Wild Things: YA Grown-Up discussion

I don't know if I am placing this in the right spot or even if it was mentioned before but I remember when I was younger I used to read R.L. Stine. I loved those books and I think I read all of them (at the time). Not the Goosebump series but the Fear Street collection.

It's funny now because I remember them being so good and now books seem so different. Maybe even better? What I am trying to say is that I really only remember the Fear Street books being the ONLY books that were good and now as I am older and I explore more I realize that NOW there are so many different YA books and many of them are really good!

I definitely read both Fear Street and Goosebumps!

RL Stine was the master of YA horror :-)

Did you check out his website? It is something else!

We still have lots of VHS tapes in our attic of R.L. Stine shows. They were a little cheezy, but pretty fun to watch with my kids.

Why does that sound familiar? I vaguely remember the shows.

My kids read all the books, but I didn't, so I don't know if the episodes were based on books or just had the same spirit. The series was called R.L. Stine's Goosebumps, and I think it was on Neckelodeon.

Oh OK. See I never read that series but I do remember that there was a show. I think I remember watching some sort of made-for-TV movie for Fear Street but I could be wrong.

Point Horror is series of young adult horror fiction books which include authors such as Richie Tankersley Cusick, Ljane Smith, R. L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Caroline B. Cooney, Diane Hoh, Carol Ellis, Auline Bates, Lael Littke, Barbara Steiner, D. E. Athkins, Peter Lerangis and Sinclair Smith.

There have been three off-shoots of the Point Horror series that, while all showing the "Point Horror" Logo, are often regarded as separate series in their own rights. They are "Point Horror Unleashed", "Nightmare Hall" and "Mutant Point Horror".

Nightmare Hall is unique amongst the off-shoots as the entire series was written solely by Diane Hoh.

-found on Wikipedia

I confess I re-read the Fear Street Saga trilogy last Halloween. I wanted to see if R.L. Stine was as good as I remembered. I forgot how easy his books are to read lol!

I had quite a few 'Goosebumps', but I think they were too expensive for me as a kid, so I used to read 'Shivers' the cheap rip off. Oddly though I liked 'Shivers' by M.D. Spenser better, I found them scarier.

Kimberly wrote: "I confess I re-read the Fear Street Saga trilogy last Halloween. I wanted to see if R.L. Stine was as good as I remembered. I forgot how easy his books are to read lol!"

I know he wrote an "adult" book many years ago that I read. Superstitious

Ooh, I remember my cousin and I used to sneak the Fear Street books from the library during the summer when she came to visit and we both stayed at my gramma's house...we would get into so much trouble if my gramma caught us reading them because she thought we'd have too many nightmares, so we always had to sneak them!

I loved R.L. Stine! He was THE cool author to read at my elementary school! I read almost all of his Seniors series, where one girl has a vision of the whole Senior class in bloody coffins or something like that, and each of the books is about another one or so of them dying off. Anyone else remember those? They were in such high demand at my library I moved without finishing 2 of them, and the library where I moved didn't carry them. That was a sad day...