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Fear Street — by R.L. Stine

Fear Street Series in Order: 57 books

  • The New Girl

    Book - 1

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself ...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? She's pale as a ghost, blonde and...

  • The Surprise Party

    Book - 2

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Playing For Keeps It's been a...

  • The Overnight

    Book - 3

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Nightmare Island "Nothing bad w...

  • Missing

    Book - 4

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? "Please help... Our parents a...

  • The Wrong Number

    Book - 5

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? "Please come quickly...you're my...

  • Sleepwalker

    Book - 6

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? "Somebody -- help! Don't let me ...

  • The Stepsister

    Book - 7

    Emily wants to like her stepsister, but it hasn't been easy. As soon as Jessie moves in, she takes over Emily's room, steals Emily's clothes, and lies to everyone. Then Emily picks up Jessie'' diary and learns a horrifying secret. Is Jessie really ca...

  • Haunted

    Book - 8

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself ... and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? The Night Stalker Melis...

  • Halloween Party

    Book - 9

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Invitation To Terror The invitat...



  • Ski Weekend

    Book - 10

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself... and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Snowbound! "Red" Porter wa...

  • The Fire Game

    Book - 11

  • Lights Out

    Book - 12

  • The Secret Bedroom

    Book - 13

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? "Lea, I've been waiting so...

  • Knife

    Book - 14

    Quiet - hospital! Sshh. There are a lot of things they want to keep quiet at Shadyside Hospital. In fact, just about every private room holds a private secret of its own. Poor Laurie Masters. The student volunteer innocently happened to stumble ont...

  • The Prom Queen

    Book - 15

    DANCE OF DEATH.... A spring night...soft moonlight...five beautiful Prom Queen candidates...dancing couples at the Shadyside High prom -- these should be the ingredients for romance. But stir in one brutal murder -- then another, and another -- a...

  • First Date

    Book - 16

    DYING FOR A DATE Chelsea Richards is shy, lonely, and looking for love. She would give anything to finally go on a date. Soon there are two new boys in town, and both ask her out. Too bad one of them is a crazed killer. Poor Chelsea. Will her f...

  • The Best Friend

    Book - 17

    Best friends . . . to the end! Who is Honey Perkins? She's been telling everyone in Shadyside that she's Becka Norwood's best friend. But Becka's sure she's never met Honey before. Honey systematically moves in on Becka's life, copying her in e...

  • The Cheater

    Book - 18

    Under pressure to perform well on her math exam, Carter Phillips persuades math whiz Adam to take the test for her in exchange for one date, but one date is not enough for the dangerous young man....

  • Sunburn

    Book - 19

    You could get burned... The perfect suntan. Soaking up the rays. Fun on the beach. That's what Claudia Walker had in mind when she accepted her friend Marla's invitation to spend the weekend at her Cliffside beach house. Little did she know that h...



  • The New Boy

    Book - 20

    He was a hunk of trouble... He stole their hearts... Does he want their lives, too? What a hunk! When handsome, mysterious Ross Gabriel comes to Shadyside High, all the girls want to date him... even the ones who already have boyfriends! Janie, Ev...

  • The Dare

    Book - 21

    Johanna Wise has always longed to be part of Dennis Arthur's rich, popular crowd, and she can't believe it when he finally asks her out. She thought she'd do anything to keep Dennis, but when he dares her to kill their teacher, she's not so sure. Wil...

  • Bad Dreams

    Book - 22

    It's just a bad dream -- but it seems so real. Every night Maggie Travers has the same horrible dream. Every night she is forced to watch the same murder. And every night the girl in her dream cries out for help. Maggie is afraid to go to sleep agai...

  • Double Date

    Book - 23

    No girl in her right mind would say no to a date with Bobby Newkirk. Not with those great looks, that easy charm, and the awesome way he plays the guitar. Of course, some people think he's just a bit conceited. But when it comes to breaking hearts, t...

  • The Thrill Club

    Book - 24

  • One Evil Summer

    Book - 25

    Help! Wanted Summer at the beach and Amanda Conklin's stuck in summer school. Well, at least she doesn't have to take care of her little brother and sister. That's Chrissy's job. Chrissy seems like the perfect babysitter -- so kind and trustworth...

  • The Mind Reader

    Book - 26

    Terrified by ghostly visions that lead her to a shallow grave, Ellie Anderson is stunned when she discovers the body of a girl had been was murdered two years earlier and finds herself drawn further along the path of the killer. Original....

  • Wrong Number 2

    Book - 27

    Call waiting... to kill! Don't answer than phone! "You're not safe anywhere. I'll get my revenge!' Can it really be Mr. Farberson on the line? He has to still be locked up after trying to kill Jade and Deena last year. Maybe the calls are jus...

  • Truth or Dare

    Book - 28

  • Dead End

    Book - 29

    Promising to keep their mutual secret involving a car ride on a foggy night and a death on a dead end road, Natalie Erickson and her friends become the victims of a desperate killer who decides to ensure everyone's silence. Original....



