Escape of the He-Beast

Ghosts of Fear Street #31

by R.L. Stine, Page McBrier

He is Hecula the He-Beast--one of the coolest monsters in comic book history. And Jamie Kolker is his #1 fan. Jamie loves the He-Beast's horns and teeth. But especially the way he hunts his prey.

Genres: Horror

111 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

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.

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Reviews

[Austin Smith · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of the worst GoFS books I've read, and amidst a lot of mediocre and iffy entries, that's really saying something.
This book and all of its plot elements and twists directly rip off earlier titles by R.L. Stine and it does absolutely nothing new or interesting.
This is essentially a rehash of Attack of the Mutant and The Blob That Ate Everyone - except with discount writing, no logic or explanation behind anything that happens, flat and boring characters, no tension or mystery, and a twist ending that's been done ad nauseam and is all for nothing.
The poor quality of this book is inexcusable.
1.5⭐, rounded down.

[Will Wala · Rating 5 out of 5]

its so awesome i love it .
a great twist at the end .
fun to read and rl stine as usual so creative and entertaining .

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a great ending. This was alot like Attack Of The Mutant, from the Goosebumps series. I did like Attack Of The Mutant better .This one was fun to ! I recommend it.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

For my twentieth GoFS read, and finale to June 2025, I picked up what is notoriously the worst cover art in the series and frankly an all-time stinker in kids horror going off looks alone. As for the story… y’know, even with the two stars you see up there, it’s not bad. But it’s not a good one either. The story’s strongest positive is the climax where everything finally is settled and wrapped up—in an epic battle scene. It was quite fun and the stakes felt decently high. Al Refko was a neat, weird character that seems to have a lot of problems and is a nice addition to the story. The He-Beast was actually pretty cool and his design is good; I tried my absolute hardest not to think of the cover design, believe me. And whilst concept is great, being a comic book villain escaping the digital world and following the plot of the latest comic, its execution is dull. The blurb you read on the back basically spoils everything up till page 85, and that’s not fucking good. Not a lot really happens and there’s tropes and boring sequences in here that are only to drag us to the finish line that is the eventual—and I tell ya, E-VEN-CHEW-ULL—character regroup between Jamie and Al. It takes too long to get there, and when we do, it awkwardly jumps straight into the climax. It’s a good climax but the journey getting there was poor and a bore, let alone nothing new if you read the synopsis. The ending sucks and I’d rather forget it exists. It comes out of left field with now foreshadowing or proper explanation and adds literally nothing to the story, only taking away what could’ve been a congruent, unbullshittery ending that doesn’t attempt any last minute random plot twists—which is what it was. Oh, and Jamie is a horrid character. He’s like a predator/stalker/killer/rapist in the making, seeing how he likes to stalk and wants to “accidentally run into Al Refko, whilst coincidentally being his biggest fan.” I wonder how that’ll hold up in court when he runs into, say, some hot famous chick and assaults her. This is just really questionable behavior and it only gets worse when he starts digging through Al’s computer and his office as a whole, reading the next comic before it’s even out. Just… lock this kid up before it turns from comics to murder. Jeez. Overall, 5.5/10. He-Beast, She-Beast, Mid-Story no matter what. Of course Jamie found the twist to be “cool.” Face-Palmer, am I right?

[Jessie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A monster comes alive in this Ghosts of Fear Street novel.

[Mayank Saboo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perhaps, one of the best twist endings......

[Cassandra Javier · Rating 3 out of 5]

found a battered old copy at a vintage store yesterday. It's fun and easy to read plus, there's that trademark twist at the end. Cray cray ending!