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From NPR: ‘Goosebumps’ is turning 30 — the scariest part is how old that makes you…
There are plenty of cockroaches in New York City, but at R.L. Stine‘s house, you’ll find a 3 foot one.
OK, not an actual roach. It was just one of the many horror-based knick knacks lying around his office, which was filled with Goosebumps lunchboxes and dolls and, of course, books.
Was that slight mis-direct about the roach kind of cheap? An easy way to (hopefully) hook a reader? Absolutely. But it’s the kind of thing that Stine has built his career on — cheap tricks and teases. ” ‘Goosebumps’ is mostly teases,” he says.
“I don’t really want to terrify kids. It’s not what I really want. If I think a scene is getting too scary, too intense, I throw in something funny.”
Stine’s mega-popular kids book series “Goosebumps” turns 30 this year. It’s a franchise that’s spawned TV shows, movies and even more books. And even if its popularity has waned in recent years (“I don’t have the same sales as the 90s. We love the 90s,” he says), the series continues to have its hooks, tentacles, or some other creepy tendrils around fans today.
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