Tim Jacobus, who did the original cover illustrations, also deserves a lot of credit. The illustrations were vibrant and spooky and I think they did a lot for the success of Goosebumps, as well. Being a kid at a Scholastic book fair and seeing one of those covers, you are almost certainly going to be drawn in. Honestly, I don't think you can think of Goosebumps books and not have his cover illustrations come to mind.
This is true. They re-released some of the old books with new covers a while back, and the new covers are just so bland and generic. I doubt I would have been so obsessed with the series as a kid if it weren't for that original artwork.
Goosebumps was so popular here in Australia, that we actually read them out loud in class. I think the teachers were just glad that kids were interested in reading, lol.
Oh gosh yes, I remember my 5th grade teacher turning the lights down and reading us the “the barking ghost” for the last maybe 20 minutes of the school day haha
The cover art was a huge part of what made the books so iconic and memorable for me. Meeting Tim Jacobus and having the opportunity to directly support his work was an unexpected surprise at Granite State Comicon last month.
Dude same I met him at Supercon in Miami and it was a dream he was so nice to me and my dog I had to buy a print and I got the Haunted Mask cover and he signed it totally worth buying
Definitely, the cover art was like VHS horror movie box art, but suitable for kids, and just as awesome. I love how the books was a gateway for many to the horror genre
I met R.L. Stine in 1995 for a signing when I was 9. I was star struck. Nearly 30 years later, I still have my autographed book. My kids met him back in 2016 and they of course got autographed books from him. He is a 90s kid treasure. Not to mention also graduated from my alma mater, The Ohio State University.
I was right in that sweet spot for this. Bringing home my scholastic books monthly sales catalog from elementary school. Buying every new book for $2.99 and reading the entire original series. The TV show was the highlight, seeing the characters come to life. Good times!
I was an all of the above Are You Afraid of the Dark, Goosebumps TV and Books, Eerie Indiana, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark kid. I love that he openly credited his librarian for turning him into a reader. Stine also wrote many joke books for Scholastic like 101 Monster Jokes and things like that before Goosebumps became a hit. Being a kid in the 90s, we ate those books up like candy. We went to sleepovers and read Give Yourself Goosebumps together as a group. Then scared ourselves shitless with Bloody Mary in the bathroom mirror.
That would be different. If only because it would be the first time Secret Galaxy featured something that’s basically a folk tale collection on the show.
So violence in novels where it's just words describing things is fine, but if they draw or animate it, it's evil? Doesn't anyone see why this is hypocritical? What, they do think that? But their reaction is to ban EVERYTHING?! This is why we cannot have nice things.
I really get the feeling that people seem to lose it more and more with all the book bans out there or the need to fit in with Karens and rich snobs went too much to their heads.
I get keeping certain things from kids until they're older, but yea people today are way too sensitive and underestimate how resilient kids can be. A large reason why recent generations of kids seem to be so much dumber and incapable can be blamed on overprotective helicopter parents that aren't letting their kids learn important life lessons or develop the necessary mental and emotional skills to cope with life.
"We need to ban Goosebumps books! They're the literary version of comic books and horror films! Which is what the author grew up with and inspired him to become incredible successful! Wait...no wait a sec-"
The first time I saw the Monster Librarian episode (I was 6) I got so scared I only made it about halfway through the episode before I turned the TV off. Just as the monster started chasing the girl through the Library. I was so scared I couldn't sleep that night. It wasn't until they reaired the episode a month later that I watched the whole episode. I told R.L Stine that when I met him 5 years ago and he was very proud.
Ive read both Goosebumps and Fear Street titles and they both are perfect for a bit of light afternoon reading. I also agree with those parents who believe that the Goosebumps books would provide a solid way for kids to get interested in reading while also being a springboard into more advanced literature, not unlike the Magic Tree House series, albeit with more chills and thrills.
HE WORKED ON EUREKA'S CASTLE!?!?!?!! I used to love watching that as a kid. As for the Goosebumps, I loved reading them as a kid. I tried to collect them as a kid. And my mom was happy I was going out of my way to read.
This unlocked core memories. I remember doing the reading contests and from 4th grade to 6th reading every Fear street, ghost of fear street and Goosebumps I could get my hands on. If Mr. Stine ever sees this Thank you for being a huge part of my childhood.
Definitely grew up off the Goosebumps books. The cover art always captured my attention as a kid. I owned the book called" Welcome To Dead House" and had the episode "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" on VHS. Wore em both out Lol. ITS LIT🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’ve used to watch Goosebumps with my cousins at my grandmother’s house every week! That show was part of the cheesy horror trend and children’s mystery like Ghostwriter and Eerie Indiana, which were very fun shows. My school was really big on Goosebumps that my classroom had multiple books along with Encyclopedia Brown and Animorphs!
Christopher Pike and Fear Street were my jams as a kid. I never could get into Goosebumps, and was horrified when I learned the Fear Street author also did Goosebumps.
I used to call Walden books every Saturday to see if the new Goosebumps came in. I loved the books. I never did finish the series though. Stopped around book 50. I liked the new series where it was aimed at us older GB fans
I absolutely loved Goosebumps when i was a kid, i was slap bang in the middle of their target age range. Discovered them in school and Monster Blood III was the first one I personally owned, didn’t take me long to catch up on the rest. When I got in my teens, I moved onto the Point Horror books but much preferred the supernatural dealings of Goosebumps over the realistic approach. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I might have been a Goosebumps kid, but on the day when I had decided to give Goosebumps a try, there was an Animorphs book sitting right next to it at Borders. I got the Animorphs book instead and the rest was history.
When I first read Goosebumps , I didn't think of it as Horror, I thought of it as a modern kid friendly version of The Twilight Zone. It didn't hurt that the first book of the set I read was "One Day at Horrorland". The show did what it could on a minor budget.
POGS! No way!!! Awesome video, as always! I love Goosebumps, and it was definitely my introduction to reading horror and Stephen King. The TV show's intro will always creep me out, and I love it.
I was a Fear Street kid. I was too old for Goosebumps but my kids loved them. One of the highlights of their young lives was when R.L. Stine replied to them (through me) on Twitter. The 2010s was a simpler time.
I was at the age where I could have read both without issue, and I did. They are both perfect series for some afternoon reading or even a bit of a late night fright, if one is so inclined.
3 years made that much of a difference, huh? I'm also fairly confident assuming you didn't start reading Fear Street when it was first published in 1989. No, you probably started in the early 90s....when Goosebumps was published. Stop trying to bullshit people as if being an early R.L. Stine fan somehow makes you more interesting. I'd be willing to bet you don't remember how or when you discovered Goosebumps like most of us and then you went to the elementary school library to look for more of those and realized R.L. Stine wrote other, "lesser," non-Goosebumps series.
@@jessegilbert9568I remember exactly where I discovered them. 10 years old, summer of '93. Am Anderson's store in Republic, Washington. I don't recall which one I ended up buying first, but I devoured them.
Didn't know Fear Street was an earlier series until this video. I'd always assumed he started writing them after the success of Goosebumps, for the older crowd. I bought the vampire Fear Street book as a kid and it scared tf out of me 😂. Think I had a few others too. But really, just the idea of one day not being able to have a normal life, see your family, go to school, etc. (as a result of turning into a vampire) and having to abandon everyone you love was a terrifying idea to me as a kid.
Im 32 yrs old and i still enjoy watching the show. I loved the books as a kid. Thanks to streaming services i can watch these and the Are you afraid of the dark? Series too since i was a Nickelodeon kid
As a kid, going to a video rental store and looking at the covers of all the horror movies was one of the best times of the week. GOOSEBUMPS was exactly that for the library. It was amazing
There were also 2 PC games for Goosebumps made in the 90's with Escape from Horrorland and Attack of the Mutant. Both games were fun for what they were
Back when Pizza Hut had the Book It program, I got a few free pizzas from doing goosebumps book reports. It eventually got to the point where my teacher wouldn't accept Goosebumps book reports from me, so I had to read something new. That's how I started reading the Redwall and Harry Potter books.
This was my childhood, I always loved going to my school library and local library to find the latest Goosebumps and I loved seeing the stories in a visual setting with the TV show!
Goosebumps books were mostly all I read as a kid and it inspired me to make a 50-page Choose Your Own Adventure book for a 6th grade short story assignment.
My mom was one of the parents who were suspicious of the _Goosebumps_ books. She was cautious because the covers of the books were "too scary and gross" for kids. However, after I explained the plots of some of the books to her, she changed her mind. She even started watching the TV show with me!
My first encounters with Stine was in the 80s when he wrote various “Choose Your Own Adventure”-alikes like his Hark books (Badlands of Hark and Invaders of Hark) and Find Your Fate books for Indiana Jones and G.I. Joe.
I remember watching the Goosebumps series on CBBC One in the late afternoons. I was in my early twenties but wow it was a really good series. If an adult, like me could sit down and enjoy a series aimed at for kids. They were doing a great job. Cause that has to be a key element to kids TV. Programming has to catch the interest of both parents and children. Great video as always 🎉
His G.I. Joe choose your fate books are classic for toy fans. He also used the same production company in Canada as Ray Bradbury for the series. They both have a very similar eerie feel to them which what makes them so special. Great childhood nostalgia.
