First edition cover of The New Girl, the first Fear Street book.
This is a list of books from the Fear Street book series created and written by R. L. Stine. The first book, The New Girl was published in 1989. Various spin-off series were written, including the Fear Street Sagas and Ghosts of Fear Street. More than 80 million Fear Street books have been sold as of 2003.[1] The books appeared in many bestseller lists, including the New York Times Best Seller list for children,[2]USA Today bestseller list[3] and Publishers Weekly bestseller list,[4] and the series was listed as the bestselling young-adult book series of all time.[5]
Cory falls in love with Anna, the mysterious new girl at school. But his friends never see her, and when he looks her up, her family name's not listed. Is Anna real? Or is there something more sinister going on?
A year after one friend died and another moved away, Meg decides to throw a surprise party for Ellen when she returns for a visit. But then she starts getting eerie calls....and threats....and acts of violence....all with one message: "Cancel the party....or else."
Deena and Jade learn the consequences of prank calls when Deena's half brother, Chuck, dials a wrong number....and catches the attention of a murderer.
Mayra Barnes suspects her new boss, old Mrs. Cottler, may be a witch and has cast a spell on her to make Mayra sleepwalk, leading her into increasing peril.
Best friends Ariel Munroe, Doug Mahr and Shannon Harper become stranded in a blizzard and are saved by a strange man named Red, who guides them to a hilltop ski resort. But can he save them when their refuge becomes a trap? Their hosts are acting very sinister. Doug's car is gone. The phones are dead. And the house is full of guns. Then a shot is fired and the real terror begins...
There's a boarded up room in Lea's new house. Someone had been murdered in that room, and it hadn't been used ever since. So why is Lea hearing footsteps coming from that room?
Every private room at Shadyside Hospital holds a shocking secret of its own. Student volunteer Laurie stumbles onto the hospital's sickest secret of all.
Lizzie McVay was so excited to be nominated Prom Queen. But when the other candidates are murdered, Lizzie must uncover the killer's identity before it is too late.
Becka Norwood's life is turned upside down when a new girl named Honey starts claiming to be her best friend. And it soon becomes clear as to what lengths Honey will go to make that delusion reality....
Bobby's a heartbreaker, and sets his sights on the Wade twins, bragging they'll both fall for him. They do, but one of them is jealous, murderously jealous.
Seven friends, stuck in a luxury ski condo, play a game of truth or dare. But the game turns deadly when one of them would rather kill than tell the truth.
Nicole always thought her friend Lucy's life was so much better than hers. So when Lucy asked if she wanted to switch bodies, Nicole thought it sounded like a fun idea. Little did she know the switch would actually work... Or that Lucy's life might not be so sweet after all...
Holly learned a terrible secret, and now her friends know it too. Someone wants to make sure they never talk about it. Someone who'll go to any length to keep them quiet.
Selena is on top of the world, her acting career at Shadyside High is going great- until she starts getting messages from someone calling themselves The Sun and accidents start happening. Can she find out the identity of her 'number one fan' before it is too late?
After his girlfriend's gruesome death in a sledding accident, Brady is ready to move on. He's met a girl named Rosha and she seems like the perfect girl. But is she a dream date...or a nightmare?
Diane and her friends love to go out late at night and play pranks...until someone dies. And they are all pulled into a nightmare beyond their control...
For Cindy's birthday, her friends take her to Fear Island for a party. But when Cindy is murdered, the friends are pulled into a nightmare. Who is Cindy's killer? And who will be the next to die?
After discovering a bag full of money, Emma and Sydney decide to keep it a secret. But when Sydney tells her boyfriend, Jason, Emma is scared. Would Jason kill to be rich?
After accidentally killing a cat that lived in the school gym, Marty is sentenced to community service. But now he's being stalked by cats wherever he goes. Almost like they want revenge....
Tania is having the best year of her life. After being voted homecoming queen, someone is jealous, and plans to ruin Tania's perfect year. Even if that means Tania must be killed...
Paulette Fox refuses to let her blindness stop her from living a normal life, especially when it comes to love. But Paulette may soon learn that love can be as blind as she is when her sighted friends witness her new boyfriend commit a heinous crime and fear that Paulette may be next.
Becka can finally forget how she was blamed for all the horrible things Honey did to her friends. But Honey returns, and this time she won't stop until Becka is dead.
Some kids in the 1960s used to party in the tunnels under Shadyside High School, until someone (or something) left a bunch of people dead. Now, Elaine Butler and her detention friends are exploring those same tunnels...
Sondra has had nightmares of her own death since her stepbrother moved in. A psychic believes the dreams are memories from a past life and the person who killed her in that life is after her again, and it could be her stepbrother.
Maria was hesitant about going camping, but her two best friends convinced her to join them. However, their camping trip quickly turns dangerous and the girls' lives are now at risk.
