Screen adaptations

This is the screen and game side of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps, the books that introduced a generation of kids to horror in bite-sized, twist-ending doses. The 1995 anthology series was the first big translation, turning the page-turner formula into episodic TV scares, and it set the template the brand has returned to ever since. A 2023 series and the 2025 Vanishing reworked the monster bestiary into longer, more serialized mysteries for newer audiences.

The two films took a cleverer route, making Stine himself a character whose manuscripts unleash the actual monsters, which let dozens of creatures share one story. A 2015 game rounds out the set. Across formats the throughline holds: safe, propulsive frights pitched at the age when a living dummy is the scariest thing imaginable.

The Screen adaptations franchise spans 3 series, 1 games, 2 movies in the CrossBinge catalog.

Part of Goosebumps.