Give Yourself Goosebumps - Covers

Covers

The covers were metallic and holographic, showing a basic design repeated on the cover background. One color colored the entire design, and the design would change slightly when the book was moved to different areas of light. The design itself changed with every book, although some of the designs are repeated, as in books 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, and 19. Three illustrators did the cover illustrations, the first was Tim Jacobus, who did the original series and Goosebumps Series 2000. Jacobus only did one cover, Escape from the Carnival of Horrors, and it is often mistaken for Mark Nagata, who illustrated the next 22 books, because Jacobus's signature isn't visible on the front. It is, however, visible on the back, as it was obscured by Choose from over 20 Different Scary Endings! on the front. Mark Nagata illustrated the next book, Tick Tock, You're Dead! throughout number 24, Lost in Stinkeye Swamp. 25, Shop Till You Drop... Dead! was illustrated by Craig White, whose illustrations were made with computers, did the last 17 until number 42, All Day Nightmare, and all 8 of its special editions.

In the UK books 1-14 contained covers with the pictures almost completely obscured by what was seemingly supposed to be a slime substance, which occasionally obscured important parts of the cover (e.g. in "Diary of a Mad Mummy" it is impossible to actually see the diary on the UK cover.) The later books of the UK had more detail to them, and where no longer covered, but still had slightly less detail than the US version., further more, the UK versions did not sparkle like the U.S. versions. The U.S. versions also had a tagline on the back of the book, but the UK versions did not, and the blurb between countries is completely different.