Dana Fear isn't thrilled about spending her senior year at Shadyside High. The Fear family history goes way back in this town, and she's not so into lugging around the baggage. But then she gets in with the Night People. Shadyside's pretty cool when it's 3 A.M. and you're chilling at a bar called Nights with your new best friends. Until the evil returns, and the Night People start mysteriously disappearing one by one. Dana swears she has nothing to do with it. But all fingers point in one direction. Because there is, after all, a new Fear in town.... Things go bump in the Night...
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 combination of evil magic and fogging one's mind is brilliant! I loved the idea that kept me curious throughout the book. It is a quick read as teenager stories involve predictable ends and just a little messed up things in the story.
The creation of feathers, one-eyed bird, foggy dark night, and lastly, Dana is a decent girl with terrible incidents happening in her past that made her visit her cousin's house to stay for an entire senior year to have a fresh beginning all over again. Jamie and Dana weren’t really getting along in their childhood and all of a sudden, it had turned out to be opposite. Sometimes, relationships take different form as understanding increases.
Nate was clearly an negative role in my eyes as he appeared to betray Dana all alone while she was facing some serious consequences costing her respect and life. He was clearly confused between Ada and Dana. Jamie, her cousin was truly an angel in her life who supported and believed in Dana always. The dark magic has been surrounded around them. The killings/murders were bizarre which were beyond anyone’s understanding. The evil cast over Angelicas amulet had run a word all over the town, a magic that was still alive. The immortal soul chooses to haunt those disturbed her fear house.
There’s sudden killings of Jamie’s friend within the arrival of her cousin- Dana in first two weeks. The murder before arrival of Dana involved death of Candy. There’s whispers over Dana being the one behind the murders for Ada and Whitney. Could that be true? The suspicions were rising against Dana. The amulet has always been a top notch in the eyes in this town to cause troubles.
FYI This wasn't a book I had to slog through because it wasn't interesting but between Stranger Things 4 and 4th of July activities to entertain a toddler and wear out her mother...I had little time to just relax with a good book.
Anyway...
Starting the second book and halfway through this trilogy, we get some more gore and of course an other worldly force going after the Night People which I'm sure has no connection to the torn down Fear Mansion...*beat*
We go from old pal Nate narrating to the introduction of Jamie's cousin, Dana Fear *dun dun dun!*
Dana's mother just died and her father pawned her off on the family and things go from bad to worse after her arrival.
We already know that Dana is just a red herring and the reveal into the final chapter of this endgame is just wild.
Dana is the only character who doesn't seem like a total jerk and I can only imagine how this ends in the final book.
So far Fear Street Nights is pretty decent and a solid recommendation but that could change...
Midnight Games by, R.L. Stine is the second book in the Fear Street Nights trilogy, and like much of Stine’s Fear Street work, it blends teen drama, horror, and fast-paced suspense in a way that’s accessible and addictive—especially for quick, and thrilling reads.
The "Fear Street Nights" mini-series leans into a darker, more mature tone than the classic Fear Street books. The concept of secretive midnight games gives it an urban legend / horror-club vibe, which works well. Stine’s signature style—short chapters with twisty endings—keeps the momentum going. There’s always a fresh layer of mystery or danger.
As usual, the teenage characters speak and think like actual teens, with impulsive decisions and shifting loyalties that helped to stay emotionally hooked. Like many Fear Street books I've read, the characters can feel like archetypes rather than deeply developed individuals. They're fun, but not very layered.
The book prioritizes action and scares over deeper themes or emotional resonance. That’s fine if you're in it for the thrill—but you might find the psychological depth lacking. Longtime Stine fans may notice recycled tropes—mysterious deaths, secret pasts, and betrayal—but the delivery is still engaging.
If you enjoy Fear Street’s mix of horror and teen drama like I do, Midnight Games is a fun and creepy ride. It's not literary horror—it’s popcorn horror, and it does that well. Think of it like a late-night slasher flick: fast, twisty, and a little over-the-top in the best way.
