But their dad has just come home with a new dummy. This visit, they've sworn to their father that they will not pull any practical jokes on their wimpy cousin. Last time their cousin Zane came over to stay they scared the shit out of him. Trina and her little brother Danny aren't the nicest kids. In this third installment, Slappy once again tries to enslave young children. The Night of the Living Dummy subset of Goosebumps is the most frightening. 'Do you believe someone just threw it away?' 'I found this in the trash can,' he told us. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.

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