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All of the books take place in a fictional town called Shadyside where there is a spooky street called ''Fear Street''. Apparently, this street has been cursed by the Family that it is named after (The Fears), who (most) perished in a terrible fire in the Simon Fear mansion. Since then, evil and terrible things have happened in Shadyside that usually have something to do with ''Fear Street''. The correct spelling for the family name was originally FIER (Before Simon Fear changed it) this is noted in the Fear street saga series. When rearranged it spells FIRE, which the FIER family has a connection with. Almost all the books revolve around teenagers with adults playing only small roles. The villains can range from ghosts and monsters to just plain old psychotic killers. R.L. Stine took a break from writing ''Fear Street'' after writing the ''Fear Street: Seniors'' mini-series in 1999 . In Summer 2005 , he brought ''Fear Street'' back with the three-part ''Fear Street Nights'' mini-series. MAIN SERIES The Fear Street books are actually a collection of different series. The first and original series is the main one, simply called ''Fear Street''. This series consists of fifty-five books. Beginning in 1989 with ''The New Girl'' and ending with 1998 's ''Camp Out''. Some of the books are sequels to each other but most are stand alone stories set in the town of Shadyside. Beginning with 1998's ''The Stepbrother'' the series was retitled ''New Fear Street'', even so this is still just a continuation of the main series. Currently, the main series is being reissued with new covers. Whether or not R.L. Stine will someday continue the series remains to be seen. LIST OF FEAR STREET MAIN SERIES BOOKS The New Girl
This became so popular that Stine decided to create a sequel series to ''The Fear Street Saga'' called ''Fear Street Sagas''. Sagas consisted of seventeen books that revealed tales of the Fear family that were not told in the original trilogy. These books are:
MINI-SERIES Stine also wrote a few Fear Street Mini-Series.
GHOSTS OF FEAR STREET The Ghosts of Fear Street series (with perhaps a little editorial humor) are books either by R. L. Stine and another author, or solely by another author, set in the "Fear Street" universe. (While perhaps not strictly "ghost-written" in that the other author's name does appear on the books, it is certainly Stine's name which is being used to sell them.) A few examples of this series: Camp Fear Ghouls (1997, Jahnna L. Malcolm and R. L. Stine), Body Switchers from Outer Space (1996, Nina Kiriki Hoffman), Night of the Werecat (1996, R. L. Stine and Katherine Lanoe). This series was written for younger children, and therefore some Fear Street fans do not accept them as Canon . |
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