Say Cheese and Die!, the Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, and the Scarecrow Walks at Midnight are my childhood faves. Thank you for the books and the show Mr. Stine.
I used to watch it when I was growing up in Indianapolis. I didn't read the books until years later, when I was only 12 years old, and I've been a fan ever since.
Horror books absolutely steered me to toward more challenging literature and in my own writing pursuits. I was on a 9th grade reading level by 6th and graduated hs with a perfect writing portfolio (one of 4 out of 250 kids). I’m glad there was pushback to keep fun and engaging books on library shelves.
Favourite parallel Goosebumps is the Nerdist music video for Gersberms ft Hayley Williams and The Swedish Chef (based on the meme) with Stein popping up at the end to correct the pronounciation. Remember catching the show a few times as a kid and reading a few of the books (It came from beneath the sink and My hariest adventure) critics can say what they like about the books but they were good enough to be engaging and encourage continued reading
Anyone remember the school "book fair" some company got to come into the school and sell books physically and with a magazine? We were encouraged to bring extra money and buy books. I remember goosebumps from here
Read these as a kid, still have my books all these years later. I keep thinking about collecting the whole set and buy all the titles I am missing. This and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is what got me into horror stories. I should try reading these as an adult and see what I think of them, I'm sure they are still a fun read.
very first book I ever bought was The Haunted Mask. Bought it at a prairie village in South Dakota. Such a weird place to find them. My twin bought Monster Blood 2. I loved the books and the show was very campy but was scary at times.
Growing up in the height of Goosebumps was weird. Everyone was absolutely mad about it, but Fear Street was my obsession. Owned and read anything Fear Street I could get my hands on. Wrote a fan letter to R.L. Stine c/o the publisher once and was really dejected when I got a form letter back in the mail thanking me for how much I loved Goosebumps. That was really crushing as a kid to realize such things happen. Fear Street really hooked me where goosebumps didn't solely on the mythos of the world building versus Goosebumps' individual contained stories.
I had sooo many of these books when I was a kid. Eventually I donated them all, except for "Shocker On Shock St.", 'cause it's my favorite and the first one I bought.
1943?? Wow, R.L. Stine is much older than I thought. We really need to appreciate him as much as we can while he's still here. I also had NO idea there was a new TV show. This is crazy! I need to check this out. I guess this isn't meant to be a "complete R.L. Stine" video and more just a focus on Goosebumps, since he's done so much other stuff since then, but it's maybe worth noting that Stine has done a few really cool comic books in the last few years, mostly for Boom Studios, and some for Marvel.
Goosebumps definitely got me into reading books. I read comics like crazy too. My parents didn’t care what the subject was as long as I was reading. My daughter is 7 but she scares easily so she’s not ready for them..yet.
Me and my sister were goosebumps fans back in the 90s. I’m just glad the show is still on Netflix so we can go back and watch those episodes anytime now since it’s October.
Scholastic definitely figured out the value of marketing and merch, just look at them “book fairs” that had a lot more than just books lol Grew up on Goosebumps books and between that show and Are You Afraid of the Dark I was eating GOOD as a young horror fan lol
I was a Choose Your Own Adventure kid. I graduated high school in 1991 so Goosebumps is totally after my time but holy crap I remember Jovial Bob! I think he wrote some joke books I had as a kid. I had no idea that was the same guy. Talk about core memory unlocked. 🤯
Awesome! Got goosebumps seeing him speak at St Petersburg book fair before the movie came out. Love that Bradbury influence and excellent taste in comics and horror.
I would attribute goosebumps for my high reading level back in elementary school. I was one of those kids that signed up for a scholastic book club membership during one halloween that would send me all types of horror books every so often including the newest goosebump book. I think i have like 60 books in box in my crawlspace. Such good memories with em though
Oh man, I hadn't really thought about Goosebumps in a long time. I read a ton of them in elementary school, and they probably had more of an influence on my own art/writing/etc. than I previously would have guessed. Like... a comic I drew in my sophomore year of high school was about a pair of fake cat ears that had gotten exposed to weird radiation but the manufacturer just shipped them out anyway, which would turn you into an actual cat if you wore them, and would fly off of your head after turning you into a cat to find someone else to cat-ify next, until eventually they decided to stay on someone permanently and turned them into a mutant cat-monster. That definitely sounds like something along the lines of what might happen in a Goosebumps book now that I think about it. ...Now I kinda want to go back and read some old Goosebumps books (sadly my own collection, along with *most* of my books from when I was a kid, are long gone.) I tend to stay away from most horror themed stuff anymore because I can't deal with graphic gory scenes at all, but the Goosebumps style of "people get trapped in things or transformed into something weird or sorta-kinda die sometimes, but not in a gory violent way" works for me.
