R.L. Stine is best known for scaring millions of children for decades with the nightmarish imagery of his Goosebumps and Fear Street franchises. In our interview with Stine, he talks about being terrified of everything as a child, overcoming that fear, and using it to create Goosebumps.
R.L. Stine is best known for scaring millions of children for decades with the nightmarish imagery of his Goosebumps and Fear Street franchises. As Stine will tell you, writing horror fiction lends itself to a cultivating a ghoulish public perception, with kids often expecting him to be more creepy than he actually…
R.L. Stine is best known for scaring millions of children for decades with the nightmarish imagery of his Goosebumps and Fear Street franchises. The original runs of both series ended years ago, but Stine recently brought them back in some capacity. He announced two Goosebumps spin-offs—Goosebumps HorrorLand and …
R.L. Stine is best known for scaring millions of children for decades with the nightmarish imagery of his Goosebumps and Fear Street franchises. But after three decades of writing horror literature, it seems nothing scares him anymore. In the video above, Stine explains his attitude toward horror and its similarity to…
R.L. Stine is best known for scaring millions of children for decades with the nightmarish imagery of his Goosebumps and Fear Street franchises. In 1992, before the first Goosebumps book was published, Fear Street was already a successful horror series, but it was mainly targeted at young adults and teenagers. …
One-Season Wonders, Weirdos, And Wannabes considers the merits of short-lived TV shows. In this installment, Eerie, Indiana, which debuted on September 15, 1991, and aired for 18 episodes.
Our A.V. Club Field Guide To Parenting is designed to guide you toward the best kids’ books, shows, movies, and music, just like we do with The A.V. Club for adults. Every month or so, we will feature a new subject with a few essential pop-culture takes parents should know, saving you from the mountains of kids’ dreck…
R.L. Stine is best known for haunting millions of children for decades with the nightmarish imagery of his Goosebumps and Fear Street franchises. But when he was a kid, radio stories like “tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense” kept him up at night. In the video above, R.L. Stine talks about his love for…
Ask any millennial horror lover what they grew up reading and once they’ve exhausted themselves bloviating about H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, and Richard Matheson, they’ll sigh and mutter, “Goosebumps.” Not that that’s anything to be ashamed of. R.L. Stine’s young adult horror series (and his slightly more mature …
After a long, grueling recruitment process—presumably involving lots of physical attacks, status conditions, and attempts to stuff him into a little plastic ball—Goosebumps director Rob Letterman has signed on for Detective Pikachu, the first live-action Pokémon film. Deadline reports that Letterman joins a creative…
We still don’t know what the theme for season six of American Horror Story will be, but FX could do a lot worse than this great Goosebumps homage made by YouTuber Josh Houchin. It takes footage from the Goosebumps anthology TV series from back in the ‘90s and runs it through an American Horror Story filter, giving it…
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Having now reached adulthood, the children of the 1990s need to take stock of their lives. Where, for example, did they form their most cherished and long-held memories? At school, maybe? On the playground? Around the dinner table with their families? Ha. If their lives were at all typical, they probably spent most of…
Much like a spooky mask that just keeps coming back no matter how many times you try to get rid of the thing, it looks like Sony’s Goosebumps movie is getting a sequel. This comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which says that the studio is in the middle of “closing deals” to bring back Darren Lemke and Rob Letterman,…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, October 26. All times are Eastern.
Halloween is the only holiday associated with horror, but no one dreads it out of fear. Outside of the movies that tend to be watched, there’s nothing scary about October 31, no modern tradition that’s ominous or unsettling, unless you’re a parent worried about your kid’s sugar intake. Even the season’s decorations,…
Marking the successful merging of the Nostalgia-Industrial Complex and the Halloween-Industrial Complex (a subsidiary of ChristmasCo™), kiddie horror flick/“90s kid” catnip Goosebumps opened big at the box office this weekend, earning an estimated $23.5 million and knocking The Martian from its lofty No. 1 vantage…
When she was 11 years old, circa 1999, Maggie Goldenberger, now a nurse in Phoenix, decided to have a little fun. She cinched her hair into intentionally-ridiculous pigtails, put on the retainer she almost never wore otherwise, gathered up some of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books, and made a silly face while one of her…
Halloweencostumes.com has been keeping its blog full of interesting infographics around movies and pop culture that could inspire a reader with cool costume ideas (that they can order while on that very site). The company’s graphics department is back at it with posters based on R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series.…
“Those aren’t kids books,” a character insists early into Goosebumps, after his new companion shrugs off the YA source material of the film itself. “Those are the books that keep you up at night.” Anyone who cut their teeth on R.L. Stine’s hit series—a long run of paperback novellas, released at a monthly clip for the…
