User blog comment:IsaiahV17/PLZ READ!/@comment-31220829-20180313115029/@comment-26862374-20180313131048

You actually did get something wrong, you said the series was targeted towards girls, but boys found it enjoyable to.

That was with the Fear Street series, not Goosebumps.

Also, Stine was not interested in writing a kids book series at first, and he was only contracted to do 4 books, not 6.