Fear Street Books in Order by R.L. Stine: All 158 Books by Series

Trying to read the Fear Street books in order? R.L. Stine’s Shadyside series includes the original novels, connected miniseries, younger-reader spin-offs, and later relaunches. This guide covers the published books series by series, along with the unreleased titles that cause some online lists to disagree.

Most Fear Street books tell their own story, so you don’t have to follow one strict sequence from beginning to end. Publication order is still the simplest choice within each series, especially when books share characters or continue the same plot. Stine created the franchise, although several branded spin-off titles were written by other authors.

Jump to:

• Where to Start?
• Do Fear Street Books Need to Be Read in Order?
• Original Fear Street Series
• Fear Street Spin-Offs and Relaunches
• Unreleased and Disputed Fear Street Books
• Fear Street Adaptations
• About the Fear Street Series

Where to Start?

For the classic Fear Street experience, I recommend starting with The New Girl. It introduces Shadyside and sets the tone for the original series.

Readers who want the history of the Fear family curse can begin with The Betrayal. Party Games is a good entry point for the hardcover relaunch, while Hide and Shriek begins the younger Ghosts of Fear Street spin-off.

Do Fear Street Books Need to Be Read in Order?

Most individual Fear Street novels can be read as standalones. The franchise doesn’t follow one shared chronological order across every series.

I recommend publication order when you’re reading a full series. Direct sequels, trilogies, and miniseries should stay in order because they continue earlier events. For a complete read, go series by series using the lists below.

Original Fear Street Series

The original numbered series begins with The New Girl and ends with Trapped. The two Fear Hall books are official entries #46 and #47, so they belong inside this list rather than in a separate series.

1. The New Girl (1989)
2. The Surprise Party (1989)
3. The Overnight (1989)
4. Missing (1990)
5. The Wrong Number (1990)
6. The Sleepwalker (1990)
7. Haunted (1990)
8. Halloween Party (1990)
9. The Stepsister (1990)
10. Ski Weekend (1991)
11. The Fire Game (1991)
12. Lights Out (1991)
13. The Secret Bedroom (1991)
14. The Knife (1992)
15. The Prom Queen (1992)
16. First Date (1992)
17. The Best Friend (1992)
18. The Cheater (1993)
19. Sunburn (1993)
20. The New Boy (1994)
21. The Dare (1994)
22. Bad Dreams (1994)
23. Double Date (1994)
24. The Thrill Club (1994)
25. One Evil Summer (1994)
26. The Mind Reader (1994)
27. Wrong Number 2 (1995)
28. Truth or Dare (1995)
29. Dead End (1995)
30. Final Grade (1995)
31. Switched (1995)
32. College Weekend (1995)
33. The Stepsister 2 (1995)
34. What Holly Heard (1996)
35. The Face (1996)
36. Secret Admirer (1996)
37. The Perfect Date (1996)
38. The Confession (1996)
39. The Boy Next Door (1996)
40. Night Games (1996)
41. The Runaway (1997)
42. Killer’s Kiss (1997)
43. All-Night Party (1997)
44. The Rich Girl (1997)
45. Cat (1997)
46. Fear Hall: The Beginning (1997)
47. Fear Hall: The Conclusion (1997)
48. Who Killed the Homecoming Queen? (1997)
49. Into the Dark (1997)
50. Best Friend 2 (1997)
51. Trapped (1997)

Fear Street Spin-Offs and Relaunches

Fear Street expanded into historical sagas, connected trilogies, younger-reader stories, and later returns to Shadyside. Crossover titles are listed once, with a short note wherever two series overlap.

Fear Street Super Chillers

The Super Chillers are longer seasonal specials. Cheerleaders: The New Evil and Cheerleaders: The Evil Lives! were also released as Super Chillers, but I’ve kept them in the Cheerleaders list below so the books aren’t duplicated.

1. Party Summer (1991)
2. Silent Night (1991)
3. Goodnight Kiss (1992)
4. Broken Hearts (1993)
5. Silent Night 2 (1993)
6. The Dead Lifeguard (1994)
7. Bad Moonlight (1995)
8. The New Year’s Party (1995)
9. Goodnight Kiss 2 (1996)
10. Silent Night 3 (1996)
11. High Tide (1997)

Fear Street Cheerleaders

These books follow Shadyside High’s cheerleaders and the evil that keeps returning to the squad. The Awakening Evil is a historical prequel and appears in the Fear Street Sagas list.

1. Cheerleaders: The First Evil (1992)
2. Cheerleaders: The Second Evil (1992)
3. Cheerleaders: The Third Evil (1992)
4. Cheerleaders: The New Evil (1994)
5. Cheerleaders: The Evil Lives! (1998)

The Fear Street Saga Trilogy

Start here for the origin of the Fear family curse. The trilogy tells one continuous story, so read all three books in order.

1. The Betrayal (1993)
2. The Secret (1993)
3. The Burning (1993)

99 Fear Street: The House of Evil

This trilogy follows the Fraser family after they move into the haunted house at 99 Fear Street. Each book continues the same story.

1. The First Horror (1994)
2. The Second Horror (1994)
3. The Third Horror (1994)

The Cataluna Chronicles

The Cataluna Chronicles center on a cursed car and the people pulled into its history. Read the trilogy in publication order.

1. The Evil Moon (1995)
2. The Dark Secret (1995)
3. The Deadly Fire (1995)

Ghosts of Fear Street

Ghosts of Fear Street was written for younger readers and leans more heavily into monsters, aliens, ghosts, and strange curses. Most books stand alone, so publication order is helpful but not required.

