Review: Wrong Number 2 (Fear Street #27) by R.L. Stine

Title: Wrong Number 2

Series: Wrong Number #2 | Fear Street #27

Previous book in this duology: The Wrong Number

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: January 1995

Published by: Archway Paperback

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Synopsis:

Don’t answer that phone!

“You’re not safe anywhere. I’ll get my revenge!”

Can it really be Mr. Farberson on the line? He has to still be locked up after trying to kill Jade and Deena last year. Maybe the calls are just someone’s idea of a sick joke. But who else could possibly know the things the caller knows?

Then they realize that someone is nearby, watching them, close enough to know their every move. Someone who desperately wants revenge. Someone who wants to reach out... and kill them.

My rating: ★★★☆☆

Call waiting... to kill!

Last time Deena, Jade, and Chuck made some prank phone calls... some that got them in trouble. But now they’re the ones getting the calls... threatening ones.

Review: The Wrong Number (Fear Street #5) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Wrong Number

Series: Wrong Number #1 | Fear Street #5

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: March 1990

Published by: Archway Paperback

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It begins as an innocent prank, when Deena Martinson and her best friend Jade Smith make sexy phone calls to the boys from school. But Deena's half-brother Chuck catches them in the act and threatens to tell their parents, unless the girls let him in on the fun. Chuck begins making random calls, threatening anyone who answers. It's dangerous and exciting. They're even enjoying the publicity, and the uproar they've caused. Until Chuck calls a number on Fear Street.

To his horror, Chuck realizes he has called THE WRONG NUMBER. The jokes are over when murder is on the line. The murderer knows who they are and where they live — and they have nowhere to call for help.

My rating: ★★★★☆

It began as a prank... and ended in murder!

It all starts because Chuck doesn’t believe in Fear Street’s curse, even after Deena and Jade warn him that a lot of bad stuff has happened there. He makes a prank phone call to someone on who lives on Fear Street, but it’s more than he bargained for when they overhear a goddamn murder happen! Now they’re all caught up in this mess with the murderer threatening them. Thanks a lot, Chuck.

Lol

Review: The Fear Street Saga (Collector's Edition) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Fear Street Saga

Series: The Fear Street Saga | Fear Street Collector's Edition

Books in this omnibus: The Betrayal (#1) | The Secret (#2) | The Burning (#3)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: November 1996

Published by: Archway Paperback

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Synopsis:

Fear Street is cursed.

It’s been that way for hundreds of years. Unspeakable horrors haunt those who’ve walked on its terrifying path. And it all started with one family—the Fears.

Go back to how it all began and discover the dark family secrets buried underneath years of terror, from who sentenced an innocent woman to burn at the stake, to why the Fear mansion caught on fire, and how forbidden love, a bloody feud, and dark magic unleashed the curse that has lasted for far too long.

And how Fear Street became the evil place it is today.

My rating: ★★★★★
This series is told as if Nora Goode is writing it—we get three stories in each book with some interludes from Nora as she tells the story of the Fears and the Goodes. This is literally what I remember from reading this series way back in the day: just Nora sitting at a desk writing by candlelight. Ah, the nostalgia.

Review: Bad Moonlight (Fear Street Super Chiller #8) by R.L. Stine

Title: Bad Moonlight

Series: Fear Street Super Chiller #8 (Can be read as a standalone)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: June 1995

Published by: Archway paperback

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She wasn’t just crying wolf...

Danielle Verona can’t believe the band picked her to be their new lead singer. She’s on the road, performing at all the hot clubs. The adoring fans, the bright lights—it’s a dream come true!

But when nighttime falls, Danielle can feel the terror in the darkness. There’s eerie howling outside her window. And then a band member is killed—ripped to shreds by a wild animal. Danielle knows something is out there, lurking in the moonlight. Something savage...and hungry.

My rating: ★★★☆☆

Night time is the right time for terror!