  • Final Grade

    Book - 30

    Everyone thinks she killed her teacher Intense, competitive, Lily Bancroft had good reasons to hate him. She lives to win, and he was about to destroy her dreams. But murder? That was going too far, even for someone as driven as Lily. She's innocen...

  • Switched

    Book - 31

    She traded places with a killer... There's a little cabin in the Fear Street woods where a girl can really lose her mind. In fact, she can change it into someone else's. That's what happened to Nicole and Lucy. Now Lucy is in Nicole's body, and Ni...

  • College Weekend

    Book - 32

    NIGHTMARE WEEKEND Nothing can ruin Tina Rivers' big weekend at Patterson College with her boyfriend, Josh Martin. She's so excited, she doesn't even mind that her cousin, Holly, will be tagging along. But when Tina and Holly arrive, Josh is gone....

  • The Stepsister 2

    Book - 33

    THE DOCTOR SAYS NANCY IS CURED.... She's over the murderous rage that made her try to kill her sister Emily last year. Now she's home for good.... Or evil. Emily wants to forgive and forget, but the nightmare has started all over again. Someone want...

  • What Holly Heard

    Book - 34

    Do you want to hear a secret? Holly did. She learned a terrible secret, and now her friends know it too. Someone wants to make sure they never talk about it. Someone who'll go to any length to keep them quiet. Lying... Threats... Even murder....

  • The Face

    Book - 35

    They say something horrible happened that day, but Martha can't remember any of it -- not even the smallest detail. They say it will come back to her in time. But someone wants her to remember now. She draws his face, over and over -- the face of a d...

  • Secret Admirer

    Book - 36

    A young actress draws a sinister spotlight in this spooky installment in R.L. Stine's bestselling Fear Street series -- now with a fresh new look!Selena has it all. She just scored the lead in her high school play, and everyone adores her. So when sh...

  • The Perfect Date

    Book - 37

    Perfect...perfectly evil. Brady Karlin is getting on with his life. The memory of his girlfriend -- killed in a gruesome sledding accident last year -- is beginning to fade. Now he's met Rosha Nelson, the girl of his dreams. And he's never been happ...

  • The Confession

    Book - 38

    Five close friends... one murderer.. All Julie's friends hated Al. They all wished Al were dead. But that doesn't mean one of them killed him. Julie knows her friends. She knows they are innocent.... Until one of them confesses. Julie and her frie...

  • The Boy Next Door

    Book - 39

    When handsome Scott moves next door and becomes Shadyside High's new football star, Lauren and Crystal go out of their way to attract his attention, unaware that his last girlfriend died under mysterious circumstances. Original....



  • Night Games

    Book - 40

    It's all fun and games until a prank goes fatally wrong in this spine-tingling young adult thriller from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine.Diane and her friends have been sneaking out every night to play pranks while Fear Street sleeps. She loves breaking...

  • The Runaway

    Book - 41

    She can't run away from her past. Shadyside. It sounded like such a nice town, the perfect place for a runaway like Felicia. Nobody here would know about her dark powers. Nobody would know what she had done. For once, she could be a normal girl. S...

  • Killer's Kiss

    Book - 42

    Fear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Delia and Karina are always competing. From getting the best grades, to being the most popular, to dating the cutest guys -- they always fight for the top spot. This year, they both want Vincent --...

  • All-Night Party

    Book - 43

    FEAR STREET -- WHERE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE LIVES... It's Cindy's birthday, and her friends are throwing her a surprise party on Fire Island. It's a private party -- no parents, no cops...in fact, no one around for miles. Except there's a madman loos...

  • The Rich Girl

    Book - 44

    Fear Street -- Where Your Worst Nightmares Live... Emma and her best friend Sydney always share their secrets. And now they have a big one: They found a duffel bag filled with cash and swore never to tell anyone. But Sydney broke her promise -- she ...

  • Cat

    Book - 45

    Accidentally killing the cat that kept getting in his way during basketball practice, Marty believes that cats everywhere are seeking revenge against him when he sees cats wherever he goes and begins having terrible nightmares. Original....

  • Who Killed the Homecoming Queen

    Book - 46

    Tania is having the best year of her life. She has a hot new boyfriend, she landed the starring role in a student film, and she's just been voted homecoming queen. But someone is jealous of Tania. Someone plans to ruin her perfect year -- even if tha...

  • Best Friend 2

    Book - 49

    Hoping to put her past with the crazed Honey behind her, Becka thinks she has become paranoid when she still sees Honey everywhere she goes, until she realizes that the troubled girl is still out to get her. Original....

  • Into the Dark

    Book - 50

    A Deadly Attraction Paulette Fox refuses to let her blindness stop her from living a full life. But one thing she's never done is fall in love -- until now. Paulette knows Brad Jones is the only guy for her. Even when her friends see Brad commit a ...

  • Trapped

    Book - 51

    Danger: Keep Out There's an old story about the tunnels under Shadyside High. Some kids used to party down there, back in the sixties. Until something horrible happened. Something that left a bunch of people dead. It's just a story, right? There's n...



