There are plenty of cockroaches in New York City, but at R.L. Stine’s house, you’ll find a 3 foot one.
OK, not an actual roach. It was just one of the many horror-based knick knacks lying around his office, which was filled with Goosebumps lunchboxes and dolls and, of course, books.
Was that slight mis-direct about the roach kind of cheap? An easy way to (hopefully) hook a reader? Absolutely. But it’s the kind of thing that Stine has built his career on — cheap tricks and teases. ” ‘Goosebumps’ is mostly teases,” he says.
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