Danielle is in a band, touring and singing with them, but she keeps having these awful “fantasies” of horrible deaths and stuff. She says fantasies, I say hallucinations. Lol. But at least she admits she needs help with her mental health issues. There were no stereotypes in this book about that and I really loved it. Needing help is not something you should be ashamed of. Anyway, Danielle just graduated from high school and her aunt, who she lives with now after her parents died in a car accident, actually encouraged her to get into this band stuff before she went off to college. You know, just a year off of fun before you settle down and focus on your studies. It’s usually the opposite of what parents want their kids to do, but I thought it was pretty cool.

Review: The Burning (The Fear Street Saga Trilogy #3) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Burning

Series: The Fear Street Saga Trilogy #3

Previous books in this series: The Betrayal (#1) | The Secret (#2)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: October 1993

Published by: Archway Paperback

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The end... and the beginning

Simon Fear thought changing his name would stop the evil. He was wrong—dead wrong.

After generations of unspeakable horror, it is up to Daniel and Nora, brought together by their fateful love, to unite the feuding families. But is their forbidden love strong enough to withstand such awesome evil?

Poor Nora—desperate to tell the truth and bury the family curse... before it buries her.

My rating: ★★★★★
Nora is still persistent in writing the story of the Fears. And in this book we finally get to her story.

In the first story of this book we get more love at first sight shit when Simon Fear first sees Angelica. Ugh. This is the story of Simon Fear and how he met the love of his life. Angelica is actually already being courted by two guys, but Simon will do whatever it takes to win her over. Even kill.

Review: The Secret (The Fear Street Saga Trilogy #2) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Secret

Series: The Fear Street Saga Trilogy #2

Previous book in this series: The Betrayal

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: September 1993

Published by: Archway Paperback

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Synopsis:

Buried Evil

What is the secret of Fear Street?

Why has its horror lasted so long?

Ezra Fier wants to find out. He searches for the answer among the rotting bones in the ghostly town of Wickham. But he find only betrayal and death.

Elizabeth and Kate are in love with the same boy. How can they know that they too are caught by the evil that will haunt this family forever?

My rating: ★★★★★
And we continue on with Nora telling us the story about the Goodes and the Fears (aka Fiers).

The first story starts off with Ezra Fier, who has his own family now, as he continues to search for the Goodes to exact his revenge on them. Oh no, he has not forgotten how William Goode killed pretty much his entire family and drove his aunt Mary insane (see last book for more details 😉). He is now dragging his wife and kids around looking for the Goodes until they arrive at a pretty literal ghost town... where they find death instead...

Review: The Betrayal (The Fear Street Saga Trilogy #1) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Betrayal

Series: The Fear Street Saga Trilogy #1

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: August 1993

Published by: Archway Paperback

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Synopsis:

Why do so many horrifying things happen on Fear Street? Nora knows.

She knows how the terror began. She knows about the young girl who burned at the stake--and the bloody feud between two families that caused the unspeakable horror that has lasted 300 years!

She knows, and she wants to tell.

Are you sure you want to hear it?

My rating: ★★★★★
This book is told as if Nora Goode is writing it—we get three stories each with an interlude from Nora as she tells the story of the Fears and the Goodes. This is literally what I remember from reading this series way back in the day: just Nora sitting at a desk writing by candlelight. Ah, the nostalgia.

Review: The New Boy (Fear Street #20) by R.L. Stine

Title: The New Boy

Series: Fear Street #20 (Can be read as a standalone)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: January 1994

Published by: Archway Paperback

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He stole their hearts... Does he want their lives, too?

What a hunk! When handsome, mysterious Ross Gabriel comes to Shadyside High, all the girls want to date him... even the ones who already have boyfriends! Janie, Eve and Faith go so far as to make a bet... which one of them will he go out with first?

But then the murders begin, and it starts to look like dating Ross means flirting with a gruesome and untimely death. Will Janie’s dream date with Ross turn out to be the night of her life? Or the night of her death?

My rating: ★★★☆☆

He was a hunk of trouble...

There’s a hot, new guy at school and so many girls want him, including Janie and her two friends. Her two friends who already have boyfriends, btw. But regardless, they make a bet to see who he goes out with first. It’s too bad one of the girls winds up dead! Did Ross actually kill her?

