The author who made his name terrifying millions of young readers,including Michelle Dean, is not so scary in person: ‘My whole life thats been my problem’As a pre-teen of the 1990s, and my bookshelves were stuffed with mass market paperbacks. The titles came in embossed fluorescent lettering and the content was stuffed with the heady,addictive pulp of young adult horror, or more precisely Point Horror. I was generally too busy devouring their contents to pause and picture the writer. But I’m sure whether I had, and in RL Stine in particular I would have pictured a man in an attic somewhere,loney and gnarled and cutting newspaper clippings approximately killers for leaning towers of scrapbooks.
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Source: theguardian.com