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The Best Episodes of Goosebumps

Every episode of Goosebumps ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Goosebumps!

Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see...
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Best Episodes Summary

"The Haunted Mask (1)" is the best rated episode of "Goosebumps". It scored 8.2/10 based on 1516 votes. Directed by Timothy Bond and written by Dan Angel, Billy Brown, it aired on 10/27/1995. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Haunted Mask (2)".

  • The Haunted Mask (1)
    8.2/101,516 votes
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    #1 - The Haunted Mask (1)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/1995

    Shy, quiet Carly Beth is an easy target for everyone's teasing and practical jokes. But this Halloween she's found a wonderfully spooky mask that has her tormentors scared and running. Carly Beth refuses to take her new mask off, even though it causes strange things to happen to her and other people. One day the magic of the mask turns on Carly Beth. She's horrified to discover that she and the mask have become one.

    Director: Timothy Bond

    Writer: Dan Angel, Billy Brown

  • The Haunted Mask (2)
    8.2/101,226 votes
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    #2 - The Haunted Mask (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/27/1995

    Shy, quiet Carly Beth is an easy target for everyone's teasing and practical jokes. But this Halloween she's found a wonderfully spooky mask that has her tormentors scared and running. Carly Beth refuses to take her new mask off, even though it seems to cause strange things to happen to her and other people. One day the magic of the mask turns on Carly Beth. She's horrified to discover that she and the mask have become one.

    Director: Timothy Bond

    Writer: N/A

  • Night of the Living Dummy III (2)
    8.0/10796 votes
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    #3 - Night of the Living Dummy III (2)

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 7/20/1997

    Trina O'Dell's dad used to have a ventriloquist act. That's why he has all those dummies in the attic. One night he brings home this spooky dummy. Weird, evil things start to happen. Could this new dummy be the cause?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Night of the Living Dummy II
    7.8/10990 votes
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    #4 - Night of the Living Dummy II

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/1996

    It's the middle of Amy Kramer's most-hated night, Family Night, where every member of the family has to share something with the others. After a home-made video of the family's most embarrasing situations put together by Amy's mischievious little brother, Jed, it's Amy's turn to share. She decides to share a ventriloquist act with her ventriloquist dummy, Dennis. However, not even halfway through the routine, Dennis loses his head. Amy complains to her father, reminding him that he told her she'd get a new dummy. So Amy does. She gets Slappy. However, after Amy reads the card of magic gibberish in Slappy's coat pocket, she's just put her family and herself in jeopardy. Because Slappy's no normal dummy. He's one that can come to life...

    Director: Ron Oliver

    Writer: N/A

  • Night of the Living Dummy III (1)
    7.8/10811 votes
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    #5 - Night of the Living Dummy III (1)

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 7/20/1997

    Trina and Dan love their Dad's collection of ventriloquist dummies, except for the creepy new dummy, who has a card containing a magic spell in its pocket. They're pretty mad when their visiting cousin, Zane, uses the dummies in his pranks. But one night, when their parents are out, spooky things start to happen...things that only the dummies can be doing. What weird power does the new dummy have? Is he controlling the others? And can he be stopped before he turns the three children into his dummy slaves?

    Director: Timothy Bond

    Writer: Neal Shusterman

  • Stay Out of The Basement (1)
    7.7/10936 votes
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    #6 - Stay Out of The Basement (1)

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1996

    When Margaret's dad gets fired from his job as a botanist, he begins acting weird and spending all his time down in the basement. But no one seems to notice his odd behavior or hear the strange noises coming from below-except Margaret. She's really scared. Has her father turned into a mad scientist? Her brother, Casey, thinks she's nuts-that is until he finds out that dad has been eating plant food! What is going on? Together Margaret and Casey venture down into the dark, creepy basement to unearth their father's spooky secret...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Stay Out of The Basement (2)
    7.7/10919 votes
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    #7 - Stay Out of The Basement (2)

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/1996

    When Margaret's dad gets fired from his job as a botanist, he begins acting weird and spending all his time down in the basement. But no one seems to notice his odd behavior or hear the strange noises coming from below-except Margaret. She's really scared. Has her father turned into a mad scientist? Her brother, Casey, thinks she's nuts-that is until he finds out that dad has been eating plant food! What is going on? Together Margaret and Casey venture down into the dark, creepy basement to unearth their father's spooky secret...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Haunted Mask II (1)
    7.7/10788 votes
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    #8 - The Haunted Mask II (1)

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/29/1996

    After last year's terrifying Halloween, Carly Beth buried her old haunted mask. Now this year her friend Steve wants to find a mask just as scary, but Carly Beth refuses to tell him where she bought hers. At the last minute though, Steve encounters a stranger wearing Carly Beth's old mask, a mysterious man who leads him to a boarded-up novelty shop. Steve elips in through the back door and steals a creepy mask he finds in the basement. What he doesn't realize is that Carly Beth's old mask is alive-and using both Steve and the shopkeeper to get her back!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Welcome to Dead House (2)
    7.7/10759 votes
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    #9 - Welcome to Dead House (2)

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 6/29/1997

    Amanda and Josh HATE their new house. Its just so spooky. And the town of Dark Falls too. But their parents don't listen to them. But they should have... Because the neighors want them to stay. Forever....

