Biography
Horror-themed has always been relevant both in the literature and in cinema. People need to develop adrenaline and bright emotions, and the fastest way is to go to the cinema on the horror movie or the acquisition of a new book with a ticking nerve content. It is such works and compounds American Robert Stein, which is called "Stephen King for children and adolescents." In the bibliography of the favorite youth writer around the world there are already about 500 books, and the author is not going to stop there.Childhood and youth
The Biography of Robert Lawrence Stina began on October 8, 1943 in the American city of Columbus Ohio. The boy began writing stories aged 9 years with the help of the old printed machine found them. Initially, he invented jokes and humorous stories, and not terrible stories that later made the author known.
In school years, the future successful writer was not a particularly successful student, but showed himself in another - Robert was in the editorial board of the school newspaper, he painted comics for her and invented short stories.
Steney's father worked as a clerk in a warehouse, and the mother stayed at home to look after young Robert and his brothers and sisters. Stein in one of the interviews described himself as a "very frightened child," saying that the story of Pinocchio (in the Russian version of Pyratino) became the first serious fear.
"The original Pinocchio is very creepy ... He goes to bed, putting his legs on the stove and thereby burning them!".
At the University of Ohio, Robert was still focused on the bright sides of life. For several years, he edited the school humorous magazine "Sunclock". After graduating from the university in the mid-1960s, the guy moved to New York.
Books
In New York, Stein worked as a writer and editor. In the end, he received a position in Scholastic, Inc., working there over children's magazines. In the mid-1970s, the guy was created by the humorous Journal of Bananas, and then the publication called Maniac. In his free time, Robert wrote humorous books for children called "Cheerful Bob Stein".
Having lost job in Scholastic during the reorganization of the company, Stein began to write full-time. He switched to the horror genre, writing his first terrible story called "blind date." The book released in 1986 received a warm welcome, like Twisted and The Baby-Sitter, published in 1987 and 1989, respectively.
In 1989, Stein released his first series of horror books for young people, called "Star Streak". Described as "where your most terrible nightmares live," she was devoted to the dark misadventures of the Haydiside High School Pupils. The "Straha Streak" rose to 100 novels, as a result, more than 80 million copies were sold worldwide.
The most famous and extensive series of books Robert "Horror" (in the original "goosebumps") saw the light in 1992. The first editions were released by Parachute Press Packaging Company, in which his wife Jane worked. For the first product called "Welcome to the Dead House" quickly followed new novels. At some point, Stein wrote one or two books per month. Each story of this series contained bold cliffhengers at the end of chapters.
About the "horrors" soon spoke as a literary phenomenon. Books have become bestsellers in the United States and abroad and ultimately were translated into 16 different languages. The series was also turned into a series, which in the Russian version was called "goosebumps".
The vast popular popularity of the television project has turned stains in one of the most successful children's writers of all time, it began to be compared with the legendary horror author for adult Stephen King. In general, the series consisted of 74 episodes with a duration of about 20 minutes each.
When the 1990s came to an end, "horror films" began to disappear. In the 2000th, the writer released a new series "Fear Room", in each of the books of which the online component was presented (readers could decide what the next step will make a hero of history). In 2004, a man mixed humor and horror in "Who will release ghosts?" - First story from the Mostly Ghostly series.
Stein continued to develop new directions, telling about vampires in the "busting" 2010 and about classic student fears in the 2011 book "This is the first day at school ... forever!".
According to Robert, he composes his works in such a sequence - first comes up with the title, then the ending and only then everything else content. A man works in a "literary studio", which is decorated with a skeleton, a huge cockroach and an African mask with an ominous smirk. Creepy entourage allows the author to plunge into the required atmosphere. On average Stein publishes 7 books annually.
Personal life
Robert Stein is married to the literary editor Jane. The woman even became the founder of the book publishing house for adolescents, inspired by the works of her husband. She first reads and edits new writer stories. They have a son named Matvey, who was born in 1980.
Spouses live in New York. According to the author, he loves this city - in it, in him, you can face so many situations as in any other city will not happen for the month.
Stein is an active user of the Twitter Social Network. He communicates there with fans, lays out a photo from his personal life and notifies his further creative plans.
An amazing fact is that Robert does not believe in no ghosts or other supernatural forces. However, he has a completely landed phobia - the author of horror strokes with horror refers to the waterproof.
Robert Stein now
In October 2015, a series of books "Horror" was turned into a full-length Hollywood film with Jack Blake in the role of Stina. The screen version won the hearts of fans and film critics, after which it was decided to shoot the continuation. "Horror-2: Restless Halloween" went on large screens worldwide in the fall of 2018.
Now the writer continues to experiment with the genres of his works, but still pays sufficient attention to terrible stories for children and adolescents, some of them saw the light in 2019.
Bibliography
- 1989 - "New"
- 1992 - "Deadly Photo"
- 1993 - "Broken Hearts"
- 1993 - "Curse of the Tomb of Pharaoh"
- 1996 - "Ghost Camp"
- 1996 - "All Unclean"
- 1997 - "Curse of the Cold Lake"
- 2008 - "Revenge of living dolls"
- 2012 - "Red Rain"
- 2016 - "Dead Boyfriend"
- 2019 - "Revenge of the Invisible Boy"