Dichte Nebelschwaden umhüllen die Grabsteine auf dem Friedhof. Dennoch beschließen Hallie und Jenna, sich in die Gruft der Fear-Schwestern zu schleichen, die unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben gekommen sind. Plötzlich taucht eine finstere Gestalt hinter ihnen auf: die Mutter der toten Mädchen. Sie ist gekommen, um Hallie und Jenna zu holen. Denn sie hat einen teuflischen Plan - und der führt in die villa der Fears...
Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. 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.
R. L. 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. 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. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.
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. He lives in New York, NY.
The atmosphere of this book is just so dark and it is another one of those books that is ghostwritten so it kind of makes sense. Not that Stine isn't good at dark but Wendy Haley seems to have this real gift of bringing an evilness to Angelica Fear like she did in House of Whispers. Throw Simon into the mix with his wicked wife and you can see hints of what is yet to come...
Jenna Hanson is visiting Shadyside for the summer and staying with her best friend Hallie Sheridan, who moved there with her family from Virginia. They haven't seen each other in a while and with a bond like sisters since childhood it has been really hard as any set of besties can tell you.
Hallie tells Jenna see likes Shadyside but she hasn't really made any friends since everyone knows everyone in this town since birth. The other girls are nice but haven't paid visit and it's hard to believe that no boys have come courting a blonde, blue-eyed beauty.
Jenna feels sorry for Hallie but her friend becomes happier to be with her again that they start reminiscing on childhood and staying up to tell each other spooky stories. Hallie says she has a real scary story to tell Jenna that will put her old ones to shame...but they have to go to the Shadyside Cemetery first for the right mood.
The girls head to the cemetery and Hallie tells Jenna that since she moved here, the other teens have told her the stories about Simon and Angelica Fear. It has been thirteen years since their daughters, Hannah and Julia, died in very violent ways. Those who die that way can never rest and it is safe to say that their parents were distraught when one daughter kills the other by burying her alive and then gets stabbed with a sword...
The Fear daughters were also said to be buried...without their bones and that the skeletons walk around at midnight seeking a way to live again. No one has paid the Fear Mansion a visit since then and their sons have either left town or distance themselves from their own parents it seems.
Jenna and Hallie find the crypt where Julia and Hannah are laid to rest and Jenna, who doesn't believe anything Hallie has told her, thinks that the angel above it is watching her. I have never watched Doctor Who but I do know what Weeping Angels are...seems Haley is a fan by this "angel" looking more demonic than serene.
They enter it and come face to face with Angelica coming to pay a visit to her children. At first she is not pleased, angry that Hallie and Jenna would disrespect the dead, but soon she gains control and only seems to the girls a woman driven to grief and madness by such awful stories. Jenna can't wait to get away but Angelica tells them to pay her and her husband Simon a visit the next day.
Hallie sees this as a chance to make friends by going into the Fear Mansion when everyone else is afraid to and actually sitting down with the Fears. Jenna only goes because Hallie is her best friend and she can see that it means a lot to her.
Next day, they knock on the door and Simon answers. His wife is apparently aging like fine but Simon is aging more like milk because he seems to have become very thin and developed a yellowish pallor. He becomes more welcoming when Angelica tells him these are their guests from the previous night and she and Simon are certainly up to something.
Only Jenna notices because Hallie is just in awe about the fabulous yet dark house and the Fears take the girls on a tour up to the rooms that use to belong to their dead daughters. Hallie is given a gold heart necklace that belonged to Hannah by Angelica and she is over the moon for the gift and immediately puts it on.
Simon gives Jenna a crystal bead bracelet that used to be Julia's and she is more appropriately apprehensive of wearing something that belonged to a dead girl but doesn't want to hurt their feelings. The second they are out of sight, Jenna takes off the bracelet and Hallie can't understand why her friend is acting so weird. Jenna is thinking the same thing when Hallie says they are going to have to visit the Fears more often.
They get into a little squabble and Hallie goes off and leaves Jenna alone in the woods. The other girl tries to find her way back to the Sheridan house and Jenna ends up tripping over a tree root, landing on the ground covered with what she thinks is sticky mud.
That is until Jenna wipes it on her dress and realizes it is blood. She also finds a bloody handprint on the tree and a needle stick in it that resemble ones Jenna noticed in Hannah Fear's room...sticking out of voodoo dolls with carved skulls on the head of each pin.
