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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

The Bullseye Halloween Spectacular: R.L. Stine, Monét X Change and Ana Fabrega

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

We're celebrating the season with our annual Bullseye Halloween Spectacular. We kick things off with an in-depth, funny conversation with R.L. Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series. Stine talks about how he got into writing, how he comes up with titles and why he wishes he never dreamed up an evil ventriloquist dummy. We'll hear about the craziest day in the wild, storied career of drag queen Monét X Change (Ru Paul's Drag Race, Hulu's Huluween Dragstravaganza). Also, an interview with Ana Fabrega, star and co-creator of the great TV series Los Espookys.

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0:00.0

I'm Jesse Farn.

0:02.0

RL Stein is the creator of Goosebumps, the kid's horror books.

0:06.7

He's written about ventriloquist dummies that come to life, haunted garden gnomes,

0:12.2

and take it from our man Bob Stein.

0:14.9

Inspiration can strike anywhere.

0:16.9

I came up with this book title.

0:18.6

I'm walking along a little shop of hamsters, which is a great title, right?

0:24.9

So I had to do a book about it, but how do you make hamsters scary?

0:29.7

That was a challenge.

0:31.4

From MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.

0:38.8

This week, the Bullseye Halloween spectacular.

0:42.8

We've got more with RL Stein.

0:44.8

We have Monet X-Change from Drag Race, Anna Fabrega from Los Escupis.

0:50.5

All that coming up on Bullseye, let's go!

0:58.9

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Farn.

1:03.8

My first guest in our Halloween spectacular doesn't need much introduction.

1:07.6

It's RL Stein.

1:10.0

If you're my age or close to it, odds are you read one or two or twenty or a hundred

1:23.7

of his books when you were a kid.

1:26.1

He has written over two hundred goosebumps books, sold millions of copies, inspired a TV

1:32.8

show, two movies in a video game.

1:36.0

Now Stein, as you are about to hear, can't resist a good title.

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