I remember being a little kid and crying on the Beastie, so there was no way in hell I was going to go on the Beast or the rickety wooden monstrosity that was the Son of Beast.Īs for the actual book, I thought that the synopsis on the back was very misleading. My mother used to take me and my sisters to Kings Island all the time and they were all about the rollercoasters. The minute I saw the cover of this it brought me right back to my childhood. So as some one who has read an awful lot of Stine's books, I would say this is one of his better ones, at least as it compares to Goosebumps. Some might love the plot twists that strain all logic and sense in Goosebumps but after awhile they can wear thin. There is a lot less stupid logic (or maybe "kid logic.") The scares seem a little more plausible. This is not a bad thing! The plot flows a lot better. Still, when compared to a Goosebumps book with a similar premise like HorrorLand one can see how it is a lot less silly. It's still about tweens trapped in a possibly haunted amusement park at night. That is not to say it is all serious and not fun. Are there still some false jump scares and "screaming with no sound coming out" that Stine is known for? Sure, but it seems a little toned down. I mean it's no House of a Thousand Corpses but it is slightly more serious than your typical 'Bumps. Not quite.įirstly, I'd say that this is for a SLIGHTLY older audience. Is it just a Goosebumps book published under a solo title? Well. Upon first glance it appears very much like his Goosebumps. Well this is one of his stand alone novels. Stine's Goosebumps from my youth (and even reading some of the newer ones released since I have grown up.) But would you believe that I have NEVER read a non Goosebumps book by Stine? No Fear Street, no Mostly Ghostly, none of his stand alone novels.
He lives in New York, NY.Īs an adult I have been rereading R.L.
Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.
In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.
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