"Goosebumps," a popular children's book series by R.L. Stine, is now a weekly live-action, 30-minute series on Fox Children Network.
At a party to launch the TV series, Stine, dressed in black, welcomed several hundred young fans to a screening of an episode. The party was held at New York's Limelight, once a former church, which was filled with scary skeletons, caskets and spider webs.The Goosebumps book series, with its spooky, nonviolent tales of terror, is designed for children 8 to 10 years of age. It is published by Scholastic Inc. and created by Parachute Press. The TV series (check local listings) is produced by Protocol Entertainment in association with Scholastic Productions.
Stine wrote the first two Goosebumps books, "Welcome to Dead House" and "Stay Out of the Basement," in 1992. Scholastic publishes a new Goosebumps title every month.