It had also become increasingly popular in TV and film with shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Tales from the Cryptkeeper, and movies like Hocus Pocus and The Addams Family. In the literature world, horror was already a trending genre for young audiences. “When the shark jumps up and starts eating all the teenagers, I’m the one in the movie theater laughing. “There’s something missing in my brain,” he chuckles, speaking to Observer over Skype from his home in Sag Harbor, New York. Every Saturday, they’d catch a double bill: Tom & Jerry and a horror film like Tarantula! or The Creature from the Black Lagoon. When Stine was growing up in Columbus, Ohio, he spent weekends at the movies with his brother. In fact, his dry sense of humor is something that he relates to horror, in general-the genre has always made him laugh. Stine (or Bob, as his friends call him) is remarkably warm, incredibly gracious, and also really funny. But the honest truth? It’s the complete opposite. After all, Stine has been keeping kids and teenagers up all night for nearly 30 years as the author of best-selling and bone-chilling series such as Fear Street and, notably, Goosebumps, which became the defining horror anthology of the 1990s. Stine himself would be an inherently spooky and mysterious figure.
The author writes to entertain, and that's one of the factors what keeps him going.“Bride of the Living Dummy” from the Goosebumps TV show. Reading his books is fun, and kids like to be scared, according to Stine. It's that attitude that keep new generations of children coming forward to read Stine's books and continue to be scared and inspired to do their own thing. He declares that writing should not be slaved over, and says that it should be fun. Stine, which is why he continues to write the books. Maybe some of them will be posthumous, I don't know." Anyway, I just signed on to do six more Goosebumps books. Parker, who just dropped dead on the keyboard. When asked about retiring, the author says that he doesn't see the end in sight.
At the height of his output, Stine reveals that he was able to write one installment in just 8 weeks, though his production has slowed down considerably, the author still puts out at least four Goosebumps books a year in addition to writing other material. Writing was his solace and he channels that fear from his childhood into the Goosebumps books.
Stine doesn't let things scare him, but he notes that he was a scared and timid child growing up.
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