These events are described in the Fear Street Sagas, a spinoff of the main series. Although a fire allegedly burned the last of the Fears, the series features some surviving Fears and suggests that one of the brothers survived. The father and husband, William Goode, put the curse on the Fiers to avenge their deaths, bringing misery and death to the family. The curse started in Puritan (17th-century) times when Benjamin and Matthew Fier sentenced an innocent girl and her mother, Susannah and Martha Goode, to be burned at the stake for allegedly practicing witchcraft.

Despite the family renaming, the curse survived, and Simon and his wife, Angelica, brought it with them when they moved to Shadyside sometime after the Civil War. Their name was originally spelled as Fier after being told that the family was cursed and that the letters could be rearranged to spell 'fire', Simon Fier changed it to Fear in the 19th century. The title of the series comes from the name of a fictional street in Shadyside, which was named after the Fear family. Whereas the Goosebumps books have a few tamed deaths, the deaths presented in Fear Street, particularly the sagas, are far more gruesome, with more blood and gore. While some of the Fear Street novels have paranormal elements, such as ghosts, others are simply murder mysteries. The Fear Street books take place in the fictionalized town of Shadyside and feature average teenagers older than the typical Goosebumps preteens, who encounter malignant, sometimes paranormal, adversaries. In July 2021, a trilogy of films based on the franchise was released over the course of three weeks on Netflix. 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.

Martin's Pressįear Street is a teenage horror fiction series written by American author R. JSTOR ( October 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

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