a kid, I was always far more fascinated by the cover art of the Goosebumps books than I was actually reading the books 🤣
Me too. I wonder how many others felt the same way. I don’t think there was any issue which had a less than stand out cover art.
Especially the synopsis on the back then the tid bits of the horror land series
Same here. I would check them out from a library just to admire the covers at home.
I always contributed his overnight success to the boom in school book fairs! At least here in the US. Thats how i was introduced to all of the "Goosebumps" books and couldnt wait every year for the next set of stories. I spent my lunch money every time.
Moreso scholastics just pushed the book marketing hard since its part of their IP... so you like many others just gridded what was pushed infront of you
@@shibarmyburnz1978 or children just actually really liked the stories so went out of their way to find them and read them?
@@kgold01 so you think scholastics didn't ram their own content to the front of the queue to turn a profit... maybe infront of better written stories they didn't have a stake in... so much so that: book fair = guerrilla book marketing to kids
Basically if it didn't have the front and centre placement it did then it wouldn't have near the following it does..
Sorry to ruin your nostalgia
@@shibarmyburnz1978 not really sure what you are on about, guerilla marketing may have got people to pick up one and read it, but if they werent enjoyable I wouldnt have gone to the library to read the new ones when they came out, yes there were a few that the stories werent as good as the others, but your comment makes it seem like the only reason anyone actually read any of them was marketing? Makes 0 sense considering how widely popular they were.. but keep telling yourself whatever you want to make yourself feel good? If they were terrible I wouldnt have tried to read whatever I could get my hands on and just stuck to x-men and other comics that I also heavily enjoyed.
@ShibArmyBurnz which would be fine if he wasn't also hugely popular in territories that don't only sell children books once a year (and the fuck is that anyway? Do kids in the US really only buy books once a year? Do you not have book shops?).
He is also still popular now, I work in a library and regularly have his books cross the counter.
These books were absolutely huge here in Australia too when I was growing up. I remember they were like drugs in terms of how addictive they were for us kids in school. It was a frenzy to see who could borrow the books in the school library.
when i was in school there was a 6 month waitlist to borrow goosebumps from the library
Oh yeah, the series is still extremely popular today today (possibly only due to the movie) in the UK
So many young lives lost overdosing on Stine. When will they learn.
By any chance, do you remember a contest Pizza Huts in Australia were apparently holding in 1997 where people could write their own Goosebumps stories on special placemats?
Same here in China. They were translated in Chinese too.
This dude wrote ONE BOOK A MONTH?! God damn, I'm surprised only some of them suck instead of most of them, that kind of schedule should have been a disaster. Mad respect.
My math teacher in elementary made it a point to say that he has ghostwriters. Hard to not believe to some degree as once a week is achievable through amphetamines maybe.
Didn't he only write 16 of them? Also they are kids books. Not the hardest books to write quickly
@@Giantsfanlewis Why don't you do it then?
@@hatefulgaming1800 i think itd be hilarious if he was like "okay bet" and just makes the most amazing tween book series on earth
@@y.uckyfairy I’d eat my nuts if that happened
Seriously some of the raddest art EVER. I had no idea there was an art book! I’m going to try to find a copy.
Seeing goosebumps books is like instant nostalgic trip for me. In elementary school they were a big deal, you were the cool kid if you checked one out from the library, God tier if you actually owned the book
I bought the newest book from Media Play every month before other kids did.
I actually used to be afraid of “The Barking Ghost’s” cover art as a kid. And now seeing the original… Yeesh. I think I would have been traumatized.
Are you talking about the published cover art from the 90's being the original? The cover you used to be afraid of was from 00's or 10's?
@@antiquityvarmintwesleyhoag2909
It was the version that was first published that scared me. The version from the 90s.
@I Am In Your Walls. Yo. Does it help at all to know that the dog from that cover wasn't evil and was in fact one of the nicer Goosebumps monsters?
The cover art for Why I'm afraid of bees and The Horror of Camp Jellyjam used to creep me out when I was a kid
As a kid, the cover for "Night of the Living Dummy" (90's edition) always unsettled me. I remember turning the book face down a lot, so Slappy's piercing gaze wasn't on me.
I was completely obsessed with goosebumps as a kid. I really think that children's media like goosebumps are a big reason why I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre now. goosebumps books were the first time I can remember seeking out something that I knew would scare me, and the rush that comes with being scared. RL Stine is truly a legend and a writing machine.
ditto
Same
If you like quanitiy of quality
Goosebumps and Animorphs
@@Viking_Luchador yes! those two
this channel is so absurdly good. so stoked every time i see a new upload.
