* talks about the iconic artwork for Goosebumps by Tim Jacobus
* Goosebumps helped make horror popular in children's media
* Goosebumps is the "gateway drug" for kids to find other horror writers like Stephen King (or as RL Stine put it: he's the "literary training bra" for King)
* briefly mentions the late 60s horror boom that was generated by The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, and The Other. Which eventually trickled down to teen horror (Fear Street, Point Horror, Christopher Pike) and children's horror.
* talks about children's horror in tv: Aah Real Monsters!, Beetlejuice cartoon, Are You Afraid of the Dark?
* makes the argument that children's horror died in the early 2000s with notable exceptions like Coraline
This is a really interesting and fun video, I recommend watching it in full. :) Thanks to
eightball for bringing this to my attention!ONTD, what's your favorite horror book cover? Scariest childhood pop culture memory? I was not fond of those shrimps hands in Beetlejuice, thank you for your time.
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