Well, well thought out given what it is anyway. The short version is I still enjoy this and see it as one of the better ones due to a weirdly solid and well thought out plot. This was one of my favorites back then although having a friend character with my name played a part in that lol. Anyway, this is one of the ones I had strong nostalgia for, to the point where I recalled every major beat and even some small ones before I re-read this for the first time in ages which doesn't usually happen for me. This is one I'll have to review to go further into, as there isn't a ton to say and I don't want want to say everything here.
We carried powerful flashlights and swung them around like lightsabers, with my mom and aunt teasing me that we were "just checking for vampires." With a story like that, who cares if the book was good or not? I remember sitting on the bed in the guest bedroom, a room I improbably decided was my "reading room." The lamp cast an orange, shadowy glow as I read through this one in the dark, just after taking a walk in the light snow with my parents, my little brother and my aunt. This one is a little schlockier than many (the heavy comedy influence never QUITE sticks, and the comic vampire villain swings between Mel Brooks and menace a little too loosely), but it's one I treasure for the memories it provides.Ĭhristmas Eve and I was newly eight years old. I vividly remember eating these books up, knowing they weren't very good even then but consuming them addictively for their mix of comedy, horror, sci-fi and adventure elements. He lives in New York, NY.Īfter nearly short circuiting my brain pounding massive, phone-book sized classics like War and Peace and the first two volumes of Journey to the West, I decided that I would revisit some childhood favorites for some R&R.
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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