46 Fun Facts About Fear Street

R. L. Stine, the author of Fear Street, is often called the "Stephen King" of what?

Children's literature: yet Fear Street was written for teenagers and launched in 1989, three years before his Goosebumps books for younger readers.

What was the first Fear Street book?

The New Girl: Cory Brooks falls for a pale new classmate nobody else seems to have seen, then goes to her house on Fear Street and is told that she is dead.

In the Fear Street Super Chiller Goodnight Kiss, what is preying on teenagers at the beach?

Vampires: victims turn weak and pale with two puncture wounds in the neck while bats circle the beach, and a sequel sent the undead back to the resort town of Sandy Hollow.

In Fear Street Part One: 1994, which supermarket machine does one of the killers use to murder Kate?

A bread slicer: Kate, a valedictorian who sells drugs to fund her way out of Shadyside, dies in the supermarket's bakery, and the police then pin the night's killings on her and Simon.

In the Fear Street trilogy, which severed part of Sarah Fier's body do the teenagers try to reunite with her bones?

Her hand: it was cut off in 1666, and when Deena finally lays it with the bones the curse doesn't lift; instead she finds herself living the witch's last days.

Fear Street Part One: 1994 opens with a massacre in which kind of place, where the trilogy's final battle is also fought?

A shopping mall: the first victim dies after closing up a bookshop there, and in Part Three the heroes rig the same building with traps to turn the undead killers on their real enemy.

Which Community star plays the reclusive survivor C. Berman in Fear Street Part One: 1994?

Gillian Jacobs: her C. Berman lived through a massacre in 1978, and her late-night phone call, warning that there is no escaping the witch, comes just before the first film's final twist.

In the Fear Street trilogy, Deena spends all three films fighting to save which character, her ex-girlfriend?

Sam: by the end of the first film she is possessed and tied up, and Deena spends the next two digging through Shadyside's past for a way to free her.

In Fear Street Part Two: 1978, which weapon does the possessed counsellor Tommy Slater turn on his fellow campers?

An axe: by day Tommy is cleaning the mess hall with his girlfriend, and by night he has killed a friend and is hunting the camp's Shadyside teenagers.

The Fear Street films place Shadyside in which US state, the home state of author R. L. Stine?

Ohio: Stine was born in Columbus and studied at Ohio State University, where he spent three years editing the campus humour magazine before he ever wrote horror.

What was the 1995 Fear Street spin-off for younger readers called?

Ghosts of Fear Street: it swapped the main series' murder mysteries for monsters, aliens and twist endings, much closer to the Goosebumps formula.

Which actor from The White Lotus plays Deena's friend Simon in Fear Street Part One: 1994?

Fred Hechinger: his Simon is attacked by a resurrected killer from 1965 and survives, only to die when the friends make their last stand in a supermarket.

Roughly how many copies have R. L. Stine's Fear Street books sold?

80 million: yet when Stine tried to bring the series back, publishers turned him down, calling it outdated in a market that wanted dystopias and the paranormal.

R. L. Stine revived Fear Street in 2014 after telling fans on which social network that no publisher wanted it?

Twitter: an editor at St. Martin's Press saw him tell readers that nobody would publish new Fear Street books, got in touch, and signed him for three, a deal later doubled to six.

How did R. L. Stine say his 2014 Fear Street revival would differ from the originals?

Longer, more adult and more violent: he said the change reflected how much young adult fiction had moved on since the 1990s.

Which Fear Street sub-series opened in 1992 with a book called The First Evil?

Cheerleaders: sisters Bobbi and Corky Corcoran make the Shadyside High squad, and a mysterious accident near the Fear Street cemetery starts the deaths that follow.

In Fear Street Part One: 1994, what does the killer who stalks the opening scene wear over his face?

A skull mask: behind it is the first victim's own friend and co-worker, who is shot dead that night and then returns from the grave as one of the witch's killers.

What became of the Fear Street TV series after ABC aired its pilot in July 1998?

It was never picked up: the one-off Friday broadcast drew ABC's lowest rating on record for its slot, and the planned series was never made.

In Fear Street Part Three: 1666, how is Sarah Fier put to death?

She is hanged: innocent of witchcraft, she confesses anyway so that the girl she loves is spared, and swears vengeance on the man who framed her.

In Party Games, the novel that revived Fear Street, where do the birthday guests find themselves trapped with a killer?

On Fear Island: Rachel Martin ignores a friend's warning and goes to Brendan Fear's party at his family's estate, where the guests start dying one by one.

In the mid-credits scene that ends the Fear Street trilogy, what does an unseen thief take from the tunnels?

The widow's satanic book: it is the volume of black magic used in 1666 to strike the bargain behind Shadyside's curse, and whoever takes it is never identified.

In Fear Street Part Two: 1978, which older sister of Ziggy Berman sacrifices herself as the killers close in?

Cindy: both sisters are killed that night but only Ziggy is brought back, so the survivor known in 1994 as C. Berman is not the sister people assume.

How did Netflix release the three films of its 2021 Fear Street trilogy?

Weekly, one per week: the films had been planned for cinemas a month apart, but Netflix put them out on three consecutive Fridays in July 2021, more like a miniseries.