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Haunted Mask II (2)
    7.6/10769 votes
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    #10 - The Haunted Mask II (2)

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/29/1996

    After last year's terrifying Halloween, Carly Beth buried her old haunted mask. No this year her friend Steve wants to find a mask just as scary, but Carly Beth refuses to tell him where she bought hers. At the last minute though, Steve encounters a stranger wearing Carly Beth's old mask, a mysterious man who leads him to a boarded-up novelty shop. Steve slips in through the back door and steals a creepy mask he finds in the basement. What he doesn't realize is that Carly Beth's old mask is alive-and using both Steve and the shopkeeper to get her back!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
    7.6/10731 votes
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    #11 - The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 11/9/1996

    Jodie loves visiting her grandparents' farm, listening to Grandpa Kurt's spooky stories and devouring Grandma Miriam's chocolate chip pancakes. But she and her brother Mark haven't been to the farm in a year, and it appears to have changed. The cornfields are sparse, their grandparents look terrible, and the single scarecrow has been replaced by 12 towering, dark, evil-looking ones that seem to have a life of their own.

    Director: Randy Bradshaw

    Writer: Scott Peters

  • Welcome to Dead House (1)
    7.6/10744 votes
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    #12 - Welcome to Dead House (1)

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 6/29/1997

    For Josh and Amanda, having to move to the remote, desolate town of Dark Falls was bad enough. But as soon as they moved into Dead house, things began to happen, things their parents couldn't see -- a ghostly shape at the window, a shadow on the wall, the way their dog kept growling at strangers, the quiet, death-pale neighbor kids. Was it the chemical spill that made the people of Dark Falls so strange, or something far more sinister?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One Day at HorrorLand (1)
    7.6/10723 votes
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    #13 - One Day at HorrorLand (1)

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/25/1997

    Out on a fun-filled trip to Zoo Gardens, the Morris family's amusement soon turns to amazement when bright lights flash across the sky. They suddenly find themselves in Horrorland-where admission is free, but the fun never starts. After a narrow escape from the house of mirrors and a chilling whitewater coffin cruise, Luke and Lizzy rejoin their parents at the front gate, but it's locked! Now their only hope is to compete in a gruesome game show that proves what the world has feared all along: monsters really do exist...and they have their own cable channel.

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: Billy Brown, Dan Angel

  • A Night in Terror Tower (1)
    7.5/10886 votes
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    #14 - A Night in Terror Tower (1)

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1996

    While visiting London, Sue and her brother, Eddie, are out on their own for the day while their parents attend a buisness conference. At first bored, they are delighted when their bus makes a stop at Terror Tower. But the fun turns to fright when the kids see the wax statues in the Tower's torture chamber moving as if they are real... and ghostly images start calling out warnings to them. Suddenly, Sue and Eddie are running for their lives as they travel back in time to the Middle Ages to escape the dark fate of Terror Tower.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (2)
    7.5/10787 votes
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    #15 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (2)

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/17/1996

    When Grady's family moves out of the city and into a rickety old house in Fever Swamp, both he and his sister Emily find a lot to complain about: they have no friends, no neighbors and nothing to do. Then Grady meets the only other kid around, Will Blake, who tells him the legend of the swamp and about the werewolf responsible for the mysterious disappearances of many former residents. Although Grady is afraid the legend may be true, his parents and sister refuse to believe it...until the next full moon.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: R.L. Stine

  • The Ghost Next Door (2)
    7.5/10549 votes
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    #16 - The Ghost Next Door (2)

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1998

    Hannah's neighborhood has just gotten a little-weird. Ever since that new boy moved in next door. But when did he move in? Wasn't the house empty when Hannah went to sleep the night before? Why does it still look so deserted? She's not getting any answeres from her new neighbor. He just keeps disappearing in the oddest ways. And he's so pale...Is Hannah being haunted by...the ghost next door?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Welcome to Camp Nightmare (2)
    7.4/10955 votes
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    #17 - Welcome to Camp Nightmare (2)

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/24/1995

    The summer camp of Billy's dreams is turning out to be a total nightmare. The food stinks. The counselors are weird. And who or what is this vicious beast everyone calls ""Sabre""? Things are getting worse by the minute! So why doesn't Uncle Al, the camp director, seem worried? Does the mystery of the Forbidden Bunk have something to do with Billy's fellow campers disappearing one by one? Either way Billy has had it! He's determined to find out what is going on before it is too late.

