Ha yea I didn’t go down that route trying to complete the 1st editions but alot of the books I have bought have ended up being 1st edition by chance (not that I care). Goosebumps hunters also pay a huge premium for the handful of books that included bookmarks and stuff like that within the pages. Just like Pokemon you start finding all these odds and ends that people go deep into collecting.
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Amazing collection.
Maybe you are still missing these goosebumps?
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Yeah absolutely! Also buyers seemed to care a lot for the stickers at the end of the book. Do the english versions have these too?
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Yea there were several books that had different stickers and such. Here is one with a light switch cover:
HERE is the list of funny things they included in some of the Goosebump books. Looks like it ranged from tattoos to trading cards. Pretty cool stuff and I wish I had more books that included these but most have all been torn out of the books I have collected so far.
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There were so many prints of our UK Goosebumps…for the first 30 or so I have had copies that all looks the same but have different RRPs printed on the back. I have seen £2.99, £3.50, and £3.99.
£3.99 was the max RRP ever printed for the later ones so reprints are obvious if you have some of the very early numbers with £3.99 on the back for example. My own complete collection is a complete mess of different prints but they all match and look the same, unless you were to go looking at the prices and publication info page, so I’m not that bothered.
I recently started picking up Series 2000 and got the first 10 in an ebay joblot for cheap. Some of them look like they haven’t been read.
Luckily there are only around 25 of these so they will be easier to collect than the originals. Some of the titles are misleading though…“Return to Ghost Camp” for example has absolutely nothing to do with the original “Ghost Camp”.
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Those covers are so rad! Yea I feel like once I have completed the main series off shoot series will be next follow by slowly trying to snag all the books from the main series that had all the insert inside them. I didn’t initially care about the inserts but after @decoypalmette brought up the stickers in his books I think I got bit by the bug and now need to get them all…
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Well my parents went through their storage and look what I pulled out! My mom made the frame for the pictures of my brother and I getting the man himself’s autograph. Wish I still had that leather looney tunes Taz jacket.
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Really cool! I dont think Ive ever seen anybody with his actual autograph but it makes sense.
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Gonna post this here because they are from the same era, genre (sort of), and reading age as Goosebumps. I finally managed to get a complete set of Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series. It’s only 24 books but it took several years of constant ebay and Abe Books trawling.
It took so long because in several years of searching, I have NEVER seen the last three books listed with actual photos from sellers. The final book in particular - Witch’s Gift - I have only seen listed with stock images 3 times in two years and I bought all of them lol. First one disappeared in the mail, second one turned up as a disgusting, beat to hell ex-library book, and the third one was finally the charm.
Creepy Creature is also ex-library with a weird laminated cover, markings inside, and a faded spine but it’s decent enough. Unfortunately, it only very occasionally shows up with stock images and always listed at £30+ so too much money to risk keep buying copies to get a good one. Hopefully somebody will list a clean one with pictures one day and I can replace this one.
The rarity of some of these just fascinates me really, because there’s no real source of information. I don’t know what the covers look in the US or how rare they are over there but it has been a journey to get all of these in the UK!
As far as I know, the final three books only come on the larger Goosebumps-size format while the rest are all pocket book size. I HAVE randomly found some of the earlier ones in the bigger size through buying lots so they must have reprinted them at some point but they must also be stupidly rare because buying lots and blind stock image buys yielded the pocket book size 99% of the time.
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The author’s name rings a bell I will have to investigate this. Man the cover arts would totally drive me towards them if I saw them in a library back in the day.
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Pike was more famous for YA horror in a similar vein to Point Horror and Fear Street bit a little racier with more mild sexy stuff and graphic violence. I have a complete set of UK versions of those books too if there is any interest in seeing those…the covers are completely different to the US ones and many illustrated by the same artist who did the Spooksville covers.
Maybe a dedicated YA Horror thread would be better?
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Been awhile since my last update but acquired another boxed set:
Books 41-44 (Complete):
#41 Bad Hare Day
#42 Egg Monsters From Mars
#43 The Beast From The East
#44 Say Cheese and Die-Again
This leaves me with #45-#48 boxed set left to acquire. After that I believe Goosebumps went away from the boxed sets and sold the remaining books as singles.
Search continues!
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Omg I remember having and reading the eggs from mars and the beast from the east
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Nostalgia hits hard with these…
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Just saw this and it made me think of your collection @emseasqrd .
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Now if I was only so lucky! All I have gotten are some weird notes and stained pages…
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This legit happened to me when I was a kid…borrowed a book from the library and there was one of the First Movie VHS/DVD Mewtwo promos inside there.
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