Shelli and her friends cheat on their college placement test. But when Jennifer threatens to reveal their secret, they have todo whatever it takes to hide the truth, even murder. But their plan goes wrong, and they're in danger instead.
Jan creates a formula in the lab to revive dead creatures. When she and her friend Dawn accidentally kill a girl, Dawn revives her with the formula. However, the revived girl, Cindy, comes back different and seeks revenge.
A Fear Street Novel
Six new Fear Street books were published from September 2014 to April 2017. "Give Me a K-I-L-L" was the last contracted novel, but R.L. Stine confirmed via Twitter that more Fear Street books were planned.[6]
HarperCollins' HarperTEEN picked up the Fear Street series in 2018 with "Return to Fear Street." The first novel in this series, "You May Now Kill The Bride" was released on July 24, 2018. This new series is released in paperback and also brings a return to the retro "pulp" style book covers.[8]
Two resentful sisters, separated by time, each encounter an ancient curse that haunts their family's weddings. The curse feeds off the family's evil and allows dark history to repeat itself, taking its toll in unexpected ways.
Poppy Miller seeks revenge on Jack Saber for his humiliating prank, but when her classmates start dying, suspicion falls on her. Is Poppy being framed or did the students of Shadyside High underestimate her?
New girl Morgan Marks is popular, smart, and beautiful, but her mysterious past raises questions. As Shadyside Homecoming approaches, Morgan's dark secrets are on the verge of being revealed.
Cari Taylor and her three friends look forward to a "party summer," working at The Howling Wolf Inn. After finding it deserted the mysterious owner allows them to stay. However, after a murder is committed Cari and her friends want out but find themselves trapped on the island!
Matt, his girlfriend April, and his friend Todd just wanted a peaceful summer at the beach. But that all changes when April and Todd suddenly become weak and pale.....and have two puncture wounds on their necks....and they might have something to do with the two bats flying over the beach.....
There's someone in Shadyside who kills on Valentine's Day. Josie and Melissa are scared when they each receive threatening valentines. Will one of them be next?
The lifeguards at North Beach Country Club have the dream job: fun and partying day and night. But some people say the club is cursed and haunted. The lifeguards soon become aware that something evil is stalking them as they begin to die horrible deaths.
Danielle Verona is chosen to be the lead singer of an up-and-coming band, and discovers that her place in the band (and the therapy sessions she's been in ever since her parents died) are connected to something supernatural.
P.J. is dead, a practical joke at a Christmas party gone terribly wrong. But now someone is taking revenge for him, killing the kids from the party one by one. If anyone can survive until midnight they'll find out who the killer is.
In the final "Silent Night" book, Reva is targeted for murder after her fashion show for her new line of silk scarves (actually belonging to her cousin, Pam, and her friend, Willow) is sabotaged. But who could have done it? Her new boyfriend? Her cousin and friend? Or her neurotic roommate who's living in fear of her abusive boyfriend coming for her?
Back in 1935, a group of teens killed each other due a curse placed on land owned by the Fears to prevent a carnival from being built. Years later, Deirdre Bradley's father owns Fear Park...and the horror is going to start all over again.
Robin Fear's plans for Fear Park may come to fruition, unless the one person he never suspected of turning on him can help Deirdre.
Ghosts of Fear Street
Ghosts of Fear Street is a younger version of the Fear Street series, aimed at children ages 8 to 12. In every book, a 12-year-old child (sometimes with their friends or family) has a terrifying adventure in Fear Street, a small street in the town of Shadyside which is known by the kids in the books to have many ghosts and monsters. Every book has a different monster and child. The series was released by the Simon & Schuster imprint Aladdin Paperbacks, and lasted for thirty-six books, released from 1996 to 1998. In August 2009, Simon & Schuster, under their Children's Publishing imprint, began to reissue the books in special two-in-one editions.[9] Despite being published under Stine's name, the books were in fact ghostwritten.[10]
Newcomer to Shadyside Randy will wish that the stories she's heard about a ghost named Pete were just those when she's invited to play a rather odd game of tag. If Pete tags her, Randy will lose more than the game. She'll become the newest ghost on Fear Street.
Shadyside Middle School's newest substitute teacher is a wandering spirit wondering who's been defiling her gravesite. But how can Zack Pepper destroy someone who is already dead?
Scott and Glen use water from the Fear Street lake to bring their sea monkeys to life -- but is it really something in the water that's mutating them into ravenous monsters?
Wes Parker buys a 3D magic eye poster from a strange general store, and the more Wes tries to find the hidden picture, the more the hidden picture wants to come into the real world.
Kelsey Moore has been a Fear Street resident for years and knows the horrors are just urban legends — until she meets a fortuneteller named Madame Valda, who curses Kelsey to face her fears.
