They were so imaginative and so well written and all had great twist endings. And she took me to a shelf of Ray Bradbury’s stories. The librarian said, Bobby, I know you like comic books. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and one day my mom dropped me off at the library. There were those scary EC comics when I was a kid- Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror-I loved those. I didn’t read books until I was nine or 10, but I was a real comic book freak. Read More: Why Stephen King Planned to Quit Writing Horror After It What kind of things were you reading when you were your audience’s age? In the three decades since the series began, Goosebumps has become one of the best-selling children’s book series of all-time, with, according to publisher Scholastic, 350 million English language books in print, plus an additional 50 million international copies in print, translated to 32 languages. At the same time, he’s still churning out at least four Goosebumps books a year, with more than 180 books in the Goosebumps world to date. Stine’s Goosebumps series, and the author, now 78 years old, is happy for his work to have become nostalgic. This July marks 30 years since the publication of Welcome to Dead House, the first in R.L. If you’re an adult of a certain age, you probably remember the image on the front of the first Goosebumps book you gripped under the covers late at night when you were a kid, intentionally scaring the heck out of yourself. Or it might be the green hand reaching from the darkness on Stay Out of the Basement. He lives in New York, NY.Maybe it’s the skeletons barbecuing on the cover of Say Cheese and Die! Or the beady-eyed face of Slappy on Night of the Living Dummy. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.
In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon.
Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.
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