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I'm Jesse Thorne.

R. L. Stein is the creator of Goosebumps, the series of kids horror books.

He's written about ventriloquist dummies that come to life, haunted garden gnomes, and take it from Bob Stein,

Inspiration can strike anywhere.

I came up with this book title, I'm walking along a little shop of hamsters which is a great title right so I had to do a book

about it but how how do you make hamsters scary that was a challenge for

maximum fund org and n PR it's bullseye.

This week the Bullseye's

Halloween spectacular. We've got more with R. L. Stein,

plus Cassandra Peterson, also known as Elvira,

mistress of the dark, and more.

That's all coming up on Bullseye.

Let's go.

O'Ow.

It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn. My first guest on this year's Halloween spectacular

doesn't need much introduction. It's R.L. Stein.

Yeah, R.L Stein, the creator of Goosebumps. He's a real person. If you're my age or close to it, odds are you read one or two or maybe 26 of his books when you were a kid.

Stein has written over 200 Goosebumps books, sold millions of copies, inspired multiple television shows, two movies, a video game.

He's also a man who, as you are about to hear, can never resist a good title.

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