R.L. Stine's Stuff of Nightmares #2

Stuff of Nightmares (Single Issues) #2

by R.L. Stine, A.L. Kaplan (Illustrator)

This is a highly collectible variant cover by Michael Walsh. After losing everything in a fiery disaster, the Cameron Brothers, Stella, and Frankie flee to an abandoned manor to get their hands on fresh corpses and continue their macabre experiments. But they aren't alone and the terror is just beginning in this ghastly tale that only the Nightmare Keeper could tell...

Genres: Horror, Comics, Comic Book

30 pages, Comic

Published October 26, 2022

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Scott Rhee · Rating 2 out of 5]

A continuation of the story from the first issue, R.L. Stine's "Stuff of Nightmares", issue #2, is not much of an improvement. The mad scientist brothers, their girlfriend, and the creepy Frankenstein kid that can only say "Help me" have escaped to an island off the coast of North Carolina in an old haunted house, where they hope to set up their new laboratory. Unfortunately, jealousy and competition make an already tense situation even deadlier...

As dumb as this series is, I will probably finish the series, as my OCD reader mentality can't leave a story unfinished...

[Art Hyrst · Rating 3 out of 5]

Character - 5
Artwork - 6
Writing - 5
Plot - 4
Intrigue - 4
Logic - 4
Enjoyment - 5

Rating: 4.71 / 3 stars

[Wesley Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Issue #2 of 4 was a little disappointing. I was hoping for stand-alone issues for some reason, so I was disappointed to see this was a continuation. It takes place right where Issue #1 ended. The lab crew flees the destroyed lab, and horrors start appearing throughout the town, and the monsters are spreading.

I usually find some middle issues are a little slow to allow for a better build-up for later issues in the series, and I feel this might be the case for this one. It was very much just okay, but the ending is exciting and gives me hope for the next issue! I’ll keep reading, but I’m really hoping Stine can step it up and scare me.

The art and colouring are great. It suits the 80s campy horror theme perfectly, and the overall dark colours are complemented nicely with splashes of colour.

[Andrew Hale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Morbid, Macabre, and Gruesome. An intriguing retelling of Frankenstein.

Like Sodom & Gomorrah, Isaac tells Stella not to look back at the burning remnants of their past few years in thier Cape Cod condo, the failed experiments of creating life and the innocents caught in between. With the chaos that is unleashed, Jordan seems to be the only sensible one against Isaac's "accidental" unleashing of hell and Stella being a crutch for Isaac's scientific fervor, as the scenery moves to a haunted mansion in Rodanthe. Theodore steps in as a Nosferatu-looking Eegore and the Nightmare Keeper spins our morbid tale from his Library of the Macabre.

Part 1 of 4: The Camerons, Stella, and Frankie...
Part 2 of 4: Sodom, Gomorrah, and Theodore's haunted manse...
Part 3 of 4: Lust for Frakenstein's bride...
Part 4 of 4: Galvanism, autonomy, technology, and monsters...

[Julio Bonilla]

The tendons have deteriorated. I’m going to remove the arms and reattach them with synthetic tendons.

[Wolverinefactor · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish this had more substance to it. It’s pretty much by the numbers and why tease the obvious twist for the next issue? So dumb

[Amber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stella, babe, what the fuck.

[Danii Savage · Rating 5 out of 5]

Big spooky! I’m really enjoying this comic series.

[Travis James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome!

Wonderful continuation of this first graphic novel of this series. Five *****'s for everything! Can't wait to move on to the third part of this series!