Stine does a good job though with description of people and places. And heck with the prologue, Stine already clues you into the so-called big reveal so I was not surprised when we get to it. The whole book makes no sense when you get to the ending. My big issue though is 180 pages is way too short to develop a really good story. Cory has other friends he talks to as well as his friends and a mysterious stranger he keeps meeting on Fear Street. I also applaud Stine for having more than three people in his books too. At least though when he starts to realize that things with Anna look hinky he tries to get the heck out of there as quickly as he can. Cory is oblivious to everything around him.

But if Anna is dead, who is the girl at the school who Cory finds himself thinking about all the time. Cory tries to find out all he can about Anna, but when he finally gets her number and calls her home, someone tells him that Anna is dead. He's a high school gymnast who falls in love at first sight when he sees a new girl at his school named Anna Corwin. A mad millionaire named Simon Fear once lived there and his burned out mansion is all that is left of him and his legacy (or is it?) there are always strange happenings on Fear Street which you would think have people avoiding it more. I don't even remember this first book and the title kept throwing me off (it's bad, no?) and at least this was short though (180 pages) so there's a reason the plot and character development was so bad.Įveryone in the town of Shadyside knows about Fear Street. I even had those special edition ones too. I at one point owned about every Fear Street book by R.L. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program.

His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.

The surprise party by rl stine