Welcome to my new website, everyone. Make yourself at home. But please don’t tickle Doik. Once he starts laughing, he laughs till he pukes! When you visit here, you’ll always find the latest news about the books and movies, and where you can come see me in person. You’ll find scary stories, games, puzzles, and comics. And you’ll find all the facts you need for school reports and book reports. You can also use our new message board to send me a message. I read every one! I hope you’ll join me here often. I’ll be waiting for you!
I'm so glad you are enjoying the new GOOSEBUMPS HORRORLAND books. The series will have 12 books-- and MORE! You will find not one, but TWO stories in every book-- including the terrifying, 12-part serial that takes place in HorrorLand Amusement Park. Do you have the newest titles? To find out... CLICK HERE.
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Many readers have asked for complete lists of all the GOOSEBUMPS and FEAR STREET titles. But there are so many books, it took Doik and me weeks to put the lists together. (Mainly cuz he kept drooling slime on the books!) The complete Books List are finally here. If you’d like to check them about, [CLICK HERE].
Come to the Doik’s FUNHOUSE for all kinds of fun and games. We have three fast-action games you’ll want to play again and again—including our new ROTTEN SCHOOL Water Balloon game.
Watch out—you might get wet! Coming soon: an insane new COMICS section and creepy, crawly Puzzle Pages!
When you visit RAINY NIGHT THEATRE, you’ll hear creepy short stories with music and sound effects, guaranteed to send a shiver or two up your spine. The first story is called “The Kid Behind the Door”—and there are many more to come. For best results, crank up the volume (and listen in the dark)!
Readers beware! Sneak peeks of new books!
When you visit here, you’ll find the latest news about my new books and movies, my travels, my appearances, and my new projects. If you click on the R.L. Stine link, you’ll find the facts you need for school reports and book reports. Plus, Q&A, book lists, and photos of my family and me. (The reason I look a little strange is the photos were taken during a full moon!)
ROBERT LAWRENCE STINE was born on a pig farm outside Columbus, Ohio. His first word was “oink.” His second word was also “oink.” By the age of ten, he wanted to leave the pig farm. But what would he do for slops?
Luckily, he was kidnapped by little blue aliens from the Planet of Little Blue Aliens. He was taken to their planet and forced to get down on the floor, open his mouth wide, and work as a roach motel. This is where he learned his third word—”Help!”
If you are still reading this, you probably realize that this is NOT R.L. Stine’s life story. You have wasted your time. You should have started right here….
Download R.L. Stine’s life story.
R.L. Stine says he has a great job. “My job is to make kids laugh and give them the CREEPS!”
R.L.’s books are read all over the world. So far, he has sold over 300 million books, making him one of the best-selling children’s authors in history.
He was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1943. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a shipping clerk. He has a younger brother and sister—Bill and Pam. No one in his family ever called him R.L. Everyone called him Bob.
When Bob was nine, he found an old typewriter up in the attic. That discovery changed his life. He carried it down to his room and started typing stories and little joke books.
His mother begged him to go outside and play. But Bob always said it was too boring outside. He stayed in his room typing away—and he has been writing ever since.
In school, Bob was not a great student. He got mostly B’s, but he never studied very hard. He spent most of his time writing stories and joke magazines. He was terrible in math, and he hated gym class. The only sport he was ever good at was ping pong!
After graduating from Ohio State University in 1965, Bob headed to New York City to become a writer. He wrote dozens of joke books and humor books for kids. And he created Bananas, a zany humor magazine which he did for ten years. In those days, he wrote under the name Jovial Bob Stine.
He married Jane Waldhorn in 1969. Jane became an editor and writer, and they worked together on several children’s books. Later, Jane and her partner formed their own publishing company, Parachute Press, and helped create all of R.L.’s most popular book series.
He wrote his first teen horror novel, Blind Date, which became an instant best-seller. Many scary novels followed, including Beach House, Hit And Run, and The Girlfriend.
In 1989 he created the Fear Street series, the best-selling young adult book series in history. He has written about 100 Fear Street books and is adding new ones to the series this year.