Review: Haunted (Fear Street #7) by R.L. Stine

Title: Haunted

Series: Fear Street #7 (Can be read as a standalone)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: July 1990

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The Night Stalker

Melissa woke up screaming. The prowler was at her window…or was he? The recent headlines about a Fear Street prowler had everyone on edge. Her father now kept a loaded pistol in his bedroom. That made it even more frightening—and real.

Then the haunting began: her new car driving as if someone else had taken control; her birthday presents ripped open by unseen hands; an invisible force trying to push her out the bedroom window.

Out of the shadows of her bedroom came a menacing figure. Who was he? Did he really come from beyond the grave? And why had he come to kill her? If Melissa doesn’t solve the mystery fast, these questions will haunt her—to death!

My rating: ★★★★★

There’s a prowler in Melissa’s room—but is he dead or alive?

Melissa is being haunted by ghost who claims she killed him. But surely this is something she would remember, right? First the Fear Street Prowler breaking into houses on Fear Street to steal stuff, and now this? Poor Melissa.

Review: The Sleepwalker (Fear Street #6) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Sleepwalker

Series: Fear Street #6

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: August 1991

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One week after she starts her summer job on Fear Street with old Mrs Cottler, Mayra Barnes begins to sleepwalk, waking up in the dead of night not knowing where she is. Mayra becomes even more terrified when she discovers Mrs Cottler may be a witch...

Is the old woman casting spells on Mayra? To add to Mayra's horror, she is being followed by a menacing stranger who seems to recognize her - but she's never seen him in her life!

Mayra's sleepwalking is leading her into more and more peril. She soon realizes she must take action. She must find out what is happening to her - or she may never leave Fear Street alive!

My rating: ★★★★☆

She isn't safe—even in her dreams!

Mayra starts working for an old woman who lives on Fear Street. It’s an easy job and she gets paid well, but ever since she started working for there she’s been sleepwalking... to Fear Street no less! Is this woman casting a spell on Mayra?

Review: Bad Dreams (Fear Street #22) by R.L. Stine

Title: Bad Dreams

Series: Fear Street #22 (Can be read as a standalone)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: March 1994

Published by: Archway Paperback

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Every night Maggie Travers has the same horrible dream. Every night she is forced to watch the same murder. And every night the girl in her dream cries out for help. Maggie is afraid to go to sleep again. But when the terrifying dream starts to come true and the gruesome accidents begin, staying awake is the real nightmare!

My rating: ★★★☆☆

Don't go to sleep!

Maggie keeps having these horrible recurring nightmares, and, well, this is basically Maggie’s life right now:

What was she supposed to do? Pour her heart out? My father died, my boyfriend has been ignoring me ever since I told him about my weird nightmare, I found a knife in my pillow, and I think my bed is haunted.
No, that wouldn't sound too good.

Review: The Surprise Party (Fear Street #2) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Surprise Party

Series: Fear Street #2 (Can be read as a standalone)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: October 1990

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It's been a year since Evan died in the Fear Street woods. A year since Ellen moved away, and "the gang" split up. Meg Dalton felt as if she'd lost her best friends. Everyone changed. Even her boyfriend Tony was acting moody, strange. But when she heard that Ellen was returning for a visit, Meg had the answer: she'd bring them all together again with a surprise party for Ellen!

That's when the terror began... the phone calls... the threats... the bizarre acts of violence. "Cancel the party—or else," the whispered voice on the phone told her. Meg was scared, and with good reason. Whoever wanted the party stopped would try anything—even murder! But why? The dark Fear Street woods held the answer... if Meg dared to discover the truth!

My rating: ★★★★☆

It was just another party—until the threats began...

After the apparent suicide of their friend Evan, Meg’s friend (and Evan’s girlfriend) moves away. Now she’s back in Shadyside visiting and Meg decides to throw her a surprise party. Except someone doesn’t want this party to happen. Does it have to do with the death of Evan? Pretty much, yeah. Lol.