In which US state was Netflix's Fear Street trilogy filmed, back to back, in 2019?

Georgia: the three films were not shot in story order, with the middle chapter, Part Two: 1978, the last one in front of the cameras.

Which actress plays Vice Principal Brekenridge in Fear Street: Prom Queen?

Lili Taylor: her vice principal hopes the prom will repair Shadyside's reputation, and her devout son becomes the first suspect once the candidates start disappearing.

Which studio made the Fear Street trilogy for cinemas before the pandemic and a takeover sent it to Netflix?

20th Century Fox: it had the films set for June 2020, but cinemas closed, Disney had bought the studio, and the producers took all three to Netflix that August.

Who plays Deena, the lead of Netflix's Fear Street trilogy?

Kiana Madeira: she ends up with two roles, because the final film sends Deena back to 1666 to live out the story of Sarah Fier in the accused witch's own skin.

In the Fear Street films, what is the name of Shadyside's wealthy, safe neighbouring town?

Sunnyvale: its luck is no accident, because in the trilogy every piece of the town's good fortune turns out to be paid for by a tragedy next door.

In Fear Street Part One: 1994, what do the media dub the town of Shadyside?

Murder capital of the US: the news treats one more massacre as normal for the town, and its teenagers blame a witch executed there three centuries earlier.

Which Stranger Things actress appears in the opening of Fear Street Part One: 1994?

Maya Hawke: her Heather is stabbed to death by her own friend, who is shot dead by police before the night is out.

Which 1990s slasher did director Leigh Janiak cite as the main influence on Fear Street Part One: 1994?

Scream: Janiak saw it as a teenager in the 1990s and says it blew her mind, and her film's opening kill is staged as a tribute to its famous first scene.

Where is Fear Street Part Two: 1978 mostly set?

Camp Nightwing: the name is borrowed from the books, where the novel Lights Out sends a junior counsellor to a Camp Nightwing plagued by a vandal and a killer.

Who plays the teenage Ziggy Berman in Fear Street Part Two: 1978?

Sadie Sink: her Ziggy is the camp outcast, tied up and burned with a lighter by bullies who call her a witch, hours before a real killer starts on the counsellors.

In the Fear Street films, what was the settlement called before it split into two rival towns?

Union: Part Three shows the village still whole in 1666, before one settler's bargain left half of it blessed and the other half cursed for three centuries.

Which family is revealed in Fear Street Part Three: 1666 to be behind the Shadyside curse?

The Goodes: the supposed witch was innocent all along, and the curse is really a pact that the firstborn of each generation has renewed since their ancestor Solomon.

In Fear Street Part Two: 1978, how is Ziggy brought back after the killers leave her for dead?

CPR: her few minutes of death are what made the killers vanish, a detail the 1994 teenagers copy when they stop a friend's heart and then restart it.

Who plays the sheriff in the 1994 scenes of Netflix's Fear Street trilogy?

Ashley Zukerman: he plays a second part as a settler in the 1666 chapter, while a younger actor plays his sheriff in 1978, as a camp counsellor who steps in to protect Ziggy.

In Fear Street Part Three: 1666, which pillar of the settlement is the first to be possessed, killing twelve children?

The pastor: Cyrus Miller's massacre in the meeting house convinces the frightened settlers that a witch is among them, and the hunt for someone to blame begins.

In the Fear Street trilogy's final battle, what do the heroes pour over the sheriff so the undead killers attack him?

Deena's blood: the killers go after whoever has bled on the witch's remains, so the heroes fill a bucket and turn the curse's own rule on the man behind it.

In Fear Street: Prom Queen, the masked killer unmasked at the prom is the father of which candidate?

Tiffany: her father was thinning the field so that she would be crowned, and the film's last twist reveals that her mother was the second killer.

In Fear Street: Prom Queen, what does Lori use to stab the masked killer in the eye?

Her tiara: she is announced as the winner just as she tries to warn the room, and the crown she has only just been given becomes the nearest weapon.

What is the nickname of the popular girls' clique in Fear Street: Prom Queen?

The Wolfpack: led by the school's ruthless queen bee, the clique has the race sewn up until an outsider enters it and its members start to disappear.

In which Canadian province was Fear Street: Prom Queen filmed?

Ontario: shot in Toronto, the film follows a girl taunted over a rumour that her mother killed her father, until one of the prom-night killers admits to the murder.

Which American Pie actor appears in Fear Street: Prom Queen?

Chris Klein: the star of the 1999 teen comedy goes back to high school as a teacher and parent, and turns out to be the man behind the killer's mask.

In Fear Street: Prom Queen, how do Lori and her chief rival face off in front of the whole prom?

A dance-off: the DJ pits the two candidates against each other, Lori wins over the crowd, and the humiliated queen bee is promptly dumped by her boyfriend.

Which of the trilogy's background killers did director Leigh Janiak say she would like to build a Fear Street film around?

The Milkman: Harry Rooker, a friendly deliveryman who turned on his own customers in 1950, is one of the trilogy's resurrected killers, and she pictured his story as a 1950s slasher.