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Or what his favorite book is? Read on to find out. When I started writing horror, I decided to use my intials because they sounded more serious.

Stine was born on October 8, , in Columbus, Ohio. He grew up in Bexley, Ohio, with his parents and his younger brother and sister. But Stine loved to write. He spent his time writing stories, comics, and jokes. In high school, he joined the school newspaper. Stine is still writing books for kids. He writes about seven new books every year.

Stine regularly updates his website and is active on Twitter. Stine has a writing studio in his apartment. He keeps a mask, a skeleton, and a three-foot-long cockroach there to create an eerie atmosphere. That gave me the idea for The Haunted Mask. Goosebumps Series Main article: Goosebumps Series There were twenty-five Goosebumps Series books published from to , beginning with Cry of the Cat. The books in this series were written in a similar format and featured similar content to the original series, but R.

Stine classified them as being "much scarier. Goosebumps Gold The books in the Goosebumps Gold series appeared on series illustrator Tim Jacobus's website and marketing sites, but were never released. It was one of the two book series by R. Stine that was planned to be released in the other was The Nightmare Room. Books in this series mainly feature two stories. Legal dispute In September , following a dispute between Scholastic and Parachute Press, Scholastic charged Parachute Press with breach of contract.

Scholastic claimed that Parachute Press had been making merchandising deals and issuing press releases without Scholastic's required consent, and had begun withholding payments from them. On November , Parachute responded by alleging Scholastic had repudiated its financial obligations, claiming Scholastic had voided its rights to publish fifty-four books.

Parachute Press filed a lawsuit, which followed with numerous other suits and counter lawsuits over who controls certain rights to the series. In , the two sides reached an agreement, with Scholastic acquiring the Goosebumps trademark and all other rights to the series for 9. Achievements, reception and controversy. Achievements See also: List of best-selling books "The first 27 paperback backlist titles on our list are all Goosebumps.

The phenomenon is even more astounding when the sales figures are added up. Scholastic sold 19,, copies of Goosebumps frontlist titles in , and 12,, backlist titles, for a grand total of 32,, copies sold.

Individual books in the series appeared on USA Today's bestseller list for over weeks, while forty-seven books in the series appeared on Publishers Weekly list of bestselling children's books of all-time in The book series was a bestseller in many countries, including the United States, England, France and Australia and has been translated into thirty-five languages, including Chinese, Czech, Spanish and Hebrew.

One writer, it seems, influences the fate of an entire company. You get thrills and spills. It can be incredibly subtly written, but you get emotional rewards for reading it. It's exciting, scary, it pushes your buttons.

The series was challenged for being too frightening for young people and depicting occult or satanic themes. Produced in Canada by Protocol Entertainment in association with Scholastic Productions,[74] the TV anthology series ran for four seasons from to ,[4] beginning on October 27, Columbia Pictures acquired rights to create a Goosebumps film.