History of Fear Street

R.L Stine began writing horror novels in 1986 some titles included Blind Date, The Babysitter, and The Girlfriend. These novels are sometimes mistaken for Fear Street novels because of the horror and mystery elements.

These novels were part of Point Horror Scholastic’s young adult horror series. Point horror includes authors such as Christopher Pike, Caroline Cooney, and L.J Smith to name a few.

Sometime later Stine left Scholastic and began his own horror series, Fear Street, with another publishing house. A collection of stories taken place in Shadyside revolving around the teenagers who attended Shadyside High. The first one in the series being The New Girl.

Fear street is a fictitious street in Shadyside which derived from the Fier family. This family was cursed and bought the curse with them when they moved to Shadyside in the 19th century and altered their name to Fear.

There were many novels in the series and sub novels that included the history of the family and how the street came to be.



A New Fear Street 

Fear Street Super Chillers

Fear Street Cheerleaders 

99 Fear Street  The House of Evil

The Cataluna Chronicles 

Fear Street Sagas 

There are two sagas one of the beginnings of curse set in the 1900’s and the second sagas are those of Nora Goode and Daniel Fear who try to end the curse.



Fear Street Seniors 

Fear Street Nights



The Ghosts of Fear Street is also included but were ghostwritten.



The Fear Street series came back in 2014 with new stories.

Party Games

Don’t stay up late 

The lost girl

Can you keep a secret?

The dead boyfriend 

Give me a K-I-L-L

You may now kill the bride


**Blog originally on HorrorAmino - Written by Horror Society Member Betty B Deadly