Biografia

Was the head writer for Nickelodeon's top-rated children's show "Eureeka's Castle." When his son Matt was little, he would fall down a lot and quickly get up and instantly say, "I meant to do that!" This inspired the character of Batly, whose gimmick was whenever he would fly, he would fall down and do the same.

He and Jane have a son named Matthew Stine (born in 1980) who owns 27 Sound Entertainment in New York City and is a music producer.

His son appeared on the cover of one of his Fear Street horror novels: "The Perfect Date.".

Wrote a new book for the Fear Street series in a period of ten days and a new book for the Goosebumps series over a period of eight.

Played the clarinet, trombone, flute, saxophone, guitar, xylophone, and the triangle in high school.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.