Fear Street gets its name from a street of the same name in Shadyside, the site of many of the series’ horrors. Many of the plots end in violence, death, and despair, and are highly graphic in nature. The books traverse the genres of fantasy, horror, murder mystery, suspense, and detective fiction, often including elements of multiple genres in a given plot. In each of its installments, a lone protagonist or group of friends, all ordinary teenagers by any measure, run into evildoers, often but not always supernatural. Fear Street takes place entirely in a fictional city called Shadyside in the 1980s and 1990s. More mature in content than its spinoff (or Stine’s most well-known series, Goosebumps), Fear Street follows a number of teenagers who befall grim fates in suburban environments while they negotiate the unique uncertainties and anxieties of adolescence. Written between 19, the series eventuated in an additional spinoff series comprising stories with lighter plots for younger children, called Ghosts of Fear Street. Fear Street is a series of horror novels for young adults by prolific American author R.L.
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