Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction novels written by American author R. L. Stine

R. L. Stine

Robert Lawrence Stine , known as R. L. Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is called the "Stephen King of children's literature," is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The...

 and first published by Scholastic Publishing. It is a collection of stories that feature semi-homogenous

Homogeneity and heterogeneity

Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity or lack thereof in a substance. A material that is homogeneous is uniform in composition or character; one that is heterogeneous lacks uniformity in one of these qualities....

 plot structures, with fictional children being involved in scary situations. Themes in the series include horror, humor and the supernatural

Supernatural

The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...

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Sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from 1992 to 1997.