Attack of the Vampire Worms

Ghosts of Fear Street #33

by R.L. Stine, Catherine Hapka

Jane and Lewis find themselves trapped underground with vampire worms and cave people who can't tolerate sunlight

Genres: Horror, Middle Grade, Mystery, Childrens

116 pages, Paperback

First published June 23, 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 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐

One of the best GoFS books that I've read.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably the most dark and beautiful kids horror book I’ve read. I didn’t have high expectations until recently when a friend of mine read it and said it was fantastic, like 5/5 stars. So I picked it up, and yep, he wasn’t kidding! The characters are very likable and the writing is very good. The mysteries that build up throughout the story are all wrapped up in plausible and interesting ways that I really liked, like the cat and the old lady. The book had great pacing and some nice interactions. Where the book really shines, funny enough, is the uniqueness of its climax, as well as how dark it is. The setting of a (small spoiler) cave system is really neat for kids horror and has only been done a handful of times from memory, and not even this prominently. The creatures in the cave are fascinating to read about, as well as decently unnerving. The main plot point of the book involving some cave people is not only Haunted School level dark, which is really fucking dark, but also creative and fun, and very creepy. The characters you meet hear good and have a very solid backstory behind them. The lore or the cave and stuff inside it is cool too, and the events that go down in the cave are awesome. I found a certain plot point involving books to be pretty brilliant, and the stuff that comes after to be also really good. The ending is fantastic and the fact that there were no loose-ends was commendable. Bobby was a W. 10/10, no questions in my head. This is the biggest hidden gem in kids horror I feel.

[House of Goosebumps · Rating 5 out of 5]

9.5/10

Absolutely incredible read, easily the best book I have read in Ghosts Of Fear Street.

Incredibly dark but also extremely wholesome at the end.

This is also one of the strangest books I have read, as from the title and cover you would have no idea what this book is actually about .

[Jessie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The title is scarier than the book but I suppose this would be a nice thriller for kids who scare easily.

[Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly one of the stronger ones. The title is a bit of a lie and the cover is a huge lie, as the worms as just normal worms that are white and happen to suck your blood out like leeches. The real danger is these cave people who have been transformed by the worms, as two of them want to turn the protagonists until cave people forever.

It builds suspense pretty well, with decent descriptions of the cave, the worms, and what they do to you. It started incredibly quickly but still holds off on the cave people for awhile, mostly because some of the stuff in the cave can drag as it is so it';s good that we didn't get there too quickly. The villains are of the creepy but tragic kind and the ending was more satisfying than usual. There's also good use of setup and payoff!

It can drag a little and Jane is a bit slow on the uptake at times, but otherwise this one was pretty good, especially with that title.

[Willen P · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this. However, the beginning was great and had a creepy character immediately. It reminded me of how some Goosebumps would start out (although this was ghost written of course). I thought I'd also enjoy more of the nature/cavern parts but the plot just didn't do it for it.

It wasn't really about vampire worms either. I found the idea of the underground people and creatures cool, but other than that the story didn't do much for me. It had a sweet (but expected) ending though.

[Lily · Rating 4 out of 5]

so amazing

[Keverly · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book was so spooky I wanted to keep reading to see what would happen next! Plus I wanted to see if they got out alive