Cross-media picks for Robert Lawrence Stine fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
Cozy dread, neighbourhood monsters, and the particular thrill of being young and slightly terrified — that's the thread stitching these picks together. Goosebumps, Fear Street, and the stories around them share a signature flavour: the mundane world cracking open just enough to let something awful in, with protagonists who are scared but ultimately resourceful. Whether you're browsing films, series, games, or books, you'll find that same mix of curiosity and creeping unease here.
Film
Goosebumps
Stine's own monsters escape their manuscripts and rampage through a small town in this affectionate, adventure-filled horror comedy.
Film
Scare Me
Two storytellers' campfire tales spiral into something genuinely terrifying, celebrating the power of a well-told scary story.
Film
Fear
Supernatural forces close in on a cabin in the woods, blending creeping dread with the tight-knit terror of friends under siege.
Film
Fear Street: 1978
A summer camp mystery turns deadly as teenagers unearth dark history — exactly the blend of peer-group peril and supernatural threat Stine fans love.
Film
Nightbooks
A boy who writes horror stories is trapped by a witch who demands new tales — a love letter to the power of scary fiction.
Film
Fear Street: 1666
A centuries-old witch-hunt curse finally demands reckoning, with teenagers racing against history to break it before it kills again.
Film
Nightmares
Anthology short stories — from a killer on the loose to a deadly arcade obsession — deliver bite-sized dread in classic horror-anthology style.
Film
The Night House
A widow unravels her late husband's disturbing secrets in an eerily quiet lakeside home that hides something genuinely malevolent.
Series
Goosebumps
The original anthology series puts ordinary kids in extraordinary spooky situations — the direct television home of Stine's own stories.
Series
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Kids trade ghost stories around a campfire in this beloved anthology, capturing exactly the same spooky tone Stine fans will recognise.
Series
Two Sentence Horror Stories
Bite-sized horror tales updated for the internet age share the anthology DNA and quick-hit chills that made this format so addictive.
Series
Goosebumps
High-schoolers dig into a decades-old mystery and their own parents' secrets in this layered, supernatural small-town thriller.
Series
The Terror
Harrowing anthology stories rooted in real history deliver sustained atmospheric dread for fans ready for something darker.
Series
Goosebumps: The Vanishing
Twins face a long-dormant threat in a Brooklyn neighbourhood — classic kid-led supernatural adventure with real stakes.
Series
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
An anthology horror-fantasy series adapting Stine's own books, delivering half-hour chills perfectly sized for younger horror fans.
Series
Spooksville
A boy moves to a mysteriously weird small town and discovers it lives up to every rumour — gentle, funny supernatural adventure.
Game
Dark Fall: The Journal
An invisible ghost presence haunts an abandoned building in this slow-burn horror adventure that rewards curiosity over combat.
Game
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Terror follows a child home in this claustrophobic game where surviving the night depends on listening carefully in the dark.
Game
Lost girl`s [diary]
A snowbound hotel, a group of girls, and a fateful fortune-telling session make this short horror visual novel suitably unsettling.
Game
Real Horror Stories Ultimate Edition
Urban myths set in a haunted forest near a cemetery blur the line between legend and something more frighteningly real.
Game
Goosebumps: The Game
Monsters have overrun your neighbourhood and only your wits will stop them — a game that feels like walking into a Stine chapter.
Game
Pineview Drive
An abandoned mansion at the end of a dead-end road hides a ghost tied to one man's unresolved past, perfect for atmosphere fans.
Game
Creepy Tale 2
A child in peril, mysterious evil, and a dark fairy-tale forest create the kind of storybook dread that lingers after you put it down.
Game
Content Warning
Film your friends in genuinely scary situations for internet fame — a playful, group-horror premise with real comedic bite.
Book
Ghosts of Fear Street - Three Evil Wishes
A genie trapped for a century in Fear Lake is freed — and he's furious — in a short, punchy wish-gone-wrong horror tale.
Book
The First Horror
A family moves into the most feared house on Fear Street and quickly learns the neighbours' dread was entirely justified.
Book
Fear Street Novel - The Lost Girl
A mysterious new student enchants Shadyside High, but the closer anyone gets to her, the stranger — and more dangerous — things become.
Book
Fear Street - Into The Dark
Love makes Paulette defend the indefensible as her friends witness something terrible — a taut thriller about trust and fear.
Book
Fear Street - The Face
A boy killed in an accident refuses to let Martha forget what happened, haunting her until she faces the truth she's buried.
Book
Ghosts of Fear Street - Hotel Horror #1
A family hotel on Fear Street turns out to harbour vampires — a neighbourhood-horror premise that fits right alongside Stine's world.
Book
Trick or Trap
Two best friends plagued by a frightening little sister must navigate Halloween terror in this short, brisk kid-horror read.
Book
Fear Street - The Stepsister 2
Emily's nightmare begins again when her disturbed stepsister returns home, and someone — or something — wants to hurt her.
Start with Goosebumps (1995) for the authentic anthology experience, then try Are You Afraid of the Dark? for the same campfire-spooky energy. For something more cinematic, Fear Street: 1978 delivers sustained supernatural horror with teenage protagonists.
The Fear Street novels — including The First Horror, The Lost Girl, and Into the Dark — are Stine's separate older-skewing series, with plots centred on older teenagers and sharper stakes. Ghosts of Fear Street: Hotel Horror and Three Evil Wishes hit the same quick-chill sweet spot of the main Goosebumps line.
Goosebumps: The Game is the most direct fit — monsters loose in the neighbourhood, wits-only gameplay. Dark Fall: The Journal offers a slower, ghost-hunting adventure for fans who want atmosphere over action, and Five Nights at Freddy's 4 delivers pure childhood-fear dread.