Review: Broken Hearts (Fear Street Super Chiller #4) by R.L. Stine

Title: Broken Hearts

Series: Fear Street Super Chiller #4 (Can be read as a standalone)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: February 1993

Published by: Archway/Simon Pulse

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Roses are red, corpses are blue. On Valentine’s Day, you’ll die too!

There’s someone out there, someone who kills on Valentine’s Day. Josie and Melissa are scared—especially when they receive threatening valentines. Then the murders begin. Who is sending these horrible valentines to the girls of Shadyside High? And who will be the next to die?

My rating: ★★★★☆

Valentine's Day can be killer.

Melissa and the McClains (Josie, Rachel, and Erica) live right across the street from each other and that is how they became friends. But things change after Rachel’s accident. Josie basically becomes Reva from Silent Night. She seriously rivaled her at times. But in the end Josie, wasn’t as cruel as Reva, so I’ll give her that. But that definitely doesn’t excuse how she treated Erica and Melissa. She was so inconsiderate, especially toward her younger sister Erica.

Review: The Mind Reader (Fear Street #26) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Mind Reader

Series: Fear Street #26 (Can be read as a standalone)

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: September 1996

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A bony hand beckons from a shallow grave...

But only Ellie Anderson can see the skeletal hand. Ellie has visions—visions of past secrets and future horror. Her visions have led her to the body of a girl who was killed two years before. Now her power may help her find the murderer…unless he finds her first!

My rating: ★★★★☆

Seeing too much is murder!

Ellie is just minding her own business, taking her dog on a walk, when all of a sudden she stumbles upon a dead body in the woods! Luckily for this dead body, Ellie has visions of the past and the future (which, for the record, I thought was awesome!), so naturally the body wants justice for their death via Ellie. That's right, poor Ellie starts having these horrible visions after discovering the body, and there’s nothing left for her to do but find out who killed this person.

Review: Cheerleaders (Fear Street Collector's Editions #12) by R.L. Stine

Title: Cheerleaders

Series: Fear Street | Fear Street Collector's Editions

Books in this omnibus: The First Evil | The Second Evil | The Third Evil

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: December 1998

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The First Evil: The Shadyside cheerleaders accidentally release an ancient evil spirit from the Fear Street cemetery.

The Second Evil: Just when the cheerleaders thought they had stopped the evil, the murders begin...again

The Third Evil: Cheerleader Corky Corcoran holds the key to destroying the ancient evil forever -- unless the spirit destroys her first.

My rating: ★★★★☆
Give me a K-I-L-L! Wait... Wrong book 😉

Review: Summer Horror (Fear Street Collector's Editions #6) by R.L. Stine

Title: Summer Horror

Series: Fear Street | Fear Street Super Chiller | Fear Street Collector's Editions

Books in this omnibus: Sunburn | The Dead Lifeguard | One Evil Summer

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: July 1998

Published by: Archway

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Are you afraid to walk down Fear Street? Maybe you should be.

They say that weird things always happen on that dark and twisting road. They say it's a place to be frightened of - that those who go there never return the same. And some never return at all...

They say it's a place where dark and evil things happen...even under the bright summer sun. Discover how dangerous summer vacation can be in the three FEAR STREET books of this special Collector's Edition!

Contains "Sunburn" "The Dead Lifeguard" and "One Evil Summer"

My rating: ★★★★☆
It's the middle of winter, so if you're craving some summer time fun, this book might be just for you!

Review: Silent Night (Silent Night #1-3) by R.L. Stine

Title: Silent Night

Series: Silent Night | Fear Street Super Chiller | Fear Street Collector's Editions

Books in this omnibus: Silent Night | Silent Night 2 | Silent Night 3

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: December 1997

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Santa's bringing Reva three presents... each one full of holiday fear!

In Silent Night Reva Dalby was the richest, snobbiest, nastiest person in Shadyside. Three Christmases ago, Reva went too far, and found herself being followed everywhere. By someone who wanted revenge.

Reva escaped and promised that she'd change.

