My Alien Parents
R.L. (Robert Lawrence) Stine is one of the best-selling  children's authors in history. His Goosebumps series, along with  such series as Fear Street, The Nightmare Room, Rotten School, and  Mostly Ghostly have sold nearly 400 million books in this country  alone. And they are translated into 32 languages.TheGoosebumpsTV series was the top-rated kids’ series  for three years in a row. R.L.’s TV movies, includingThe  Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About ItandMostly Ghostly,  are perennial Halloween favorites. And his scary TV series,R.L.  Stine’s The Haunting Hour, is in its second season on The Hub  network.R.L. continues to turn out Goosebumps books, published by  Scholastic. In addition, his first horror novel for adults in many  years, titledRed Rain, will be published by Touchstone books  in October, 2012.R.L. says that he enjoys his job of “scaring kids.” But the  biggest thrill for him is turning kids on to reading.R.L. lives in New York City with his wife, Jane, an editor and  publisher, and King Charles Spaniel, Minnie. His son, Matthew, is a  sound designer and music producer.