The Second Horror

99 Fear Street: The House of Evil #2

by R.L. Stine

There's no place like this home...

At first, Brandt McCloy think moving to Shadyside is great. He has attracted the attention of three beautiful girls—Meg, Jinny and Abbie. But Brandt hasn't heard the terrifying stories about his new home—99 Fear Street. He doesn't know about the headless bodies, the bleeding walls. He doesn't know that Cally Frasier still haunts the house and plans gruesome deaths for him and everyone close to him. Poor Brandt—what he doesn't know will hurt him.

Genres: Horror, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Teen, Thriller, YA Horror

147 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

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

[kylajaclyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, the ending of this one is batshit insane. But I love it! The entire plot is essentially the same as the first one. More evil house shenanigans, combining Murder House and The Shining.

Brandt, the new arrival to 99 Fear Street, has three girls instantly chasing him. Abbie, Jinny, and Meg. Jinny and Meg are actually close friends, but they (refreshingly) do not fight one another for Brandt. This could be because they are too busy being attacked by his house. First, Jinny has a glass explode on her in midair. She gets cuts all over her arms. Then a suit of armor falls on Meg. Brandt and his parents came to Shadyside from the island of Mapolo, and his dad is into artifacts and tribal magic and stuff like that. It’s really just a convenient plot device to give Cally something to hurt everyone with.

Brandt shows Jinny and Meg his father’s blow dart gun, but when he goes outside to help his father and then comes back in, he finds the girls sitting in open-mouthed horror on the couch with darts in their necks. The doctor at the hospital says they will both survive, but we leave the book uncertain of their fates.

Brandt has been Reading Cally’s diary as she updates it the whole time. She warns him that Abbie will be the next to die. So when Abbie unexpectedly shows up in his house, he quickly warns her about the evil of the house, telling her that she was right. But - and I totally called it! - Abbie is already aware of the evil of the house... because Abbie is actually Cally. So Cally uses one of Brandt’s dad’s hatchets and cracks open his skull... only to find that nothing happens. Brandt is already dead!

Yep, Brandt died from a local tribe’s poison back on the island. However, he was kept “alive” by a sorcerer giving Brandt his life force. The sorcerer died and Brandt came back to life. But a grey ghostly figure has been following Brandt at school. And it turns out that that figure is the sorcerer, back to reclaim his life! As soon as Cally attempts to kill Brandt, the sorcerer sucks his life back and Brandt immediately “dies.” Cally expects his ghost will haunt the house with her, but she gets a terrible surprise when she sees that Brandt’s parents are carrying him away in a coffin.

Also, James and the dog are found inside the wall! He has turned to a pile of bones. Strangely, though, he doesn’t haunt the house with Cally.

[Brad Burgin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Truly a great, fun and fast passed read. I love all the books that I have read by R.L. Stine and these have always been among my favorites books growing up. This one is right along with me, Reading this with a teenager mindset would have made this a 5 star read for me. But reading it now I can still enjoy and appreciate the story line, flow of writing and the twist that come even if they are predictable.

[Just A Ginger · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, the first book was much, much better. This one just seemed so blah. I feel like reading these books is getting repetitive.

A lot of the books have someone just revealing that they're dead.

The creepiest part was when they found the brothers body in the wall, finally.

The ending, was just lame :/

[Fuzaila · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nope, this was bad. Thank God it got over quickly. The prequel had been much better.

In The Second Horror of The House of Evil trilogy, a family of three moves to the house at 99 Fear Street. It's been about a year since the Frasiers moved out. Feeling abandoned by her family, Cally Frasier's ghost has been waiting to take revenge on anyone who comes to live at the house next. The McCloys are in for trouble.
Mr. McCloy is an anthropologist who collects rare antiques. His son Brandt has enrolled in Shadyside High and is all set to have a fun year at school. And girls seems to magnate toward him. But Cally wants Brandt all for herself. What would happen to Brandt? What is the strange condition which makes him weak? Would Cally finally have a friend?