As the story continues in the Fear Street Nights trilogy, we find that a month has passed since the death of Candy at the hands of the Night People. Of course, they didn’t set out to murder her, but as they attempted to steal back Angelica Fear’s amulet, there was a terrible accident. Nevertheless, the incident is still haunting Nate and his friends.
As the book begins, we find it being narrated by Nate once again, but only as a lead up to the introduction of a new character: Dana Fear. As Jamie’s poor little cousin, Dana is struggling with the knowledge that she may not be able to afford college and that her cousin’s friendly demeanor may be a ruse. But that doesn’t stop her from trying to fit in. After the death of her mother a few months earlier and the recent rejection of her father, she’s in desperate need for something good to happen.
In true high school fashion, Dana finds herself quickly being cast as an outsider. First, because she’s attracted the attention of a boy who may or may not have a girlfriend. And then as accidents begin to occur, more and more of the student body becomes convinced Dana’s evil. Soon Dana is left with no one on her side and that’s exactly what the true killer wants. The legacy of the Fear family no longer haunts the dilapidated Fear mansion, it is set on destroying the Night People.
I suppose this was an okay book for the series. Once again, I appreciate the fact there is a paranormal aspect to the book, but I’m still floored by how no one ever gets caught sneaking out. I also found myself a bit torn about everyone’s attitude towards Dana. For example, one of the Night people all of sudden expresses a lot of interest in her, but is always asking about her family history. Then as more and more people become convinced that she’s behind all the strange and tragic things happening, it basically becomes an all out witch hunt. I’m surprised they don’t show up outside her house with torches. Perhaps I’m reading too much into this trilogy and there are some aspects of it that I have liked so far, but I still can’t say I actually like or enjoy these books.
Fear Street Nights: Midnight Nights is a phenomenal book! I'd recommend it for 6th grade students to read for enjoyment. The book begins with Dana Fear coming to Shadyside to spend her senior year with her cousin Jamie. Jamie brings her around all her friends and as the new girl of course guys are interested. Ada, Jamie's friend becomes very jealous of Dana and soon after dies during a confrontation between the two girls. Dana during this time and blacked out and gotten dizzy so that she hadn't seen what was going on until she awoke to find Ada dead and her cousin Jamie by her side making sure she was okay. Throughout the book we see several of Jamie's friends experience things they very well shouldn't more of them even die, and Dana is always there but has no recollection of it. Dana struggles to find out what truly is causing these deaths and accidents in a way to clear her name. But, once she finds out the secret everything changes. Once the secret is out she believes she is safe and that the evil has went away from her and her family, little does she know it's closer than ever with her as the target now. This story is impossible to put down and as always R.L. Stine makes you want to have the next book by your side, ready to read immediately after finishing the last page! I would hope my students enjoy thriller novels the same way I do , this one is perfect for older students who aren't mature enough or ready for Steven King novels and still love the Goosebumps series. I'd say female students would enjoy this more then the males but either could read it and enjoy! Overall a terrific novel that I felt could continue on for many more books to come!
This book is about Dana Fear Jamie's cousin who had moved to live with Jamie after an tragic accident. Students at Dana's school are fascinated by her because she have the Fear last name. They think that she's evil just like Angelica Fear who used a pendant to kill peoples. While at that school many horrible things happens. The students think that Dana killed Ada when they where skating and the skate blade with throught her head! But how could she do that when Dana thinks that she was blackout and doesnt remember about killing her. Whitnney died by bloody feathers came out of her nose while doing the singing comepetiton for scholarship.All the students blame Dana because she wears the pendant that she had made. Is the pendant evil or what? Nate thinks that Angelica Fear is immortal thats menas she can come back to life and take somebody's else life. Is this opinion true? And what is that one eyed bird doing in the woods? Will let me tell you the end Angelica Fear had used her pendant to take over Jamie's life because she fell onto Angelic's grave on front of the Fear Mansion. Angelica killed Ada and Whittney and she planned to kill those Night's people becasue they have gone to Angelica's private room and stole everything. But when Dana killed Angelica who is that blackbird and the blackbird took the pendant? Read the next book to find out because the evil is not dead yet!!! This is one of my favorite book!!
