![]() “To have my own land, that was amazing.Love Real Life Ghost Hunting Shows? CLICK HERE FOR MORE! “I’m a big Disney person,” he told The Verge. Having his own experience at Disney was a career highlight for Stine. After each show, the audience was invited to a funhouse where the monsters lurked. The live show took place on a stage that looked like a warehouse loading dock, where creatures from the books would appear. There was a Goosebumps show at Walt Disney World.įor about a year, the Goosebumps HorrorLand Fright Show and Funhouse was held at what was then Disney-MGM Studios. ![]() ![]() Instead, he thinks of compelling titles ( his example was Fifth Grade Zombies) and then builds a story around that. Stine doesn’t come up with plot ideas anymore-he comes up with titles.Īfter dreaming up every conceivable creepy, yet kid-friendly plot known to humanity-everything from haunted cameras to deadly lawn gnomes-the author has stopped trying to come up with plots. Jacobus also received less and less information about the books as Stine cranked them out, sometimes working from just a short plot blurb. The work was so steady and so fast, he said, that there was no time for much creative back-and-forth-meaning that the publisher generally just accepted what he provided them. He sketched three 8-by-10-inch options for each cover before using acrylics and an airbrush on the final version. Each cover took illustrator Tim Jacobus 35 hours to produce. Fun fact: In Italy, the series is called Piccoli Brividi, which means “little shivers.” 9. who love this particular brand of horror-humor. With more than 50 million Goosebumps books in print internationally, it’s not just kids in the U.S. 15, it was more challenged than Madonna’s Sex, The Anarchist Cookbook, and Private Parts by Howard Stern. Goosebumps was more challenged than Madonna’s book Sex.īack in its ‘90s heyday, the Goosebumps series landed near the top of the American Library Association’s challenged books list. Stine considers it his best Halloween-themed book, and says it’s the only one he’s written that was inspired by real-life events. Unlike Stine’s son, however, the character in the book isn’t able to remove her mask at all and it starts to change her personality. The 11th book in the series, The Haunted Mask, was inspired by Stine’s own son, who struggled with removing his Halloween costume one year. Stine’s personal favorite Goosebumps book is The Haunted Mask. “There's a reason why I write horror.” He has also attributed the idea to the 1940s horror movie Dead of Night, an episode of the Twilight Zone, and the William Goldman book Magic. “There’s a chapter which I’ve never forgotten where Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet on the stove and he burns his feet off,” he once said. Stine says some of the inspiration for Slappy came from a bedtime story his mother used to read to him: Pinocchio. One of the most famous Goosebumps characters is Slappy, an evil ventriloquist dummy that appears in a number of books. Pinocchio / Fototeca Storica Nazionale./GettyImages Slappy was inspired by another famous wooden doll. She's really smart and she's just too good, too good an editor. “It said, ‘Psychotic ramblings.’ That was it. “I got a manuscript back once and up at the top were two words,” he told The Verge. Having your partner as your editor sometimes means that no punches get pulled when it comes to feedback. ![]() Then, finally I said, ‘OK.’” (Jane and Waricha founded Parachute Publishing, which also published the Goosebumps and Fear Street series for a time.) We have to try it.’ And I didn’t want to do it,” he told TODAY. “My editors, my wife and her partner, said, ‘No one’s ever done a series for 7- to 11-year-old, scary books. Stine’s wife, Jane, is the editor of the Goosebumps series-and she and her business partner, Joan Waricha, were the ones who convinced him to do it in the first place. Stine didn’t want to do Goosebumps-but his editors convinced him. “I was always afraid of a lot of things, which later came in handy, of course, because I could remember that feeling of panic, that feeling of what it feels like to be a frightened kid,” the author told TODAY. Stine found inspiration for his scary stories in his own childhood. Stine wasn’t always scary: Before hitting it big with horror, he dabbled in comedy, writing for a humor magazine at Ohio State University and published more than 100 joke books under the pen name “Jovial Bob.” But the first horror book he wrote, Blind Date, was a bestseller, which caused him to switch genres. Get Goosebumps! Scholastic 20th Anniversary Celebration / Slaven Vlasic/GettyImages ![]()
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