The plot itself was ridiculous. Cally Frasier's character was just cruel. And all the fuss about Brandt's condition was getting to me when finally it was revealed and I was like WHAT???!! THAT IS JUST STUPID DUH 😑 Brandt had been dead for two years and had been living on another man's life force

R.L. Stine's characters have never appealed to me, but he has a way of making the readers curious enough. I guess I'll just read the third book and complete the trilogy, whatever happens.

[(shan) Littlebookcove · Rating 3 out of 5]

A spine chilling read that I remember well as a kid. Just as good as it was back when I read it as a kid!

The second Installment of 99 Fear street.

In this book we meet Brandt and his family the house 99 fear street still stands and its ready to unlock its morbid horror.

I read these as a saga to my Retro horrors with books Have to say i enjoyed this.

[Obsidian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy crap this was crazy (in a good way). Did anyone see that ending coming? I am going to just hand wave the science fiction/horror stuff in the end cause I was all wait what? But I loved it. Stine once again shows how brutal 99 Fear Street is to those who inhabit those walls. We also get a reappearance of a prior character that is now how they were in the first book.

"The Second Horror" follows Brandt and his family who have just moved into 99 Fear Street. Just like the last book, some mysterious faces/names show up so you know this isn't going to go well. Brandt though is a bit frustrated because his parents are very protective because of a condition he has. When Brandt starts to meet people at Shadyside High, he realizes that his house has a dark past.

Brandt I liked, and there was a slight darkness there that we don't get until the end I have to say.

I love the town of Shadyside though you have to wonder after a while why anyone moves onto Fear Street.

The ending was truly one for the books and I have to say the third book was a bit of a letdown based on the first and second book.

[Chelle𓆏 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once again, that was fucked.

[Erica Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

WILDLY entertaining; I actually laughed out loud at the ending. We get a ghost vs. zombie vs. surprise ghost climax.

And ahh at least we know where James and the dog ended up 💀

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are brillint

[Katja · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved how each chapter left you on a cliffhanger and made you continue reading more. Very interesting book. Weird ending with the tribal and shadow man thing. Sad Ezra died. I literally gasped when the cat got pierced and died. How did James end up in the wall with his puppy? Did Brandt’s spirit stay in the house? What did Jinny, Meg or Abbie do when they found out Brandt died ?

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Sam Barnes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one didn’t have the same scares as the first, but it was defiantly still a lot of fun. Again, the dialogue was silly at times, but that was very much a thing of the 90s.

[Courtney Gruenholz · Rating 5 out of 5]

A heads up for spoilers since this is an on-going trilogy...

Sometimes sequels can be a little crazy compared to the more streamlined plot of a movie or even a book but it doesn't necessarily mean it is awful.

I've seen a lot of people comment that The Second Horror isn't as good as The First Horror but it isn't bad and it may just be my rose-tinted nostalgia goggles talking but I still find it just as creepy.

A year ago, The Frasier family moved to 99 Fear Street. They were the first people to live there because even though the house was built in 1960...no living soul stayed in the walls.

Dead bodies found before the foundation could be poured, victims of Simon and Angelica Fear, and then on-site accidents when given the go ahead by the man who wanted the house built.

Two weeks before the move in date, the man brought his family to see the house. A wife, a son and a daughter left downstairs but found dead in the five minutes the husband was gone...heads torn from their bodies and missing. A month later, the man hung himself in the house and it stood empty until the evil within found new victims to terrorize...

A husband, a wife, a son and their two twin daughters move in and experience frightening things.

Their new puppy disappears without a trace, vomit spewing from the bathroom sink, blood dripping from the ceiling in the parents' bedroom, a dismemberment with the kitchen garbage disposal of a young man whom one of the sisters was dating were just the start...

Then the son vanished, the father became blinded by a cloud of evil and one of the twins died a horrible death which the other sister witnessed but was helpless to stop. The tragedies drove the Frasier family away but the ghost of Cally Frasier remains, now a part of the evil within the house, and a new family has just moved in...

