#ghosts of fear street

[bellasboneyard]

When 5th grader me saw this at the grocery store near the magazines next to check out I was super confused having only read Goosebumps. Begged my mom for it and ate it up...this has to be one of the most metal covers! Now I got myself a pretty decent condition one to help give me peaceful nightmares

[paperbackpurgatory]

R.L. Stine's Ghosts Of Fear Street 13: How To Be A Vampire (1996)

[thatretro]

It's time to spelunk back into Kid-Friendly Shadyside. It's a cave adventure with a bunch of creepy people and some freaky white worms. Does it suck or just bite?

New NNtG: Ghosts of Fear Street #33: Attack of the Vampire Worms.

[bracketsoffear]

The Bugman Lives! (R.L. Stine) "Here lies the Bugman. Woe to anyone who wakes him. Janet didn't mean to disturb the Bugman. It was an accident. She was just mowing the lawn when she ran over his tombstone.

Now insects attack her everywhere she goes. Wasps, bees, ants. Even a huge, hairy tarantula. Janet is afraid the Bugman is back from the grave -- and out for revenge."

Spoilers Below Cut

To Die in Italbar (Roger Zelazny) "When the immortal being 'H' meditates in a certain way, his immune system goes into a sort of Super Mode that can instantly cure anyone of any disease simply by being in his presence. However, when he goes long enough without meditation, he begins sort of radiating every disease he's ever been exposed to. When, due to a number of mistakes and misunderstandings, he goes MUCH too long without meditation he is driven completely insane, eventually reaching the point where he can kill entire planets with a brief tour, and his powerful immune system can't keep him from being covered in open sores."

Her new best friend is actually a Bug-GIRL, and is determined to make Janet one as well. By the end, Janet accepts enthusiastically.

[tgon]

Ghosts of Fear Street, Fright Christmas | Review

Title: Ghosts of Fear Street #15 – Fright Christmas Author: Stephen Roos (as by R.L. Stine) Cover Artist: John Youssi

INTRODUCTION

The cover artwork got my hopes up. Never before has Silent Night looked so loud loud loud! Unfortunately the plot is less interesting. The ghostwriter must have organized a White Elephant Plot Exchange, because the entire story is lifted from A Christmas Carol. It’s safe to assume R.L. Stine forgot this book exists, too, because he penned his own adaptation of the Dickens classic in 2017 entitled Young Scrooge.

I was fully prepared to skip this book. Bah humbug. But last night I was visited by The Ghost Of Christmas Past. The spectre said unto me, “Fright Christmas had an audiobook adaptation in 1997 starring Kieran Culkin. This wasn’t the most successful Christmas project for the Culkins, but skipping it could be seen as an insult. If they have the power to put a star in Hollywood Boulevard for Macaulay, think about how easily they could put you in the ground!”

Well, I’ve had a sudden change of heart. Let’s give this book a chance! One last toast to has-been ghosts, the review will be soon.

STORY REVIEW

Kenny Frobisher is less of a “peace on earth” guy and more of a “piece of work” guy. When his sister visits Santa in the mall, Kenny spoils the occasion by calling it all fake. He even rips Mall Santa’s beard off! Maybe Kenny is banking on the resale value of coal. Anyways, Kenny wisely dips out after the beard stunt sparks a child riot. He sneaks into a secret control room, pushing past a big sign that says DANGER! KEEP OUT! So maybe Kenny is also banking on the resale value of Darwin Awards.

Kenny decides to flip some random switches, which was quality entertainment in a pre-internet America. This great plan backfires when Kenny locks himself in. Kenny fears that the ghostwriter is copying another story from the 1840s ⁠— until the door mysteriously creaks open. He emerges to discover an abandoned mall. He must have stayed past closing time. Or maybe he timetraveled to the early 2020s.

Santa rises from the shadows, but this fella ain’t holly-jolly. He looks ticked. Truly chilling. If that doesn’t scare you, have you considered SANTA is an anagram for SATAN? Truly chilling. Kenny yanks down on Santa’s beard, but this one doesn’t detach. Uh oh. Santa reprimands Kenny for his naughtiness and warns that the boy will be visited by three spirits. Kenny flees to Dalby’s Department Store, which is a cute bit of continuity, as this store is an important location in the main Fear Street series. Kenny decides it’s a super good time to nap on one of the luxury beds. Yes he’s trapped in a mall and haunted by ghosts, but it’s 8:59 (PM!!) and he’s sleepy, dagnabbit.

Kenny wakes up to the revving of a motorcycle. He meets an intimidating biker named Night Watchman. The guy claims he’s been watching Kenny all the time, but I guess “All Hours Watchman” doesn’t sound cool. This dude shows Kenny a flashback, a day when Kenny bullied some kid named “Tiny Timmy” in front of the whole school. Of course, Kenny enjoys revisiting this memory. To keep his grip on the situation, Night Watchman simply rams Kenny with his bike. Truly an underrated rhetorical strategy.

Eyes snapping open, Kenny finds himself back in the department store. The bed has been torn to shreds. He meets a wintery ghost named Ice Man. This fixes a huge problem in the original Dickens story: the total lack of wrestler-style character names. Ice Man whisks Kenny away to show him how the Frobishers are handling Christmas Eve without their son. Kenny’s sister seems pretty upset, but Mr. Frobisher offers helpful advice such as

“These things happen, honey.”

