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Robert Lawrence Stine, better known as R. L. Stine is a famous American Bestseller author and television producer, who lives in Ohio, United States. He has written over hundreds of novels of horror fiction genre. Being specialists in writing children’s literature, he is rightly regarded as the ‘Stephen King of children’s literature’. His writings have sold millions of copies worldwide. He often uses the pen name Jovial Bob Stine for writing his books and novels. Stine was born Anne and Lewis Stine on October 8, 1943. His father was a shipping clerk and his mother was a homemaker. Stine initially started writing jokes and short stories when he was nine years of age. He developed his fond of writing after finding a typewriter in his attic. He later got enrolled in The Ohio State University and began editing the university’s humor magazine named ‘The Sundial’. He remained the editor for three years continuously and then graduated with a B. A degree in English literature in the year 1965. Stine was determined to make his career as a writer and with that hope, he moved to New York City. Stine has described himself as a fearful child among his two siblings and said that it was her mother who read the first horror book him and that inspired him to write mostly horror fiction novels and became a specialist in that genre.

R.L. Stine started his career as a writer by writing humor books for kids and created the humor magazine Bananas. The magazine was published by Scholastic Press, which gave 72 issues starting from 1975. The magazine was published specially for the teenagers and Stine was the editor as well as the writer for most of the writings. He was assisted by other writers as well. After that, Stine shifted towards horror novels and wrote the first one in this genre in he year 1986. It was titled ‘Blind Date’. After writing few more novels he started writing for a television show named ‘Eureeka’s Castle’, which aired on Nickelodeon Network. His Goosebumps series was made into a television series, which was produced by Stine himself. The TV series ran for four seasons up to 1998 and was also made into video games later. Stine also wrote for adults in the later part of his writing career. He released a direct-to-DVD movie named ‘The Haunting Hour Volume One: Don’t Think About It’ in the year 2007. The movie was released by Universal Home Entertainment and had Emily Osment starring as the main lead. Stine is married to Jane Waldhorn, who is also a writer and editor. The couple has a son named Matthew, who was born in the year 1980 and works in the music industry. She formed the Parachute along with Joan Waricha in the year 1983 and helped Stine publish his writings.

R.L. Stine was ranked 36 in the Forbes List of 40 best paid entertainers in the year 1997. His income from writings for that year was about $41 millions. Most of his novels have been included in the bestseller lists. Stine was also rated as the number one bestselling author for three consecutive years from 1990, by USA Today. He has received numerous awards, some of notable ones include the Disney Adventures Kids’ Choice Award and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award, three times each. He was also awarded 2002 Champion of Reading Award by the Free Public Library of Philadelphia. He was listed in the ‘Most Intriguing People’ list by People Weekly and was named as the bestselling author of all time by Guinness Book of World Records for writing children’s book series. Stine also received the Silver Bullet Award in 2007 from the ‘Thriller Writers of America’ and the Lifetime Achievement by the Horror Writers Association this year. The Haunted Lighthouse, 4-D movie-based attractions at he Sea World in San Diego and Busch Gardens at Tampa, are inspired by the stories written by R.L.Stine.

R.L.Stine wrote the very famous Goosebumps series which consists of horror fiction novels. The series was published by the Scholastic Publishing and was writing specially for children. A total of 62 novels were published in the series from 1992 to 1997. Various spin-offs were also written by Stine. The first novel of the series was titled ‘Welcome to Dead House’, which was published in July 1992. The book follows child characters who fall in scary situations. The plot of the novel shows Josh Benson and Amanda Benson moving into a new house. The house in Dark Falls is full zombies, who are dead but still living in the same house. The zombies try to make anyone who comes to their house into a zombie and are planning to do the same to the Benson family. They thrive on the blood of humans and desperately need humans for their survival. The Benson family come to know about the truth of the zombies and try to save themselves out of the situation. They realize that the zombies always stay in the dark and sunlight is their weakness. In order to save themselves, the Benson family shine the Sun on them and make their spirits rest. The novel became a commercial success and gained a lot of popularity worldwide. It got good reviews from the reviewers and sold millions of copies worldwide in multiple languages. The book was also made into a television series and spawned merchandise. Film adaptations under the names of Jack The Giant Slayer, Jack Black and Shrek Forever After were also made by Columbia Pictures. The novel series was also developed into video games.

The sequel of the first novel was published under the title of ‘Stay Out of the Basement’ in the same year by the same publishing house. This novel shows siblings Casey and Margaret Brewer and their father, who keeps experimenting in the basement, being a scientist. He never allows anyone to go down to the basement and see his experiments. He even scares his own children by making frightening voices and raising blooded hands. But the siblings somehow manage to find the truth about the experiments. They find that their father has succeeded in making a clone of himself who threatens them to stay out of the basement. Margaret kills one of them with a hatchet thinking it to be the clone. When every thing comes to normal and Dr. Brewer is seen burning all his experiments, Margaret hears a voice that says. ”Margaret help me……..I am your real father”. The voice comes from a prod that Dr. Brewer was experimenting on and everyone get shocked and frightened. This novel also sold many copies and received good reviews. A television series was also made which also become highly successful. Stine got appreciations from one and all for his efforts and established himself as a well known writer. He has turned 70 years old and is still working to bring out masterpieces through his imaginations and creativity.