Fear Street Museum gets a new delivery: a knight's suit of armor said to be haunted by a knight cursed by a wizard to live and die in his armor. Mike, the son of the Fear Street Museum owner, thinks it is cool — until the armor comes alive and accuses Mike of putting the curse on him.
School nerd Al gets a chemistry set for his birthday, but it turns out to be a dud when the stink bomb he makes from it turns to ooze — a strange, bright orange ooze-like substance that saps the intelligence of anyone who touches it.
After accidentally mowing down the tombstone of a scientist who is obsessed with insects known as the Bugman, Janet is haunted by bugs of all shapes and sizes. Has the Bugman returned for revenge?
Picky eater Sam suddenly starts to devour everything in sight that isn't considered food when his friend's weird aunt laces his rice pudding[a] with a weird spice said to send people into feeding frenzies.
Wendy is a girl obsessed with cats; however, her parents won't let her have one. While at a craft's fair, Wendy steals a charm necklace from an old woman who claims it mutates people into werecats.
One morning, Andrew finds a guide book on how to be a vampire, along with some bite marks on his neck. While Andrew thinks being a child of the night is all fun and games, his teacher has other plans...
Klutzy young boy Will who would do anything to be like Chad, the coolest kid in school. So when Chad tells Will he has his own invention (a body-swapping machine) in his house, he jumps at the chance to make the switch — only to regret it when he discovers that Chad is an extraterrestrial.
Charles Dickens' holiday classic A Christmas Carol gets a modern-day horror twist in this tale of a bully named Kenny Frobisher who gets locked in Darby's Department Store (the same one owned by rich girl Reva in the Fear Street Super Chiller books) on Christmas Eve and encounters three ghosts who show him why he's mean during the holidays and what will happen if he doesn't change his ways.
Corey is spending the weekend with his Granny Marsha, but before his parents leave, they warn Corey not to get sick at her place—and Corey finds out why when Grandma's home remedies escalate to torture and bizarre science experiments.
Jill and Freddie inherit their dead Uncle Solly's house, which wouldn't be a problem, except that Solly was a magician who left behind some evil magic tricks that won't stay dead.
Hannah finds a bottle at Fear Lake that reads, "Danger: Do Not Open". Hannah's brother, Jesse, doesn't heed this warning, and the siblings find themselves doing battle with a bitter genie who's been stuffed in the bottle for 100 years.
Tad and his family are on vacation at Club Lagoona, which, for Tad, is not good, as he's afraid of swimming in the deep end—and with good cause, as a scaly monster may be waiting for him there.
During a Little League game, Buddy gets hit in the head with a baseball—and finds himself back in the late 1940s as Shadyside's greatest baseball player—one that was a member of a baseball team who died in a bus crash after the championship game. Can Buddy change the course of history or is his fate sealed?
Robbie and Dora are ghost kids living in a haunted house that now has a new resident: a human boy named Oliver Brown, who doesn't believe in ghosts and has a logical explanation behind all the paranormal activity. Can Robbie and Dora scare Oliver into believing?
Maggie gets a new puppy named Poocher, but one visit to Fear Street's most gruesome veterinarian turns the cute little pooch into an evil dog. Is the doctor to blame or is Maggie's dog truly evil?
Greg Romer always loses to Paul Boyd, but not this time. Even though Paul says he'll get more Halloween candy than Greg, Greg is going to beat him with his secret weapon—a bag that makes more of whatever one puts in it, like candy, money—and bugs.
While taking a shortcut through the Fear Street Cemetery, Jack meets a strange girl who offers him a chance to become invisible, but Jack soon learns that nothing good can come from it — especially if the girl in question has an ulterior motive.
They say you can't pick your parents, but tell that to Sarah. Sarah would like nothing more than to trade her bizarre family for one that's more well-behaved, which she does by flipping a coin that lets her go into an alternate dimension where she has a perfect family. One that would love to have a girl like her for lunch. Unfortunately for Sarah, she's going to be the main course.
In the sequel to the first book, the ghost children of Shadyside's graveyard are back and ready to lure human kids into playing Hide and Seek with them for their lives.
Valerie and Mark know there is something weird about the new after-school club building on Oak Street, especially when the students of Shadyside Middle School start joining and come out acting polite and robotic. Can Valerie and Mark stop the kids from being brainwashed or are they next?
Jamie Kolker is a fan of comic bookvillain, Hecula the He-Beast, and gets a computer CD featuring Hecula's sketches and drawings—which come to life when he uploads them to the computer.
Matt finds a toolbox in Fear Street Woods, but the tools inside are more than just screwdrivers, hammers, and wrenches. This toolbox is literally out of this world, and the alien who lost it is coming to Earth to get it back.
Jane and Lewis find themselves trapped underground -- along with a species of bloodsucking worms and two pale strangers who can't tolerate the sunlight.
