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GOOSEBUMPS HORRORLAND by R.L. Stine
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Fast Facts
- Popular author R.L. Stine has sold more than 400 million books.
- Although Stine has never lived through one of his story ideas, real life has inspired some of his spooky tales. For example, a hard-to-remove Halloween mask worn by his son gave him the idea for a book called THE HAUNTED MASK.
- Two of the original Goosebumps series characters, Luke and Lizzie Morris (who appeared in ONE DAY AT HORRORLAND), contribute to an eerily entertaining blog dedicated to HorrorLand at www.escapehorrorland.com.
- The new series, Goosebumps HorrorLand, is somewhat based on two books in the original Goosebumps series, ONE DAY AT HORRORLAND and RETURN TO HORRORLAND.
- When Stine was a kid, he never missed getting his hair cut on Saturdays because his barber had a fabulous pile of creepy comic books.
- To relax after a day pounding out monstrous tales on his computer, Stine plays pinball on his very own pinball machine.
- Stine has honed his funny bone. Before he started writing horror stories, he penned jokes for books such as 101 SILLY MONSTER JOKES.
- Stine's favorite thriller is Ray Bradbury's awesome SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.
- For anyone who wants to become a writer, Stine suggests they read all kinds of writings. As a kid, he read classic legends and myths, along with comic books and Mad magazine.
- The horrormaster sets the stage in order to get into the mood to write scary stories by decorating his office with a skeleton and a tribal mask.
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