[ SECRET POST #2801 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2801 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 031 secrets from Secret Submission Post #400.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/RpPoFaM.jpg

[kallanda_lee]

They're still going???

[(Anonymous)]

Haaaaaaaaaaahahahaha, my thoughts exactly.

The last one I read was like back in the 90s and I could have sworn they were dying out. It was like my crack. I must've collected 50 or so books over the course of 4-5 years.

It made me a somewhat shitty writer (though I've improved since then) but I have fond memories of Shadyside High and the famous "every-fucking-chapter-cliffhanger."

[(Anonymous)]

The series stopped at one point, but R.L. Stine recently announced he's reviving the series.

[a_potato]

Wait, Fear Street? What is this? He does something other than Goosebumps?

[feotakahari]

Fear Street is basically Goosebumps for teenagers--similar ideas and themes, but more violence and oblique sexual references. There's also a weird backstory about the curse on the Fier family (later renamed the Fear family), and how that curse spread to the town they lived in and the street named after them.

[(Anonymous)]

Goosebumps was more funny-scary, as I remember - not quite a parody, but it didn't take itself too seriously. It almost always involved something supernatural or not too realistic.

Fear Street wasn't so funny/parody-ish, and didn't always involve the supernatural, though some of them did. A lot of the regular books (the ones that weren't part of a spinoff or a "super special" were just murder mysteries.

And there was the historical spinoff series about the Fier/Fear family, which I liked despite some glaring historical errors (it started off with someone being executed by burning for witchcraft in Colonial America, ugh). I liked family sagas, so it was still appealing.

[(Anonymous)]

ETA - also, despite the racy (for a middle schooler) covers that kept me from buying a few of them because I didn't want my mom to see them, there wasn't really much sex in Fear Street. Just a lot of making out, and occasionally someone thinking someone else has a "great body" or something like that.

[(Anonymous)]

despite some glaring historical errors (it started off with someone being executed by burning for witchcraft in Colonial America, ugh).

wait, what? How'd he fail that badly when there's documentation that said there were no witches burnt at Colonial American stakes?

[(Anonymous)]

No editor? Maybe hanging wasn't dramatic enough (and you can't use an anagram of it as a character's name).

[honestys_easy]

FEEEEEEEAR STREEEEEEEET *squeals*

Fear Street was published at the same time as Goosebumps--maybe it started a year or two after Goosebumps got off the ground? It was the middle-school level of horror where Goosebumps was elementary school: more adult situations, actual deaths/blood/etc., and most of the stories were set in high school or college. I remember devouring quite a few Fear Street titles when I was in 5-6th grade.

He's also done a few adult novels, but none of them got as much off the ground as his kids' series.

[(Anonymous)]

Fear Street actially predates Goosebumps by about 3 years - Goosebumps was a spinoff created for kids who were a little too young for the original series.

[(Anonymous)]

Fear Street was... is? a collection of books about people (teens?) who live on, around, or know someone who lives on Fear Street, or are stupid enough to get involved with it in some way or another. From what I remember, the street came to be after a crazy, centuries long story (feud?) between the Goode family and the Fiers. "Fier" was an anagram of "fire," which came up a lot, especially in the days when witches were burned. It's been 20 years since I read that particular saga, so the only thing I remember from it was a medallion, countless people trying to break some "curse," and the Fiers changing their surname to "Fear" and the stupid street being named after them. Also stupid teenagers.

[feotakahari]

But is it by R.L. Stine, or his ghostwriters?

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's actually him. He's still alive and kicking!

[elaminator]

God, I read so many R.L. Stine books back in the day... And they always seemed to be never-ending, so while I shouldn't be surprised that they're still being published, I am.

[(Anonymous)]

There's no need to be embarassed about your excitement, anon! The books are a great nostalgia trip.

(I possibly say this because of how ridiculously excited I was when Are You Afraid of the Dark came to Netflix.ca)

[(Anonymous)]

Are You Afraid of The Dark is fucking awesome. That opening sequence still spooks me out a bit.