But she didn't stay on Santa's nice list for long. The next Christmas, in Silent Night 2. she went back to being her old, spoiled self. Until she was kidnapped--by men who wanted her rich father's money.

Now, in Silent Night 3, Reva is home from college for the holidays. She's determined to have a good time this year. But she doesn't know that once again, Santa's leaving terror in her stocking. And it's going to be anotherscary Christmas!

My rating: ★★★★★
It's not Christmas, but...



😉😂

Review: The Third Evil (Fear Street Cheerleaders #3) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Third Evil

Series: Fear Street Cheerleaders #3

Previous books in this series: The First Evil | The Second Evil

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: October 1992

Published by: Archway/Simon Pulse

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It’s back!

Did the evil spirit really leave Kimmy’s body? The cheerleaders of Shadyside High can still feel its dark presence, and Corky knows that it is out there, somewhere close. And getting closer.

Corky is tormented night after night by dreams of her dead sister, Bobbi. What terrifying message is Bobbi trying to tell her? When the evil begins again—more horrible, more gruesome than ever—Corky knows it is up to her to learn the century-old secrets and destroy the evil spirit’s power for good. But so many have died already—will Corky be next?

My rating: ★★★★☆

Fight, fight, fight or die, die, die!

Poor Corky. Both her sister Bobbi and boyfriend Chip are dead—killed by the evil spirit. But it’s not over yet! The evil spirit is back once again! This time around, the evil spirit possess someone I never would have guessed! I was so surprised to find out who it was in this time. But it was very interesting see it in this perspective and see the internal struggle between host and evil spirit. However, there was one different thing that happened in this book that I didn’t really understand: this time the evil spirit actually let the host remember the things they did while being possessed. It was very strange because in the previous book, Kimmy did not remember at all being possessed, but maybe the spirit is growing weaker as time goes on...?

Review: The Second Evil (Fear Street Cheerleaders #2) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Second Evil

Series: Fear Street Cheerleaders #2

Previous book in this series: The First Evil

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: September 1992

Published by: Archway/Simon Pulse

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Corky Corcoran is sure it's just her imagination when she sees her dead sister rise from the grave. Or is it?

Corky is trying to put the nightmare of Bobbi's death behind her—she's back on the Shadyside cheerleading squad and has become friends with Kimmy and Debra. But everything is not back to normal for Corky—she hears horrible screams in the gym, her friend has become obsessed with the occult, and a strange young man is following her. And then the murders begin again...

Has the evil spirit from the Fear Street cemetery returned to destroy them one by one?

My rating: ★★★★☆

Cheers... from the grave!

Corky is still totally heartbroken over Bobbi’s death, understandably. Corky is really having a hard time putting her life back together—she obsessively goes to Bobbi’s grave, she’s off the cheer team, and to top it all off, some creepy weirdo seems to be stalking her. Oh, and the evil spirit that killed her sister might be back. I think I forgot to mention that. Lol.

Review: The First Evil (Fear Street Cheerleaders #1) by R.L. Stine

Title: The First Evil

Series: Fear Street Cheerleaders #1

Author: R.L. Stine

Publication date: August 1992

Published by: Archway/Simon Pulse

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"Give Me a D-I-E!"
Newcomers Corky and Bobbi Corcoran want more than anything to make the cheerleading squad at Shadyside High. But as soon as the Corcoran sisters are named to the team, terrible things happen to the cheerleaders.

The horror starts with a mysterious accident near the Fear Street cemetery. Soon after, piercing screams echo through the empty school halls. And then the ghastly murders begin...

Can Corky and Bobbi stop the killer before the entire cheerleading squad is destroyed?

My rating: ★★★★☆

When the cheers turn to screams...

Bobbi and Corky Corcoran have just moved to Shadyside and are looking to join the cheerleading squad. After some issues, the Corcoran sisters join the team, much to the dismay of the other girls. One day, they are on the bus heading off to perform somewhere when they are in an accident, which happens at Fear Street Cemetery, no less! Then, as expected, strange things start happening... accidents. Someone or something is out to get the cheerleaders!