Wow, no comments?
Im surprised this video didn’t mention his post-goosebumps series that was another horror series for older teens similar to fear street but as a collection of short stories in each book -R.L Steins A Haunting Hour. Those books genuinely scared me as a kid,they where far more intense than the horror of goosebumps in my opinion, and the television show spinoff of the series was also really really good. The book I had I remember had a spinoff story about Slappy, one where a kids father is an archeologist and he goes with him to a pyramid ends up in a sarcophagus left to die, one where 2 siblings and their parents run out of gas on a road trip and end up at a motel and the parents leave to get food and don’t return,only for the kids to go looking for them and find out everyone else in the hotel is dead, one where a babysitter makes voodoo dolls of the kids and borderline mutilates one of them before they make one of the babysitter and kill her, and one where this boy has an imaginary friend thats continuously getting him in trouble until he ends up in hospital because the imaginary friend tried killing him
My favorite Haunting Hour was the life size doll dolls modeled after the kid who would receive said doll. And then, ya know, spooky shit commences. Pretty sure it was 2 parts!
Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark and Goosebumps are the reason I'm a horror fan today! Kids today will never know what it was like living in a mostly analog world where books unlocked entire worlds.
Right because kids don't read books right?
Give me a break.
Your scripting, editing, and presentation is just so far ahead of every other channel with similar content. Love your stuff.
I have no idea why the wiki doesn’t have articles for Slime Doesn’t Pay and Dead Dogs Still Fetch but they really should!
You should add them. I believe your able to edit it freely
Pretty sure they're added by now.
@@blyat8832 unless you have a fandom account.
@@blyat8832 Wish I could edit everything freely. I'd fix everyones' incorrect usage of "your..."
@@-VoDkAsVengeance- name checks out
I find that with some of the subject matter in your videos I was never super into them growing up, just a vague interest mostly. Yet KLS, the way you dive into and present whatever specific or niche topics you find across mediums never fail to absolutely engross me and make me want to explore these stories myself as well. I think I will start with taking your (unsponsored) recommendation and check out a copy of this art book I didn't know existed until today and see how far down the rabbit hole takes me. So thank you!
like you, the covers will always bring back memories of anxious intrigue. I would pick out which book to read by how scary or cool looking the cover art was. By the time I left elementary i read all of the goosebumps books in my schools library The memories of walking into the library every couple of weeks, when our class was assigned library day, will always be some of my most beloved memories.
I wasn't born when goosebumps peaked in the 90s but I'm sure glad I had a childhood in the 2010s to read the books and watch the show!!! An experience I wish I could get all over again 😭
Do you remember the episode where the kid gets stuck in the haunted mascot costume? That one traumatized me.
@@squish5299 Not sure that's Goosebumps😅. Isn't that the Haunting Hour's 'The Mascot'?
@@Elizabethvelasquez93211 year later I can probably confirm that it’s the haunted mask
4:45
Those two kids floating down the river in caskets… I just wanted to know where that was from so if anyone else is curious… It’s from goosebumps season three episode eight. “One day in horror land“.
I’ve spent half my life (i’m in my mid 30s) in boats and kayaks on creeks and rivers, and honestly thought it just looked really fun and it gave me an idea.
After some depressing googling I found the answer on Reddit…… but Apparently caskets floating around town with decomposed remains in them is pretty common in flood prone areas.
So now we need to get a river, and some good caskets
Mr. Bones's wild river ride?
Live in southeast Louisiana where hurricane Katrina hit. Can confirm the floating of caskets with corpses during extreme flooding events down here. Its quite an eerie sight.
@Martin the Warrior Martin it's been 4 weeks.
Dead Dogs Still Fetch is an AMAZING title
Thanks very much!
god dude I fucking love the visuals in this video. the way ai generated imagery is implemented, certain things being shown on screen together in a really coherent and satisfying way, the font choices, etc etc, it's just 👌👌👌👌
so many fun little edits and stuff thrown in throughout too
I was in fifth grade 1996-1997 and I had already collected about 50 Goosebumps books on my little bookshelf. I always credit R.L. Stine for my early reading skills and vocabulary. I outgrew Goosebumps by middle school and I started reading Stephen King novels.