I had a subscription to "Bananas" magazine as a kid; I never put together that "Jovial" Bob Stine was R.L. Stine until he guested on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. And now my remaining, surviving issue of "Bananas" feels all the more special....
Loved goosebumps in the 90s and I bought every single one of the original series with my allowance and birthday money. I got a few of the give yourself goosebumps, but afterwards fell off in interest. When I was a little older, I read a few of the fear street books and they genuinely scared me
Some of the first 2 season episodes were really good. I remember when the haunted mask one was premiering on TV around Halloween time, it was a good time back then. 😄👍
Fyi in the French part of Canada, it was called ; Chaire de Poule. I hate ventroliquist puppets ever since I'v seen that episode which traumatised me as a young kid.
Best episode was when the kid had a friend, and they were kicking it the whole episode... The friends house burned down or something, and she kept trying to find her family.. but comes to find out , the friend was a ghost that died already in the house fire.
I was absolutely on the Goosebumps train. Read all of the original series, and the first few Series 2000 ones as they came out before deciding I was over it.
I missed Goosebumps by a few years. As a result, I read Cujo at age 8, followed by The Shining and Dead Zone. I turned out... fine? When I was reading Stephen King at too young an age, I knew RL Stine for his Choose Your Own Adventure books. I'm also kind of gobsmacked to learn he was also "Jovial" Bob Stein!
I also was too old (by my standards) when these hit, but I did love reading (and not just comics) as a kid. I always wanted to read above my level (which is probably part of why I ended up a lit major and volunteered for 2 different libraries).
Tim Jacobus, who did the original cover illustrations, also deserves a lot of credit. The illustrations were vibrant and spooky and I think they did a lot for the success of Goosebumps, as well. Being a kid at a Scholastic book fair and seeing one of those covers, you are almost certainly going to be drawn in. Honestly, I don't think you can think of Goosebumps books and not have his cover illustrations come to mind.
I met Tim Jacobus, he’s a really awesome dude
This is true. They re-released some of the old books with new covers a while back, and the new covers are just so bland and generic. I doubt I would have been so obsessed with the series as a kid if it weren't for that original artwork.
I have a copy of the haunted mask signed by both!!!
@@lanceturley7745 I feel the same way.
I came here for this comment! Stine was obviously the driving force, but Jacobus is the one that made me pick up the book.
Goosebumps was so popular here in Australia, that we actually read them out loud in class. I think the teachers were just glad that kids were interested in reading, lol.
That was scholastic doing their thing. They would offer copies to the school telling them it was a great reading practice
Oh gosh yes, I remember my 5th grade teacher turning the lights down and reading us the “the barking ghost” for the last maybe 20 minutes of the school day haha
I was more of a "Are You Afraid of the Dark" kid back then, but episodes like "My Hairiest Adventure" were great.
Same here.
Same, although Goosebumps was pretty good. My favorite was probably "The Horror of camp Jellyjam" or "Ghost Beach"
I call this meeting of the midnight society...closed
I was a Erie Indiana,well the tv show that aired on Fox Kids back in the day ,same creators of goosebumps tv show
@@woody4077 end credits theme ,and announcer saying ,coming up next the mystery files of Shelby Woo
The cover art was a huge part of what made the books so iconic and memorable for me. Meeting Tim Jacobus and having the opportunity to directly support his work was an unexpected surprise at Granite State Comicon last month.
The covers are definitely iconic
I bought a pencil recreation of The Haunted Mask cover. It was great.
Dude same I met him at Supercon in Miami and it was a dream he was so nice to me and my dog I had to buy a print and I got the Haunted Mask cover and he signed it totally worth buying
Definitely, the cover art was like VHS horror movie box art, but suitable for kids, and just as awesome. I love how the books was a gateway for many to the horror genre
Really don't make it like that anymore then again when this was coming out it wasn't the years of Internet, social media and smartphones.
That Eureeka's Castle info just blew my mind
Right?
I would have never guessed
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I met R.L. Stine in 1995 for a signing when I was 9. I was star struck. Nearly 30 years later, I still have my autographed book. My kids met him back in 2016 and they of course got autographed books from him. He is a 90s kid treasure. Not to mention also graduated from my alma mater, The Ohio State University.
Loved those books as a kid. "Say Cheese and Die" and "The Haunted Mask" were the most memorable.
now those were pretty scary at first look.
Say Cheese and Die is a ripoff of the Twilight Zone episode A Very Unusual Camera.
@@Absimpson55 Right thanks for reminding us. There also a Are you afraid of the dark episode too.
I was right in that sweet spot for this. Bringing home my scholastic books monthly sales catalog from elementary school. Buying every new book for $2.99 and reading the entire original series. The TV show was the highlight, seeing the characters come to life. Good times!
