Meet The Benson Family: Dad, Mom, Amanda (the main character) (12 years old) and Josh (11 years old) along with their dog Petey (I guess they were huge fans of The Little Rascals). …hey! If our heroes wouldn’t go there, we wouldn’t have a story to read, right? You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that any town named “Dark Falls” isn’t a good place to go to live, but… It was a book quick to read and I enjoyed a lot, it’s not something that it will give you nightmares but certainly it will give you…Īnd at the end, that’s the whole purpose of this series. I found ingenious that the main character (and narrator of the story) is a teenage girl, due this is the first book of a series (that eventually became so popular and bestseller) having young audience as main targets, so the boys will pick the book since it’s terror, and the girls will pick the book since a girl is the main characters (without messing the topic with clichés of “women read romance”, “men read terror”, since I know for sure that it’s not the case) but as a business decision for a key first book in a series in this kind of genre and target audiences, I thought that it was well chosen. Lovecraft, but I am glad to say that the book is quite well written, with an engaging narrative and a kinda of “cliffhanger” or “shocking last line” on each chapter making you to keep reading. Obviously I wasn’t expecting a scary bloody tale, since this is Goosebumps, not H.P. This is the first book of the original book series of “Goosebumps”

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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