Brandt McCloy has lived on a small island in the Pacific with his parents for a long while, his father an anthropologist, but now they have decided to come back to the United States to give Brandt some normalcy. It's suppose to be a new start in Shadyside as he enters his junior year in October as the new kid in school and he can't wait to get away from his parents always reminding him of his "condition" but soon, there is another good reason...

The house at 99 Fear Street is run-down and gloomy with the first day ruined by a terrible accident that takes the life of Brandt's cat, Ezra. The animal was old but died a cruel death that Brandt could feel an evil force behind it. Open-minded to the bizarre due to his father's work, Brandt is still unaware that the ghost of Cally Frasier is watching him.

No longer warm and caring but bitter and angry, Cally is ready to have some fun with Brandt.

Brandt seems to be a charming guy because he makes friends with three girls on his first day of heading to school. Blonde Abbie Ayler is one of his neighbors and she is very pretty and nice but goes to an all-girls school. He meets Jinny Thompson and her friend Meg Morris in the lunchline at Shadyside High and seems to grab their interest even though Jinny is dating a member of the basketball team, Jon Burks.

Jon is obviously jealous and he gives Brandt a hard time in the guise of being a jokester but says that he should tryout for the basketball team. Brandt does this behind his parents' back because of his "condition" but it soon turns out to be a bad idea when Jon takes out frustration on Brandt enough that his time with the team is very short.

A little bullying at school is nothing compared to all of the awful things that Cally has planned for Brandt. Having the attention of three pretty girls is nothing when a vengeful ghost also has her sights set on you to share in her afterlife...

We get some resolution to an event from the first book and it is just very depressing as it is disturbing. Not a lot really happens in this second entry but we get a twist and a reveal that is so bonkers it kind of works as a saving grace. That's my opinion but I could see how some readers may feel it is a half-hearted attempt at an ending just to make it a trilogy.

Still points for effort as we make it that much closer to the end where The Third Horror brings us back to the beginning in a manner of speaking...

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

So for some reason, Cally, who died at the end of the first book, is an evil ghost now who wants to take vengeance on the new family moving into 99 Fear Street. Why is Cally evil? There's a vague explanation about her having been tainted by the spirit of the house itself, but it's not very satisfying. It would have been nice to see her go on that journey.

Also she can take corporeal form and shapeshift. So that's how Stine justifies a twist about one of the three girls chasing after Brandt, the new boy, actually being Cally. I don't know if it really counts as a twist if you're just making up rules as you go, but fine.

We are told throughout the book that hunky Brandt has a "condition". He can't physically exert himself and he bruises easily. Bruising, as you know, is caused by the bursting of small blood vessels, and yet when Cally drives an axe through his head, he doesn't even bleed. I'm not sure the internal logic holds up. Anyway, the second "twist" is that Brandt is a zombie. The natives of the island of Mapolo (who presumably look like the headhunters in Gilligan's Island) poisoned him in retribution for Brandt's dad cheating them out of their artifacts, but a witch doctor brought him back to life by murdering a drifter in exchange.

Brandt's parents are definitely villains, but I guess Brandt shouldn't have had to suffer for his colonialist parents' mistakes.

The book is basically a dating simulator where none of the relationships matter in the end because everybody just dies or whatever. People scream off-page a lot and Brandt rushes in to find that something HORRIBLE has happened. It's all pretty inconsequential and follows the same format of the first book. I would have liked it a lot more if Brandt had actually struck up a relationship with Cally's ghost. That way the book wouldn't feel quite so disconnected from its prequel.

Little brother James, who apparently looks like Alfred E. Neuman, turns up again. This time opening up the wall actually does reveal his remains, even though they tried that when he went missing in the first book and couldn't find him. I guess ghosts don't really care about continuity.

[Lexie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This sub-set of "Fear Street" was actually one of the few arcs that surprised and/or freaked me out (really only the "Historicals"/Fear family Sagas chilled me...for some reason Stine could think of a thousand and one ways to kill a person in olden times in terrifying ways) and despite having not read the first (or third) one in years I still had a decent enough working knowledge to muddle through this one unconfused.

