R.L. Stine Drops News: Fear Street Films, New Goosebumps, & Garbage Pail Kids

I was tipped off by a lovely Facebook friend about a discussion led by R.L. Stine as part of a series of guests hosted remotely by Stark Library. I didn’t expect to hear anything jarringly different from what I heard from him before on account of doing security for him many Texas Book Festivals ago and watching his Masterclass series. Playing with his puppy and sharing wild fan letters aside, the Guinness World Record holding author surprisingly had a big news dump yesterday!

He reiterated Netflix’s “Summer of Fear” event where they will be releasing 3 Fear Street films back to back to back. They shot these sometime ago but previously delayed the release due to COVID.

The bombshells I didn’t see coming was firstly Stine is penning a series of Garbage Pail Kids books (the first dropping next month). He then shared he’s doing SIX more Goosebumps books with the first being a continuation of the Monster Blood series. He described the plot of this book with groups of kids participating in a cooking reality show and pitted against each other. To get back at one group, another puts the iconic monster blood in their ingredients, with the results sure to be good.

I wanna say the news of the Monster Blood continuation was exclusive to any and all of us who Zoomed in from around the world which was very exciting. Viewers and readers beware, cause we’re in for a scare (and some).