Goosebumps

:This article is about the book series by R. L. Stine. For the bumps that form on skin, see Goose bumps.

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Goosebumps is a popular American series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R. L. Stine. Sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from 1992 to 1997, and many of the later volumes of the series were ghostwritten.

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American - Horror fiction - Novella - R. L. Stine - 1992 - 1997 - Ghostwritten

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Like the later Harry Potter novels, the Goosebumps series was often challenged in libraries; the novels were 15th on the American Library Association's list of most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 1999 http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/top100challenged.htm.

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Harry Potter - American Library Association - 1990 - 1999

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The series spawned a gamebook spinoff, also written by R. L. Stine called Give Yourself Goosebumps. Several of the titles in the series were made into movies; the series also inspired a television series named Goosebumps which ran from 1995 to 1998. The book ' inspired two videos.

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Gamebook - Give Yourself Goosebumps - ''Goosebumps'' - 1995 - 1998

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After the original series ended, Stine began writing Goosebumps: Series 2000 books, although this spin-off of the original series did not last long due to declining popularity. There are 25 Series 2000 books, including one sequel to an original series (Night of the Living Dummy).

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