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The Mack

01-31-2005, 12:31 PM

Originally posted by EVILxxx
Anyone else used to read his books when they were younger, or still reads them for that matter?
Goosebumps, Chillers, and Super Chillers were some of his series. I used to read these things all the time, day and night.
"Say Cheese and Die", "The Headless Ghost" "Happy New Years", classics.

Yeah, I read Stine when I was younger. Beach House was my favorite book he ever wrote. Probably because it was the first book I read that had depictions of murder within it. I always thought they should adapt that book into a movie.

killuminati003

01-31-2005, 03:46 PM

i used to LOVE Goosebumps. i liked all of the Fear Street books to........i still have a huge collection of Goosebumps and Fear Street books........in fact im gonna look these up tonight because of this thread

The_Driller_Killer

01-31-2005, 04:44 PM

I used to be fully obsessed with R.L. Stine in school. I still have a lot of my old Goosebumps and Fear Street books till this day. He's absolutely brilliant. Has written well over a hundred books and never seems to run out of ideas.

My favorite used to be The Babysitter. Classic.

countchocula

01-31-2005, 05:33 PM

Yeah, I don't know how the hell he was able to pump out one book after another. I have trouble writing a short story. I adored Goosebumps as a wee felon. The TV show was fun to watch after I would get home from school.

redwhisper13

01-31-2005, 11:31 PM

Goosebumps were the first books I really ever read. I read them in sixth grade, then in seventh progressed to Fear Street. I lread every single Fear Street book that was out there. THat was some really good stuff. After that I started to get into Christopher Pike and other similar young adult horror novels. Now, I read atleast three books a week, all because of R.L. Stine.

My favs were The Betrayal, The Secret, The Burning, Daughters of Silence, The Runaway, The Sign of Fear, The Hidden Evil, The Awakening Evil, Heart of the Hunter

Man, thinking about these...I'm going to the book store tomorrow to get a couple, they were just so good!

Tagia_Romero

02-01-2005, 12:43 AM

Admittedly, Goosebumps wasn't THE horror books that got me into the whole concept, but I can say without ego that I had almost all of them. However, the biggest irony is, is that I gave them away out of a fit of guilt. Now I only possess one, which is "Vampire Breath".
As for his 'older-reader' style compositions, I adored the 'Babysitter' saga. What is amazing to me right now is that I cannot immediately remember them. *Sigh*.
However, on my frequent trips to the library I loan out some of those books. It only takes me about two or so hours to read them.

Juice

02-01-2005, 06:39 AM

I read a few Goosebump books when I was young, but I realised how much it sucked pretty soon. Just cheap formula books.

EvilDeadGirl

02-01-2005, 06:37 PM

I used to love Stine. The Fear Street books were my ultimate favorite. The Haunted and Prom Queen were a few of my favs.

With that having been said I was also a big Christopher Pike fan. Some of the stuff he put out was great. Whisper of Death was my favorite! The Midnight Club was kewl too.

In fact I think I still have a bunch of my old books. I think I'll go dig em up and relive some fond memories. :)

ComeNightfall

02-01-2005, 07:02 PM

I LOVED RL Stine. I wrote to him several times and he named a character in Double Date after me. One of the twins is named Bree. No lie!

http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/images/n2/n11562.jpg

"When the beautiful Wade twins move to Shadyside, they both fall for Bobby Newkirk, but one of them--either quiet, shy Bree or sexy Samantha--turns murderously jealous."

Some of my favorites were Halloween Party, The Cheerleader series, Broken Hearts (reminded me of My Bloody Valentine), and Wrong Number.

The Claw

02-01-2005, 08:42 PM

Sweet fuck man.

Goosebumps was the bomb when I was like 9. God damn that brings me back.

I think some canadian channel has reruns of the Goosebumps show (mostly because it was canadian i think and we are forced to put our shit on our stupid tv stations. god damn i hate canadian tv so fucking much)

I sold all my Goosebump books for like nine bucks. Not alot for like fourty or so books but I was like 10 and I wanted money.

Thanks for making me feel old, EVILxxx you bastid.

The Heart Collector

02-01-2005, 10:00 PM

I fucking loved Goosebumps.

Especially the first 8, which were all awesome.

Batgirl1979

02-02-2005, 12:37 AM

Christopher Pike owned R.L Stine :)

Voodoodoll

02-02-2005, 04:25 AM

Aah memories....I used to read about 3 of his books a week when I was a kid. They were so damn addictive!