1. Hide and Shriek (1995)
2. Who’s Been Sleeping in My Grave? (1995)
3. The Attack of the Aqua Apes (1995)
4. Nightmare in 3-D (1996)
5. Stay Away from the Tree House (1996)
6. Eye of the Fortuneteller (1996)
7. Fright Knight (1996)
8. The Ooze (1996)
9. Revenge of the Shadow People (1996)
10. The Bugman Lives! (1996)
11. The Boy Who Ate Fear Street (1996)
12. Night of the Werecat (1996)
13. How to Be a Vampire (1996)
14. Body Switchers from Outer Space (1996)
15. Fright Christmas (1996)
16. Don’t Ever Get Sick at Granny’s (1997)
17. House of a Thousand Screams (1997)
18. Camp Fear Ghouls (1997)
19. Three Evil Wishes (1997)
20. Spell of the Screaming Jokers (1997)
21. The Creature from Club Lagoona (1997)
22. Field of Screams (1997)
23. Why I’m Not Afraid of Ghosts (1997)
24. Monster Dog (1997)
25. Halloween Bugs Me! (1997)
26. Go to Your Tomb – Right Now! (1997)
27. Parents from the 13th Dimension (1997)
28. Hide and Shriek II (1998)
29. The Tale of the Blue Monkey (1998)
30. I Was a Sixth-Grade Zombie (1998)
31. Escape of the He-Beast (1998)
32. Caution: Aliens at Work (1998)
33. Attack of the Vampire Worms (1998)
34. Horror Hotel, Part I: The Vampire Checks In (1998)
35. Horror Hotel, Part II: Ghost in the Guest Room (1998)

Fear Park

The Fear Park trilogy tells one connected story about a deadly amusement park planned for Shadyside. Read the books in order.

1. The First Scream (1996)
2. The Loudest Scream (1996)
3. The Last Scream (1996)

Fear Street Sagas

These historical novels continue the Fear family story across different generations. The Awakening Evil also works as a prequel to the Cheerleaders books.

1. A New Fear (1996)
2. House of Whispers (1996)
3. Forbidden Secrets (1996)
4. The Sign of Fear (1996)
5. The Hidden Evil (1997)
6. Daughters of Silence (1997)
7. Children of Fear (1997)
8. Dance of Death (1997)
9. Heart of the Hunter (1997)
10. The Awakening Evil (1997)
11. Circle of Fire (1998)
12. Chamber of Fear (1998)
13. Faces of Terror (1998)
14. One Last Kiss (1998)
15. Door of Death (1998)
16. The Hand of Power (1999)

New Fear Street

The New Fear Street line returned to Shadyside with four standalone stories. They can be read separately, but publication order is the simplest choice.

1. The Stepbrother (1998)
2. Camp Out (1998)
3. Scream, Jennifer, Scream! (1998)
4. The Bad Girl (1998)

Fear Street Seniors

This connected series follows Shadyside High’s senior class through the school year. Read the books in order because the larger mystery builds toward Graduation Day.

1. Let’s Party! (1998)
2. In Too Deep (1998)
3. The Thirst (1998)
4. No Answer (1998)
5. Last Chance (1998)
6. The Gift (1998)
7. Fight Team, Fight! (1998)
8. Sweetheart, Evil Heart (1998)
9. Spring Break (1999)
10. Wicked (1999)
11. Prom Date (1999)
12. Graduation Day (1999)

Fear Street Nights

The three Fear Street Nights books follow a group of teens who gather after dark in Shadyside. The plot continues across all three books.

1. Moonlight Secrets (2005)
2. Midnight Games (2005)
3. Darkest Dawn (2005)

Fear Street Relaunch

The hardcover relaunch brought readers back to Shadyside with a new group of mostly standalone stories. You can read them separately, although publication order keeps the few returning ideas in place.

1. Party Games (2014)
2. Don’t Stay Up Late (2015)
3. The Lost Girl (2015)
4. Can You Keep a Secret? (2016)
5. The Dead Boyfriend (2016)
6. Give Me a K-I-L-L (2017)

Return to Fear Street

Return to Fear Street mixes present-day Shadyside stories with the history of the Fear family. Read the three books in publication order.

1. You May Now Kill the Bride (2018)
2. The Wrong Girl (2018)
3. Drop Dead Gorgeous (2019)

Unreleased and Disputed Fear Street Books

A few announced titles explain why some Fear Street lists have higher totals. They don’t belong in the published bibliography.

• The Raven Woman was planned for Fear Street Sagas but was never released.
• Carousel of Fear was planned for Fear Street Sagas but was never released.
• The Funhouse of Dr. Freek appears on some checklists as Ghosts of Fear Street #36. I don’t count it as published because no verifiable released edition has surfaced.

Fear Street Adaptations

Netflix released a connected Fear Street movie trilogy in 2021: Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666. The films borrow places, characters, and ideas from the books rather than adapting one novel directly.

Fear Street: Prom Queen followed as a separate film in 2025 and draws from The Prom Queen. The movie uses its own characters and story while keeping the Shadyside setting.

About the Fear Street Series

Fear Street is set in Shadyside, a fictional American town where murder, curses, and paranormal events keep finding local teenagers. Most books introduce a new main character and a new danger, while recurring families and locations connect the larger world.

The main Fear Street line is young adult horror and is darker than Goosebumps. The Ghosts of Fear Street spin-off was written for younger readers. You can see the younger series in my Goosebumps books in order guide.

R.L. Stine created Fear Street and wrote the core series. Several spin-off books, especially in Ghosts of Fear Street and Fear Street Sagas, were written by other authors under the Fear Street name.

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