I hope that kid who named Dead Dogs Still Fetch has written a good novel soon, he sounds like he has a lot of potential.
Wait wait wait....SCOTT WESTERFELD was a Stine ghostwriter? Hard to believe he went from Goosebumps to the Leviathan trilogy but weirder things have happened...
Lots of people got their start there. I'm trying to remember who else, but Katherine Applegate was a ghostwriter on Sweet Valley High, and Michael Grant HER ghostwriter because writing a book a month is insane. When THEY had to hire ghostwriters for "Animorphs," Grant says he became a paranoid taskmaster and didn't give them the latitude they'd previously enjoyed, which is why he's sworn off the practice since. Some people do, some people manage - and you can be terrible at managing, too. Makes me wonder how heavy a hand Stine had.
Scott westerfield is a legend. I collect all his works. The uglies was one of my favorite ya books.
@@maggiedean5691 Wasn't 'Uglies' inspired by the 'Twilight Zone' episode, 'Number Twelve Looks Just Like You'?
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 also I did digging and he doesn't site work for uglies, but for his other works he sites a work from 1906 called a trip to Mars. Also there is another quartet he's working on in the universe of uglies!
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 actually according to Him no.
Not only was I big into Goosebumps as a kid, but I also worked at the Scholastic Bookfair for six years and got paid in free books and other items. This video is catnip for me. I loved it!
Goosebumps will always have a special place in my heart. Helped me get through elementary school as an antisocial awkward kid, those books were escapes to another reality.
Cool bro hopefully your not anti social no more and your enjoying life💪🏽
It was the same for me.
The covers of the books were phenomenal, I remember my first one was Ghost Camp and it grabbed my attention because of the cover. I ended up reading half of the original series. I also just assumed Welcome to Camp Nightmare was a spiritual sequel to Ghost Camp only because I got that book later.
The nostalgia of this is delicious! The feeling I get when the cover of one of the books I read appear is delightful - unnerved, afraid, but like safe silly exciting fear. It's a unique feeling. Or the intro music...
I have thought about making videos like this for years - but I wouldn't have been able to make them as engaging, entertaining and well researched as this! Thank you, great work. Looking forward to more.
Please do start on the mysteries of the tv series!
Fantastic video!
I grew up with these novels, they were just so BIG! My mother read to me #1 on a cloudy night in the city and I've forever associated light pollution with horror ever since. And then later we had Scholastic Book Fairs in Canada, & Goosebumps was a huge cover draw, and I can still distinctly remember how hype I was to pick up each new instalment.
Ever think of covering Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing series? I feel like they're sorely underappreciated.
I looked up the series and have a memory of seeing the cover somewhere, book fair or library, probably 25 years ago. Will read the series this year for sure!
Also Canada is giving it some love and appreciation- it's apparently assigned reading for middle schoolers. 💪
It is a SHAME that the UA-cam algorithm is punishing you for not uploading often. This is a masterpiece and deserves just as many views as your other videos.
You never fail to tap into my brain and make videos of shit I didn’t realize I wanted.
As a small child in the 90s, I remember being absolutely terrified of the cover art of The Curse Of Camp Cold Lake. So much so, I never read it and always had bad dreams about the ghost on the front cover.
As an adult, it's still unsettling to look at, but no longer nightmare-inducing.
Stoop kid's not afraid to leave his stoop!
thanks for leaving for this one, this was a nostalgic wild ride and i really enjoyed it
I had no idea that there were so many unpublished Goosebumps books, and in general so many mysteries behind Goosebumps. Great video!
Goosebumps has a really special place in my heart. I watched the show when i was like 5 but started reading the books when i was 9. Little did i know it would spark my love for horror. I'm 20 now and I've read countless stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Alan Poe, Stephen King and Bram Stoker and horror has gone far beyond just literature for me for it influenced my artistic self aswell, I am now the vocalist and songwriter of a Horror themed Black Metal band. I've made it this far and i owe it to Stine for sparking my passion for horror all those years ago.
Is your band called _Dead Dogs Still Fetch?_
@@CeeJayThe13th nah it's Salem's Lot
Goosebumps book covers are so magical. I always loved the art style
Same, I read the hell out of Goosebumps when I first came to America, they were my first English books. Magic the Gathering art got me also. I miss the 90s and early 2000s.
I knew for a while that some of the GB books were ghost written, but I'm happy to hear the first 16, the best ones IMO, were written by Stine.
