R.L. Stine
Bestselling Author
R.L. Stine is one of the best-selling children's authors in history. Goosebumps, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, has more than 400 million books in print in 32 languages. An all-new New York Times bestselling Goosebumps series, House of Shivers, debuted in 2023, with two more new books to be published in 2026.
The Goosebumps series made R.L. Stine a worldwide publishing celebrity (and frequent Jeopardy and crossword answer). His other popular children’s book series include Fear Street, (recently revived as a feature film trilogy on Netflix), The Garbage Pail Kids, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School. Other titles for children and teens include: It's The First Day of School Forever, A Midsummer Night's Scream, Young Scrooge, Stinetinglers, Slime Doesn’t Pay, Shark Night (2024), Graveyard Club: The Revenge Game (2024), and three picture books, with Marc Brown—The Little Shop of Monsters, Mary McScary, and Why Did the Monster Cross the Road. Recent publications for adults include the comics collections Stuff of Nightmares: No Holiday for Murder (2024), Red Murder, and Slay Ride.
The Goosebumps TV series was the number-one children's show in America for three years. The episodes can still be seen on Netflix. R.L.’s anthology TV series, R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, won the Emmy Award three years in a row as Best Children's Show. With a second season launching in 2025, the newest Disney+ TV series is a new live-action Goosebumps series, executive produced by Scholastic Entertainment. And Just Beyond is based on his graphic novels for BOOM! Studios. Two Goosebumps feature films starring Jack Black as R.L. Stine were released in 2015 and 2018. The first film became the #1 film in America. A trilogy of Fear Street movies released in 2021 all reached #1 on Netflix. Fear Street: Prom Queen was released on Netflix in 2025.
In 2015, Stine’s alma mater Ohio State University announced the inaugural R.L. Stine Scholarship for Undergraduate Creative Writing, an undergraduate scholarship for Ohio State English majors who have demonstrated a serious interest in Creative Writing. In 2024, Stine received a Grand Master lifetime achievement award from the Mystery Writers of America, and is a board member emeritus of the International Thriller Writers association.
RL. Stine lives in New York City with his wife Jane, an editor and publisher. You can connect with him on X @RL_Stine, as well as on Instagram and Facebook. For more information, visit rlstine.com.