Goosebumps began in 1992. The book series quickly became a hit around the world. Translated into 32 different languages, it made R.L. a worldwide publishing celebrity. The Goosebumps TV show was the number-one kids’ show in the U.S. for three years in a row.
Other R.L. Stine book creations include: Ghosts of Fear Street, Give Yourself Goosebumps, The Nightmare Room (also a TV series), and Beware!, a collection of all his favorite stories, poems, comics and illustrations.
R.L. has published two creepy short story collections: The Nightmare Hour and The Haunting Hour. Also, two teen vampire novels: Dangerous Girls and Dangerous Girls II: The Taste of Night.
If you travel to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg or Tampa, or if you go to the SeaWorld park in San Antonio or San Diego, you will be able to see R.L. Stine’s HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE. It’s a 4-D movie with amazing special effects. R.L. wrote the story for the movie, which stars Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, and Lea Thompson. Watch out—you might get VERY wet!
These days, R.L. is busier than ever. He’s working on three different book series: MOSTLY GHOSTLY, ROTTEN SCHOOL, and FEAR STREET. You can find out more inside info about these series on this Web site.
R.L. lives in New York City with his wife Jane and his dog Nadine. His son Matthew is a composer, musician, and sound designer and will be 25 in June.
See site for details.
Many, many readers have been asking for complete lists of all the Goosebumps and Fear Street books. Well, I finally put the lists together—but now I’m in shock! I can’t believe I’ve written so many books!
I guess you can say that I love scaring people!
Here are the book lists. You can print then and keep a checklist if you like. How many of these titles have you read?
Download the entire book list.
First there was Air Mail. Now there’s SCARE MAIL!
Send me a message here. Let me know what you think of my new books and other projects. Send me your comments about what you enjoyed on my web site!
I can’t answer your notes. But I PROMISE I’ll read every one!
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Start off a rotten Summer with our Newest Rotten School Game!
From the rooftop of Rotten School, drench your opponents with water balloons before you get soaked! After hitting each target three times you’ll move on to the next round… but be aware of barrage attacks!
The object of the Eyeball Blaster game is to score as many points as possible by swapping adjacent items to create sets, either horizontal or vertical, of 3 or more identical items.
Escape as quickly as you can from the haunted mansion by using portals to jump closer to the goal. Along the way, pick up as many items as you can to boost your score.
Attention teachers and librarians!
Here is my 16-page Writing Program to use with your students!
In answer to so many letters, here is the writing program I put together while I was writing my Nightmare Room book series. It contains my best hints for students on:
I’ve enclosed all of my best writing tricks and secrets in this program. It is totally free of charge. You may download it and make as many copies as you like for your students.
I hope it leads to many fun writing projects!
-- R.L. StineClick here for the full writing program.
Come in out of the rain, guys. This is R.L. Stine welcoming you to RAINY NIGHT THEATRE.
Our story is called THE KID BEHIND THE DOOR. It’s a brand new story that I wrote just for my internet listeners. My son Matt Stine produced and directed it. This is the first project we ever worked on together. If you like it, we’ll do MORE.
So, turn out the lights. Plug in your headphones or crank up your speakers. And enjoy our RAINY NIGHT story…
The Kind Behind the Door
A Story by R.L. Stine
A 27 SOUND ENTERTAINMENT Production
Produced and Directed by Matt Stine
The cast
Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jillian Sanders
Monica . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kari Geddes
Aunt Rhonda . . . . . . . . . Quin Cassavale
Dougie . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird Wallace
Original music and sound effects by Matt Stine.
Did The Kid Behind the Door creep you out? let me know if you enjoyed it or not. Tell me if you’d like to hear more stories. To send me a message, click here.
WATCH OUT FOR A CREEPY NEW RAINY NIGHT THEATRE STORY—COMING SOON!
I’ll be making two appearances this fall. I hope my readers will all come out and say hi.
St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading
University of South Florida
St. Petersburg, FL
Watch for R.L. Stine making a special, spooky Halloween appearance-- on the Martha Stewart TV show, Wednesday, October 24.