    Director: Ron Oliver

    Writer: N/A

  • A Night in Terror Tower (2)
    7.4/10826 votes
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    #18 - A Night in Terror Tower (2)

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1996

    While visiting London, Sue and her brother, Eddie, are out on their own for the day while their parents attend a buisness conference. At first bored, they are delighted when their bus makes a stop at Terror Tower. But the fun turns to fright when the kids see the wax statues in the Tower's torture chamber moving as if they are real... and ghostly images start calling out warnings to them. Suddenly, Sue and Eddie are running for their lives as they travel back in time to the Middle Ages to escape the dark fate of Terror Tower.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1)
    7.4/10824 votes
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    #19 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1)

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/17/1996

    Grady's family has just moved out of the city. Into the swamp. Suffice to say, Grady and his sister, Emily, aren't exactly thrilled, especially when his sister finds a snake in the medicine chest. After making a few jokes about the snake looking like Emily's old boyfriend, his father orders him to set the snake free in the swamp. So Grady does. However, he gets a bit lost, and realizes he's gone in a bit too deep. He then runs into the local swamp hermit. The next day, Grady meets the only other kid around, Will Blake. When the go into the swamp, Will tells Grady about a strange fever that you can get from the swamp. He also tells Grady about the swamp hermit, and how the swamp hermit is a werewolf. Grady somehow believes it, but his family is skeptical. That night, hoping he does not catch the ""Fever Swamp"", Grady goes downstairs to lock the basement door, but he is attacked by an animal. Is it the werewolf?

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: N/A

  • Attack of The Jack-O'-Lanterns
    7.4/10754 votes
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    #20 - Attack of The Jack-O'-Lanterns

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 10/26/1996

    Nothing beats Halloween. And this year will be awesome. Much better than last year. Or the year Lee and Tabby played that joke. A nasty practical joke on Drew and her best friend, Walker. Yes, this year Drew and Walker have a plan. A plan for revenge. It involves two scary pumpkin heads. But something's gone wrong. Because the pumpkin heads are a little too scary. A little too real. With strange hissing voices. And flames shooting out of their faces...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Perfect School (1)
    7.4/10642 votes
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    #21 - The Perfect School (1)

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1997

    Brian 'O Connor dresses up as a burglar to scare his little brother Riley, so his parents finally decide to teach him a lesson. They send him to ""The Perfect School"". There, the headmasters are strict. The instructors are even stricter. But Brian and his two friends have noticed something strange about the school. And how perfect they make the students. But the school makes them ""perfect"" in such a short amount of time. When Brian tries to escape, he is countered by numerous guards, but finds a box of ""tissue samples"". But then a horrific thought comes to mind. That the school might be cloning the children and making them perfect.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Chillogy (1): Squeal of Fortune
    7.4/10661 votes
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    #22 - Chillogy (1): Squeal of Fortune

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1998

    Matthew and Todd's family is holding a garage sale in their front yard, when Jessica Walters, a rich girl, comes to the sale. She weasels a rare baseball card out of a reluctant Matthew for one dollar. After going home, she checks her ""Financial Empire"", and her brother comes in asking her for spare money to get their mother an anniversary gift. When Jessica gets too technical about it, their mother tells Jessica it's her job to sweep the attic. Inside, Jessica finds a strange toy town. Now, she's transported into Karlsville, a strange town where one man rules all. And Jessica's greed just may get the best of her. As during her stay, many of the townspeople are talking about what happens to greedy little pigs...

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: Billy Brown, Dan Angel

  • The Ghost Next Door (1)
    7.4/10575 votes
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    #23 - The Ghost Next Door (1)

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1998

    Hannah's neighborhood has just gotten a little-weird. Ever since that new boy moved in next door. But when did he move in? Wasn't the house empty when Hannah went to sleep the night before? Why does it still look so deserted? She's not getting any answers from her new neighbor. He just keeps disappearing in the oddest ways. And he's so pale...Is Hannah being haunted by...the ghost next door???

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Welcome to Camp Nightmare (1)
    7.3/101,005 votes
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    #24 - Welcome to Camp Nightmare (1)

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/1995

    The summer camp of Billy's dreams is turning out to be a total nightmare. The food stinks. The counselors are weird. And who or what is this vicious beast everyone calls ""Sabre""? Things are getting worse by the minute! So why doesn't Uncle Al, the camp director, seem worried? Does the mystery of the Forbidden Bunk have something to do with Billy's fellow campers disappearing one by one? Either way Billy has had it! He's determined to find out what is going on before it is too late.

    Director: Ron Oliver

    Writer: N/A

  • Say Cheese and Die!
    7.3/101,022 votes
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    #25 - Say Cheese and Die!

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1996

    Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he and his friends found. The photographs keep turning out wrong. Very wrong. Like the snapshot Greg took of his father's new car that shows it totalled. And then Greg's father is in a nasty wreck. But Greg's friends don't believe him. Shari even makes Greg bring the camera to her birthday party and take her picture. Only Shari's not in the photograph when it develops. Is Shari about to be taken out of the picture permanently? Who is going to take the next fall for...the evil camera?

    Director: Ron Oliver

    Writer: N/A