Before there was Goosebumps ... and even before there was Fear Street ... did you know there was Blind Date?
Blind Date is the first horror book R.L. Stine wrote for Scholastic in 1986. An editor gave him the title, and he came up with the rest ... and he's been scaring kids & teenagers ever since.
We found this title along with more of Stine's stand-alone horror books in the Scholastic Archives today. Take a look at some of those classic covers & taglines!
Something you may not know about R.L. Stine? Before his main job was to scare kids silly, he wrote humor books under the name Jovial Bob Stine and created the humor magazine Bananas in the 70s for Scholastic.
However, I think I found the most unique R.L. Stine book of all among the stacks: the novelization of the 1987 film Spaceballs (written under his early pen name Jovial Bob Stine). Take a look!
Special thanks to Scholastic librarian Deimosa Webber-Bey for her help with this series!
Gina Asprocolas