Cronos

02-02-2005, 09:56 AM

i was obsessed with Goosebumps, always reading them and spending my pocket money on 'em, they were a lot of fun, i also used to watch the tv show which was really fun at the time. i also have some figues of some of the characters and some other goosebump toys

Could Be Worse

02-02-2005, 09:24 PM

Originally posted by Batgirl1979
Christopher Pike owned R.L Stine :)

Agreed, his stuff was so brilliantly written...my favorite was The Midnight Club, which really was not hooror-oriented or a young adult book at all...very real issues and heart-breaking.

charles lee ray

02-02-2005, 10:31 PM

I think I just shed a tear. Goosebumps was my LIFE when I was a wee one. Stine is responsible for my love of horror, he got me started when I was 9 or so. Oh, the memories.... and I loved the show too. I think I had every book at one time, but my Mom gave them ALL away to Goodwill about a year after I stopped reading them. I was SO mad at her when I found this out...:(

Kim_EZ

02-03-2005, 01:43 AM

I read his Fear Street and teen novels, but not many of his Goosebumps books. I like The Babysitter series (even if the last prequel was just ridiculous).

jackson13

02-03-2005, 08:45 PM

I have every Goosebump book ever put out. I've thought about putting the entire collection on Ebay, but then I change my mind and just keep them all.

Lately I've been hitting up local Goodwill stores. I have found, and purchased, over 30 random R.L. Stein Fear Street books and Christopher Pike books.

It's like reliving my childhood all over again. Brings back lots of memories.

ComeNightfall

02-03-2005, 11:01 PM

Christopher Pike's Monster is one of the scariest books I've ever read. It actually kept me up at night.

The Mack

02-04-2005, 12:39 PM

Originally posted by Could Be Worse
Agreed, his stuff was so brilliantly written...my favorite was The Midnight Club, which really was not hooror-oriented or a young adult book at all...very real issues and heart-breaking.

Agreed. Midnight Club was horror-oriented only to the extent of certain stories told by the main characters, but the core of the story was some much more deep. A true example of how great Pike was. I say was because I think it's been awhile since he's actually written anything.

EvilDeadGirl

02-04-2005, 10:15 PM

No lie, but the Midnight Club made me all teary eyed. Awesome book.

The Mack

02-05-2005, 01:27 PM

Originally posted by EvilDeadGirl
No lie, but the Midnight Club made me all teary eyed. Awesome book.

In a way, yes, the ending is sad. But I think the ending is also about finally finding peace.

EVILxxx

02-07-2005, 11:46 AM

I can't believe that I have read about a hundred of this guys books, and I still spelled his name wrong.

Could Be Worse

02-08-2005, 02:14 AM

Originally posted by The Mack
In a way, yes, the ending is sad. But I think the ending is also about finally finding peace.

Amen to that

A.J. Hakari

02-08-2005, 02:10 PM

Take every single sentiment about the great R.L. Stine, combine them, and you have my feelings exactly.

The_Driller_Killer

02-10-2005, 12:17 AM

My boyfriend just bought me his latest adult novel, Eye Candy. Can't wait to get on it. :)

The Mack

02-10-2005, 02:11 AM

Originally posted by The_Driller_Killer
My boyfriend just bought me his latest adult novel, Eye Candy. Can't wait to get on it. :)

Well, that answers the question of what happened to Stine. Still wondering where Pike disappeared to...

ERIN_LoJ

02-16-2005, 01:45 AM

Pike is brilliant. Goosebumps were fun, but I enjoyed Fear Street a lot better.

Batgirl1979

02-16-2005, 03:26 AM

Originally posted by The Mack
Well, that answers the question of what happened to Stine. Still wondering where Pike disappeared to...

I did some digging and found two books he wrote recently enough:

Alosha (Tor Books), October 2004 and The Blind Mirror (Tor Books), May 2003

Useless Tidbit: Christopher Pike's real name is Kevin Macfadden. Kevin took his pen name from a character in the first Star Trek episode. and dropped out of college.

Gluttony

02-16-2005, 12:59 PM

I read some as well, I still have some around here someplace. I must admit I read them infrequently and they didn't get me into horror or reading for that matter. However, R.L. Stein was good with ideas and made digestable books out of hundreds of angles.

My only beef is that he sequelized faster that a movie studio! Holy shit. Plus, his sequels were rarely worth reading. I think Monster Blood 2 was decent, but that's about it. I remember Fear street and his awful choose your path books too. Jeese.