There's a few things to remember when you're reading a Fear Street novel so you can actually enjoy them:
The Idiot Quota is pretty high in Shadyside: Doesn't matter how many times the residents (new and old) are told NOT to do something, they'll do it. Because all those stories about Fear Street and the Fears could NEVER happen to them surely.
Death or Injury by Fear is a legitimate insurance claim: Otherwise I can't see how the rest of the world hasn't come down like a ton of bricks on the "small town" of Shadyside for the ridiculous number of highly suspicious or improbable deaths of teens.
Love is deadly so don't look for anything more then angst: Its very likely at least one of the participants is dead, cursed, the villain or has a previous/current significant other/stalker who won't let go and will kill to keep them.
People don't trust the "Fears"...until they see the attractive ones: Mostly an ongoing problem in the "historicals" since the Fears bred an insane amount of highly attractive people despite folk in their family dying by the dozens each week. But the blinders seem to be on everyone's eyes if the bad guy is attractive in some manner.

This book has a twist at the end that I completely forgot, which is good because once you know it you'll see all the obvious clues of it and that ruins some of the suspense in the book.

[Liliana · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Cally is very excited to have some new blood move into her house for her to torment. I actually really liked that we got some evil Cally POV as she haunted Brandt and his family. It was pretty cool. But I still don't understand why she’s evil. Why?! But evil Cally is not even that evil, tbh. What she does is more like pranks. She is not very good at this killing thing. Lol.

Speaking of Brandt, I did not like him. He almost reminded me of Bobby from Double Date , just not nearly as bad. But he’s talking about how girls are throwing themselves at him left and right and how he probably will like it in Shadyside after all and just UGH! Shut up!



So we don't really find out anything new about the house in this book, which sucked. But there was a really cool Brandt plot twist at the end that I did not see coming! Overall, it was kind of a meh book. I liked the plot twist at the end and I liked the evil Cally POV, but that’s pretty much it. There was one Cally plot twist I saw coming a mile away, and that’s never fun. It’s still not explained why Cally is suddenly evil, so I hope we finally find out in the next book!

The Fear Street connection: Brandt moves into 99 Fear Street... Ooof.

[Andrew Marcec · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh man I totally remember this book from when I was a kid. I was obsessed with the Fear Street series, it was as close to adult horror novels as I got until I was like 14!

If I'm right, this one involves a lot of voodoo practices. R.L. Stein was always able to pull of creative ideas in a short space. Definitely a nostalgia read for sure!

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay so first off this books ending was insane. I've read a good majority of Stine books, but I had no idea what was going on near the end. This book had sad moments to downtight scary moments. It was good if I had to change anything id focus less on the him playing basketball stuff and the character sometimes came off as annoying to me, but overall a great October read 4 out of five stars for me

[Ivy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very creepy. Wouldn't want to live at 99 Fear Street. Poor Ezra. :-(. It was interesting to know what Brandt's condition was.

Would recommend for anyone who is a fan of horror novels and R.L. Stine.

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe the weakest of the trilogy, this one still has some laugh-out-loud wtf moments. Not much of it is scary per se, but the ridiculous plot twists are enjoyable, and stand out among the monotony of the rest of the story.

Read my full recap at ogwnostalgia.wordpress.com/second-horror

[Sally · Rating 5 out of 5]

The ending was ridiculous and so over the top. I loved it!