My childhood wasn't a COMPLETE lie, at least.
I can't blame Stine though, when you have to write two to three novellas a month, who wouldn't call for help eventually?
Well good news ! Slime Doesn’t Pay was released as a solo, non Goosebumps novel this year
Your videos are so damn good, man. I haven't thought of Goosebumps in years, but I remember checking out the max number of books every week from the library when I was a kid.
Same here! And also studying recommended titles each book listed, trying to memorize the ones I hadn't read yet or trying to imagine what some of the books were about just from their cover art alone
Fantastic video. Loved Goosebumps as a kid and I still enjoy occasionally revisiting the tv show when Halloween rolls around. My favorite part of your videos is you keep things simple and to the point. A lesser youtuber would draw things out and artifically extend the video but not you. Keep up the great work.
These books were so popular even here in India. I remember scouring my local libraries and the school scholastic book fairs to get copies of goosebumps. Very memorable stuff.
Goosebumps definitely helped me get out of my slow reading bad spelling rut.
i didn't know there were scholastic book fairs outside of america!
Goosebumps are for America only 🇺🇲 write your own dirt stories
@ZyklonBeast o/ wild gloyper
@@AF-mv8hq Don't you have a gay catboy addict to worship?
I loved how you used the soundtrack from the n64 game, Glover. Such an under-rated game that I always loved. This video brought back good memories from this time period!
For a long time, I've wanted R.L. Stine to do a Goosebumps type book for adults.
This was an amazing video! I actually didn’t know about many of those contest winners, would’ve been cool to see Dead Dogs Still Fetch actually become a full story.
Sincerely, the guy who hates UA-cam Poopers using dead memes in his collabs.
I remember DEVOURING the classic Goosebumps books (and Animorphs) that were available in my school library, and being gifted almost every horror land book that was available at the time. I was so enthralled by fiction aimed at kids that felt like it gave them (and the reader) agency and put them in actually dangerous situations, which wasn’t really common for kids content I was exposed to at the time. They were my middle and elementary school (2011-2013ish) era favorite books
I glanced over some Goosebumps books in the bookstore the other day, and noticed something really weird. I definitely remember the series numbering into the 40s, perhaps 50s as a kid, but Goosebumps books being printed today only list some 20-ish books existing in the series. So while there are plenty of "lost" Goosebumps books that never came into existence, it looks like a ton of them just have no plans of being reprinted. The modern Goosebumps brand is slowly phasing them out.
It's weird to think of such an influential, iconic series falling into the depths of Lost Media™, but it seems to be inexplicably headed that way. Not that these books will be impossible to recover, but they'll become rare and extremely expensive. I hope the wikifolks and other fans are working to preserve the culture.
Also, I always thought the whole "ghostwriters" issue was common knowledge. I mean, I recall the series "Ghosts of Fear Street" (which I loved) being KNOWN for featuring ghostwriters, hence the name. For me it's not a far stretch to imagine the OG Goosebumps series featuring ghostwriters, but I don't think the series or Stine are any lesser for it.
For reference, there's actually 62 books in the original series run.
OMG! I loved your Elona videos. Nice to see you in the comments!
Some of the little editing choices had me LOLing, hard. Great video! Thanks for the effort.
i love finding content like this, have me binging the whole channel
The care that went into compiling and polishing this video is top notch - I had a blast watching it. Sorry for messing up the editing with Dead Dogs Still Fetch! :D
The artwork for _The Incredible Shrinking Fifth Grader_ looks extremely familiar. I swear it was the cover of a published book. I remember seeing it in my elementary school's library's horror shelf, which was tiny.
the guy who did the art for the Goosebumps books did art for a few other projects
@@tynao2029 no shit
@@JackMarston79 bro RDR2 is terrible
@@tynao2029 bro ur taste is terrible
A book a month! R.L. Stine is insane, no wonder why he has so many stories though also it was clear that he couldn’t keep up with that
I write too (mainly comics but also some books) and despite I can get to do a book in about a week I wouldn’t do it in monthly bases, it’s exhausting. My respects for R.L. Stine, I loved the show and the movies
goosebumps was always an enigma to me. i came to own a couple of them and have no clue where they came from, but never finished any of them despite being an avid reader at that time! i wasn't scared really, they just hit an uncanny nerve in my mind and i couldn't ever get passed the first few pages. the only one i remember the name of was Say Cheese And Die. despite not being interested in reading it, i was *obsessed* with the cover, i'd carry it with me everywhere. i would look at it constantly and analyze every detail of the artwork. it really stuck with me.