Speaking of the Television, I really disliked it. I felt that Stein's books didn't transfer very well to such a low budget medium. Not sure why, but they were okay. I watched them when they were on Saturdays. Truthfully, if they were still on TV I'd probably watch. Personally, the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? was much more interesting. They got some surreal storylines going in that show. the Gastly Grinner? Fuck, he was scarier than Jason ever was. Of course, he was a clown... I hate clowns...

Anyway, cheers to Stein.

EvilDeadGirl

02-16-2005, 06:42 PM

Ok I can't think of the name of these books for the life of me but my aunt used to read them as well as myself. They were all themed with the Zodiac and I think one of them was called the Rise of Aquaris or something. Does anyone remember these?

Could Be Worse

02-16-2005, 10:24 PM

Originally posted by Gluttony
I read some as well, I still have some around here someplace. I must admit I read them infrequently and they didn't get me into horror or reading for that matter. However, R.L. Stein was good with ideas and made digestable books out of hundreds of angles.

My only beef is that he sequelized faster that a movie studio! Holy shit. Plus, his sequels were rarely worth reading. I think Monster Blood 2 was decent, but that's about it. I remember Fear street and his awful choose your path books too. Jeese.

Speaking of the Television, I really disliked it. I felt that Stein's books didn't transfer very well to such a low budget medium. Not sure why, but they were okay. I watched them when they were on Saturdays. Truthfully, if they were still on TV I'd probably watch. Personally, the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? was much more interesting. They got some surreal storylines going in that show. the Gastly Grinner? Fuck, he was scarier than Jason ever was. Of course, he was a clown... I hate clowns...

Anyway, cheers to Stein.

Ghastly Grinner was from Are You Afraid of the Dark and scared the shit out of me.

The_Driller_Killer

02-17-2005, 05:18 AM

Originally posted by Batgirl1979

Useless Tidbit: Christopher Pike's real name is Kevin Macfadden. Kevin took his pen name from a character in the first Star Trek episode. and dropped out of college.

Nice. Thanks for that. I feel a lot better now knowing I wasn't the only writer to drop out of college. Maybe I will be successful after all! :)

But yes, Stine is brilliant. ROCK ON!

Scythemantis

02-17-2005, 08:57 PM

Ghastly Grinner was from Are You Afraid of the Dark and scared the shit out of me.

Shit! I forgot all about that guy! Anyone who so much as heard his laugh became a giggling moron with gross blue drool, right? Scared the shit out me, too.

I liked "The Haunted Mask", that was my first goosebumps book, and it honestly creeped me out.

Course, I sometimes found the plot twists in his books to be a little too "out there", even for a kid's horror novel and even when I was still young and into them. It's like, later on he could never keep things simple...it couldn't just be a ghost or a monster, it had to turn into this whole huge epic.

And "deep trouble" was totally false advertizing. You have a huge nasty shark on the cover, a description that talks about "something that is half human, half fish........" an opening with a one-eyed nightmare octopus.....and it's all a story about MERMAIDS. It wasn't even horror! :P

EVILxxx

02-17-2005, 09:20 PM

Originally posted by Scythemantis
Shit! I forgot all about that guy! Anyone who so much as heard his laugh became a giggling moron with gross blue drool, right? Scared the shit out me, too.

I liked "The Haunted Mask", that was my first goosebumps book, and it honestly creeped me out.

Course, I sometimes found the plot twists in his books to be a little too "out there", even for a kid's horror novel and even when I was still young and into them. It's like, later on he could never keep things simple...it couldn't just be a ghost or a monster, it had to turn into this whole huge epic.

And "deep trouble" was totally false advertizing. You have a huge nasty shark on the cover, a description that talks about "something that is half human, half fish........" an opening with a one-eyed nightmare octopus.....and it's all a story about MERMAIDS. It wasn't even horror! :P

Yeah alot of the Goosebump covers were decieving. I remember the one where the kids get trapped in a dungeon and travel through time. The cover had a guy with an execution mask and huge axe. The guy appeared in the story for about a second.

thorglife420

02-18-2005, 12:44 PM

Yo R.L. was the SHIT back in the day. I collected all the Goosebumps books!!!!!!!!!! My favs were the Night of The Living Dummy, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom, and Say Cheese and Die. I wasn't that much in2 Fear Street though I did collect a few of those.

