Part of the reason may stem from the fact that I was, as early as middle school, reading Stephen King and Peter Straub and Dean Koontz and a whole slew of other horror authors that were clearly not intended for children. Strangely enough, they never interested me, which is odd because I loved horror. (In point of fact, Fear Street pre-dates Goosebumps by four years.) Stine, wrote a series of horror novels targeted to teenagers called Fear Street. He lives in New York, NY.īack in the late-‘80s, popular children’s author of the Goosebumps series, R. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.

Night Games by R.L. Stine