I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and one day my mom dropped me off at the library. There were those scary EC comics when I was a kid- Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror-I loved those. I didn’t read books until I was nine or 10, but I was a real comic book freak. Read More: Why Stephen King Planned to Quit Writing Horror After It What kind of things were you reading when you were your audience’s age? In the three decades since the series began, Goosebumps has become one of the best-selling children’s book series of all-time, with, according to publisher Scholastic, 350 million English language books in print, plus an additional 50 million international copies in print, translated to 32 languages. At the same time, he’s still churning out at least four Goosebumps books a year, with more than 180 books in the Goosebumps world to date. Stine’s Goosebumps series, and the author, now 78 years old, is happy for his work to have become nostalgic. This July marks 30 years since the publication of Welcome to Dead House, the first in R.L. If you’re an adult of a certain age, you probably remember the image on the front of the first Goosebumps book you gripped under the covers late at night when you were a kid, intentionally scaring the heck out of yourself. Or it might be the green hand reaching from the darkness on Stay Out of the Basement. Maybe it’s the skeletons barbecuing on the cover of Say Cheese and Die! Or the beady-eyed face of Slappy on Night of the Living Dummy.
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