Goosebumps | Scholastic Media Room

Posted September 18th, 2008 by rthomas

Goosebumps

AT–A–GLANCE

What is it?

A best-selling worldwide brand, based on the book series by R. L. Stine, that debuted as a monthly book series from Scholastic in 1992.

Who’s it for?

Kids ages 8–12

VISIT THE SITES

scholastic.com/goosebumps
goosebumpsvideogame.com enterhorrorland.com
r.l.stine.com
On Twitter: @rlstine

More Information

Books/Author Interviews
Tracy van Straaten
tvanstraaten@scholastic.co m
(212) 389-3782

For information on the brand, television show and consumer products:
Goodman Media
(212) 212-576-2700
Meghan Newton
mnewton@goodmanmedia.com

“R.L. Stine rode a wave of kid popularity, partly fueled by the fledgling Internet, to become perhaps the best-selling children’s author of the 20th century.”

Stephen King
Entertainment Weekly, August 17, 2007

Press Releases

Trick or Read! Scholastic Celebrates Twent Terrifically Terrifying Years of Goosebumps & the Safe Scare
October 1, 2012

Trick or Tweet! Goosebumps Author R.L. Stine Takes Over Scholastic’s Social Media for Halloween Frightfest!
October 19, 2011

Scholastic Media Announces Terrifically Terrifying "Goosebumps" Campaign This Halloween
September 28, 2011

Try Not To Scream As Two Thrilling All-New Goosebumps® Adventures, Attack of the Mutant & Ghost Beach, Arrive On DVD September 13
August 11, 2011

Scholastic Media Announces Spookily Spectacular Media and Marketing Campaign for "Goosebumps" This Halloween
September 27, 2010

Scholastic Media Announces Eerily Extensive Media and Marketing Campaign for GOOSEBUMPS This Halloween
October 12, 2009

Scholastic Audio Delivers Thrills and Chills with the Debut of the News Goosebumps Audiobook Series
July 30, 2008

Goosebumps Horrorland for Wii, Nintendo DS and Playstation2 Coming this Fall from Scholastic Interactive
July 22, 2008

Scholastic Media Readies Licensing Program for Global Childrens Franchise Goosebumps
May 19, 2008

Sony Gets Goosebumps—Scholastic’s Bestselling Book Series to Be Adapted Into Feature Film by Columbia Pictures
May 15, 2008

Scholastic Launches Bone-Chilling New Book Series by World-Wide Bestselling Author R.L. Stine—Goosebumps Horrorland
January 21, 2008

Press Coverage

EntertainmentWeekly.com Author R.L. Stine on His Summer Book Recommendations (August 3, 2012)
Reuters R.L. Stine Scares Boys and Girls, Just a Bit (August 2, 2012)
Newsweek Goosebumps Creator R.L. Stine on 20th Anniversary Series" (July 30, 2012)
Atlantic Wire R.L. Stine Has Been Giving Us Goosebumps for 20 Years (July 19, 2012)
Time.com R. L. Stine profiled in "What Scares the People Who Scare Us?" (October 31, 2011)
Parade Magazine "Personality Parade" feature (October 30, 2011)
Time.com "140 Best Twitter Feeds" includes R. L. Stine in the author category (March 28, 2011)

Overview

Goosebumps is one of the best-selling children’s series of all-time – with more than 350 million English language books in print, plus international editions in 32 languages. A global megabrand, the Goosebumps television show airs on The Hub in the United States and is available for download on iTunes. The official website is www.scholastic.com/goosebumps

Books

In July 1992, Scholastic introduced a monthly book series by R.L. Stine called Goosebumps with Goosebumps: Welcome to the Dead House. Twenty years later, Goosebumps is now one of the best-selling children’s series of all-time—with more than 350 million English language books in print, plus international editions in 32 languages, selling at the phenomenal rate of four million books per month in the mid-1990s. The Goosebumps series made R.L. Stine a worldwide publishing celebrity (and Jeopardy answer), and Goosebumps was named the world's bestselling book series of all time in the 2003 Guinness Book of World Records.

For more about the author and the series, check out these PDFs: Questions and Answers with R.L. Stine, , Stine-Tingling Facts.

Audio

Goosebumps HorrorLand Audiobooks #1–#12 are available in stores, on Playaway, and for download at iTunes, Audible.com, and in libraries at Overdrive.com.

Interactive

The Goosebumps HorrorLand video game is available for Nintendo Wii™ & DS™ as well as Playstation®2. A Goosebumps ‘PhotoShock’ App is available for the iPhone® and iPod Touch®.

Television

The award-winning television series, which told the spookily outrageous and funny tales of ordinary kids who find themselves in extraordinary and scary situations, originally aired on Fox Kids and now airs on The Hub TV network in the United States; the show is also available on iTunes. The television series has won numerous awards.

DVD/Home Video

DVDs of the award winning television series are available from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. 6 new titles released this Fall.

Feature Film

Sony Columbia Tri-Star acquired rights to turn the Goosebumps book series into a feature film. The film will be produced by Deborah Forte and Neal H. Moritz.