In horror, Jenna runs away and feels she is being followed and she is right but that is because a young man heard her scream. He introduces himself as Rob Smith and offers to walk Jenna home and on the way she tells him what happened but not completely. He is nice and all but also a stranger and he just happens to work for the Fears as their handyman and groundskeeper yet Jenna knows Rob is just a young man, not crazy intimidating like his employers.
Jenna tries to ask Rob some questions about himself but the poor boy seems confused and then he passes out where Jenna almost thinks he is dead but Rob comes around, admitting he had some sort of accident and can't remember his past. All he knows is that the Fears gave him a job and a place to stay and that he doesn't really know anyone in town except when he does things for the Fears.
Jenna tells Rob they can be friends and he is so grateful. Jenna introduces Rob briefly to Hallie once they reach the Sheridan home and she is more worried about the blood on Jenna's dress, sorry for anything hurtful said earlier. The conclusion to Hallie is that it was the same theory as Rob's: the blood was from a place where a hunter must have dressed a very large deer.
Jenna feels like she is going crazy when odd things start to happen...oddly frightening things.
Hallie won't let Jenna touch the locket around her neck for even a moment and her behavior the next day at a town barn-raising is not the Hallie that Jenna knows. She is flirty with Rob and giggling and when she and Jenna tell a few young ladies their age about visiting the Fears, the other girls go off ignoring them.
Jenna senses fear in their eyes but she is floored when Hallie blames her for scaring them off and that she was the one flirting with Rob! Hallie becomes annoyed and in the heat of the moment says she wishes the stupid barn would fall on everybody's heads...which it does exactly that.
A young man gets killed and Rob gets injured and then Hallie laughs in joyful glee before breaking down in sobs. Jenna knows that the change in Hallie has to do with Angelica and Simon Fear giving them their daughters' jewelry but no way of knowing the real reason why...
The imagery brought up in such detail is macabre and chilling, melancholy and very unnerving.
Jenna is a gutsy heroine and it is always a joy to see Angelica and Simon at their best being the worst. Hallie is just a little too annoying to me I guess in how she wants people to like her and accepting gifts from clearly evil people. She's pretty lucky to have a friend like Jenna even if that is kind of what draws them to the Fears.
Being what it is you only have two choices in what happens to Rob towards the end...
The climax is eerie and the ending is thought-provoking but in between that, there is one thing you couldn't have seen coming but it is actually kind of funny in an ironic way if anybody out there has a sister. Until then your heart will be palpitating in morbid curiosity and the first time I read Daughters of Silence...I was getting some very serious chills crawling up and down my skin.
I loved a great deal about this book. Jenna was a great protagonist and her refusing to wear the bracelet the Fears gave her was a really smart move. She was also the one to notice something wrong with Angelica and Simon - Hallie just went along with it. They were quite obviously messed up in the head, but I'm glad at least one of the protagonists noticed.
I loved the ending - Jenna throwing the medallion at the black mist, sinking her fingers deep into Hallie's chest to remove the pendant, the plot reveal about Rob. The beginning was also steady - I really enjoyed those first few opening chapters.
I think the middle felt a bit odd, a bit boring - particularly all the stuff with Rob. I get why he was a part of the story, I just didn't like anything about him, except the reveal.
While reading, I kept trying to picture who would be cast as Angelica and Simon, if a movie of this was to be made one day. They look and feel creepy, so that was a fun thought.
I liked this a lot more than some of the last books in the original Fear Street Saga and I think it’s because I got to feel for these characters and had a perspective outside of the Fear family
I was so pumped to find out what the deal was with the daughters boneless bodies and this ended up being just alright. The whole book was basically Jenna having an uneasy feeling about Angelica and Simon and then realizing their true intentions at the last possible moment. The plan the Fears had for Jenna and Hallie was really obvious, so the suspense wasn’t as good as it could’ve been.
Meh, sometimes the stupidity of characters just makes me want to smack them. A lot of this could have been avoided if the main character stopped being wishy washy and refusing to see the possibility of things beyond the realm of her logic.
Diesmal geht es um Shadyside im Jahre 1878, wo die junge Hallie erst vor kurzem hingezogen ist und ihre beste Freundin Jenna zu sich einlädt. Beide lieben es, sich gegenseitig zu erschrecken und die Gegend zu erkunden. Doch eines Tages verirren sie sich in die Gruft der Fears, wo deren beiden Töchter Hanna und Julia liegen, die etwa im gleichen Alter waren, bevor sie gestorben sind. Hallie fühlt sich von de Geschichte angezogen, ahnt jedoch nicht in welche Gefahr sie sich begibt. Kann sie sich und Jenna befreien? Wird es eine Zukunft für die beiden geben? Und welchen perfiden Plan verfolgt die Familie Fear?
