The books proved that kids could not only handle grisly, genuinely frightening horror stories—they were champing at the bit for more. “Forget the funny stuff,” Stine said in a 2015 interview ...

"A random stranger posted my books on some FB book page and they went viral!" the Oklahoma-based author wrote in a Reddit ...

While he’s known for his music and movies, he’s also an author with a new, believe it or not, children’s book — which is, as of this writing, No. 1 on Amazon’s new release horror books list.