Awesome author with spooky stories to share

Leaves fall quickly, flutter to the cold pavement. Quick bits of burnt orange and bright yellow foliage fly by as a young child huddles in a window sill engrossed in a spooky novel that will surely make him check under the bed before lights out.

What book, what author could possibly create smiles and goose bumps simultaneously? Why of course, RL Stine’s collection of creepy novels will definitely do the trick.

Robert Lewis Stine, a bold force in the literary world, began writing at age nine and continues to scare our socks off ever since. Stine has much to gloat about but a humble, poised man appears in a recent interview with Reading Rockets.

Stine, born in Columbus, Ohio, remembers his childhood truthfully and began writing funny short stories and comic books until his first scary novel Fear Street. Stine decided to continue down this scary road and produced his first Goosebumps novel in 1992. Goosebumps became a best seller for many years and catapulted Stine to fame. Spewing spooky tales onto page after page has paid off for this incredible author. Stine hosted his own TV series, aptly named Goosebumps and wrote for Nickelodeon’s Eureeka’s Castle.

Still, Stine holds onto his childhood and memories when writing, “having all these fears and being shy, it was hard. But it helped me out later because now when I write these scary books for kids I can think back to that feeling of panic, I can remember what it felt like and then I can bring that feeling to my books.”

As autumn sweeps in once more hopefully readers will be tempted to curl up, turn down the lights, and let Stine’s paralyzing paragraphs creep out and pull people in to each one of his mysterious worlds.