TODAY: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. PT (Indiana is 1:00pm)
Just go to the Scholastic Goosembumps site.

Do you have a question you want to ask R.L. Stine? Submit Your Question, then watch the webcast to see if your question is answered. If you miss the live webcast, don’t worry, there is a video recap - see below.

• Watch some Goosebumps TV Show Clips
• Goosebumps Online Games
• Goosebumps Maze
• Goosebumps Creepy Crossword Puzzle
• Worrisome Word Scrambler
• Create a Monster Story
• Get Goosebumps: The Science of Fear
• The Moonlit Road: Strange Tales of the American South

Some kids find out they are really a wizard with magical powers. Some kids find out their dad is a Greek God. Other kids work at a pizza shop.

But wait, Killer Pizza isn’t just any pizza shop. Sure it puts out tasty, cheesy pies, but Killer Pizza is much more. Killer Pizza is the front for a top-secret monster fighting organization that recruits and trains top notch monster hunters. 

As a new recruit, Toby feels anything but top notch, but the more he learns and trains, the more he understands that he and his friends Annabel and Strobe are all that keep their town from certain monster doom.

Their pizza delivery uniforms are perfect disguises and pizza delivery the perfect cover for stakeouts all over town. It’s not Men in Black it’s “Kids in Black Backpacks,” but still, they’re saving the world. These Monster Combat Officers are ready for action. Author: Greg Taylor

• Look Inside Killer Pizza
• Official Website Killer Pizza

More monster fighting heroes:

Don’t miss Terrorpalooza! At The Learning Curve @ Central Library on October 29th at 7pm in the Auditorim as the Learning Curve, Herron High School, and Young Actor’s Theatre present a fright-filled Film premiere and performance event.

This book is laid out like a comic book - it’s full of drawings, pictures and all kinds of freaky facts about the things that usually scare us: monsters, UFOs, vampires, mummies, ghosts, haunted houses, and lots more scary stuff. For each freaky thing you get an explaination of the science behind it - either why the thing appears the way it does or why the thing is impossible. There’s nothing like a little bit of hard science to take the chill out of scary stuff. Of course some of the stuff remains gross…even if it isn’t scary anymore. So beware! Author: Steven O’Meara

• Get Goosebumps: The Science of Fear
• Goosebumps Online Games
• IMCPL Reading Guide for Kids: Scary Stories
• How To Do a Make-Up Bloody Scar and More Costume Ideas
• Halloween Recipes: Eyeball Soup and More
• Pumpkin Carving 101
• Pumpkin Carving Patterns
• Pumpkin Carving Ideas

Some scary stories to keep you up at night until Halloween:

Ryan is stuck at home recovering from a broken leg. This is his journal. Ryan is keeping the journal because something scary has happened and writing in the journal helps him deal with his lingering fear.

Despite the accident and the broken leg, Ryan and his best friend Sarah Fincher are determined to investigate the strange things that happen in their hometown of Skeleton Creek.  The two friends have been forbidden to see each other - they get into too much trouble when they are together. But they find a way to keep in touch through secert e-mail messages.

Sarah is still out looking for clues.  She sends Ryan video clips of her ongoing investigation. As you read Ryan’s journal, he tells you when Sarah has sent him a new video. He gives you the url and password you need to go on the internet and watch the video. (You can really do this - her videos are really there on the internet.) Sarah’s video clips are pretty creepy and Ryan sounds very scared in his journal. Going back and fourth between the book and the videos draws you in to their experience and why they feel so unsettled about what they have discovered.

Ryan and Sarah have uncovered something important in Skeleton Creek…and the adults don’t want to talk about it.  Author: Patrick Carman Series: Skeleton Creek

• Read Chapter One
• Watch the Skeleton Creek Book Trailer
• Scholastic Skeleton Creek Official Site
• Listen to an Author Interview
• Sarah Fincher’s Videos

Book #2 will come out in October, 2009.

As a little girl, Ali’s mom spent her summers at a Main beach house with her parents and her sister Dulcie. Whenever the beach house is mentioned, Ali’s mom begins to act strange, and Ali’s mom has never wanted to go back to the beach house, even though it sits there, still owned by the family.

One day, Ali finds an old picture of her mom and her aunt taken when the two were little girls. Oddly, a third little girl has been torn from the picture.  Who is that girl? And why won’t Ali’s mom talk about her?

Ali’s mom is not happy when Aunt Dulcie invites Ali to the beach house for the summer. Ali is hoping to relax, far away from her mom’s over-protective hovering. One day at the beach, Ali and her cousin Emma meet a little girl named Sissy.  At first Sissy is nice, and seems like a good playmate for Emma, but she soon reveals herself to be an angry, mean little girl who delights in scaring Emma with a story about Theresa, a girl who drowned at the beach about the time Ali’s mom was a kid. A girl whose body was never found. Are you creeped out yet? You will be! Author: Mary Downing Hahn

• Read Chapter One (If You Dare)
• Mary Downing Hahn writes a lot of scary stories, try Wait Till Helen Comes or All the Lovely Bad Ones.