![]() ![]() “It’s embarrassing, but being scary wasn’t even my idea. “I didn’t know what she was talking about when she mentioned ‘teen horror’ but at that point in my career, I wasn’t going to say no,” says Stine. Frustrated, Feiwel asked Stine to take a stab at it instead. “That was my life’s goal and I had reached it at age 28.”įortuitously, Stine had lunch with Scholastic’s editorial director Jean Feiwel on a day when she was fed up with the antics of an author she had been working with on a teen horror novel called Blind Date. “It was my life’s dream to have my own national humor magazine,” he says. Later, Scholastic hired him, and he created a magazine called Bananas. Instead, Stine found himself writing for a soft drink industry trade magazine and typing up fictitious interviews with movie stars for a celebrity magazine. “I wanted to work on a funny magazine, like Mad, and write funny novels,” he says. Stine grew up in Ohio and moved to New York City after college. ![]()
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