Ghosts of Fear Street
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Ghosts of Fear Street is a younger version of the Fear Street
Fear Street
Fear Street is a teenage horror fiction series written by American author R. L. Stine, starting in 1989. In 1995, a series of books inspired by the Fear Street series, called Ghosts of Fear Street, was created for younger readers, and were more like the Goosebumps books in that they featured...

series by R. L. Stine
R. L. Stine
Robert Lawrence Stine , known as R. L. Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is called the "Stephen King of children's literature," is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The...

, 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 lots of ghosts and monsters. Every book has a different monster and child. The series was released by the Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...

 imprint Aladdin Paperbacks
Aladdin Paperbacks
Aladdin Paperbacks is one of several children's-book imprints owned by Simon & Schuster.It was established by Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Books where she was the founding director of the children's department . Atheneum merged with or was acquired by Scribner's in 1978, then MacMillan in 1984, before...

, 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.

Despite being published under Stine's name, the books were in fact ghostwritten
Ghostwriter
A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written...

.

Books

  1. Hide and Shriek: A girl moves to Fear Street and thinks she may be the target of a ghost that possesses a child once a year.
  2. Who's Been Sleeping In My Grave?: The substitute teacher in Fear Street is actually a ghost who wants to drag a child into her grave to teach him for eternity.
  3. The Attack of the Aqua Apes: Children who put monkeys that are supposed to grow in water in a cup with water from Fear Lake soon realize their deadly mistake.
  4. Nightmare in 3D: When a boy sees the picture of a praying mantis, in a 3D poster from a weird shop, he thinks the praying mantis has escaped and is after him.
  5. Stay Away From the Treehouse: Two brothers start to work on a destroyed tree house they find in the woods, only to find out that the ghosts of three kids who died there in a storm never left the tree house after all.
  6. Eye of the Fortune Teller: After a girl at the pier has her fortune told by a weird fortune teller, her dark predictions start to come true.
  7. Fright Knight: A museum of mysteries opens on Fear Street, and a haunted suit of armor may be more than any museum can handle.
  8. The Ooze: Al's plan to plant a stink bomb on his sister goes awry when the stink bomb turns into a fluorescent orange ooze that sucks the intelligence out of anyone who touches it.
  9. Revenge of the Shadow People: A child who likes shadow puppets soon realizes the dangerous creatures he attracts.
  10. The Bugman Lives: While mowing the lawn of an old lady, a child knocks over the tombstone of a mad scientist who experimented with bugs and is haunted by insects.
  11. The Boy Who Ate Fear Street: Sam thinks his friend's aunt is a witch after she gives him a weird spice that makes him crave everything from glue to sponges.
  12. Night of the Werecat
    Night of the Werecat
    Night of the Werecat is the twelfth novel in R. L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street series. It was first published in 1996. The main character is a girl who like cats, Wendy Chapman. It is followed by How to be a Vampire.- Plot summary :...

    : A girl steals a strange necklace that turns her into a ravenous cat when the moon is full.
  13. How To Be a Vampire: A vampire-obsessed boy named Andrew wakes up to find a book called How to Be A Vampire under his bed and fang marks on his neck. Soon, he starts gagging on garlic, has to walk home after the bus refuses to go over a bridge with running water underneath it, is sleeping upside down in his closet -- and is haunted by a vampire who wants to train Andrew into being one of them.
  14. Body Switchers From Outer Space: The biggest nerd on Fear Street is in for a surprise when the coolest child in school asks to temporarily switch bodies.
  15. Fright Christmas: A bully is in for a surprise when he is locked in a toy store on Christmas Eve and finds a man saying three ghosts are going to show him the true meaning of Christmas.
  16. Don't Ever Get Sick At Granny's: A boy's stay at Grandma's turns into a nightmare when he catches a cold and Grandma uses her insane cures on him to make the boy better.
  17. House of a Thousand Screams: After moving into the house of there uncle, a girl and her brother see the dangers he made when he was a magician.
  18. Camp Fear Ghouls: After joining a club called the Camp Fear Girls, the new member is about to find out how evil the other girls really are.
  19. Three Evil Wishes: A brother and sister find a bottle in Fear Lake that reads, "Do Not Open." The brother ignores the warning and opens the bottle, releasing a genie with plans to trap its masters.
  20. Spell of the Screaming Joker: A boy fights back against demons released from a pack of playing cards.
  21. The Creature From Club Lagoona: Tad, who is already afraid of water, finds himself face-to-face with a monster that haunts the sea resort.
  22. Field of Screams: A Little Leaguer named Buddy gets hit in the head during a game and goes back in time to 1948 to stop another Little Leaguer from dying in a bus crash.
  23. Why I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts: Two ghost kids plot to scare a human boy who moved into their house and declares that he's not afraid of ghosts.
  24. Monster Dog: A boy finds out that his dog has been turned into a monster by a mad veterinarian.
  25. Halloween Bugs Me: A boy uses a strange bag to defeat his rival on Halloween, but the boy discovers that the bag multiplies whatever gets put in -- including bugs.
  26. Go to Your Tomb—Right Now: A boy switches places with a girl who haunts the local cemetery -- and finds that the girl doesn't want to go back to the world of the dead.
  27. Parents From the 13th Dimension: One coin is about to surprise a girl when it takes her to a world where everything is perfect, only to find out the true intentions of its residents.
  28. Hide and Shriek II: The ghost in Hide and Shriek is back to haunt one more kid.
  29. The Tale of the Blue Monkey: A babysitter warns his charge of a strange monkey doll that curses whoever finds it -- only to find that the myth is all too real when the monkey doll is found in his backyard.
  30. I Was a Sixth Grade Zombie: When two kids find out what a new club on Fear Street is doing, they are going to have a terrifying encounter with brainwashed children.
  31. Escape of the He-Beast: A boy meets his favorite comic author and steals his computer disk, and thinks in the process he released a terrible creature from the comics.
  32. Caution: Aliens At Work: A boy finds a bizarre tool kit that belongs to aliens that have crash-landed in Fear Street.
  33. Attack of the Vampire Worms: Two kids go into a dark cave they find while spying on a suspected witch, and see very strange creatures and people who say they cannot be around any light without burning to ashes.
  34. Horror Hotel Pt. 1: The Vampire Checks In
  35. Horror Hotel Pt. 2: Ghost in the Guest Room
  36. The Funhouse of Dr. Freek

See also

  • Fear Street
    Fear Street
    Fear Street is a teenage horror fiction series written by American author R. L. Stine, starting in 1989. In 1995, a series of books inspired by the Fear Street series, called Ghosts of Fear Street, was created for younger readers, and were more like the Goosebumps books in that they featured...

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