This book is continued from the book Moonlight Secrets. Lewis thinks all is over and good, that the spirit that once haunted them was finally gone and dead. And that no more of his friends would die like in the last book. But was he wrong. He thought killing the friend that was being controlled by the spirit would stop things. But all that did was kill a poor girl named Candy, because spirits can't die because they are already dead -_-. Well because of that the spirit doesn't leave them alone and once again makes their lives a living hell. They also add a new character that comes along in the journey named Dana Fear, honestly feel bad for them.
Oh. My. God. My wish in my review for the last book for more Fear family stuff came true! We got an actual Fear in this book!
So this book takes place about a month after the ending of the last book. Weird things and horrifying accidents are still going on. But in this book, we are introduced to Dana Fear (a Fear! Yay!), who happens to be cousins with Jamie, one of the main characters of the last book. Unfortunately for Dana, everyone keeps blaming these recent accidents on her just because she’s a Fear.
I enjoyed this one more than the first book, and it is most definitely because we had an actual Fear involved! I love when Fears are directly involved in stories! It makes me so happy! I felt really bad for Dana, her being a newcomer to town and everyone just blaming her for every terrible thing that happened just because she was a Fear. It was sad.
We follow Dana through most of this book, but in the last book, we followed Nate. I kinda like this change in POVs. But one thing I found interesting was that while in the last book, I found Nate to be a pretty decent guy (which is high praise for a Fear Street guy tbh), I absolutely hated him in this one. He became your average Fear Street guy and I was not here for it. If you’ve read any of these types of books, you know what I’m talking about. Lol. But basically, he and Dana sort of start going out, but at the same time he’s stringing along another girl, and I was just like UGH. I thought he was supposed to be an okay guy. Lol. But I guess that’s much to ask for in these books. Lol.
But I did like this story overall. I loved following Dana because I just love the lore of the Fear family, and am enjoying the way this series is expanding on it. And I loved the deaths! They were so creative and just gory! If I can count on R.L. Stine for one thing, it’s the kills. Lol. I did, however, have an inkling as to who the killer was, but I was very happy when my suspicions were confirmed in this case. Lol. The story did remind me of a different Fear Street series, so that’s not great, but overall this wasn’t bad. I’m very interested to see how the trilogy wraps after the insanity of this book.
The Fear Street connection: The kids hang out in a bar, Nights, that was built right where the Fear Mansion used to be.
Snippet: I think this is a worthy sequel to its predecessor, and maybe even slightly better thanks to some actual murders taking place, although plot-wise they were both pretty fun. I’d be surprised if anyone didn’t see this book’s twist coming at some point before the big reveal, but we still had some mystery with the blackouts and the one-eyed bird at least.
Dana is a pretty middle-of-the-road protagonist, I think – she wasn’t a complete idiot, but her feelings for Nate got on my nerves. And Nate wasn’t a great guy to begin with, but he’s even worse here, so hopefully he’ll die in the next book.
As is the norm with Fear Street, we’re left with a bunch of unanswered questions that will likely never be cleared up
Check out my full review linked up top for an in-depth recap :)
I didn't realize this was the second book in a trilogy when I bought it, but there's a recap of book one, so I wasn't lost. The book starts off being narrated by Nate (Part One) and then switches to Dana's point of view for the rest of the book. The book is divided into four parts.
It mostly focuses on Dana moving in with her cousin, Jamie, after her mother has passed away, her trying to make friends, and the strange things that start happening to the group of kids that hang out at a bar called Nights. I figured out the plot twist pretty early on, but it was still an ok read.
I'd recommend it to Fear Street fans and I'll be looking for the rest of the trilogy.
