How I Got My Shrunken Head vs The Nightmare Room - The Howler: Which Should You Read?

Cover of How I Got My Shrunken Head How I Got My Shrunken Head Robert Lawrence Stine · 1996 ★★★★☆ 3.5 128 pages · ≈ 2 h 22 m · Light

Mark's Aunt Benna presents him with a gift of a shrunken head from the jungle island of Baladora. But this is no ordinary head, as Mark soon discovers!

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Cover of The Nightmare Room - The Howler The Nightmare Room - The Howler Robert Lawrence Stine · 2001 ★★★★☆ 3.7 155 pages · ≈ 2 h 52 m · Light

The seventh book in the Nightmare Room series by bestselling author R.L. Stine.

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Scores by source

How I Got My Shrunken HeadThe Nightmare Room - The Howler
Goodreads 3.5 (8124) —
Hardcover 3.1 (15) —
Google Books 5.0 (2) —
Apple Books 4.5 (29) —

Reception

How I Got My Shrunken HeadThe Nightmare Room - The Howler
Ratings 8124 2
Editions 22 10
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 4056 —
Reading it now 122 —
Written reviews 331 —
Wikipedia attention 5541 —
Pages 128 155

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