  • Party Games

    Book - 52

    R.L. Stine's hugely successful young adult horror series Fear Street is back with the first new book in almost 2 decades. With more than 80 million copies sold around the world, Fear Street is one of the bestselling young adult series of all time. No...

  • Don't Stay Up Late

    Book - 53

    In the small town of Shadyside, don't stay up late, because horrible things can happen... Both day and night, Lisa Brooks is plagued with nightmares and hallucinations. Could they be caused by the horrifying accident that landed her in the hospita...

  • The Lost Girl

    Book - 54

    Generations of children and teens have grown up on R.L. Stine's bestselling and hugely popular horror series, Fear Street and Goosebumps. Now, the Fear Street series is back with a chilling new installment, packed with pure nightmare fodder that will...

  • Can You Keep a Secret?

    Book - 55

    R.L. Stine has built his legacy on scaring children and teenagers. Now he's back with another spine-tingling tale of horror in this new Fear Street book about temptation, betrayal, and fear. Eddie and Emmy are high school sweethearts from the wron...

  • The Dead Boyfriend

    Book - 56

    R.L. Stine's Fear Street series is back, and in The Dead Boyfriend, he tells the frightening tale of teenage love―and how it can go terribly, murderously wrong. Caitlin has never had a real boyfriend before. When she starts seeing Colin, she thr...

  • Give Me A K-I-L-L

    Book - 57

    At Shadyside High, cheerleading can be a scream! For the first time since the original series, R.L. Stine brings back his most beloved characters―the cheerleaders of Shadyside High. The cheerleading squad at Shadyside has always been strong, ...

  • Nightmares

    Book - 58

    The fifth and sixth books in the re-launch of R.L. Stine's Fear Street, now in one volume. The Dead Boyfriend When Caitlin starts seeing Colin, she throws herself into her first real relationship with fervor. She ignores friends who warn her that...

  • Midnight Diary

    Collects favorite quotes form some of the spookiest Fear Street books and invites readers to record their strangest and scariest experiences, in a diary that includes a dream dictionary, fortune-telling activities, and quizzes. Original....

Series Premise

The Fear Street series by R.L. Stine is a young adult horror collection set in the troubled town of Shadyside. Each book focuses on different teens who become entangled in dangerous situations, often involving revenge, secrets, or supernatural forces. Many stories connect loosely through the legacy of the Fear family and a long-standing curse. The structure emphasizes fast-paced plots with clear resolutions in each installment.

Fear Street Series Reading Order

🟡 Mostly Standalone · Start Anywhere

Mostly standalone stories with recurring characters in a shared setting.

The Fear Street series books in order are not required, as each novel tells a complete story with its own beginning, conflict, and resolution. The books share the same town and occasional background references, but there is no ongoing narrative linking the plots. Continuity exists mainly through setting and recurring lore rather than character-driven development. Reading out of order does not cause confusion, though readers may miss subtle connections to Shadyside’s history.

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Fear Street Series Characters

The series does not follow a single group of recurring protagonists, instead introducing new teenage characters in each book. These characters are often high school students dealing with friendships, rivalries, or romantic relationships before facing escalating danger. While some names or families may reappear, they rarely play central roles across multiple books. The focus remains on the immediate experience of each story’s main characters.

Setting of the Fear Street Series

The series is set in Shadyside, a fictional town known for its violent past and unsettling atmosphere. Key locations include Shadyside High School, suburban neighborhoods, and wooded areas tied to local legends. The setting plays a central role, often shaping the tone and driving the conflict. The town itself acts as a unifying element across otherwise independent stories.

Tone & Themes of the Fear Street Series

The tone combines suspense, mystery, and horror with a strong focus on teen experiences. Themes include fear, betrayal, revenge, and the consequences of hidden secrets. Many stories explore how ordinary situations can escalate into life-threatening danger. The pacing is quick, with emphasis on tension and twist endings.

Is the Fear Street Series Worth Reading?

The Fear Street series is well suited for readers who enjoy accessible horror with a teenage perspective. It offers quick, engaging stories that do not require long-term commitment to a single storyline. The shared setting provides a sense of continuity without limiting entry points. It is especially appealing for those new to horror fiction.

Content Warnings and Heat Level

Content includes violence, murder, and psychological tension involving teenagers. Some stories feature stalking, manipulation, or themes of revenge. Romantic elements are light and secondary to the suspense. The series is generally appropriate for teen readers, though it may be intense for younger audiences.

The Fear Street series delivers flexible reading with no strict order required, making it easy to pick up any title. Its combination of standalone plots and a shared setting creates both variety and familiarity. For readers looking for fast-paced teen horror, it provides clear, self-contained stories with consistent tone.



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

There are 57 books in the Fear Street series.

The Fear Street series does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Nightmares (Book 58), was published in August 2017.

The first book in the Fear Street series, The New Girl, was published in June 1989.

The Fear Street series primarily falls into the Horror genre. This young adult series was written for ages 12-17, but can be enjoyed by adults too.

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