Don’t even think about missing my new movie. It’s the first movie in my new HAUNTING HOUR DVD series from The Hatchery and Universal Home Video.
The movie is called—you guessed it!—DON’T THINK ABOUT IT!
The creepy fun starts when two kids conjure up a hideous monster, called The Evil Thing. As the legend goes, you’re perfectly safe from The Evil Thing—unless you think about it!
The problem is, once you try not to think about it, you can’t think about anything else! And of course, that’s when the thinking ends and the SCREAMING begins!
The movie stars Emily Osment, from the Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana series. And the creepy Tobin Bell from the Saw movies. Watch for it on DVD this fall. And as for The Evil Thing, take my advice—Don’t Think About It!
DVD AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 4. WATCH FOR SHOWINGS OF DON’T THINK ABOUT IT! ON CARTOON NETWORK IN SEPTEMBER!
EMILY OSMENT stars as Cassie. Here she is, trying NOT to think about The Evil Thing.
A bad night for the Pizza Delivery Guy. The monster likes pepperoni!
To all my Goosebumps readers, I’m happy to announce that GOOSEBUMPS IS BAAAAACK!
I’m warming up my keyboard, howling at the full moon, gobbling down some Monster Blood, putting on The Haunted Mask, waking up Slappy, the Living Dummy—and getting ready to write a new series of TWELVE Goosebumps Books.
The new books will be called GOOSEBUMPS HORRORLAND. And each book will have some BIG surprises.
These two new books go on sale in March! For more HorrorLand fun, check out: http://enterhorrorland.com.
Who is The Kid Behind the Door?
You’ll find out in this creepy story I wrote especially for my online readers. Turn out the lights. Close your eyes. You don’t read this story—you listen to it.
RAINY NIGHT THEATER was produced and directed by my son Matt Stine. Matt guarantees that the actors, the music, and the frightening sound effects will give you a rainy night CHILL….
TO LISTEN TO THIS CREEPY STORY, CLICK HERE.
Bernie Bridges may be the coolest, smartest, fast-talking-est 4th grader in history. Just ask him! Bernie and his pals spend most of their time eating Nutty Nutty Bars and drinking Foamy Root Beer. (It’s so foamy, it sticks to your face for days!) Other times, they’re trying to out-scheme that spoiled rich kid, Sherman Oaks.
Also in the cast at The Rotten School are Mrs. Heinie, their teacher; Mr. I. Will Upchuck, the Headmaster; Mr. Boring, the science teacher; and Coach Manley Bunz. With pie-eating contests, water balloon fights, swim races in Poopers Pond, and the annual Wedgie Olympics, it’s no wonder Bernie and his pals are proud to be called Rotten Students!
My Rotten School books are rude, crude, and flat-out funny. And they’re jam-packed with hilarious cartoon art by Trip Park. So far, I’m planning to write 16 books—so I hope you will check them out.
ARE YOU READY FOR ROTTEN SCHOOL? CLICK ON THE COVERS ABOVE. (And remember to Have A ROTTEN Day!)
My wife Jane and I had a wonderful time during our first-ever trip to Australia last fall. We both spoke at the Brisbane Writers’ Festival. I really enjoyed meeting my Australian Rotten School and Goosebumps readers for the first time.
After the book festival, we went snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef. And we enjoyed food that we had definitely not tried before—barbecued kangaroo and emu! Kinda tasty….
I’ve written a lot of vampire books. It’s fun to close my eyes and imagine evil creatures of the night, hungrily prowling for blood! And these two teen vampire novels are my favorites.
I guess it’s because the books involve two teenage girls who become vampires accidentally! Destiny and Livvy Weller go off to summer camp, and when they return, they realize to their horror that they are blood-sucking vampires!
Destiny frantically searches for a cure. But her sister Livvy likes the night life, the dark side—and she chooses to stay a vampire.
Now the family is torn apart. Destiny misses her sister desperately. What does she have to do to bring Livvy back? I think the answer to that question will surprise you.
DANGEROUS GIRLS and THE TASTE OF NIGHT are available in paperback from Harper-Collins. You can find them at bookstores and online bookstores.