Are you someone you thinks are you afraid of the dark scarier?

Goosebumps was a lot scarier.

AYAOTD's theme song was a ton better, & more scarier, but nonetheless, Goosebumps still had a creepy theme song as wel, with the dog's eyes lighting up, the creepy Bilboard girl coming to life, & some of the clips being shown.

But the big thing that separated the 2, as far as which show was scarier, was that they were totally opposite. Goosebumps almost always had a scary, twist ending, & I can't name really any Goosebumps episodes that ended on a happy note. Meanwhile, AYAOTD almost always had a happy ending.

Both had:

01. Creepy, good horror stories
02. A wide variety of scary stories
& 03. scary theme songs, as I mentioned above.

But to me, if you're debating between which show is scarier, shouldn't you go with the show that maintains the scary factor all throughout the episode, even at the end? I mean even in Stay Out of The Basement when Margaret I think her name was, finds her real father & kills the mutant, copy one, at the end it's still creepy to hear the plants outside the house talking to her, indicating that possibly there are more hybrid half plant-half human dads out there that she didn't kill. A couple other good examples of this are:

01. The Haunted Mask- Carly Beth finally gets the mask off, hides it, & we find out that the little brother is wearing it. & in the sequel, they burn both the Haunted Mask & the old man mask, & it looks like they are done with, yet they burn then regain form, proving that they are still alive & can't be killed.

& 02. in The Girl Who Cried Monster, it's a happy/scary ending in one. Lucy finally doesn't have to deal with the villain in the episode, the librarian Mr. Mortman, but at the same time, all of watch her parents gruesomely eat him alive. That was creepy.

Anyways, sorry for the rant, just wanted to thoroughly prove my point. Agreed with ClenRen. & I agree with the previous poster that AYAOTD had better quality, but Goosebumps was by far the more scarier of the 2.

I know I'm two years late here but AYAOTD by FAR. The Tale of the Dark Muisc, Ghastly Grinner, Laughing in the Dark, Bookish Babysitter and Crimson Clown blow anything Goosebumps ever did out of the water in terms of scary. True, some episodes were cheesy but these episodes are still able to scare some adults...I don't see anyone getting scared by Goosebumps past the age of 12. But I do think The Hauning Hour is scarier than both. The doll episode and that damn afraid of clowns one are legitimately scarier than most horror films today.