[Joshua · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am currently rereading all of Fear Street for the first time as an adult. I try to rate and review based off of what my young adult mind would have felt (though it's kinda hard sometimes). With that being said, right off the bat this book and series is (so far) different and much more darker than anything Stine has ever released. When you have a cat being killed from a spear in the first 10 pages you know you are in for an interesting ride as usually the first chapter of every RL Stine book ends in a fake scare and he did not use that same formula in this one (thankfully!).
I think Stine is at his best when he stops using the same formula that can be found in almost all of his different series: the constant fake outs at the end of the chapters. His most memorable books are when he uses the supernatural element. I'm not sure why he did not use that more in the Fear Street Series.
Several things I loved about this book: First and foremost the book and the trilogy are extremely dark, something he seems to only occasionally dabble in. Two, having a male lead (which is pretty rare in horror book/movies/shows in general). Stine rarely uses male characters as anything more than side characters. Three, the book comes out swinging and doesn't talk down to the young adult readers as they so typically do in the 90s.
Just a great story. It makes me wish Stine wrote more of these but unfortunately he had several duds in the mix, but still a great author nonetheless despite the duds sprinkled in his bibliography.

[Daniel Stalter · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second outing of the 99 Fear Street trilogy brings a few new things to the mix, but not as much as I had hoped. I enjoyed the addition of Brandt’s character, and the ending was one of Stine’s better WTF moments. This is to say that my favorite parts of the book had very little to do with the titular house. Most of the haunting elements felt like a tired rehash of the first book, and we didn’t learn anything new about the motives or origins of 99 Fear Street. Cally is back as a ghost and totally evil now. I was frustrated by the lack of nuance with her character. I wanted to see the internal conflict between who she used to be and who the house had made her, but unfortunately, we never got to see that. It was a missed opportunity. Stine continues to demonstrate his hatred of house pets; I won’t spoil the particulars here on this recurring trope of the Fear Street series. You’ll have to wait until after the jump for that. Brandt’s storyline saved The Second Horror from being a forgettable slog, so kudos to that. It all made for a book that wasn’t nearly as bad (nor as good) as it could have been.

Score: 3

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[Duane Olds · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok, I did NOT see the ending coming. I had a few guesses but i was WAY off.

Here's my thing, if Callie can write in her diary and appear to people, why didn't she appear to her parents? Why didn't she just write something to them telling them what had happened and that she was still there? Seems like her 'being trapped here and left alone' is her own fault since she could have done something to warn them.
Parents in these books are sure dumb, the body of a boy and dog fall out of the wall and yet they still stay there and nothing is mentioned about it again.
Speaking of the boy, in the first book the father knocked a hole in the wall to find him but there was no one there, whi is it that Brandt does the SAME THING but he actually finds something!?
I enjoy how the cat died, tragically I migh add, and the next second the parents and him are making old cat jokes and planning on getting a new cat just like that.
You know, for being a dead guy, Brandt sure does get the ladies. Both living chicks and ghost chicks.
But here's my question, if hes dead, why didn't the girls he kissed feel how cold he was? Or the coach that put his arm back in its socket?
Why did the wanderer from the island wait until they moved to the US and Fear Street to appear? Shouldn't he have haunted Brandt from the start once they took his 'soul?' or did he see the girl was haunting Brandt and wanted in on some of that ghost action?

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first horror was definitely way better. This book was really good too but not as crazy or gory. I have to give it 3.5 stars, it would’ve been 4 stars but that ending was horrible…
*spoiler*

When you find out that his condition the whole book wasn’t a heart condition but that he was… a living voodoo zombie…. That took me out of this. This twist wasn’t what it thought it was. It wasn’t a shock as much as a miss. And where did his soul go? Since he died on the island technically does he just move on? I didn’t like how it ended so quickly and now the main character the whole book is just gone. What happened to Jinny and Meg? The only shock that got me was that Annie was actually Cally. But yea Brandt being a zombie was a horrible twist. Wish that he was somehow brought into the 99 fear street evil spirit club. And it doesn’t make sense why he was so shocked that the house was haunted when YOU YOURSELF ARE A F***ING ZOMBIE… like come on dude anything is possible at this point. Also, there’s a formula here that was wayyy too repetitive and predictable… Brandt leaves the room with a visitor alone in that room and they get hurt. (Surprise!) You knew every time he would leave someone something would happen. Would’ve been good to mix it up some.

