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. …

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…

Both R.L. Stine and Marc Brown are iconic in the field of children’s literature. Stine is best known for haunting millions of children for decades with the nightmarish imagery of his Goosebumps and Fear Street franchises, while Marc Brown is best known as the creator of Arthur, both the book series and the…

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 …

The way people have really flocked to streaming must be truly terrifying for the major movie studios, which have tried to compete with stuff like Netflix and Amazon by instituting frustrating restrictions on when movies can be rented or downloaded or by releasing more and more movies through on-demand services while…

Back in November, ridiculously prolific Goosebumps author R.L. Stine announced that he’d started working on a new comic book series for Marvel, but that he wasn’t allowed to reveal any details on the title or characters he’d be working with. Now, news has broken about which comic book creation will feel Stine’s…

R.L. Stine has written and published hundreds of books over the course of his long career as a children’s horror author, spread out across multiple series such as Goosebumps and Fear Street. He’s probably cranked out something new since you started reading this paragraph. At any rate, he must have recently grown tired…

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,…

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…

Having finished up with Goosebumps—which opens in U.S. theaters next week—Hollywood has metaphorically declared that it’s “not into stupid baby stuff anymore,” and is ready to move on to author R.L. Stine’s Fear Street books. According to The Wrap, 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment are eyeing a film…

Instead of simply focusing of the Night Of The Living Dummy or spending One Day At Horrorland, the first cinematic adaptation of R.L. Stine’s popular Goosebumps series wants to have it all. Jack Black plays a meta version of the author who is not just writing for the hell of it, he’s literally trying to keep the…

The Goosebumps movie isn’t due out for about a week, but from all its marketing materials, it looks to be a good old-fashioned kid-friendly scare fest, not unlike its source material. But is it a fun movie? And, other than trailers, how would casual observers know?

What sort of shenanigans might come about if the world’s most anonymous graffiti artist and a glam rock superstar were forced to share living quarters? Turns out lots of parkour, glitter paint, and, of course, delicious panini. Friendship All-Stars is from L/Studio and features stop motion animation in which two…

Gamblers beware, you’re in for a scare. Especially if you’re scared of March-induced bracketing, the phenomenon that pits everything under the sun against everything above the sun in a single-elimination free for all. R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books, the children’s-horror-serial-turned-nostalgia-gold-mine, are the…