Modern day Goosebumps?

[ThisAdamGuy]

I used to love the Goosebumps books. They were probably the biggest name in kids lit when I was young. But I can't think of anything that could be considered a "modern day" Goosebumps. I know new Goosebumps books still come out occasionally, but it's nowhere near as big as it used to be.

That makes me wonder: is this a hole in the market that everyone's waiting for a certain extremely talented (and handsome) unknown author to come along and fill? Or are kids just not into scary books like they used to be?

 

[Representing_Tromba]

There are so many Genre niches that have little to no market due to an oversaturation of other genre's. One of my favorites that get overlooked often is poetic thriller/horror.

As far as scary books, kids love it but they get enough from five nights at Freddie's and creepypastas that it just becomes obsolete to most.

 

[Valmond]

I remember they did a modern take on Goosebumps, I believe it was mixed at best. Though, it did show there was an interest for it, but the execution left people in between.

 

[Deleted member 266]

Dude, i cant believe R . L Stine latest book came out last year.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

The Midnight Society books (and TV series) tried to fill that void when Goosebumps went off the air. Stine went from a book every six months to about 2 every three years AFAICT (and not all "kids horror")

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

they get enough from five nights at Freddie's and creepypastas

That's actually part of my thought process here. As much as I don't like FNAF, even I have to admit that Scott did a great job weaving miniscule details into his games, enticing people to try and piece together the hidden storylines. I wonder if I could do something like that, but in book form? Write a series of seemingly unconnected spooky stories, put a reoccurring character here, a subtle nod to a previous book there, and slowly but surely build my own army of theory-crafting superfans AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

 

[ReadersAnonymous]

horror books are still a thing