For those that don’t know, the Fear Street series and the Goosebumps series were published by different houses, which explains why Stine didn’t end the original GB run with a kid moving to Fear Street or even Shadyside (where Fear Street sits).
My conjecture here is that the lawsuits from Scholastic left a bad taste in his mouth and he tried to get a GB-ish series off the ground as a spin-off called Ghosts of Fear Street.
And there were other spin-offs as well. Fear Street, Ghosts of Fear Street, 99 Fear Street, Fear Street Saga, etc.
But at some point, Stine stopped writing them. Some sources say that it’s because they just weren’t selling well anymore.
Stine sat.
And waited.
And then he came back with a vengeance and new Fear Street books. They were longer and more graphic than the Fear Street books of the 90s.
This is one of those new books (published in 2018).
And it was a lot of fun, it feels like Stine riffing on The Shining (movie). Room 237 is mentioned, it mostly takes place in a hotel in Colorado that has a sort of time warp and curse attached to it, and there was even a photo from 1924 that had people from modern times.
It might be unfair of me to compare Stine’s stories to King’s so often (I did it with at least two Goosebumps books) but I’ve read a lot of King and he’s been around for so long - has written so much - that it’s tough not to see similarities and call them out.
His changes to the series (longer and more violent) are plenty visible and I didn’t mind the additional violence but this book did stretch on a bit and felt a little bloated. Stine can write tight stories and pack a punch. Sometimes this feels like there’s character development lacking, but the extra length here isn’t exactly adding to it - it’s just making the book longer. There’s more repetition and, in some books’ cases, a couple different chances to end it.
All that said, it was still fun to read and I’m glad I did.
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My conjecture here is that the lawsuits from Scholastic left a bad taste in his mouth and he tried to get a GB-ish series off the ground as a spin-off called Ghosts of Fear Street.
And there were other spin-offs as well. Fear Street, Ghosts of Fear Street, 99 Fear Street, Fear Street Saga, etc.
But at some point, Stine stopped writing them. Some sources say that it’s because they just weren’t selling well anymore.
Stine sat.
And waited.
And then he came back with a vengeance and new Fear Street books. They were longer and more graphic than the Fear Street books of the 90s.
This is one of those new books (published in 2018).
And it was a lot of fun, it feels like Stine riffing on The Shining (movie). Room 237 is mentioned, it mostly takes place in a hotel in Colorado that has a sort of time warp and curse attached to it, and there was even a photo from 1924 that had people from modern times.
It might be unfair of me to compare Stine’s stories to King’s so often (I did it with at least two Goosebumps books) but I’ve read a lot of King and he’s been around for so long - has written so much - that it’s tough not to see similarities and call them out.
His changes to the series (longer and more violent) are plenty visible and I didn’t mind the additional violence but this book did stretch on a bit and felt a little bloated. Stine can write tight stories and pack a punch. Sometimes this feels like there’s character development lacking, but the extra length here isn’t exactly adding to it - it’s just making the book longer. There’s more repetition and, in some books’ cases, a couple different chances to end it.
All that said, it was still fun to read and I’m glad I did.
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