Forty years later, the saga continues as Lu-Ann discovers its hiding place and suffers the curse of the mask's malevolence. We learn that William's brother, Randolph, brought the demonic mask into ordinary society, first inflicting it on William. Even in Goosebumps Wanted: The Haunted Mask, what we get is more a brief glimpse than a comprehensive backstory of how the mask came to terrify generations of innocent people, from William the world-famous mask maker all the way to Lu-Ann Franklin and her friends. He lives in New York, NY.Įvery Goosebumps villain has an origin story, but we rarely hear them.

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.

The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine