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庐 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.
It Came from Beneath the Sink! (Goosebumps, #30), R.L. Stine
Katrina and her brother Daniel find a living "sponge" underneath the sink in their new house that turns out to be a monster that causes bad luck for anyone who finds it.
This one was great! One of the first ones I read, and re-read several times. Perfectly creepy and definitely had me double-checking all the cupboards in the house for a little while.
#30 "It's warm! It's breathing! And it doesn't do dishes!" Something is lurking under the sink in Kat's new house. Something her nightmares are made of. Something dark and scary... What can it be?
This one was better than it had any right to be, being about an evil kitchen sponge as it is, but it still wasn't very good. I did enjoy the parts of the story where the kids are reading books on mythology and discover the sponge may be an evil mythological entity that causes bad luck though. And there's a mini shock reveal at the end involving a potato that I also enjoyed. Overall though, this is a pretty "meh" original series Goosebumps book, in my opinion.
And it made me wish that I had never opened that cabinet, never reached under the sink, and never found the spongy... thing.
Because now it was too late.
Too late for us all.
This book is severely creepy. I was creeped out by it as a child and I still am upon this re-reading.
Kat and her little brother Daniel move to a new house. There, they discover something under the kitchen sink. Something that looks like an old, dry brown sponge. But they soon notice that it is warm. And pulsing. And has beady little eyes. And people start getting hurt - their dad falls off a ladder, Daniel's friend steps on a nail, etc.
It turns out that the sponge is a Grool - a bad luck charm that brings pain and misery to whoever "owns" it. However, you cannot give away the Grool (or throw it away) or you will die in 24 hours. And even though they try their hardest to destroy it (running over it with their bikes, throwing it in the garbage disposal, burying it in the backyard) the Grool always snaps back. Can they ever get this evil thing out of their lives? ...
Dark, creepy, sinister - this is one of the scarier Goosebumps novels (even though the premise sounds ridiculous). I would put it right up there with the Living Dummy Subset in scariness levels.
P.S. The dog, a cocker spaniel, is named Killer.
P.P.S. R.L. Stine is always creating kids with unique and adult tastes. Here, we have Kat, who likes lasagna, really sour garlic pickles, and mocha-chip ice cream.
This was another Goosebumps book that was released in the U.K. around the same time as the TV episode, I always instantly think of that version first.
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I LOVE when the endings of one these books totally flips everything and leaves you searching for a sequel further down the series! Fun book that reminded me of being a kid and overcoming what my parents and other adults couldn't see or believe. 4 stars!
Que estr茅s con este libro, pero estr茅s del bueno porque no sab铆a como iban a salir del problema los hermanos protagonistas. Me ha gustado, aunque el final me dejo un poquito preocupada.
Your mother's worst nightmare, a disorderly under-the-sink-space. Just kidding, I really don't remember anything from this book but the cover looks promising! A reluctant 4 out of 5 whatevers.
This book was awfully silly I must say. Usually I enjoy that but this one lacked a good plot. I felt like we were chasing a demon sponge around the whole time lol.
A evil sponge? Well this is what this story is about. It is about a sponge that is found in the sink of the house. What this sponge does is that it causes bad luck for anyone that has possession of it. The owner of the sponge cant throw it out or else she will die in a day. This sponge laughs as the owner gets all these curses and things coming their way.
Eventually the sponge dies when you reverse the effect. If you can't kill it by hatred why not make the sponge not like you anymore. So Kat the main character gives love to the sponge and eventually it dies and changes color. All the other bad things that happen eventually reverses and everything is back to normal.
What I like about this book is that it is very creative. At first from looking at the cover I thought the book was really about something like the bogeyman. It ends up to be a evil sponge that has a lust for evil. I recommend this book for anyone that likes horror books. It is very suspenseful and short to read. It makes the book fun and enjoyable. Also the book has a really good hook to get you in and also the goosebumps series are also really good overall!
The evil version of Spongebob SquarePants! The cover is misleading, you think there's a real monster, but its actually just a sponge. When the sponge was first introduced into the book, I thought it was dumb..and I still do, but I enjoyed it, if that makes sense. RL does a great job in making the sponge entertaining. The book was told through female first person. As you know I love so I got through the book rather quickly. The "curse" was consistent. Everyone that touched the sponge got hurt in some way, which also made the book entertaining, looking forward to see how people would get hurt and it started early in the book. Unlike most Goosebumps books, the excitement doesn't begin in chapter 15 or 20. In this book it began I believe right in Chapter 2 Very fun good book.
A super quick installation in the never-ending Goosebumps series. It wasn鈥檛 particularly well-crafted or even very scary; the protagonist was average and the plot was middling.
Thankfully, the ending wasn鈥檛 terribly rushed, but the 鈥榢ill-鈥榚m-with-kindness鈥� conclusion felt like too easy a win.
If anything, I didn鈥檛 go into this with high expectations considering it is Goosebumps. But even within the world of Goosebumps this was a massively tame horror book. And if it doesn鈥檛 succeed at scaring you, is there really any point in reading this one?
This might be one of the worst books I read from Goosebumps. Don't get me wrong; I love the Goosebumps series, but this book wasn't for me. I was put of from the dogs name (killer, who would name their dog like this?) and the ending. Imagine not being able to eliminate the evil so you start being kind to it and plop it's gone. What. The whole plot just felt trashy. Huge disappointment, but perhaps the next book will be better.
ho finito di leggere questo libro proprio ieri ma sto pubblicando oggi la recensione perch茅 questi sono stati giorni pieni di febbre e influenza per me e onestamente sto respirando da entrambe le narici solamente adesso lmao. tornando a noi.. 猫 il primo libro che sono riuscita a leggere in questo 2025 e me lo stavo portando dietro da un po', devo ammetterlo. per貌 猫 stato bello, particolare! innanzitutto non lo avevo mai letto e durante la mia infanzia ho letto quasi tutti i piccoli brividi quindi 猫 una bella novit脿; secondo di tutto, 猫 stato davvero carino. avvincente e simpatico, forse con un paio di buchi di trama, ma 猫 stato bello leggerlo fino alla fine e scoprire quale sarebbe stato il plot twist che caratterizza questi libriccini. spero di riuscire a collezionarli tutti e a realizzare uno dei tanti sogni della me piccolina鉁笍 ci vediamo al prossimo libro (sempre che io riesca a leggerne altri - si spera)
辞丑馃え this is definitely something that would prevent me from going to sleep if i was 6 BUT鈥� i know it鈥檚 intended for a younger audience so i鈥檓 not the one to judge馃馃徎
I recently read the book Goosebumps: It Came From Beneath the Sink by: R.L. Stine. I thought it was a very good book because it was suspenseful and it always kept me guessing. It was suspenseful because when they lost the grule (the thing that came from beneath the sink) the encyclopedia about it says that if the grule is given away or lost the owner of the grule will die within a day. It kept me guessing because before they knew what the thing that came from beneath the sink was they were trying to figure out what it was and there's all sorts of possibilities so I was constantly guessing what it was. My favorite part of the book was when they finally figure out what the thing that came from beneath the sink was because that's when things really bad start happening like when they lose the grule and their dog goes missing. I think R.L. Stine did a great job writing this book because he describes thing s very well like how he describes how their new house is big and how all the balconies are right next to each other. The genre of this book is science-fiction/horror/thriller. I would give this book 5 stars and would recommend this book to everyone.