KIDS/SNEAK PEEK : NOW, MORE WAYS TO GET `GOOSEBUMPS'.The phenomenon of ``Goosebumps,'' the cottage industry cottage industry: see sweating system. spinning wildly from the pages of R.L. Stine's best-selling children's books, continues to grow with a new line of audio books, a new regular book title and a second season of TV shows. The scary ``Goosebumps'' series, aimed at kids 7 to 12, is the nation's best-selling line of books - children's or adult's - flying off shelves at a rate of 4 million copies per month. More than 130 million books are currently in print. The latest title - Stine's 45th - is ``Ghost Camp Ghost Camp is the 45th novella in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series. Synopsis Two kids wind up at a summer camp, but it's no ordinary one. The kids there keep playing jokes on one another - painful jokes that should hurt. However, the tricks don't appear to cause pain. ,'' which was released by children's publisher Scholastic earlier this summer. Meanwhile, Walt Disney Records Walt Disney Records is a record company and part of The Walt Disney Company. The label was established in 1956 under the name Disneyland Records; its first release was A Child's Garden of Verses. The company changed to its current name in 1989. has teamed with Scholastic to create a new line of ``Goosebumps'' audio tapes. The tapes debut in stores this week. The audio series was recorded in old-time radio  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. theater style, complete with sound effects and a musical score. Actors lending their voices to the effort include Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson. Six titles are now available on one-hour cassettes, including ``A Shocker on Shock Street A Shocker on Shock Street is a children's novella in the Goosebumps series written by R. L. Stine. There was an adaptation made in graphic novel form, also. Summary ,'' ``The Haunted Mask II'' and ``Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes is the 34th novel in the Goosebumps series.Joe Burton's dad collects lawn ornaments. When Mr. Burton gets two new, scary-looking lawn ornaments, trouble starts to happen. Like, melons being squished and a car ruined. .'' And if books and audio cassettes don't send shivers up your kids' spine, there's always the TV show. Second-season episodes of ``Goosebumps'' premiere on Fox at 10 a.m. Sept. 7, with a special hourlong episode of ``Attack of the Mutant,'' starring Adam West of the old ``Batman'' series. `BSC' goes on-line: Speaking of popular books series, there is now a Web site for fans of Ann M. Martin's ``The Baby-sitters Club.'' The site - scholastic.com/babysittersclub - features six pages of facts about books and characters, fan club news, listings of ``BSC'' happenings and more. Different drummers (and others): Recordings by the label Music for Little People, which specializes in multicultural music, will now be distributed by Kid Rhino, a division of Rhino Records. Released this week under the agreement was ``Halloween Howls'' by Andrew Gold. The Redway, Calif.-based Music for Little People has been around since 1986 and has released 65 albums by some diverse and acclaimed artists, including Los Lobos, Taj Mahal, Ladysmith Black Mambazo Ladysmith Black Mambazo (mämbäz`ō), choral group formed in 1965 in Ladysmith, South Africa, led by Joseph Shabalala. The group, which sings with a precise yet free-flowing phrasing, has consisted of 8 to 12 members. , Maria Muldaur and Buckwheat Zydeco. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1-2) New episodes of ``Goosebumps,'' created byR.L. Stine, above, include ``Attack of the Mutant,'' starring Adam West. 
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