“I like starting all over with every book.” 8. Though he did a lot of series, Stine was not a fan of linking the storylines: “It’s too hard for me,” he told Barnes and Noble in 2014. Other series-within-the-series included Fear Street Super Chiller, Fear Street Seniors, and Fear Street Nights. There were several trilogies, including 99 Fear Street: The House of Evil, Fear Street: Fear Park, Fear Street Cheerleaders, and Fear Street: The Cataluna Chronicles.
Another, The Fear Street Sagas, stretched for 16 books it explored the twisted and cursed history of the Fier family, from which Fear Street took its name. One series, Ghosts of Fear Street, was aimed at younger readers (at least some of these were ghost-written by someone other than Stine). There were a number of Fear Street spin-offs. I think if you make sure it's a fantasy world, and the kids know what they're reading is a fantasy and couldn't happen, then you can go pretty far and you won’t upset them that much.” 7. In 2015, he told The Verge that he avoided those topics because “I don't really want to terrify kids. “It’s better if the fears are less real.” “That’s the kind of reality that ruins a story,” Stine said. Stine said he’d never include in the Fear Street books.ĭrugs and child abuse are off the table for the author, and even divorce is only used sparingly. “So I’m great at full-blown cardboard characters.” The books’ settings were also purposefully nondescript to make them easily relatable to anyone. “I don’t want to create a whole character, I want the reader to feel like the character,” he said. Though he’s been criticized for it, Stine told CNN that his characters’ lack of depth is deliberate. The Fear Street characters weren’t fleshed out on purpose. I was wondering why, recently why did I love killing teenagers so much back in the Fear Street days? And then I realized: I had one back at home. It’s a bloodfest.” In 2014, Stine jokingly told Mental Floss, “I kill off a lot of teenagers. “ we started getting bolder, one per book, maybe two or three. “When we first started doing the teen horror novels, I wasn’t allowed to kill anyone,” Stine told CNN. Stine amassed an impressive body count in the Fear Street books. “Back in the height of Goosebumps in the '90s, I did 12 Goosebumps books a year and 12 Fear Street books,” Stine told PopSugar. The New Girl, the first book in the series, was published in 1989 Stine released one Fear Street book almost every month after that. And that would be a way to do a series.’ And that’s how it started, by basing it on the location and not the characters.” People who go to Fear Street or people who move to Fear Street, terrible things would happen to them. It’ll be a very normal, suburban town, but there’ll be this one street that’s cursed. “And I thought, ‘That would be a place where bad things happen. “It was the first one I thought of: Fear Street,” Stine told Mental Floss.
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The title for the Fear Street series just popped into R.L. “That would be ludicrous, right?” His publishers were likely thankful he was wrong: The Fear Street series grew to include 51 main series books and several spin-off series by 2014, the books had sold 80 million copies. “Publishers didn’t want a series because you couldn’t have these horrible things happen to the same kids over and over,” Stine said. Stine was told a teen horror series couldn’t be done. I said to her, ‘It would be nice to do more than one a year-maybe we can do more if we can think of some way to do a series.’” 2. That’s what these kids want.’ Kids like to be scared, and I just sort of stumbled into this. But she only wanted one a year, and I thought, ‘You know, forget this funny stuff. “A year later, wanted another one, and so I wrote Twisted. I’ve found something kids like!’” he told Mental Floss in 2014. “I thought, ‘Wait a minute-I’ve struck a chord here. After it was published in 1987, it became a bestseller. It's embarrassing! It wasn't my idea.”ĭespite his reluctance, Stine wrote Blind Date anyway. Call it Blind Date.’ She even gave me the title.
“And she said, ‘I'm not working with him again. “She had had a big fight with somebody writing teenage horror. Stine had been working for Scholastic, writing joke books (under the name “Jovial Bob Stine”) and editing a humor magazine, when he had lunch with an editor friend who asked him to go in a … different direction. The Fear Street series has its roots in an editor’s fight with another teen horror author. Here are a few things you might not have known about the series.
Now, Stine’s Fear Street books are heading to Netflix in a three-film trilogy debuting this July. Stine’s horror series Fear Street-which featured ghosts, vampires, and killer cheerleaders, not to mention illustrated covers decked out with creepy fonts-terrified teens.
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