I was an all of the above Are You Afraid of the Dark, Goosebumps TV and Books, Eerie Indiana, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark kid. I love that he openly credited his librarian for turning him into a reader. Stine also wrote many joke books for Scholastic like 101 Monster Jokes and things like that before Goosebumps became a hit. Being a kid in the 90s, we ate those books up like candy. We went to sleepovers and read Give Yourself Goosebumps together as a group. Then scared ourselves shitless with Bloody Mary in the bathroom mirror.
Goosebumps had some of the best cover art. Anyone else remember scary stories to tell in the dark. Maybe they deserve a feature
That would be different. If only because it would be the first time Secret Galaxy featured something that’s basically a folk tale collection on the show.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark had way more controversy, which would probably make it a great candidate for this channel.
I still have my old collection of these on my bookshelf! Love them SO much!
The images used to give me the creeps! The stories were great too
The author, Alvin Schwartz, also directed the show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction; which used some of those stories as well.
The eurekas castle fact is the best, that was the 1st show i can recall watching in my life
That show was/is awesome
I think I knew that.
One of my favorites as a preschooler.
No love for Romper Room, Today's Special, or Buster and Me?
That short clip unlocked so, so many core memories in my brain...
I think I need to go find out if it's available to watch online anywhere.
So violence in novels where it's just words describing things is fine, but if they draw or animate it, it's evil? Doesn't anyone see why this is hypocritical?
What, they do think that? But their reaction is to ban EVERYTHING?! This is why we cannot have nice things.
I really get the feeling that people seem to lose it more and more with all the book bans out there or the need to fit in with Karens and rich snobs went too much to their heads.
I get keeping certain things from kids until they're older, but yea people today are way too sensitive and underestimate how resilient kids can be. A large reason why recent generations of kids seem to be so much dumber and incapable can be blamed on overprotective helicopter parents that aren't letting their kids learn important life lessons or develop the necessary mental and emotional skills to cope with life.
"We need to ban Goosebumps books! They're the literary version of comic books and horror films! Which is what the author grew up with and inspired him to become incredible successful! Wait...no wait a sec-"
I remember when the book fair happened at elementary school and started seeing all these books coming out.
Me too that's exactly how lots of us were introduced to the series. The covers were awesome
The first time I saw the Monster Librarian episode (I was 6) I got so scared I only made it about halfway through the episode before I turned the TV off. Just as the monster started chasing the girl through the Library. I was so scared I couldn't sleep that night. It wasn't until they reaired the episode a month later that I watched the whole episode.
I told R.L Stine that when I met him 5 years ago and he was very proud.
I remember the twist ending being even more awful! 😂
Great ending
Ive read both Goosebumps and Fear Street titles and they both are perfect for a bit of light afternoon reading. I also agree with those parents who believe that the Goosebumps books would provide a solid way for kids to get interested in reading while also being a springboard into more advanced literature, not unlike the Magic Tree House series, albeit with more chills and thrills.
i had no idea he did Eureka's Castle :O
HE WORKED ON EUREKA'S CASTLE!?!?!?!!
I used to love watching that as a kid.
As for the Goosebumps, I loved reading them as a kid. I tried to collect them as a kid. And my mom was happy I was going out of my way to read.
This unlocked core memories. I remember doing the reading contests and from 4th grade to 6th reading every Fear street, ghost of fear street and Goosebumps I could get my hands on.
If Mr. Stine ever sees this Thank you for being a huge part of my childhood.
Definitely grew up off the Goosebumps books. The cover art always captured my attention as a kid. I owned the book called" Welcome To Dead House" and had the episode "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" on VHS. Wore em both out Lol. ITS LIT🔥🔥🔥🔥
I think the most important revelation that Stine had was that: kids basically haven't changed in 70 or more years.
I’ve used to watch Goosebumps with my cousins at my grandmother’s house every week! That show was part of the cheesy horror trend and children’s mystery like Ghostwriter and Eerie Indiana, which were very fun shows. My school was really big on Goosebumps that my classroom had multiple books along with Encyclopedia Brown and Animorphs!
Viewer, Beware! You're In For A Scare!
Christopher Pike and Fear Street were my jams as a kid. I never could get into Goosebumps, and was horrified when I learned the Fear Street author also did Goosebumps.
I remember him being the original captain of the enterprise
I used to call Walden books every Saturday to see if the new Goosebumps came in. I loved the books. I never did finish the series though. Stopped around book 50. I liked the new series where it was aimed at us older GB fans
I absolutely loved Goosebumps when i was a kid, i was slap bang in the middle of their target age range. Discovered them in school and Monster Blood III was the first one I personally owned, didn’t take me long to catch up on the rest. When I got in my teens, I moved onto the Point Horror books but much preferred the supernatural dealings of Goosebumps over the realistic approach.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Dude the Halloween episode of Eureka’s Castle MESSED ME UP. That damn monster chasing everyone was some terrifying puppetry!
