#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.

[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

[somnoir]

Bats and Phantoms - Part 3

Part 3 | Masterpost

Cassandra and Jasmine

Jazz has always been concerned for her siblings. Why wouldn't she? Dan was a former world ender, Danny was ghost king (or was it crown prince?), and Ellie was almost always everywhere. In all honesty, if was overwhelming.

But she'd be damned to not love them no matter what.

Visiting Gotham to see if Danny was okay was... Well, she just had to. Somehow, her brother's have caught the eye of vigilantes and that was obviously bad.

Her phone buzzed and once again she's plagued by Dan's messages.

Younger-Older-Bigger: Should I stalk Nightwing???

Older-definitely: No. Please don't.

Older-definitely: We already have to worry about Danny getting stalked by a crime lord

Younger-Older-Bigger: Yeah but I'm not a crime lord

Older-definitely: NO

Older-definitely: STOP

Older-definitely: DAN

Younger-Older-Bigger: ᕙ⁠(⁠ ⁠ ⁠•⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠•⁠ ⁠ ⁠)⁠ᕗ

Why? Why did they have to be like this? Weapon training was somehow the automatic bonding activity for the Fenton/Masters siblings. Dan and Danny liked to fight with sword a little too much and Ellie was all to happy to throw daggers at people. Jazz preferred her lazers and blasters (though her aim was wonky at first, it got better... She promised.)

So here she was, in Gotham... Making sure her brother wasn't being seduced by a crime lord. But of course, she was a Fenton born and bred and raised. Gotham apparently had literal alarms that alerted the entire city of a massive attack. Her phone even got an alert from... WE warning. Wayne Enterprises?

Okay... Apparently Scarecrow was running amok and plaguing the streets with his fear toxin. Oh, Danny was going to go feral.

(A couple blocks away, Danny Fenton was high on the fear and giggling to himself. Yes.)

And also Gothamites carried gasmasks around. What a wonderful day to leave hers behind.

She's already cough, closing her eyes as she desperately tried to stay sane. Her liminal and almost half a state should have made the effects different from her but apparently she wasn't ghost enough to feel euphoric.

Stumbling into the closest building she could find, she's desperately gasping when a gasmask was pressed against her face. Jazz can barely register the dark haired girl with asian features who was hurriedly hauling her to her feet and away from the door.

It takes a minute before she's registering the girl, blinking when she saw her making gestures. Again, it takes her another minute to realize it's sign language.

Thank God she had paranoid siblings who took those classes in case they couldn't speak. But with her brain filled with feat toxin, she's clumsy in signing back but there's some mild surprise in the girl's eyes. But Jazz is conscious enough to notice the tense way the girl stood, how her stance was prepared for a fight. Maybe that was normal Gothamites behavior...

At least, she was communicating with someone. Someone who's really pretty too. God, was the fear toxin making her dopy? That can't be, right?

Cass had seen a pretty redheaded girl fall to her knees, and yet she had more resistance to fear toxin than local Gothamites. It was almost interesting really, but she's not going to dwell on it when this girl was choking for air.

Words don't easily process for her but her body moves without much thought, signing to her if she was okay. The girl, clearly disoriented, looks confused before realization bleeds into her strangely bright eyes—then she's clumsily signing back.

She says her name is Jasmine, like the flower, the princess—call her Jazz, she insists.

And she replies that she's Cassandra—like the character from Rapunzel, like the girl from Greek muths—just call her Cass tho.

When Jazz is in her arms, Cass can feel some muscles through her clothes. This girl wasn't as frail as she look. No. This was a trained fighter, someone who knew how to defend themselves without a problem. Cass should be wary, but at the same time she was worried.

She knows she should be going out there and helping but Oracle had immediately told her to help the civilians in the area. Batman, Robin, Red Robin, and Spoiler were handling the situation but the civilians had to be protected at all costs. She might not be able to help as orphan in that moment but she could as Cass Wayne.

The commotion gets worse once Scarecrow's henchmen start raiding the place with every weapon they could get their hands on. She fights to the best of her abilities, watching, predicting, but what she didn't predict was a loud blast tearing through the place and shattering the window.

Cass can see a blast of green spark through the air before directly hitting the Jonathan Crane. The man is blasted into a wall, groaning before he's knocked out.

Her eyes dart to where the blast came from.

Jazz, the strange girl she has just met, was holding a strange gun.

(In the distance, Danny was still very much high and was not aware that one of his maniacal invention had actually worked in his sister's favor.)

Part 4 | Masterpost

[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.

[blueberrypancakesworld]

~ My Tumblr Advent Calendar - 2024 ~

Summary : Happy December everyone, I hope you enjoy this Advent calendar and have a wonderful holiday season :)

All works can be find under the #advent calendar 24

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Door.1 - Blood Red Cookies

Door.2 - Escape in Winter

Door.3 - Cold Temple

Door.4 - Rose in the Garden

Door.5 - Wood

Door.6 - Scrolling through winter

Door.7 - Riding out in the morning

Door.8 - Together it's beautiful

Door.9 - What is Christmas?

Door.10 - Dragons against the cold

Door.11 - Gifts for the baby

Door.12 - Together in the snow

Door.13 - Fire for love and warmth

Door.14 - No nightmares in winter

Door.15 - Family fun in the snow

Door.16 - Wax figures in the snow

Door.17 - Your beauty in winter

Door.18 - Protection from the darkness

Door.19 - The cold won't get you

Door.20 - Together we are stronger

Door.21 - Rations in winter

Door.22 - Cakes for the cold

Door.23 - Bat in the snow

Door.24 - Merry Christmas

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[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

[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.

[ambrose123four]

From The Vault : HAUNTED (2018)

An OVERWATCH twist of the FEAR STREET Cover:

[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