Der Schreibstil ist sehr flüssig und spannend gehalten. Ich konnte mir sehr gut die Umgebung, die Personen und die Ereignisse vorstellen. Ebenfalls mochte ich die beiden Charaktere von Jenna und Hallie sehr gern, da sie eine gewisse Gegensätzlichkeit darstellen, aber dennoch wunderbar miteinander harmonieren.
Mir hat das Buch richtig gut gefallen, auch wenn es einige Schwächen aufweist. So erfährt man beispielsweise nicht, warum alle Angst vor der Familie haben, ob es früher schon Vorkommnisse gegeben hat und auf welche tragische Weise die beiden Töchter umgekommen sind.
Verglichen mit den anderen beiden Bänden ist dieses schwächer, was Angst und Brutalität anbelangen. Was nicht unbedingt schlimm ist, war mir der erste Band doch etwas zu blutrünstig.
Ooohh no, and I normally love these books, but this was maybe the dumbest book if ever read, of course your parents would as you there you bin, and not believe you that you got nearly killed than your nightshirt is soaking with blood , and the rest in the cellular was so laughable, I think I'm starting to read something else.
I normally love these books, but this was defo the worst and most pefetic book if ever read, no you parents wouldn't believe you a word that you got nearly killed and just ask there you bin than yours nightdress is soaking with blood, nice parents And the rest in the cellular was even more pefetic. Well the last book of RL Stine I will read 😵😡😠
This was my first read from RL stine,even if im not much of horror reader I could tell it was weakly written.
It's the same trope of one friend being stupid to not realize and pay heed to the warning to the smart friend and overly trusts the villian.
This wasn't really an enjoyable or even a good horror read. Boring and stupid characters,who think something is wrong all the time but dont take any precaution.
As non horror reader I could easily identify the weak writing and pointless story.
Continuing with reading all the fear street books, I love the fear street saga books as they tell stories from the beginning and lets us readers know why fear street is cursed.
Simon and Angelica Fear are back with a new idea. They want to and have the power to resurrect the dead. They have all the ingredients - They are missing two bodies They have their sight on 2 girls
See the burning, the swirling smoke, the power that that fear family have.
Yeeesss! This is the R.L. Stine I remember! This volume is not weighed down by terrible dialogue and instead delivers with the trademark jump endings to every chapter, gore, spooky af imagery, and an ending that doesn’t wrap everything nicely with a bow, but instead promises more horror. A quintessential 90’s YA campy horror novel.
Mir persönlich gefallen die normalen Fear Street Bücher mehr, da diese meist nicht übernatürlich sind, aber es war trotzdem ein gutes Buch. Jenna war mir aber nicht so sympathisch und ihre Schwester Hallie mochte ich gar nicht. Rob mochte ich aber sehr. Das Ende war schon spannend, aber nicht so sehr wie bei den normalen. Das Buch war auch teilweise vorhersehbar.
Auch dieser Band war wieder gruselig und spannend lässt aber viele Fragen über die Familie fear offen. Außerdem ist es mal ein Happy End, denn trotz allem was den beiden Freundinnen passiert ist Scheiben sie davon zu kommen. Wie immer ist die Atmosphäre einfach großartig und versetzt einen in die richtige Stimmung
I think I liked the Fear Saga more than just plain old fear street the series just had more to it for me .... I really loved all the twisted tales from this series so much fun
I had an absolute blast reading all of these again in 2013 .... :)
This book replicates what Stine does best. Gets you involved in the story, keeps you involved, and builds towards a spooky conclusion. The scariest part was in the tomb at the end with ... Well you'll have to find out ....😀
I was surprised to find that the entire book took place in 1897. Overall, it was a good, interesting read. I noticed a couple of errors-one being Simon’s medallion-it’s described as silver, then it’s suddenly referred to as being gold 🧐 I do wish Rob could have been saved at the end 😕
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Two girls visit Angelica and Simon Fear but later realize that the Fears are trying to sacrifice them in an effort to bring their dead daughters back to life. While still set in the past like the other books in the Sagas series, this one felt a bit more timeless. An enjoyable read.