[Divia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I started this book at a disadvantage: I did not read The First Horror. From a synopsis on Goodreads, I saw that it followed the Fraiser family that Cally belongs to. For me, the First Horror would be like a prequel which would allow me to understand how Cally died and absorbed the evil of 99 Fear Street.

Despite not reading the first book, I really enjoyed this installment. I actually did not see Abbie/Cally coming which made the surprise really great! I knew Brandt had a condition but I really just thought it was a health condition. I did not guess that he was undead and the shade stalking him was the drifter. I really just thought it was Cally. The discovery of James Fraiser's corpse and his dog's corpse in the wall was really chilling, especially with the echoes of his last words filling the entire house. Stine did that again with Cally's laughter suffocating Brandt.

The haunting and the twists were fun and made up for the fact that only Brandt died in this book. Jinny and Meg got hurt and we are told that they will be alright. Nobody even really died because of Cally which was disappointing.

[Paula Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cally Frasier is now a ghost and watches eagerly as Brandt McCloy moves into 99 Fear Street with his parents. She decides to mess with him, angry at being left at the house by her family. As for Brandt, he suffers from a mysterious condition, and must figure out what supernatural things are happening to him in his new home, which threatens the three teen girls he has become friends with.

It's always fun to read a Fear Street book I hadn't read in my youth. I read the first one way back in the 1990s, and still remembered it! Who can forget that garbage disposal scene? There's nothing here to match that craziness, unfortunately, or anything else that happened in the first book. In fact, this second entry is surprisingly mild after the first one pushed boundaries for the 1990s YA horror genre at the time. Nonetheless, it is a very quick read and quite enjoyable. So long as you can accept the anything-goes nature of Stine's YA books when he tackles the supernatural, you will have a good time here. There's no consistency here, and no rhyme or reason as to why everything is happening, yet it still mostly works on a turn-your-brain-off level.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second horror by R.L Stine is what seems at first to be a straight forward story, with quite a twist at the end.

When the McCloys move into 99 Fear street with their teenage son, Brandt, they believe they are giving their son a chance at having a normal education rather than traveling the world for Mr. McCloys work.

As soon as they move in, misfortune strikes. No one believes Brandt when he says there's a ghost in the house.

Brandt was cool, he seemed really nice despite the little romance triangle that he allowed. It was refreshing to have a young male as usually these books main characters are females. I liked that he was determined to give basketball a go, despite his condition.

There's a theme here and I can't believe Brandt didn't figure it out. People get hurt when he leaves them alone. Cally, the ghost was vengeful and evil. I liked how she left messages for him.

There's a twist at the end that I did not see coming so 4 stars.

[Jason Schmidt · Rating 3 out of 5]

This sequel, in many ways, reads as a repeat of the first. The shift to a new protagonist (and a “new” antagonist” was okay), but this book feels like a retreat of the plot beats of the first book, with a twist that was so over the top (but not as ironically epic as Lincoln Hawk turning his baseball cap around to do the same - sorry, couldn’t help myself - child of the 80s here) that I was afraid my eyes would become permanently stuck in the rolled up position. But, I bet my 10 year old daughter is going to like it, and that is all that really matters. In terms of the trilogy, you could completely skip this one, just reading the first and third, really, you would not know that you had missed anything - it really doesn’t further the overall plot of the trilogy at all. Less violent then the first one, but still enough to to entertain - and, there are some “dark” moments, but still not sex or vulgarity, which is exactly the type of book that my daughter can handle.

[J.D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Upon arriving in Shadyside and moving into 99 Fear Street, things seem to be going good for Brandt. He gets attention from 3 pretty girls and even joins the basketball team at school.

But he can't ignore the strange things that happen at his new house. Strange noises from the attic, dangerous accidents and a menacing shadow figure following him around.

Well I definitely didn't see the ending to this one coming. While there may be a new family moving into 99 Fear Street, a few familiar characters returned to make an appearance.

Not quite as creepy or action oriented as the first book but still entertaining.