r.l. stine explains why it took decades, and 17 scripts, to finally bring goosebumps to film /

In the early 1990s,R.
L. Stine changed the face of YA horror in the early '90s with the publication of his Goosebumps novels. An iconic television series was produced three years after the release of the first book, but it took Hollywood more than 20 years to figure out how to adapt the author's large collection of frightening tales into a feature-length film. 

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