I might have been a Goosebumps kid, but on the day when I had decided to give Goosebumps a try, there was an Animorphs book sitting right next to it at Borders. I got the Animorphs book instead and the rest was history.
When I first read Goosebumps , I didn't think of it as Horror, I thought of it as a modern kid friendly version of The Twilight Zone. It didn't hurt that the first book of the set I read was "One Day at Horrorland". The show did what it could on a minor budget.
No, you did not think of it as a kid friendly Twilight Zone. What stupid fuckin' obvious bullshit some people decide to spew....
POGS! No way!!! Awesome video, as always! I love Goosebumps, and it was definitely my introduction to reading horror and Stephen King. The TV show's intro will always creep me out, and I love it.
Yes! I definitely remember having Goosebumps pogs.
I was a Fear Street kid. I was too old for Goosebumps but my kids loved them. One of the highlights of their young lives was when R.L. Stine replied to them (through me) on Twitter. The 2010s was a simpler time.
I was at the age where I could have read both without issue, and I did. They are both perfect series for some afternoon reading or even a bit of a late night fright, if one is so inclined.
My favorite book was the face
3 years made that much of a difference, huh? I'm also fairly confident assuming you didn't start reading Fear Street when it was first published in 1989. No, you probably started in the early 90s....when Goosebumps was published. Stop trying to bullshit people as if being an early R.L. Stine fan somehow makes you more interesting. I'd be willing to bet you don't remember how or when you discovered Goosebumps like most of us and then you went to the elementary school library to look for more of those and realized R.L. Stine wrote other, "lesser," non-Goosebumps series.
@@jessegilbert9568I remember exactly where I discovered them. 10 years old, summer of '93. Am
Anderson's store in Republic, Washington. I don't recall which one I ended up buying first, but I devoured them.
Didn't know Fear Street was an earlier series until this video. I'd always assumed he started writing them after the success of Goosebumps, for the older crowd.
I bought the vampire Fear Street book as a kid and it scared tf out of me 😂. Think I had a few others too. But really, just the idea of one day not being able to have a normal life, see your family, go to school, etc. (as a result of turning into a vampire) and having to abandon everyone you love was a terrifying idea to me as a kid.
That Bowtie and Carnation ensemble looks crazy! 😂
Very demure, very mindful 😊
I think he’s dressed as Slappy from Night of the Living Dummy.
Im 32 yrs old and i still enjoy watching the show. I loved the books as a kid. Thanks to streaming services i can watch these and the Are you afraid of the dark? Series too since i was a Nickelodeon kid
As a kid, going to a video rental store and looking at the covers of all the horror movies was one of the best times of the week. GOOSEBUMPS was exactly that for the library. It was amazing
If it wasn't for Goosebumps, I wouldn't be reading novels today. 😁
What?!
I Loved Eureka's Castle growing up. Magellan was one of my favorite voice actors from that era.
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There were also 2 PC games for Goosebumps made in the 90's with Escape from Horrorland and Attack of the Mutant. Both games were fun for what they were
Back when Pizza Hut had the Book It program, I got a few free pizzas from doing goosebumps book reports. It eventually got to the point where my teacher wouldn't accept Goosebumps book reports from me, so I had to read something new. That's how I started reading the Redwall and Harry Potter books.
This was my childhood, I always loved going to my school library and local library to find the latest Goosebumps and I loved seeing the stories in a visual setting with the TV show!
Goosebumps books were mostly all I read as a kid and it inspired me to make a 50-page Choose Your Own Adventure book for a 6th grade short story assignment.
Loved those books! I seem to remember some of them getting rather existential with their scares; I’m so glad I was exposed to such writing as a kid
I have the Goosebumps G tattooed on the back of my arm. One of the things that help define me growing up. Thanks Mr. Stine.
My mom was one of the parents who were suspicious of the _Goosebumps_ books. She was cautious because the covers of the books were "too scary and gross" for kids. However, after I explained the plots of some of the books to her, she changed her mind. She even started watching the TV show with me!
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My first encounters with Stine was in the 80s when he wrote various “Choose Your Own Adventure”-alikes like his Hark books (Badlands of Hark and Invaders of Hark) and Find Your Fate books for Indiana Jones and G.I. Joe.
Discovered Goosebumps in 2nd grade and Animorphs in 3rd, loved them both.
I remember watching the Goosebumps series on CBBC One in the late afternoons. I was in my early twenties but wow it was a really good series. If an adult, like me could sit down and enjoy a series aimed at for kids. They were doing a great job.
Cause that has to be a key element to kids TV. Programming has to catch the interest of both parents and children.
Great video as always 🎉
His G.I. Joe choose your fate books are classic for toy fans. He also used the same production company in Canada as Ray Bradbury for the series. They both have a very similar eerie feel to them which what makes them so special. Great childhood nostalgia.
Say Cheese and Die!, the Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, and the Scarecrow Walks at Midnight are my childhood faves. Thank you for the books and the show Mr. Stine.
I’ve recently began collecting his YA novels at thrift stores and brick and mortar book stores. It’s been so nostalgic! ✨
That Slappy Fox Kids commercial threw me through a time loop, that was so nostalgic!
I used to watch it when I was growing up in Indianapolis. I didn't read the books until years later, when I was only 12 years old, and I've been a fan ever since.
Horror books absolutely steered me to toward more challenging literature and in my own writing pursuits. I was on a 9th grade reading level by 6th and graduated hs with a perfect writing portfolio (one of 4 out of 250 kids). I’m glad there was pushback to keep fun and engaging books on library shelves.
In 4th grade we had those weekly book orders, and they had a deal where you bought the first 3 Goosebumps for really cheap. After that i was hooked.
Favourite parallel Goosebumps is the Nerdist music video for Gersberms ft Hayley Williams and The Swedish Chef (based on the meme) with Stein popping up at the end to correct the pronounciation.
Remember catching the show a few times as a kid and reading a few of the books (It came from beneath the sink and My hariest adventure) critics can say what they like about the books but they were good enough to be engaging and encourage continued reading
Great video Dan & Greg! It's so cool seeing you guys cover stuff from my childhood!
The way Dan says "Buuuks" always gets me, I love it.
Anyone remember the school "book fair" some company got to come into the school and sell books physically and with a magazine? We were encouraged to bring extra money and buy books. I remember goosebumps from here
Read these as a kid, still have my books all these years later. I keep thinking about collecting the whole set and buy all the titles I am missing. This and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is what got me into horror stories. I should try reading these as an adult and see what I think of them, I'm sure they are still a fun read.
Not going to lie, every single one of those illustrations for the books covers is what got me reading them and collecting them back in the 90s!😊
very first book I ever bought was The Haunted Mask. Bought it at a prairie village in South Dakota. Such a weird place to find them. My twin bought Monster Blood 2. I loved the books and the show was very campy but was scary at times.
Starting out Spooktober with a bang! 💯🎃My first one was book #3 "Monster Blood" and I was hooked from there. 💚
Growing up in the height of Goosebumps was weird. Everyone was absolutely mad about it, but Fear Street was my obsession. Owned and read anything Fear Street I could get my hands on. Wrote a fan letter to R.L. Stine c/o the publisher once and was really dejected when I got a form letter back in the mail thanking me for how much I loved Goosebumps. That was really crushing as a kid to realize such things happen. Fear Street really hooked me where goosebumps didn't solely on the mythos of the world building versus Goosebumps' individual contained stories.
I had sooo many of these books when I was a kid. Eventually I donated them all, except for "Shocker On Shock St.", 'cause it's my favorite and the first one I bought.
1943?? Wow, R.L. Stine is much older than I thought. We really need to appreciate him as much as we can while he's still here.
I also had NO idea there was a new TV show. This is crazy! I need to check this out.
I guess this isn't meant to be a "complete R.L. Stine" video and more just a focus on Goosebumps, since he's done so much other stuff since then, but it's maybe worth noting that Stine has done a few really cool comic books in the last few years, mostly for Boom Studios, and some for Marvel.
Goosebumps definitely got me into reading books. I read comics like crazy too. My parents didn’t care what the subject was as long as I was reading. My daughter is 7 but she scares easily so she’s not ready for them..yet.
I loved the Goosebumps TV show, my favorite episode was night of the living dummy.
I remember reading R.L. Stine’s GI Joe novels. They were great stories and I wish I would’ve held onto my copies. I’d love to reread them now.
Was Batley's design based on Stein? Now that I know he was involved in creating Eureeka's Castle, it's hard not to see the resemblance in the two.
He meant to do that.
Me and my sister were goosebumps fans back in the 90s. I’m just glad the show is still on Netflix so we can go back and watch those episodes anytime now since it’s October.
Scholastic definitely figured out the value of marketing and merch, just look at them “book fairs” that had a lot more than just books lol
Grew up on Goosebumps books and between that show and Are You Afraid of the Dark I was eating GOOD as a young horror fan lol
Awesome video! alot of cool new info!
Fun fact: R.L. Stine wrote the Masters of the Universe Golden Book "Demons of the Deep".
I was a Choose Your Own Adventure kid. I graduated high school in 1991 so Goosebumps is totally after my time but holy crap I remember Jovial Bob! I think he wrote some joke books I had as a kid. I had no idea that was the same guy. Talk about core memory unlocked. 🤯
Awesome! Got goosebumps seeing him speak at St Petersburg book fair before the movie came out. Love that Bradbury influence and excellent taste in comics and horror.
I would attribute goosebumps for my high reading level back in elementary school. I was one of those kids that signed up for a scholastic book club membership during one halloween that would send me all types of horror books every so often including the newest goosebump book. I think i have like 60 books in box in my crawlspace. Such good memories with em though
Goosebumps was one of my first Union TV jobs! I worked on the Scarecrow in the Scarecrow walks at Midnight and the creature in How to Kill a Monster
Oh man, I hadn't really thought about Goosebumps in a long time.
I read a ton of them in elementary school, and they probably had more of an influence on my own art/writing/etc. than I previously would have guessed. Like... a comic I drew in my sophomore year of high school was about a pair of fake cat ears that had gotten exposed to weird radiation but the manufacturer just shipped them out anyway, which would turn you into an actual cat if you wore them, and would fly off of your head after turning you into a cat to find someone else to cat-ify next, until eventually they decided to stay on someone permanently and turned them into a mutant cat-monster. That definitely sounds like something along the lines of what might happen in a Goosebumps book now that I think about it.
...Now I kinda want to go back and read some old Goosebumps books (sadly my own collection, along with *most* of my books from when I was a kid, are long gone.) I tend to stay away from most horror themed stuff anymore because I can't deal with graphic gory scenes at all, but the Goosebumps style of "people get trapped in things or transformed into something weird or sorta-kinda die sometimes, but not in a gory violent way" works for me.
I had a subscription to "Bananas" magazine as a kid; I never put together that "Jovial" Bob Stine was R.L. Stine until he guested on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. And now my remaining, surviving issue of "Bananas" feels all the more special....
"Bananas" even contained horror stories that were probably along the line of Stine's "Fear Street"'s intensity.
Loved goosebumps in the 90s and I bought every single one of the original series with my allowance and birthday money. I got a few of the give yourself goosebumps, but afterwards fell off in interest. When I was a little older, I read a few of the fear street books and they genuinely scared me
Can you do one for Are You Afraid of the Dark?
I was addicted to "Goosebumps" books as a child, had to get/read every book from those Scholastic flyers we got in Elementary School!
I remember when Animorphs came out and everyone dropped Goosebumps with the quickness. It was sold out everwhere too. Throwback
Is Eureka's Castle on the list?!
Schools: READ!
Students start reading Goosebumps books
Schools: No not like that!
Loved Eureekas Castle, and while a bit old for the books, I definately read most of them, based on the covers alone.
No love for Bob's novelization of the seminal classic SPACEBALLS! or the never produced Microverse playset?
Fun fact: In Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, there were a series of Goosebumps rip-offs called Mr. Midnight.
Some of the first 2 season episodes were really good.
I remember when the haunted mask one was premiering on TV around Halloween time, it was a good time back then.
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7:55 newspaper is from my home town in MN. Wow where you get that article 😂❤
Fyi in the French part of Canada, it was called ; Chaire de Poule. I hate ventroliquist puppets ever since I'v seen that episode which traumatised me as a young kid.
As a Goosebumps reader as a kid, I was so happy when Marvel announced RL Stine was writing a Man-Thing mini-series back in 2017. Fun book.
Best episode was when the kid had a friend, and they were kicking it the whole episode... The friends house burned down or something, and she kept trying to find her family.. but comes to find out , the friend was a ghost that died already in the house fire.
I was absolutely on the Goosebumps train. Read all of the original series, and the first few Series 2000 ones as they came out before deciding I was over it.
Great video, maybe you can also do Eerie, Indiana or Bone Chillers this month.
they have done eerie, indiana already, check their older vids.
@@zelnasty Thanks for letting me know!
Just discovered this channel (automatic sub, obviously) and you definitely have the best halloween background setup
My favorite of all time as a kid the books , show , music was epic !! 💚
I missed Goosebumps by a few years. As a result, I read Cujo at age 8, followed by The Shining and Dead Zone. I turned out... fine?
When I was reading Stephen King at too young an age, I knew RL Stine for his Choose Your Own Adventure books. I'm also kind of gobsmacked to learn he was also "Jovial" Bob Stein!
I also was too old (by my standards) when these hit, but I did love reading (and not just comics) as a kid. I always wanted to read above my level (which is probably part of why I ended up a lit major and volunteered for 2 different libraries).
I was a huge Goosebumps fan, the books and the show. Didn't realize it was the second best selling series behind HP but I'm not surprised!