honestly, considering how i am now, maybe i just wasn't into the horror aspect! i'm not a fan of horror now and even avoid cheesy horror movies and books. pretty sure i've only seen a handful in my lifetime. i used to be very, very scared of ghosts and the unknown; i remember after watching The Woman In Black i couldnt sleep because the ticking of my clock sounded so much like her rocking chair. at this point, i've seen bits and pieces of the goosebumps tv show and watched a video of someone reading one of the choose your own adventure books in the series. the theme song is so fire though.
looking back, the books that i was obsessed with seem like a good parallel to goosebumps: the bailey school kids series. was never scary at all, but because it was a continuous series that could be picked up at any point i was very into it. i remember so many of the covers and even quite a few plot points even though its been nearly two decades since i touched them. i really liked the Aliens Don't Wear Braces book because i thought the "alien" art teacher was really pretty and even back then i was getting into art. also have memories of the Special books and was always so excited when i found one in my school's library. honestly i would have probably continued to read them in jr high/high school as a guilty pleasure if my libraries there had them.
Genuinely wasn't sure what to expect with this video, but I watched the whole thing. It was so well presented and really took me back to my childhood ❤️ awesome content, thank you ❤️
I think the saddest story is Haunted School, the movie Pleasantville makes me think of this story.
My favorite story is about Lindy, Kris and Slappy, my favorite ending is Let’s Get Invisible.
"Don't even get me started on the events surrounding the tvseries." Nono, please *do* get started.
The Petscop clap sound effect followed by "Footnote:" at 05:45 has to be one of THE best subtle nods to another UA-camr I've literally EVER seen, and I want you to know there was someone out there who caught it.
I also noticed the reference, caught me off guard when it happened and I love it.
omg i was waiting for someone to mention that
@@fiend-ish1090 Right? Ion see anyone else pointing it out but it's SO good
The nostalgia is real, loved these books in elementary school
What a blast of nostalgia! As soon as the Spyro music hit I knew I had to subscribe to your channel. I love your content!
Great stuff! I was hugely into Goosebumps as a kid, and even the wannabe imitators like Deadtime Stories and Spinetinglers. So many haunting scenes and cover images that influenced my own writing
I either didn't have access to the alternate works you mentioned or just wasn't grabbed and hooked on to them as securely as I was Goosebumps. But, after reaching middle school and feeling too "old" for the majority of the series, I did come across an older, early teen promoted title R. L. Stine also wrote.
Well, maybe not an entire series but random standalones of the genre with a more mature style like blood featured on the cover art of some books.
Any chance you might have come across these books or know what I am referring?
Fright Time had some really good covers
I’ve been a fan of Goosebumps since elementary in the late 90’s. I also enjoy Deadtime Stories and Spineringlers.
Mostly Goosebumps and other book series by R.L. Stine. And I’m 30 years old.
@@danielbradley5255 Good question! The only spin-offs and other Stine series I know of are Fear Street and the Nightmare Room - perhaps he did more teenager-centered continuations of the former?
Ok I don't know why I didn't just Google the book since I had always clearly remembered the title from the moment I had picked it up about 25 yrs ago (in a K-Mart if you can believe it lol! BTW, Did K-Mart go belly up? Or has anyone seen one recently?)
Back to goosebumps tho. the book was called Silent Night and I even read the sequel (S.Night II) and they were from the "fear Street / super chillers" collection. At that young age I was unfortunately a bit overactive from a likely undiagnosed case of ADHD, so smaller details irrelevant/unrelated to the book I was reading were completely skated right over. So in this case, the larger collection of the books I assumed I had no knowledge of lol
This is really informative video. I was a huge fan of goosebumps books back in my grade school days and it's so cool to revisit this. So sad a lot of books were lost or never made due to copyright issues. I feel really bad for the kid who won the first contest who never had anything come from it.
R. L. Stine doesn't get nearly enough recognition for his work in the 80s and 90s.
Getting a new Goosebumps book delivered to my door every week was one of the most exciting things for my child self.
I started with my aunts Fear Street books, and then Schoolastic opened up my love for horror with Goosebumps.
At no other point in my life did I enjoy reading more, and it was all thanks to his spooky but light hearted stories.
