I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

L. I. He followed with many other novels including The Babysitter Beach House Hit and Run and The Girlfriend.

Stine's books have sold over 400 million copies as of 2008. Some of his other works include a Space Cadets trilogy two Hark gamebooks and dozens of joke books. L.