I work at video rental store and once and a while I'll play the tv shows 2 piss off some of my other employees who were never down wit Goosebumps :D

TATU

03-09-2005, 07:06 PM

I love RL Stein. Night of The Living Dummy, Revenge of The Lawn Knomes, Welcome to Dead House, and How to Kill A Monster were awesome reads, no matter how simple and constructually linear they were.

Also, can someone tell me what the name of RL's book about the themepark run by Monsters was, I'd be very grateful.

Terror Australis

03-09-2005, 08:05 PM

I still have my "Goosebumps" books in a box somewhere in my house. When I was about 11-13 the books were all the rage at my school.

Genghis Khan

03-17-2005, 10:05 PM

Holy shit, man. I haven't heard anyone talk about Goosebumps since I left elementary school. I always had to have my friends tell me about the stories because I could handle horror when I was a kid. And now I love it and study it, life's weird like that isn't it.

Rock On!!
:cool:

VincentPrice

03-20-2005, 07:16 PM

I was obsessed with Goosebumps for a good portion of my elementary and middle school years, I still own almost all of them and most of the Fear Street books and a bunch of Christopher Pike's books.

But nothing comes close to the greatness that is Goosebumps, it's because of Say Cheese And Die that I hate having my picture taken now.

On a related topic, does anyone remember Bruce Coville and his My Teacher Was An Alien series? Another great author I loved the Hell out of.

Septicfish

04-03-2005, 07:22 AM

Originally posted by VincentPrice
I was obsessed with Goosebumps for a good portion of my elementary and middle school years, I still own almost all of them and most of the Fear Street books and a bunch of Christopher Pike's books.

But nothing comes close to the greatness that is Goosebumps, it's because of Say Cheese And Die that I hate having my picture taken now.

On a related topic, does anyone remember Bruce Coville and his My Teacher Was An Alien series? Another great author I loved the Hell out of.

You're not alone in your love for the Goosebumps Stories however, monster blood and it came from beneath the sink were my favourites. The horror at camp jellyjam sh*t me up the most!! :D

ERIN_LoJ

04-23-2005, 11:50 PM

Originally posted by VincentPrice

But nothing comes close to the greatness that is Goosebumps, it's because of Say Cheese And Die that I hate having my picture taken now.

Oh, wow, I remember reading Say cheese and die now. Those books always had the best covers. Sadly, the only book I can really remember from the goosebumps anymore is the one with the plant teacher.

Originally posted by The Mack

Agreed, his stuff was so brilliantly written...my favorite was The Midnight Club, which really was not hooror-oriented or a young adult book at all...very real issues and heart-breaking.

Don't think Ive read that one, but I read a lot by him back in the day. Thankfully saved a lot of his books and am planning to reread. My favorite by him so far is "Whisper of Death" The opening passage is excellent, and the last part is depressing, chilling, perfect. Nevermind it was originally intended for young adults, this is a book for any age.

chasingbanky

04-24-2005, 02:50 AM

I used to collect goosebumps, and I'd never finish them... I'd always start, but it just wasn't happening... Then the tv series came out, and around that time I think the choose your own adventures came out.... I actually read all of those... I remember getting stuck reading stories to some monster because he couldn't read, and I lived there reading books until I died.... I'm always afraid of that happening for some reason... I also remember in one of them I said i was going to go home before the story really took off, and that ended the story too... Those were kinda fun... All I have left from goosebumps now is a mask of the goosbumps guy with the pink mohawk.

normanbatesjr

06-12-2005, 07:45 PM

I used to read the Fear Street books. I would love to see a film trilogy based on either the Fear Street Sagas or 99 Fear Street.

EvilDeadGirl

06-12-2005, 08:50 PM

Some movies based on the books would be kewl. I'd like to see some of Christopher Pike's books done as well. Some good stories there. Whisper of Death would make an awesome film.

NightStalkerGtx

06-13-2005, 09:05 PM

In the words of a crack addict

Goose bumps was the shit and still is the shit!

I love goose bumps and sometime even now i read some that i missed lol

normanbatesjr

06-27-2005, 11:39 PM

Originally posted by EvilDeadGirl
Some movies based on the books would be kewl. I'd like to see some of Christopher Pike's books done as well. Some good stories there. Whisper of Death would make an awesome film.

Especially The Last Vampire.

TheJadedGamer

06-29-2005, 02:24 PM

I liked the R.L. Stine 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books. I loved the one about the genie that popped out of the coke can and the one where you get trapped in the amusement park.

*Escapade*

06-30-2005, 03:12 PM

I was an R.L. Stine obsessor back in the day. I got every Goosebumps book the day they came out. I would tear those up within an hour. The Fear Street books were better because they were more mature and more horrific, but the Goosebumps series was overall much more fun. I loved (from the Fear Street books) The Prom Queen, Broken Hearts, the Cheerleader saga, and Silent Night. I also loved the Babysitter saga, Halloween Night, and Beach House. I remember Beach House having a really cool time-travelling element. I miss those good old R.L. Stine days...

poopontheshoes7

07-01-2005, 12:32 PM

I never used to read when i was little, I used to check Goosebumps out just for the covers. I know, thats stupid but hey, I was little. But I used to think that this was the scariest cover of all time!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0439568285/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-6916523-3947844#readerpage

teenkiller

05-07-2007, 12:12 AM

I don't know how this man used to do two separate series per month for all those years. Fear Street was my series. I used to read all that crap. The Betrayal, The Secret, The Burning, The Cataluna Chronicles trilogy, Broken Hearts, Goodnight Kiss 1 and 2, the Silent Night trilogy, Lights Out, The New Boy, The Wrong Number, The Haunting, The Prom Queen, Party Summer, The Dead Lifeguard, the Cheerleaders series... man I could go on forever. Every month I would look forward to his latest. During the last year or two of its run though I do remember it getting pretty old. It seemed like the quality of the stories were just thinking and I think Stine had kind of run out of stories. I mean how many weird occurences can you have going on all on the same street for GOD'S sake? I hear Stine resurrected the Fear Street series a couple of years ago with Fear Street Nights. Has anybody read these? Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

XCoRyX

05-07-2007, 01:09 AM

The name of Stine alone brings back many,many memories from my glory days of childhood.

Lindsey

05-07-2007, 10:55 AM

Originally posted by XCoRyX
The name of Stine alone brings back many,many memories from my glory days of childhood.

Mine too! I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED, Goosebumps. That was all I read when I was younger before I advanced to Stephen King... In fact, I think it was the Goosebumps series that got be addicted to horror at an early age.

The Ghost Next Door, and Welcome to Camp Jellyjam were a few of my all time favs. I also enjoyed the 'Choose your own adventure' books as well.

Does anybody remember the intro to the show? Ah, the good ol' memories! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afgFVvAkz00

Mr.HyDe807

05-07-2007, 11:10 AM

Damn, going down memory lane with this post! I still have most of my Goodbumps books (even though my dad wanted to thrwo them, out, i told him no), now i want to go home and check them out:D

I dotn know why i did it, but i always checked the endings of the "choose your own adventures" book after a while i had.:p

echo_bravo

05-07-2007, 01:00 PM

I fuckin loved Goosebumps as a wee lad. I read all of them and I would have to say my favorite was Say Cheese and Die.

teenkiller

05-07-2007, 06:55 PM

It Came From Beneath the Sink was the first Goosebumps book I ever read. I was twelve and I had just moved into my new house and was lonely cause I hadn't made any friends yet. I didn't care for the series much but that book holds a special place in my heart. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

chasingbanky

05-07-2007, 07:36 PM

Me and a friend were discussing the haunted mask and how it was the sequel to Halloween 3 on cinco de mayo. Silly ass people that we are.

EVILxxx

05-08-2007, 09:32 AM

One of my favorite Goosebumps was probably the first one written "Welcome to Dead House". It took itself very seriously unlike a few other ones which were still enjoyable in their own right.
The Headless ghost i believe was the first one I read and I really enjoyed it.

Tagia_Romero

05-25-2007, 03:45 AM

Christ on a crutch! I adored the 'Goosebumps' series with a passion and his 'Fear Street' novels and related anthologies eased me into the world of horror fiction. Now his 'Goosebumps' have rolled downhill, a shame really.

teenkiller

05-25-2007, 08:15 AM

Originally posted by Tagia_Romero
Now his 'Goosebumps' have rolled downhill, a shame really.

He's not STILL writing those is he? I know he brought back Fear Street a couple of years ago with a new miniseries, which I haven't read, but still writing Goosebumps? Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

Tagia_Romero

05-25-2007, 04:58 PM

Originally posted by teenkiller
He's not STILL writing those is he? I know he brought back Fear Street a couple of years ago with a new miniseries, which I haven't read, but still writing Goosebumps? Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

Amazing but true, friend. Here in Australia it's called 'Goosebumps 2000'.

teenkiller

05-26-2007, 07:59 PM

I started reading Fear Street about fifteen years ago and didn't even realize until recently that I had never known what R.L. Stine looked like.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Stinecolor.jpg

Exciting isn't he?

Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

Misery

05-27-2007, 09:24 PM

I read just about every Goosebump book back in the day, but never read Fear Street and was never exposed to Christopher Pike.

I recently flipped through some Goosebump books and it's funny seeing how crappy they are. Then again, they are children's books and can't be overly complex either in structure or plot. All I know is they were a lot of fun to read back in the day, so I give R. L. Stine props.

Also I used to watch the television series and recently rewatched the halloween mask episode. Again, it's pretty silly nowadays, but I remember loving the television show in my youth.

Bourne101

06-10-2007, 02:19 PM

Goosebumps was the shit! If they still made that TV show, I would still be watching it. Same with Are You Afraid of the Dark.

teenkiller

06-15-2007, 07:37 PM

I have heard that there is talk of bringing a Goosebumps movie to the big screen. Uh... aren't they a little late for this? Maybe I'm wrong but I thought the Goosebumps heyday was back in the 90's. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

chasingbanky

06-16-2007, 12:12 PM

I just found out that Stine was the head writer on Eureka's castle... A puppet show that I loved as a kid. This guy is amazing.

teenkiller

06-16-2007, 09:42 PM

Damn I remember Eureka's Castle. I used to hate that show. I just used to hate shows involving puppets when I was a kid. Pretty weird that he was involved with it. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

killuminati003

06-18-2007, 01:08 AM

yeah, Goosebumps was simply amazing. I remember when this thread first started, I went and dug up all of my old books. That seemed like a long time ago now, so im going to do it again. Fear Street was awesome to. Anyone read the Fear Street Saga series that told how it all started? Those were really really good.

Originally posted by VincentPrice
On a related topic, does anyone remember Bruce Coville and his My Teacher Was An Alien series? Another great author I loved the Hell out of.

Yes, I LOVED Bruce Coville to. The remember reading the alien series when I was in like 2nd grade or something. Great stuff. He had a book of short stories out that was really good.

teenkiller

06-18-2007, 08:37 AM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by killuminati003
Anyone read the Fear Street Saga series that told how it all started? Those were really really good.QUOTE]

Probably my favorite books in the series dude. Loved the whole story of the Fier family and their bloodline. I read the whole trilogy a few times but it was like ten years ago and beyond. Still very nice though. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

tvmorbid

06-24-2007, 04:27 PM

I remember in 90's there was loads of rumors going round about how Stine was actually Stephen King under a pseudonym, obviously turned out to be bs, but it was quite funny at the time :)

Oh yeah, I loved these books with a passion too, still got them somewhere, along with a load of Point Horror books, he did some books for them too.

*EDIT* got this from Wikippedia:

"A recent interview revealed that R.L. Stine plans to write a twelve book series titled Goosebumps HorrorLand. The series, based on One Day at Horrorland, is the first Goosebumps series where each book is part of the same plot:

The new series will be an immersive storytelling experience welcoming fans to HorrorLand, a vast theme park which R.L. Stine describes as "the scariest place on Earth." In a Goosebumps first, the new series will be a serialized adventure, and the story won't end on the final page of book one, Revenge of the Living Dummy. Instead, the spine-tingling and funny bone-tickling adventures will continue on the Internet and in books #2-12, each of which can also stand alone. The first nine HorrorLand books all will feature a combination of frightful new faces as well as the vilest villains from the original Goosebumps series. Ordinary kids are being summoned to HorrorLand-but why? Readers are in for the ride of their lives as the cast of characters trapped in the theme park grows larger with each book, and their situations become more and more perilous.

Books #10-12 will take place entirely in HorrorLand. Who-or what-is behind the evil plot to assemble these kids? The answer will be revealed in the final book. Soon after the debut of books #1 and #2 in April 2008, Scholastic will begin to reissue original Goosebumps books-ten bestselling titles that tie in with each new story as it unfolds in HorrorLand.

Scholastic will launch HorrorLand with a dedicated website that, with the publication of each book, will further the narrative and provide corresponding clues to help readers unlock the secrets to HorrorLand. In addition, the web site will offer readers original Horrorland material not available in the books-including ten free internet-only related stories, bonus downloads, interactive games, and more."