RL Stine: a thread

Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as R.L. Stine, is a novelist and writer for teens. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps series. The plots of his books usually involve naïve teenagers or preteens who fall into situations having to do with the supernatural or the occult. He is often called the Stephen King for kids.

Stine is a 1965 graduate of The Ohio State University. During his years at Ohio State, he was renowned locally by the name of Jovial Bob Stine, the editor of the campus humor magazine, The Sundial.

Under the Jovial Bob name, Stine has written about 100 humor books for young readers, some of which are zany "instruction manuals" such as How to be Funny and Don't Stand in the Soup.

In addition to the "Goosebumps" books, he also created a line of books called Fear Street, which was aimed at a teen audience. Stine later published the Mostly Ghostly and Nightmare Room books, also targeted towards a younger audience. Goosebumps, with over 250 million books sold, remains his most popular series. During the '90s, Stine's Goosebumps series became a popular live-action children's television show on the Fox Network.

Stine earlier wrote for Junior Scholastic Magazine and the Nickelodeon's Eureeka's Castle (Battley is said to have been modeled after his son, Matt).

He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife and son. He has published an autobiography, called It Came from Ohio!: My Life As a Writer.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?R._L._Stine

Feel free to discuss Goosebumps and Point Horror novels in general, even if he did only write one of the latter.