{"id":249378,"date":"2023-09-16T03:51:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T07:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=306800"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:13:35","slug":"rl-stine-didnt-want-to-write-the-saga-that-made-him-a-billionaire-under-any-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/rl-stine-didnt-want-to-write-the-saga-that-made-him-a-billionaire-under-any-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"RL Stine did not want to write the saga that made him a multimillionaire under any circumstances."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not all stories about the origin of mythical things have to be mythical, laborious and teach a lesson about effort. Sometimes they just happen. I’d like to tell you that RL Stine was a young idealist with a dream of making local kids shudder, boys, shudder when he created ‘Nightmares<\/a><\/strong>,’ his 62-book saga that later expanded into hundreds of other novels, movies, video games and, of course, TV series. But it’s not the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Robert Lawrence Stine was 49 years old and had a career forged from choose-your-own-adventure books, humor magazines and the ‘Street of Terror’ saga when, in 1992, Joan Waricha, the co-founder of Parachute Press, asked him to make a personal dream come true<\/strong>. The woman realized that there was no horror <\/a><\/strong>literature for children between the ages of 7 and 11: who better than Stine to take charge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, at first, was very clear: no interest in writing for children. He was doing well without the need to demean himself in this way, so he passed on the subject. His wife and publishers kept insisting<\/strong> but Stine kept refusing (what a financial genius, eh?) until one day, just to shut them up, he finally said yes and signed a six-book <\/a><\/strong>contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of these, the first, ‘Welcome to the House of Death’, even now Stine <\/a><\/strong>himself thinks it is too terrifying for children, especially compared to the sacker he was later, with deplorable books like ‘Monster’s Blood IV’ or ‘The Lost Legend’. <\/strong>Stine started releasing a monthly book and Nightmaremania made him lots and lots of money. Millions and millions from a saga that he intended to abandon without even starting to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time has passed, Stine is 79 years old\u2026 And he’s still writing ‘Nightmares’. Specifically, he’s now with a collection titled SlappyWorld<\/strong>, plus he has time to do new ‘Street of Terror’ novels<\/a><\/strong>. And at this point, it doesn’t look like Jovial Bob Stine, as he was originally known, is going to change his modus operandi. Fortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n

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