Stinetinglers 3: MORE Chilling Stories by the Master of Scary Tales

by R. L. Stine

Overview

The banal and the bizarre are exquisitely intertwined in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch's prequel to his groundbreaking TV serial, Twin Peaks. Darker and more violent than its TV predecessor, Fire Walk with Me follows the last days of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a small-town Oregon high school student whose murder -- and its subsequent investigation -- provided the main tension in the TV series. The film reprises a number of main characters from the show, including FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), whose offbeat good-guy persona bound the series together. But Fire Walk with Me is ultimately Laura Palmer's story, and Lee gives a riveting performance as a teen torn between innocence and lust who is victimized by a mysterious sexual abuser. A plethora of eccentric characters swirl around Palmer: Their similarly fractured psyches provide fodder for the director’s characteristic exploration of unspeakable secrets lurking beneath the mundane fabric of small-town life. Lynch's outrageously strange vision, rife with dream symbols, is perfectly complemented by a haunting score from his regular musical collaborator, composer Angelo Badalamenti. The result is an intense, head-spinning psychological thriller -- darkly sexual, breathtakingly enigmatic, and quintessentially Lynchian.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250836328
Publisher:	Feiwel & Friends
Publication date:	08/27/2024
Series:	Stinetinglers , #3
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

R.L. STINE is one of the bestselling children's authors in history. Nearing its thirtieth anniversary, Goosebumps has more than 350 million English language books in print, plus an additional 50+ million international copies in print in thirty-two languages. He is also the author of the Fear Street series, which was recently revived as a feature film trilogy, The Garbage Pail Kids, It's The First Day of School Forever, A Midsummer Night's Scream, Young Scrooge, and two picture books with Marc Brown. R.L. Stine lives in New York City with his wife Jane, an editor and publisher.
Before R. L. Stine made his name as the Stephen King of children's literature, he was the author of humorous fiction and an editor of Bananas magazine. He is the bestselling author of more than three hundred books, including the phenomenally bestselling Goosebumps series. It's the First Day of School . . . Forever! was Stine's first book with Feiwel and Friends.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

October 8, 1943

Place of Birth:

Columbus, Ohio

Education:

B.A., Ohio State University, 1965

Website:

http://www.rlstine.com

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The Stinetinglers series:

"It’s easy to see why R.L. Stine is beloved by generations... The author delivers another set of thrilling stories for kids who want to be scared…but not too scared. ­..Ideal for spooky season class read-alouds or for lessons on character development and plot, [this] offers the ­perfect mix of laughter and suspense. Stine’s fans will not be disappointed, and readers will ­devour this volume in no time." —School Library Journal (starred)

“Aiming for the younger end of his fan base, the author keeps the explicit ick and ichor to a minimum and makes personal connections with introductory notes confiding some of the fears or incidents that inspired each story. The atmospheric headpiece vignettes set properly ominous tones.” —Kirkus Reviews

“In these 10 darkly humorous short stories, Stine delivers bite-size frights…Stine’s collection…is a harrowing look at myriad current real-life horrors plaguing tweens, and foregrounds the idea that, more often than not, one must be brave enough to save oneself.” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2024-05-30
Ten more hair-prickling shorts inspired by people or events from the author’s life.

“My job is to scare you,” writes the genial Stine, though—aside from trotting in the odd zombie or Martian pig monster—his frights in this series continue to be of the milder sort. In the opening story, “Full-Moon Sleepover Party,” a group of seventh grade girls are joined by an uninvited werewolf. The closing entry, “Eddie the Flash,” is a cleverly metafictional entry about an aspiring comics creator whose superheroes and villains come to life. In between, Stine has his hapless preteens encounter ghosts in “The Treehouse” and ominously toothy aquarium fish in “Fish Food.” In “The Dream Factory,” a boy learns the hard way what can happen when you neglect to read the fine print on a product label. Other characters fall afoul of magicians. As is typical, the author’s tightly woven tales aren’t big on distinctive characterization, but all feature quick starts and steady build-ups to final, untelegraphed twists. SanAngelo’s atmospherically creepy black-and-white spot art opens each story. Names and illustrations cue some diversity in the otherwise racially indeterminate cast.

Another satisfying series entry that delivers delicious thrills.(Horror. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews