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L Stine is on a roll. The writer of spooky kids’ lit has, of course, been on one for some time. He has sold more than 400 million copies of his more than 300 books, including his series, which became a TV series in the 1990s and a movie, starring Jack Black as Stine, in 2015. This year, the 78-year-old is on a streaming platform near you series has inspired a Netflix trilogy of films. Now, Disney+ has the family-friendlier , an anthology of supernatural tales inspired by the Stine twilight zone. The was admitted into his inner sanctum – actually, his summer place on Long Island – for a brief Zoom audience.

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