Yeah, R.L. Stine and J.K. Rowling have more than entertained children but saved them too.
1:43 YAAAAS
Crazy how such a short theme from such an old show is still so epic. Gets me excited every time.
Goosebumps is something that you can never forget if you read them growing up. And the Covers are even less forgettable. I remember my mom finding the one with the Co-Co Clock cover and I never forget it, and more memories returned watching this video. And the TV show was the next level of terror for 7 year old me
I remember I got In trouble when I was younger with the law had to do time in the juvenile detention, a month. All I read was goosebumps they had them in the library there. I'd sit there in my cell when we couldn't come out and read them all day . Best books ever the stories take you to another place
Thoroughly enjoyed this despite never reading the books myself. I love it when a content creator can make a topic entertaining to people even outside of it's initial target audience.
I loved these books as a kid! Was just wondering when you’d post something new, great video!
Brooooo, that is SO AMAZING you put in Spyro, Ape Escape, and RuneScape music.. legit my top 3 favorite games ever !!! :D Haha!
Great video! Also props for using Spyro music in the background.
I honestly believe Stine that he physically wrote every Goosebumps book because they absolutely read like someone wrote them all in 10 days. If ghost writers where more involved, they would probably be better books.
Better how? Yeah they aren't striking as something like It, but it's a children's book dude.
@@piccolo54trunks2 Even compared to other kids books at the time, they don't rank very highly in my memories. I did read ton of at the time, to be fair, but I think Tim Jacobus' cover art did most of the work tbh.
Although, it's been a very long time since I've read Goosebumps book obviously, what did you like about them?
They're not high art, but they're absolutely perfect 8-10 year olds they're aimed at. Spooky to a kid, while still being easily consumable, and highly collectible.
@@piccolo54trunks2 Children aren't that stupid. Children can tell the difference between good and bad writing too.
@@hobbified Yeah and they prefer bad writing. That's why RL Stine, Junie B Jones, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, sold like hot cakes and why no average kid growing up enjoys reading Great Expectations for English class
I loved goosebumps and fear street growing up I remember one of my teachers even gifted a goosebumps book to each student for Christmas (which I still have). I always wanted a reboot of the og series because while they’re definitely nostalgic some of the acting and effects does not hold up today
Man, I love your videos. When I saw your first video, the Malcolm in the Middle one, I knew this would be a great channel. The only complaint I have is that I wish you made more videos. Keep up the good work!
Was never a big Goosebumps kid but I love deep dives like this. Awesome vid. Also, did you just hit me with a Nightmare Masterclass bit at 5:45? I swear I've heard him use the same "*clap* Footnote" in his Petscop series.
every single one of your videos is a banger. you really showed up on youtube with instantly incredible content. nice
I’m so glad I found your channel! You produce such quality content that honestly deserves a lot more attention. I really enjoyed this one and I can’t wait for the next!
I immediately ordered that Goosebumps art book. I still read Goosebumps books and collect forgotten ones that I find at our local thrift stores. I really love the books. There's just something incredible about them, something that makes me feel content. Also, as an aspiring writer, they have a lot to teach me about what I loved about writing when I was little. :)
My favorite series was the Give Yourself Goosebumps ones;I LOVED Choose Your Own Adventure stories when I was a kid, and to this day, I _still_ enjoy them. And this series was my absolute _favorite_ of those kinds of stories. 😁.
3:23 He told that same joke at a festival of books around 2012ish! I wish so bad I'd have recorded the panel bc this kid asked him "Where'd you copy Slappy from?" and I can't remember his funny answer.
Really well done dude. Listened to this on my drive home, kept me interested the whole way through.
I remember my elementary school had Goosebumps books but nobody was allowed to read them, since we were "too young for it". What was the point in having them, then?
As someone who was easily frightened as a child, I was terrified of these books. I only ever read one, the choose-your-own-adventure one where the MC gets turned into a bat, and it freaked me out so bad. That said, I would still go to the school library and read the blurbs on the backs of the books, which were enough to frighten me. I find it funny that a part of me still wanted to be scared.
Slime Doesn't Pay is now being released as a standalone book this October
That Max Keeble snippet of the kid crying over Mr McGoogles 😂 I loved that film!
McGoogles is mi name, la di da di da I can’t remember the words but I got the tune stuck in my head now 😭
One of the constants in my life, barring a brief (and mad) intermission... thankyou Sir Stine ❤