Before Jennifer Love Hewitt and her castmates ever felt the sharp end of an ice hook, I Know What You Did Last Summer was a novel...
Out of all the popular Universal monsters, werewolves may have appeared the most often in ‘90s children’s literature. There was something about these hirsute creatures of...
The theater is no doubt a stressful place to work. From technical difficulties to difficult talent, no production is without its troubles. Yet sometimes more than...
Almost a year after Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday sent the infamous Mr. Voorhees into the not-so-sweet hereafter, the third book in Berkley’s Camp...
Dolls will never go out of fashion as a child’s toy, but in horror literature, they reached their peak somewhere in the 1980s. There was no...
Had it not already been taken, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” would have been a better title for Michael August’s second volume in the...
The 1991 anthology Haunting Christmas Tales is rooted in a British tradition that dates back to the Victorian age — telling ghost stories around the holidays....
Of all the many Fear Street stories he’s written, author R. L. Stine managed to narrow his personal favorites down to eight books. And if someone...
All Andrea wants this year for Christmas is a little peace. And after being the target of harassment for the last year, she deserves it. The...
Dreams can often be a welcome retreat from reality, but other times they’re a source of dread. The teenage characters in this edition of Buried in...
College applications and the SATs are already part of a stressful time for young people without adding murder to the mix. Much like her contemporaries, though,...
Classic children’s literature often reflects their young readers’ real-life issues at home and school. But somewhere in the 1980s, the kids in these books started having...
Considering his pen name, it comes as no surprise that Christopher Pike is a fan of science fiction. Pike, born Kevin Christopher McFadden, is well regarded...
One of the most common (and overused) setups in horror has to be a young babysitter fending off a killer. The trope existed on and off...
“Let’s murder her!” What started out as a morbid joke among friends is now dangerously real in the 1993 book Halloween Night. A simple class assignment...
The Point Horror line made every day feel like Halloween, but the Scholastic series had only a few books specifically set around the October holiday. The...
To most people, October 31 means Halloween. To Samantha Genetti, it’s her birthday. The protagonist of Halloween Party is turning seventeen soon, and her friends are...
Because Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuted in the Spring of 1997, there was no Halloween episode in the first season. However, Simon and Schuster’s series of...
Christopher Pike knows his way around death, but how the author approaches the act of mortality in The Midnight Club is unique, even for him. In...
Baronet Books is best known for its Great Illustrated Classics series, but in the ‘90s, the Waldman imprint took a walk on the scary side. Between...
With the success of both Fear Street and Goosebumps in the early ‘90s, it only made sense to combine them into one series. And R. L....
With copies of Fear Street flying off shelves, it only made sense for other publishers to put out their own young-adult horror series in the 1990s....
The namesake of Wait Till Helen Comes is no friendly ghost. She may act protective, yet Helen is the furthest thing from a guardian angel. The...
Trains as a mode of travel seems old-fashioned nowadays, but in storytelling, they remain a persuasive setting for tales of unease and suspense. The endless railroad...
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