SINGAPORE - Children's horror writer R.L. Stine pens his myriad books under the gaze of a skeleton and a 90cm-long cockroach.
"You have to have some atmosphere," says the American author, 78. The cockroach is a theatre prop from a play based on one of his novels, but he tells people he caught it under the sink. "They believe me. This is New York City."
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