He 'helps' the teens look for their parents. There never has been.'ĭetective Farraday seems to come at perfect timing. 'There's no one named Burroughs working here. Mark and Cara travel to their parents' job (2 cities over) and are told they don't work at Cranford Industries, like their parents' said. They talk to their weird cousin, Roger, but all he does is creep them out from his tiny attic room. The next morning, their parents are still not home. Well that explains why they didn't call and they go to bed. Mom and Dad, addicted to work, have worked late before, but they always called. The suspense was great and it had a great little twist at the end.īrother and sister, Mark and Cara, come home from school to an empty house. This 4th in the Fear Street series went a step further and gave us its first real time murder (that was real *wink*). 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. Is something missing from this collection? You can suggest books to add HERE.Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. You can read or borrow a book if the bar underneath the cover says 'Borrow' or 'Read.' If a book says it is 'not in library' or 'checked out,' another copy might still be available! Click on the book's cover to see if you can borrow one of the other editions. Stine revived the book series in October 2014. In summer 2005, he brought Fear Street back with the three-part Fear Street Nights miniseries.Īs of 2010, over 80 million copies of Fear Street have been sold. Stine stopped writing Fear Street after penning the Fear Street Seniors spin-off in 1999. In 1995, a series of books inspired by the Fear Street series, called Ghosts of Fear Street, was created for younger readers, and were more like the Goosebumps books in that they featured paranormal adversaries (monsters, aliens, etc.) and sometimes had twist endings. Fear Street is a teenage horror fiction series written by American author R.L.

The Overnight by R.L. Stine