Think that sounds cold? Turns out, the family is only sad because their dog is lost. They haven’t even noticed Kenny is gone. I guess if you live on Fear Street, you develop an Oregon Trail mindset. Sometimes we have two kids, sometimes we have one kid, oh well what can you do.

Kenny is woken once more, this time by techno lights and crazy music, and he finds himself in an open grave. After all, you can’t spell GRAVE without RAVE. There’s also an unknown figure skulking around above him. Kenny pleas for help, but the figure turns out to be a hooded ghost. The spooky dude points a skeleton-finger at Kenny, and a hoard of ghost kids descend on our protagonist. Oh my God, they killed Kenny!

Back in the mall again, an electrician shakes Kenny awake. The boy fell asleep in the control room. Feeling a sudden change of heart, he buys a gift for his sister. When Kenny gets home, the family dog has indeed gone missing, just like in his dream. Luckily, Tiny Timmy happened to catch the dog and returns it, upgrading him to Regular Timmy. But then Timmy reveals a spooky skeleton-finger, signifying that he was the mysterious ghost from Kenny’s dream. I made a visual aid to convey the terror.

THE VERDICT

If you’d like to create your own adaptation of A Christmas Carol, it might be beneficial to follow this simple set of rules: Don’t.

So concludes our third Biennial Holiday Special. Maybe by 2025, Elon Musk will buy this blog for billions of dollars and replace me with an AI. If you don’t want me replaced by a robot (or maybe you chuckled while reading this entry), feel free to leave a like or drop a message.

BEST QUOTE

“Sorry, Kenny,” Dad said softly. “We were reading A Christmas Carol. I know how you hate it.” “Not anymore, Dad,” I said, […] “I love it! It’s one of my favorite stories now!”

Why? At what point was that experience anything other than traumatizing?

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: romantic

[sunsetthedragon]

There is nothing more upsetting than being in a small fandom with very little fanart and having neither the artistic ability nor the materials to make your own.

[heinzezsquirt]

horror movies to consider this friday the 13th

[motherdanger]

CURSED KILLER GANG, ASSEMBLE!! 🔪🪓💀💥♥️

posting this drawing i made in 2021 because i suddenly remembered fear street and thirt13en ghosts

[sprouthaven]

My ghost hunting girlie

[ambrose123four]

From The Vault : HAUNTED (2018)

An OVERWATCH twist of the FEAR STREET Cover:

[thatretro]

It's a Quantum Leap into Kid-Friendly Shadyside filled with baseball and 1948-isms. Does that equal a good book?

New NNtG: Ghosts of Fear Street #22: Field of Screams.

[bracketsoffear]

The Bugman Lives! (R.L. Stine) "Here lies the Bugman. Woe to anyone who wakes him. Janet didn't mean to disturb the Bugman. It was an accident. She was just mowing the lawn when she ran over his tombstone.

Now insects attack her everywhere she goes. Wasps, bees, ants. Even a huge, hairy tarantula. Janet is afraid the Bugman is back from the grave -- and out for revenge."

Spoilers Below Cut

The Host (Stephenie Meyer) "Silvery centipedes that burrow into your brain and take over your body? A constant emphasis put on how "kind" and "altruistic" these alien centipedes are and how utopian their society is compared to us violent and selfish humans? Unhealthy romance that never gets acknowledged as such by the narrative? Reads like Corruption to me."

Her new best friend is actually a Bug-GIRL, and is determined to make Janet one as well. By the end, Janet accepts enthusiastically.

[i-yyzw-cq]

I will shatter you for eternity.

The camp nightwing massacre had Nick's life turned upside down as the certain fiery haired camper that his heart skips a beat for became one of his victims that he sacrificed after bleeding on one of Sarah's bones. His heart ached for ziggy as a new empty void was created inside of it filled with grief, sadness, and most of all, questioning his choice he made. After the events massacre and guilt. Stranger things started happening to him like Nick couldn't focus on anything because the sudden harsh whispers sounded a lot like Ziggy spat on his ears as if accusing of what he had done until it stopped when either will's or his mom's touch him. The pain from his limp became more unbearable as if a knife was shoved into it Mutiple times. Ziggy's dead corpse were shown to him everywhere where he goes. The crimson of blood stays on his palms despite washing with soap in desperation multiple times. A flash of fiery hair catches in the corner of his eye only to find nothing the moment he turns around. Nick can't even leave the light off or wouldn't properly sleep without feeling a cold body laying next to him while the bedsheets soaked in the liquid of blood. He couldn't take it anymore and decides to carve another shadysider's name on the wall and unshed more innocent blood to desperately end the haunting he had experienced only for things more worse for him.

What if ziggy actually dies and comes back as a Ghost to haunt Nick for what he did.

[mordredisacoolname]

MASTERLIST & RULES

REQUESTS OPEN

-not writing for characters under 16 (unless platonic)

-no sexual content for characters under 18

-no p3dophilia

-not writing for fem readers (only male/gn/nb)

-if you requested specify gender and AGAB (male or female bodied) if it's important (like n/sfw content)

*if there'd be a request for trans fem reader I can try to write it no promises tho

MASTERLIST

One piece

Daredevil

Grishaverse/shadow And Bone

DC

Bridgerton

Fear street

Criminal minds

stranger things

Saw

The walking dead

Alice in borderland

House of the dragon

The boys

heartbreak high

Interview with the vampire (series)

Yellowjackets

House md

Ghosts (uk)

Being human (both uk and us)

The fall of the house of usher