User blog:Kingsman28/Greetings to fellow Stine fans.

Hi guys!

It's pretty cool to be here finally, celebrating Goosebumps and R.L. Stine's legacy. But I feel that I can't start without first acknowledging that I wasn't really a fan of Stine's works growing up. You see, my parents really looked down on horror and all of the stuff asociated with it. So at one point they burned all of the copies of Fear Street and Goosebumps that my bro had. So all my childhood memories were really about looking at all of these cool covers and just listening to what my brother would tell me about their, which would lead me to imagine so many cool scenarios.

Fast forward to around 2011, I think it was The Haunting Hour that really got me into Stine's fanclub. I truly believe that's the show that bridges the gap between the Goosebumps fans and Fear Street fans. The stories were cool. Some were scary. Some were just plain dumb. But when they got good, they usually really got good. I was saddened when that show ended, but by then I was well in Stine's fanclub.

I'll never forget how in 2012, I got the chance to pose a question to R.L. Stine over Facebook via The Hub's FB page and he answered it! I was going under the name Alejandro Sison back then and it was just a joy to see that happen. Here's a link to that post if you guys want to see:https://www.facebook.com/DiscFamily/photos/a.155347071181050.33326.119249468124144/421600534555701/?type=3&theater

It's my suspicion that R.L. Stine's answer was later paraphrased and put on his blogsite, but I have no real proof so that would just be gleeful speculation on my part.

Some of my favourite endings in Goosebumps or well, in Stine stories generally, are usually when the main character  gets to make the final word after suffering so much bad stuff. Plus points if it's got some wicked dark undertones. Like the main character in Calling All the Creeps deciding to just let it be and let everyone eat those cookies, while he takes a nibble himself? Awesome! So unexpected, yet so cathartic. Or how about that ending of How I Learned to Fly where things finally went according to the main character's design and he managed to get the girl and still have the power? Pretty cool! Although I had a similar reaction that Troy Steele had in wondering: Why this was only a Goosebumps book and not a full-fledged Hollywood film that acted like a middle-aged precursor to Chronicle?

I kinda have my own interpretation of the ending of Werewolf Skin the book. Instead of the main character presumably dying, I would love it if he instead just got bitten and thus turned into a wolf himself. Sure, there was nothing in the book that established werewolf bites in its lore, but I just think it would be a shame. Plus the girl in the tv episode was really cute and almost acted like she was interested in the main character, so I guess that bugs me a little.

Anyway, that's all I got right now. Really excited for so much of the stuff coming out like R.L. Stine's Scream and Scream Again! and of course the Goosebumps film.