Sunday, 31 May 2026

Alrightreads: Can You Hell Me How to Get, How to Get to...

R. L. Stine, Fear Street: The Fire Game

1991 / Ebook / 146 pages

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Lacking the Internet and Minecraft, Gen X teenagers start fires for something to do. Are we sure some of these aren't being ghostwritten already?


R. L. Stine, Fear Street Super Chiller: Party Summer

1991 / Audiobook / 215 pages

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The first bumper holiday special felt excessively long and padded at a modest 200 pages now that I've permanently ruined my attention span with children's books, but it escalated eventually, and I always appreciate a pun title reveal. It also teases us with Fear lore that's set to get excessive padding of its own at some point.


R. L. Stine, Fear Street: Lights Out

1991 / Ebook / 163 pages

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That's it, mom and pop, I am never going to summer camp.

 
R. L. Stine, Fear Street: The Secret Bedroom

1991 / Audiobook / 160 pages

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This feels like the default, bogstandard Fear Street book in all respects, which is no bad thing if you're 12.


R. L. Stine, Fear Street Super Chiller: Silent Night

1991 / Audiobook / 216 pages

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Maybe I should have saved up the secular Christmas special rather than reading it in the summer, but it wasn't especially special.