No better franchise.

"Yes, yes." Take him away, boys.

Part of the Goosebumps imitator boom included some short stories for even younger readers but I have no idea how successful they were.

I always thought King had particular insight into how unkind the world is to kids in a way that makes him accessible at a younger age than people who have been adults for a while think.
ETA: And I think it's no surprise, in light of that, that he's been such an outspoken Harry Potter fanboy over the years.

I remember "The Witches" freaking me out so bad that I asked my school librarian if it was a mistake that was in "fiction" just to confirm it wasn't actually real.

One would certainly never know from Goosebumps, the kind of series where the "funny" lines always have the predicate "…I joked."

At its scariest, Goosebumps was—not realistic, obviously, but had a baseline in realism. I still think the piano teacher who killed kids for their hands was one of the scariest things they've ever done because that baseline exists in an adult with evil designs on you but whom your parents trust, especially growing up…

[sighs and tears up screenplay]

I remember it because I was young and naive enough to think anyone going after Goosebumps really pulled no punches.

She's Hannah Arendt and she has a big monologue about the banality of scariness.

Frankenstein If He Was Made Entirely of Dead Dicks

Featuring Baby Ryan Gosling at one point!

And yet that was one of the only twists that, dumb as it was, followed from the plot instead of reading like he came up with it on deadline.

BLOG THROWING BLOG THROWING BLOG THROWING
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BLOG THROWING BLOG THROWING BLOG THROWING

They all start and… middle the same way too. Dressing up in full costume to prank someone is something kids do a lot, apparently.

I'm never going to see this but seeing ads for it has me re-reading Blogger Beware, so I'm thankful for that.

Cancer aside, there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in season 1 where you can see an email from Molly's mom in her inbox.

Mind=blown at how Jerry's repetition of "that was just a mixup" at the beginning of Fargo is a summation of like 90% of their movies.

Yes. This one more so than the first one, I think, even though I loved it, because every good and bad character is good or bad in the same way as someone you know.

Hell, season 1 plucked its strongest asset from obscurity, so it's all in the execution.