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Chicago Humanities and Music Box Theatre conjure Halloween spirits with this spooky screening and hair-raising talk with best-selling children’s author and the creative mind behind the Goosebumps franchise, R.L. Stine. First introduced in 1992, Goosebumps is one of the bestselling book series of all time, with more than 400 million books in print worldwide and available in 32 languages—defining the nightmares of a generation. Grasp this rare, spine-tingling opportunity to see Goosebumps on the Music Box big screen, followed by exclusive insights and behind-the-scenes stories with the Master of Modern Horror himself.
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 Timesbestselling Goosebumps series, House of Shivers, debuted in September 2023, with two more books to be published in 2024.
The Goosebumps series made R.L. Stine a worldwide publishing celebrity (and Jeopardy answer). His other popular children’s book series include Fear Street (recently revived as a feature film trilogy), The Garbage Pail Kids, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School. Other titles include: It’s The First Day of School Forever, A Midsummer Night’s Scream, Young Scrooge, Stinetinglers, and three picture books, with Marc Brown—The Little Shop of Monsters, Mary McScary, and Why Did the Monster Cross the Road (2023).
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. His newest Disney+ TV series are a new live-action Goosebumps series, executive produced by Scholastic Entertainment, and Just Beyond, 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.
RL. Stine lives in New York City with his wife Jane, an editor and publisher. You can connect with him on Twitter @RL_Stine, as well as on Instagram and Facebook. For more information, visit rlstine.com.
Chris Borrelli is a longtime features writer at the Chicago Tribune, covering very random topics: horror novelists, endangered species, accordion-shop owners, the decline of Sears, the repatriation of Native American artifacts, Godzilla, Lana Del Rey, guerrilla artists -- and so forth. He is a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and a militant Rhode Islander.
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Chicago Humanities and Music Box Theatre conjure Halloween spirits with this spooky screening and hair-raising talk with best-selling children’s author and the creative mind behind the Goosebumps franchise, R.L. Stine. First introduced in 1992, Goosebumps is one of the bestselling book series of all time, with more than 400 million books in print worldwide and available in 32 languages—defining the nightmares of a generation. Grasp this rare, spine-tingling opportunity to see Goosebumps on the Music Box big screen, followed by exclusive insights and behind-the-scenes stories with the Master of Modern Horror himself.
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 Timesbestselling Goosebumps series, House of Shivers, debuted in September 2023, with two more books to be published in 2024.
The Goosebumps series made R.L. Stine a worldwide publishing celebrity (and Jeopardy answer). His other popular children’s book series include Fear Street (recently revived as a feature film trilogy), The Garbage Pail Kids, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School. Other titles include: It’s The First Day of School Forever, A Midsummer Night’s Scream, Young Scrooge, Stinetinglers, and three picture books, with Marc Brown—The Little Shop of Monsters, Mary McScary, and Why Did the Monster Cross the Road (2023).
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. His newest Disney+ TV series are a new live-action Goosebumps series, executive produced by Scholastic Entertainment, and Just Beyond, 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.
RL. Stine lives in New York City with his wife Jane, an editor and publisher. You can connect with him on Twitter @RL_Stine, as well as on Instagram and Facebook. For more information, visit rlstine.com.
Chris Borrelli is a longtime features writer at the Chicago Tribune, covering very random topics: horror novelists, endangered species, accordion-shop owners, the decline of Sears, the repatriation of Native American artifacts, Godzilla, Lana Del Rey, guerrilla artists -- and so forth. He is a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and a militant Rhode Islander.
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