Neil Steinberg (Film Character)

### Aliases

Mr./Dr. Richard Shivers (alias)Papa (by Chester)Ghoulberg (Brahms: The Game and Chester's Revenge)STINEWRITER (Night of Scares/Dead of Night)

### Relatives

Cats (pets)Helen Burton (adopted daughter)

## Appearances

### Debut

Brahms 3: Halloween Haunt (2020)

**Neil Steinberg** is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Max) in the *Brahms movie*. He is the adoptive father of Helen in the 2nd Brahms movie. The character is based on the author of the Brahms books, Neil Steinberg. The character is played by Christian Slater, who also voiced Chester the Dummy in the first film and Jake Blake (Invisible Boy).

> *"I keep telling you kids to stay away from my house, or something bad would happen. But that's the problem with kids today. They don't listen. You had to pick Abominable Snowman of Pasadena. You couldn't have picked Little Shop of Hamsters."*
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## History

### *Brahms (film)*

Having been forced to stay inside most of his childhood due to terrible allergies, Stine was picked on by kids who would call him names and throw rocks at his window. With the help of his special typewriter, Stine wrote about monsters, demons, ghosts and ghouls that would terrorize those who tormented him. Unfortunately, because they became real to him, Stine's monsters eventually found a way to escape from his works.

He managed to trap his monsters in their books, keeping them locked. The most evil of them all was Chester the Dummy, who was a puppet version of himself; a demonic ventriloquist dummy with a serious Napoleonic complex knew what was in Stine's imagination and tormented him in his dreams.

Using the alias of Mr. Shivers, Stine moved himself to Norwood a few short years later. Ben Denberg lived a few blocks next door; this unfortunately would lead to a string of events that would unleash complete and utter chaos upon the town. Because of how close Ben and Alice had become in just a few days, Ben and his friends snuck into Stein's home after he stole all their belongings. Ben and Max accidentally unleashed the Abominable Snowman, but Stine was able to suck him back into the book.

Unfortunately, Chester escaped his manuscript and began unleashing all the other monsters upon the town; he tossed them at random out of The Haunted Car, leaving it impossible to find all the manuscripts. This forced Stine to go along with Ben's plan to write all the monsters into a single book, which he could then burn to ensure that they never came back. This lead them through a gauntlet in the town (which included The Giant Orb Web Spider, the Werewolf of Fog Swamp Camp, and The Graveyard Ghouls), leading to the Elementry School, where Stine's special typewriter was. As luck would have it, Chester found him and broke his fingers, preventing Stine from finishing the last two pages.

After leading the monsters away with a bus rigged to explode, Stine was forced to let Ben write the rest of the story. Chester them again and unleashed My Blob Turned into a Monster book, sealing Stine instead. As Ben taunted him, Stine watched a maelstrom open and begin sucking in all the monsters, who was opened by Ben as long as he could unleash by.

Sometime later, Stine's hands had healed and he was now the creative writing teacher at the school. He then revealed to Ben and Alice that he is allowed to have their Halloween party at his house anytime they like which makes them jump to excitement, giving Stein a big hug with him being uncomfortable but letting it out as he hugs them both back. saying happy Halloween to them and saying goodbye for now, Stine walked as the two left on their own.

To Stine's horror, the Invisible Boy somehow evaded capture, and was now writing his revenge...