![]() We’ll kick things off with the very first Goosebumps cover, illustrated by the stalwart artist behind almost every cover on this list, Tim Jacobus. ![]() As a certified 90s kid who fully judged these books by their covers, let me be your guide to the top ten best Goosebumps covers! Turns out even non-readers needed to beware of a scare sometimes… I now realize that often my ideas for the stories were scarier than the tales themselves, but that just speaks to the magic of Goosebumps covers. We had most of the original run Goosebumps books in my elementary school library, and I would spend many after-school afternoons gazing at the incredible cover art in wonder, imagining all sorts of terrifying possibilities based on the images alone. I was never brave enough to sit down and read a Goosebumps book cover to cover, but I did look at the covers. As a kid, I was incredibly fascinated by the scary and macabre, but I was also kinda chicken. In my case, at least, it was all about the covers. The stories have become beginner horror classics in their own right, but we all know it was the covers we remember most of all. They were just scary enough to give you the horror fan clout you craved, but kid-friendly enough to be stocked throughout school libraries. Stine’s Goosebumps books loomed large in your life. ![]() If you were a child of the 90s (and budding horror fan), there’s a good chance that R.L. ![]()
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