![]() ![]() I started getting mail: “Dear RL Stine, you idiot. Once, just for my entertainment, I gave a book an unhappy ending: the nice innocent girl is taken away as a murderer and the murderer gets off scot-free. For one thing, in these books there is always a happy ending. It was her way of dealing with her fears. I was talking to a child psychologist in Los Angeles, and he had a patient, this young girl, who came in every week and just recited Fear Street plots to him. They also provide a safe way of thinking about danger and fear. Why can’t a kid just pick up a book and be entertained? Adults have the right to read something just for fun, and I’ve always thought kids had the same right. I don’t try to put any messages in these books: the only lesson is to run. I reread one of your Fear Street books and it addressed some quite serious issues: trauma, grief, loneliness, male rage… ![]() Writing for kids, everyone says: 'Oh, it must keep you young'. And the films are scarier than the books. Nobody ever dies in Goosebumps, and a lot of people die in Fear Street. How do these compare with the TV version of Goosebumps in the 90s? ![]()
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