“When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.” He also keeps a tribal mask and a skeleton hanging in his writing studio to provide eerie surroundings. I had no hair at all when I was a kid!”His ideas came from two sources: his memory and his imagination. I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I wouldn't miss any of these comic books. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. “When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called Tales From The Crypt and The Vault of Horror.
That gave me the idea for The Haunted Mask.”Although he never experienced terror first hand, he did enjoy reading about it. For example, one Halloween my son, Matt, put a mask on and then had trouble pulling it off. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. “I’ve never turned into a bee – I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. Despite the fact that almost every book has a different collection of characters, the series has one common element that kids can't get enough of: THE AUTHOR!However believable his plots seem to his readers, Stine insists he has never lived one of his stories. Goosebumps cast a spell upon children by transforming even the most reluctant students into avid readers.
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