Part one of two. When Joe and his family move to Fear Street to help run Grandpa Howie's hotel, Joe discovers that the hotel may be home to some vampires.
Conclusion. After ridding the vampires in the attic from the first book, Grandpa Howie's hotel has a new problem: a strange ghost from the past haunting Grandpa Howie and Joe. The spell to rid the ghost goes awry when it leads to a Freaky Friday-style body switch between Joe and Grandpa Howie and now the two must find a way to break the spell before the effects become permanent.
Joe (not the same one from the Horror Hotel two-parter) smashes a funhouse mirror at a carnival, but instead of seven years' bad luck, Joe gets an evil twin. NOTE: It is currently unknown if this book exists and was scrapped (similar to how Goosebumps 2000 was originally supposed to end with "The Incredible Shrinking Fifth Grader") or if it never existed in the first place.
Fear Street Sagas
The 16 books in this series were published by Simon Pulse and Golden Books from March 1996 to January 1999. Two other books, The Raven Woman and Carousel of Fear appeared on advertisements, but were never released. R. L. Stine confirmed via his official Twitter account that neither of these unpublished books were ever written.[11]
The dark power of the Fear family consumes all those connected with it. The Fears. Those they love -- and hate. The entire town of Shadyside. All are tainted forever by the evil of the family's curse.
No one can escape.
Nora Goode and Daniel Fear hoped to end the curse of the Fear family. But on their wedding day, a horrible fire swept through the Fear mansion, taking the life of every member of the doomed family.
Except two. Nora and Nicholas: The child of Nora and Daniel. Will he be able to live his life untouched by the evil of his family? Or will the dark forces claim yet another Fear for their own?
Visiting her cousins Simon and Angelica Fear, unaware of the terrible legacy that haunts everyone associated with the Fear family, Amy Pierce senses an evil presence in their New Orleans mansion and fears she will never escape.
Refusing to believe in the superstitions surrounding the Fear family, Savannah Madison proceeds with her wedding to handsome Tyler Fear and moves to Blackrose Manor, where she is terrified by a series of bizarre deaths.
Discovering the ancient Fear amulet, Christina, a young servant girl, finds her fate linked to the revenge-driven warrior Fieran, the amulet's creator, who cursed the Fear family centuries earlier.
Timothy tells his friends a story that gives him the power to control other people and summon the dead. The story is about Maggie; who escapes prison to work as a governess of two children.
After their parents' death, Luke, Leah, and Corey Fier must find themselves a brand-new place to live. There are some people who happen to get on their way, but not if the animals have the job to get rid of them. Can Luke take the blame on his siblings, who have the power to control animals; or are those just mere accidents?
Having fallen in love with Justin Fier, Madeline is warned by two unusual sources that Justin is driven by an evil quest that destroys any woman who would get close to him.
A medicine woman tells Jamie Fier that she knows how he can win the heart of the girl he loves, but it will cost him. She gives him a potion to drink, and that night, when the moon is full, Jamie is mutated into a wolf. With each full moon, he metamorphoses again, but if his true love sees him while he's in the form of a wolf, he'll remain a wolf forever.
After seeing her husband Thomas getting pushed into a pool of boiling water and die soon afterwards, Jane turns ill. She gets well in a month's time, during which time the spirit of Sarah Burns, her best friend, goes inside her. She causes Jane to murder her friend Liza Teasedale, the foreman of the mill and Clara, Jane's maid, by controlling her body. Jane commits suicide soon afterwards in order to stop Sarah from leaving her body and committing any more murders.
Mia Saxton is invited by a group of girls to perform magic from Emma Reade's spellbook, but the spells are dangerous. Mia must figure a way to stop the girls' spells before they stop her.
One day, a nightmare convinces Elizabeth Nelson that something horrible has happened to her twin brother Thomas, who works as a sculptor for Peter Gustavson. She travels to his home, where she discovers Thomas was murdered and all of Gustavson's wax figures have spirits trapped inside of them. Out of rage, she burns all the wax figures in his workshop, taking Gustavson's and Virginia's life with them.
Eleanor Rawlings is determined to kill the vampire that killed her father. So she goes to Trevor Fier, one of her father's friends, for help. She falls in love with him, until she realizes Trevor might be the vampire she's looking for.
Margarete Fier feels very fortunate when Peter Sturdevant rescues her from a mob, but more danger awaits when she finds a secret source of power hidden in his haunted mansion.
The American Revolution approaches and Meg Fier finds shelter with Dr. Malcolm Howell, a renowned physician. She falls in love with him, until she discovers his dangerous mind control experiments and turns to the mysterious Raven Woman for help.
Lewis and Jamie start hanging out after midnight with their friends "The Night People". But soon they become the targets of someone who wants them dead...
