Alrightreads: This Is Just a Saga Now

R. L. Stine, The Fear Street Saga: The Betrayal

1993 / Audiobook / 161 pages

**

Some gruesome deaths don't make up for this mainly being a boring period romance with more to come. I wasn't looking forward to these.

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

1993 / Audiobook / 160 pages

*

All of this just to justify the unlikely street name.

R. L. Stine, The Fear Street Saga: The Burning

1993 / Audiobook / 192 pages

**

A shlocky series doesn't need this much lore.

R. L. Stine, Fear Street: The Cataluna Chronicles – The Evil Moon

1995 / Audiobook / 151 pages

***

A bonkers trilogy based entirely around a pun, this might be where Fear Street jumps the shark / joyrides the werecar, but it's a lot more entertaining than the last historical.

R. L. Stine, Fear Street: The Cataluna Chronicles – The Dark Secret

1995 / Audiobook / 150 pages

***

As repetitive and drawn-out as any trilogy centrepiece until a Back to the Future ending left me craving the crazy finale.

R. L. Stine, Fear Street: The Cataluna Chronicles – The Deadly Fire

1995 / Ebook / 147 pages

**

He may be a master of juvenile horror, but R. L. Stine has no idea how relative time travel works, which just makes it funnier. Another Fear Street spin-off trilogy ending in a fire isn't going to confuse pre-internet readers at all.