Goosebumps Fright Light Edition

Goosebumps #9, 33, 45

by R.L. Stine

A spooky deal for kids going to summer camp--a special Goosebumps trilogy all about camp! Includes:
- Welcome to Camp Nightmare
- The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
- Ghost Camp

Genres: Horror, Childrens

394 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. 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.

R. L. 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. 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. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

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. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[James Gates · Rating 5 out of 5]

I must have read every Goosebumps book when I was a child and sometimes read one a day. This edition is three seperate stories, all about haunted camps. When reading these books as an adult you can wonder if these types of books are really suitable for children, but I feel that it means a child can experience a wide range of genres at an early age and begin to establish their own preferences.

Most of the stories in the R.L Stine Goosebump series use similar words and techniques to build the tension and suspense and although this could be seen as a negative I feel this adds to their charm. This is because as a reader of the series you begin to realise when something is going to happen but you never know what.

The negative I found with the Fright Light Edition however was that it came with an in-built lamp that encourages you to read the stories in the dark to raise the fear. This lamp is quite poor however and believe it could have lead to eye strain for many children when it was introduced.