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March 25, 2008
    ‘Goosebumps’ Rises From the Literary Grave     By BRIAN STELTER
             When R. L. Stine’s characters confront a creepy villain, they may gasp, they may shiver, they may even cringe. Mostly, though, they shriek.
  “That’s when I started to scream” may be the most frequently used chapter ending in the hugely successful children’s horror series “Goosebumps,” which a decade ago catapulted Mr. Stine to prominence. Now, for the first time in eight years, during which Mr. Stine tried his hand at creating other series, he is back with a fresh “Goosebumps.” Can he resuscitate the dormant brand? 
  “Maybe it’ll be hard to do a second time,” he said. “Maybe it’ll happen again. Right now I don’t know.”
  Mr. Stine, who was born Robert Lawrence Stine 64 years ago, devotes considerable effort to the cliffhangers that virtually dare you to try to stop reading. For years it paid off with a sizable following of children — many of them now just getting out of college or having children of their own — for whom the slightly scary “Goosebumps” series was a sensation before it cooled off in the mid-’90s, just before Harry Potter took off in the United States. 
  Now his American publisher, Scholastic, hoping that another generation of readers ages 8 to 12 is ready for his stories, is releasing the first of 12 books in a new series called “Goosebumps HorrorLand.” The author and his publisher must know the odds are against lightning striking twice....
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 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/books/25stin.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
 
 
 
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 mary gavlik
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You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places 
where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason
for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. 
— Monty Python skit
       
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