Some stand out, I think, more than others. The Haunted Mask , that's one of my favorites. I think it's a really good Halloween story. The ones with Slappy the evil dummy: I like those. He's fun to write because he insults everybody. He has great insults. So he's really fun to write. He always read to me like a good Catskills comedian. You have been so successful. You've made a great deal of money. You could stop publishing.
You could go hang out on the beach and order nice drinks …. I don't, yeah I know that question. I don't know, I… I honestly wouldn't know what to do all day. A friend of mine once asked me, "How long can you go without writing? Writers don't retire do they? I can do two weeks, but then I have to get back to it. And he said, "Well, you see it's an addiction. I start to feel uncomfortable if I'm not writing, after like two weeks.
He's a Scottish writer. He writes Inspector Rebus. Anyway I said, "Ian, how long can you go without writing? I'll read the paper. I couldn't. But you see, I love the writing part. All these people that say writing is hard, I never know what they're talking about. Everyone says, "Oh, writing is so hard. It's fun. You don't include things like divorce, drug use, abuse in your children and young adult books. Why is that? Is it not as enjoyable for you to write? No, it's because I don't really want to terrify kids.
People always say, "How far will you go to frighten kids? There is such a thing. I believe in violence. I love violence in movies and stories and everything. I think it's good for kids because it gets that out of them. Kids are very smart, and if they see a movie in which people are punching each other and it's very violent, they know it's movie violence. If they walk down the street and two people are fighting, punching each other, it's a totally different reaction from real violence.
I think it's a really good thing for kids. I just think that kids, people don't give kids credit enough to know they're smart enough to know the difference between real violence and real danger and fictional danger. Not the email. I don't have much email from kids. I save that for adults, but every kid who writes a letter, a snail mail letter, gets a reply. That's hard for kids. It's time consuming and hard to write a letter, so they deserve an answer.
Every kid gets an answer. Of all those snail mail letters you've received, has one most caught you off guard? I've told this many times. This is one of my all-time favorite letters. From a boy. Stine, I've read 40 of your books and I think they're really boring. It's horrible. I don't enjoy it at all. No, I think I have normal adult fears in the city.
Normal New York City fears: bricks are going to fall off a building and land on my head, that kind of thing. I just moved out of New York City after 10 years and I was always worried that I'd step on one of those basement hatches alongside the deli and fall through. I was sure it would happen. After 10 of New York's winters I just couldn't do it anymore and I did find out that you could actually be a writer and not live in New York. You have so many books, so many different things that you've made.
What do you want people to remember you by, either as a person or as an author? That's what it is. That was my big achievement. The interesting thing about Goosebumps is it really was 50 percent boys, 50 percent girls. Up until Goosebumps it was very hard to get boys to read anything. He got boys to read. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Filed under: Interview. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. How heated did the plastic bottle debate get? Maybe the best way to be scary is to be funny. And it launched the careers of a few young actors. They didn't know what a Canadian was. I've read that your wife is your editor.
For real. Not just, you know … she gets paid to be my editor. And you've been working together essentially from the very beginning. I guess it's good that she's honest? You don't want to be called a training bra, you know? When you have your success, does something like that even get to you? I think it's funny. I think it's all funny. Yes, exactly. That's what he is. Most people don't realize that. You could go hang out on the beach and order nice drinks … True.
Rename this list. List Name Delete from selected List. Save to. Save to:. Save Create a List. Create a list. Save Back. Grades 3—5. What does R. How did Stine do in school? Where does he live now? What is he doing today? How does Stine write a book?
Where do all of the scary ideas come from? How does he come up with those creepy and clever titles? The only sport he was ever good at was ping pong. Bob graduated from Ohio State University in In college, he was editor of The Sundial , the school humor magazine, for three years.
He boasts that he never went to class. He spent all his time writing the magazine. Of course, being at Ohio State turned him into a huge football fan. Bob headed to New York City to become a writer. He went to work at Scholastic, writing for school magazines. Then he began to write joke books and humor books for kids. He created Bananas Magazine, a zany humor magazine, which he wrote and edited for ten years. In those days, he wrote under the name Jovial Bob Stine.
Bob married Jane Waldhorn in Jane became an editor and writer, and they worked together on several books. Later, Jane and her business partner formed their own publishing company, Parachute Press. They helped to create all of R. He wrote his first teen horror novel, Blind Date. It became an instant best-seller. Says Bob: "I told myself, Forget the funny stuff.
Kids like to be scared! In , he created the Fear Street series. Teenagers were in terror month after month! The series became the best-selling YA series in history, with more than books.
Recently, R. Martins Press. Goosebumps began in The series quickly became a hit around the world, and it made R. The Goosebumps TV show was the number one kids' show in America for three years in a row.
All of the Goosebumps shows can be seen today on Netflix. So far, there are over titles in the series—and it's still going strong. Bob's favorite Goosebumps books? The Haunted Mask— and all of the books featuring Slappy the evil dummy. He revived the teen series Fear Street in A Fear Street movie is planned for Dylan Stine, Bob's grandson, was born in So Bob decided to do his first picture book.
It's titled Little Shop of Monsters.
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