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litreactor.com Every Goosebumps Book Summarized In One Sentence In honor of Goosebumps, a sentence for every book in the original series.

litreactor.com Readers Beware, You’re In For A Scare: How Goosebumps Saved My Life I doubt I’ll be the first to make such an accusation, but how certain are we that R.L. Stine isn’t actually some kind of robot?

litreactor.com Adaptation of R.L. Stine’s ‘Fear Street’ in the Works First Goosebumps, now this. My childhood dreams are complete.

litreactor.com The Goosebumps Trailer is Here R.L. Stine's monsters are free and Jack Black's gotta catch 'em all.

vicemag:

An Interview with the Artist Behind the Covers for Goosebumps
As you might recall, Goosebumps was a phenomenally successful 1990s book series about preteens finding soft-core terror in the suburbs. The characters had names like Lucy/Lizzy/Billy/Andy and the author, R. L. Stine, had an unusual commitment to describing outfits. To be honest, it was hard to know what made Goosebumps so popular, except that they had mind-blowing covers.
Tim Jacobus was the New Jersey native behind those covers. In 1991 the children’s book publisher Scholastic asked him to tender for a new series of horror books. He got the job, and over the next decade Jacobus illustrated the full series of nearly 100 books.
Also over that decade, a nine year-old version of myself tried to copy his style. There was something so cool about those candy-colored, fish-eyed depictions of American horror. And ever since, I’ve wanted to talk to the guy. How did he and R. L. Stine get the formula so right? I called him up to ask him exactly that.
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rachelfershleiser:
“ “Before he published any horror, Stine was a humorist. At Ohio State University, as Jovial Bob, he edited the humor magazine The Sundial (and ran a write-in campaign for student president as an exiting senior; his campaign...

rachelfershleiser:

“Before he published any horror, Stine was a humorist. At Ohio State University, as Jovial Bob, he edited the humor magazine The Sundial (and ran a write-in campaign for student president as an exiting senior; his campaign promise was to leave). In 1975 he started the teen humor magazine Bananas for Scholastic. He wrote a range of single-topic joke books like 101 Vacation Jokes and Jovial Bob’s Computer Joke Book, many of which were simple lists of one-liners and Q&A gags. But Don’t Stand in the Soup is a more sophisticated work: a concept book.”
- nickdouglas profiles the early comedy of R.L. Stine