Goosebumps

For every child who read Goosebumps 20 years ago we now have adults playing Zombie

Apocalypse games, watching scary movies, and generally working on their inner vampire.

Goosebumps was a series of books written by R.L. Stine, that gave young readers their first experience at being scared.
Well over 100 books in the Goosebumps series were written with such deliciously scary names as   "The Werewolf of Twisted Tree Lodge", "The Bride of the Living Dummy", and "Please Don't Feed the Vampire!".
R. L. Stine  <Actually his real name!> writes many other horror themed novels for children.
In addition to the Goosebumps series he has written "Fear Street", "The Nightmare Room", "Rotten School", and "Mostly Ghostly" series. But before you get the idea that R.L. Stine is some sort of crazy psycho nut bent on giving our children nightmares, you should be aware he has also written joke books as well as game books. Even some science fiction!
R.L. Stine's books work on children's fears, the kind of stories we used to tell around the campfire, about ghostly victim's coming back from the grave for dark revenge. While the stories might be too intense for some of the younger set, most readers will come back for more. Let's face it, at any age, being scared if fun!
In 2003, the Guinness Book of World Records named R.L. Stine the best selling children's writer of all time.
I remember back in the day how children used to line up to buy those books. Every week, as a new book came out, the 8-12 year olds would show up. Many had put their names on lists to be called as soon as the books arrived.
If your young readers enjoy stories about monsters, ghouls and all manner of scary things, then R.L.Stine's Goosebumps is the series for them. Just make sure they leave the lights on!