R.L. Stine To Speak At Rutgers University

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ– R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series, will speak at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. The public event will be held at the College Avenue Student Center on January 11 at 7:00 pm. Fans will get the chance to interact with the author during the event, which is sponsored by Rutgers–New Brunswick Office of Summer & Winter Sessions. An audience Q&A, book signing, and reception will follow the author talk.

Stine has been scaring young readers for over thirty years. His Goosebumps series was a publishing phenomenon, which came to define horror for a generation of avid young readers. With many of Goosebumps’ original fans now well into adulthood, Stine has also published numerous adult novels, including Superstitious, The Sitter, Eye Candy, and Red Rain.

Stine, who began his career at Scholastic, started writing joke books under the name Jovial Bob Stine. He published his first teen horror novel, Blind Date, in 1986, followed by the Fear Street series in 1989, which quickly became the bestselling YA series in history. When the Goosebumps series began in 1992, Stine became a worldwide publishing celebrity and the series was soon adapted for television, becoming the number one kids’ show in America for three years in a row.

In 2015, The Goosebumps Movie, starring Jack Black as Stine, was released by Sony and Columbia Pictures. Featuring forty monsters from the Goosebumps books as well as the infamous Slappy, the evil dummy, it became the #1 film in the United States. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween was released in 2018 and the first of three films based on Stine’s Fear Street series is currently in production and is slated for a 2020 release.

To purchase tickets, visit winter.rutgers.edu/stineevent.­