Although we were big Goosebumps fans in our elementary school years, we have to admit that we haven’t been up on R.L. Stine’s authorial activities since the early ’90s. So we were surprised, last week, when he tweeted, “I’m happy to say I’ve finished my horror novel for adults. It will be published next July.” His announcement got us thinking about how many famous children’s authors — both classic and current — have also written books for adults, with varying degrees of publicity and success. After the jump, we take a look at the more mature work of some of our favorite authors from childhood.
It has recently come to our attention that the first book in Lemony Snicket’s disastrous series A Series of Unfortunate Events has been made available online — cover to cover. At the moment, most of the books available for free and complete online reading are classics, and as such are really only useful to English majors who need to search for keywords when writing last minute term papers, so we think this is pretty rad.
We like Lemony Snicket because we know who he really is, and we also like him because he put his book on the internet. Read it here — it’s set up in pages style, not like those bogus online “books” you have to read like they’re one long Word document. And while we’re on the topic, check out our other picks for good online reading — your own personally curated internet library from your friends at Flavorpill, so you can read and g-chat and pretend to be working all at the same time.
