![]() ![]() The printers were working overtime-shipping 3 million copies per week-and Goosebumps was spun off into many different formats. I remember well those heady days in the office when we could not keep Goosebumps in stock. It was a huge bestseller and Jovial Bob decided to focus on horror.īob went on to write the Fear Street series for Simon and Schuster and then returned to Scholastic to create Goosebumps, his mega-bestselling, life-changing series that turned millions of kids into readers. ![]() In 1984, then-Editor in Chief of Scholastic, Jean Feiwel, asked Jovial Bob over lunch to take a stab at writing a teen horror novel called Blind Date. “It was my life’s goal to have my own national humor magazine,” Bob said in a recent interview, “and I had reached it at age 28.”īob was a practical joker, and the accounts of his many pranks will have to stay locked up in the Scholastic Book Clubs vault. His future wife, Jane, was the editor of Dynamite magazine, and the two worked together to create Hot Dog! magazine as well. Stine was known around the halls of Scholastic, where he worked for 16 years, as “Jovial Bob Stine.” He wrote many joke books for Scholastic Book Clubs and was the editor of Bananas magazine. And even though personally I do not like to be scared, I loved reading Goosebumps books right from the beginning-and I still love sharing them with kids and watching them get excited about reading. Everyone at Scholastic Book Clubs feels a close personal attachment to Goosebumps and its origin story. ![]()
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