The book is getting more interesting,intense,and scary from the first one. when the new character came along really represents herself through this new chapter of the book. I really didn't expect that Dana would be the main character as in the author turn a whole new world and new perspectives with a different character point of view. Also, the details of the killings really scared the bloody out of me. It is really worth to read it and once again I only read this book word by word,chapter by chapter only less than a week. I love the imagination RL Stine is giving. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Old Fando here. Trying to get over a bar where the Fear Mansion stood and a mall over Fear Street. Even my childhood is getting gentrified or gentri-afraid...gen-terrified(you tell me). But I digress, this story has all ingredients to a good Fear Street read: Fears, mystery, death, naughty teens, absent parents. What it lacked was a more solid ending. I had too many loose ends that didn't create satisfaction. Maybe teen me needed less causation. I will give this extra points for a bit of ick factor.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This was a really fun one. Annoying teenage girls are picked off one by one by an unknown killer, and boy are their death scenes inventive, the ice-skate between the eyes was hella cool. It actually reminded me of that wonderful old 80s Canadian slasher, Curtains. I liked this entry in the Fear Street Nights series much more than the first book.
Very good sequel, I enjoyed the psychological aspect to it. Definitely more gruesome than its predecessor but still very good. The story arc is fantastic and does not suffer from sequelitis at all. I can’t wait to see how this ends. If you are sensitive to gore then just be prepared, it does come out of nowhere in this one.) 5/5 stars.
The old Fear returned and I loved it even if it's predictable. The deaths were gruesome in here, especially the ice skating ones. That was absolutely my biggest fear. I don't get how those kids managed to stay up so late at night. Don't they have school days or exams to study for?
Feels like an updated version of fear street, for this time they have cell phones. It still feels like fear street, a wee bit longer and the kids seem more with it. Tells us more history about the fears which is cool too.
i like this book the day i started to read it i thought it was a boring book , but after i read it it was one of my best books . this book is for youngers it is the best so for u guys that think this book is not good readers r not people so plz just read over that book . and once yr done u'll see the good in it and i know u'll love it
The book starts off where we left the previous book. Back with Nate. However, we soon switch over to the real protagonist. A girl named Dana Fear. And she is a big reason why I rated this book a 4 stars instead of a 5 stars.
The book was good, no it was brilliant. But, the characters just sucked. I will post this in spoiler tags as it is a spoiler/might spoil stuff, which I don't want. Add to that the whole thing that kept happening around/with Dana. I was really confused, did she or did she not do stuff? The ending of the book tells us what really happened and it was nicely done. While I had my suspicions and hopes, I know that R.L. Stine likes to throw in twists and turns so I was prepared to get confused, luckily that didn't happen!
The whole business with Jamie? No spoilers, but I saw it coming! And that is all I will say.
I didn't like Nate in this book. I am not sure what happened to him, though I can guess that certain events truly shook him up. Still that doesn't clear him from his actions in the book. Again, spoiler tags, I don't want to spoil stuff, but I do want to rage for a little bit. :)
The mystery and murders go up to a whole new level in this one. If you thought what happened to Candy was gruesome, then be prepared! I won't say what and who, but let's just say, wow, this was one awesome and action/scared-packed book. Lots of scares, lots of thrills and lots of revelations!
The end of the book was fantastic! I really can't wait to get the third book and find out what happens in there. Sadly, that will take another week or so (since I need to order it online), but as soon as it gets here I will read it!
Oh, there was one other thing I didn't particularly like. The book felt a bit choppy at times. The language a bit off. Like at times it was written for older kids and then switches back to younger kids. It was a bit weird and I had to re-read sentences to make sure I read the right thing.
Still, I would highly recommend this book. This is really a must read!
As the new student and member of the Fear family, Dana finds herself the target of dirty stares and slander when students at Shadyside High start dying one by one. When she begins experiencing fainting spells and blacking out she starts to fear she may not be innocent.
I've always enjoyed reading his books tremendously but I always found them lacking something. I found myself speeding through this one once I got past the third chapter and ended up finishing it in one sitting. Dana and the supporting characters are likable for the most part, so I enjoyed following their story and sympathized with Dana.