Friday Conversation: What’s Your Favorite ‘Goosebumps’ Story?

If you were a kid in the ’90s, hell, if you were anyone in the ’90s, then you know about Goosebumps. At the least, you know about the famous cover artwork. We’ve been getting our Goosebumps fill lately and decided to share our love with the people. We want to know which story, cover, TV show clip, etc. is your absolute favorite. We all have one. But first, let’s hear a couple staff favorites…

Mark Shrayber

Obviously One Day at Horror Land. Or Night of the Living Dummy. Are there other Goosebumps books?

Alex Diedrick

My grandpa and I would always read Goosebumps books when I was little. I was obsessed with them, but my favorites were the ones that didn’t end with a kid-friendly, cookie-cutter finale. That’s why The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom is my favorite story. The entire book consists of the protagonist jumping around time, trying to fix his life, all because he wanted to get back at his awful sister. He finally does, but discovers that in his time-meddling, he has removed his sister from existence. Since his life is 1000 times better because of that, he’s cool with it. No other kid-lit series would make a narrator okay with nonchalantly destroying a sibling.

Jameson Brown

The books were always pretty fun to read (nothing super intellectual, but fun nonetheless), but what actually was unnerving were the two episodes of Piano Lessons Can Be Murder and Night Of The Living Dummy II. I should not have been scared of them at my age then, but those creepy piano playing hands stayed in my head for a while. Looking back on them, the shows were gloriously bad. But, they are still fun to watch in the campiest, “I’m bored on my lunch break” kind of way.

Give us your finest Goosebumps memories in the comments below!

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