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The First Horror (99 Fear Street, No. 1)

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Twins Cally and Kody Frasier are not thrilled that they are moving into 99 Fear Street. They've heard the strange stories about the house. About a family who checked out the house and five minutes later, the wife and the children had no heads..

I loved this book when I first read it. IT was wonderful in the sense that it kept you on the edge of your seat. I currently own the entire trilogy of 99 Fear Street. But I could not help to notice how much I have heard this story before. Then it dawned on me. The Amityville Horror. The plots are the same. The types of home are the same. And.....if you look at the house on the cover of the book and at a picture of the Amityville house...you can't help but notice how much they are the same. Overall, I recommend this book to everyone.

in a sentence or so: the frasier family moves into what may be the creepiest and dingiest house ever. much scariness ensues.

i checked this out on an impulse during my last trip to the library. i thought, R.L. Stine? Fear Street? yes please! i anticipated a cheesy joke of a horror book that resolved itself and everyone was happy in the end. that's how i thought i remembered them being from when i read them 15 years ago. apparently, i need to get my memory checked.

Cally and Kody (twins), their brother James, and their parents move to 99 Fear Street, Shadyside. not only is the real estate agent a super-creep, the house is a total wreck and it appears to be haunted right off the bat after nearly decapitating Cally the first time she steps on the porch. but, Mr. and Mrs. Frasier (that's right, we never learn their actual names) insist that this will be a fresh start and lots of space for the former New York residents. but as things get weirder, and they discover attacking rats, ceilings dripping with blood, and green vomit coming from the sink...the Frasiers decide to do a little research about what they've gotten themselves into.

what they discover about their house on 99 fear street is unnerving, surreal, and downright creepy. let me tell you, R.L. Stine packed more horror into this book than i thought possible. granted, my bar was set pretty low to begin with, but i was pleasantly surprised by the creepy scenes he was able to create and the fear i felt.

this felt a lot like a script for a horror movie. while there are no token sex scenes (this is the mid-90s and a book for teens after all), there is a long drawn out kiss with the neighbor boy, working in a boutique in town, and hitting up a coffeehouse amongst the stabbings and disappearances. while the distractions may be fun in cinematic form, i found them to be dated and obnoxious in written form. i wanted more action! or suspense. or at least mystery...not wondering what high school was going to be like for them or if Anthony really liked Cally.

this book, while at times horribly dated and a bit hokey, was genuinely frightening. particularly near the end. i went through the first half with few surprises, but by the time i finished, i had to stay awake an extra hour doing other things to distract myself from the creepiness! as if the mere 150 pages wasn't enough to make this a quick read, the fact that every chapter ends in cliffhanger makes it almost unputdownable.

fave quote: "she had no way of knowing she would never see her brother again" (115)

fix er up: okay, i am a total sucker for being scared. so while this isn't the highest quality of literature, it gets the job done. the job being scaring the reader and making me want more!

this story is a must for any stine fan like me. the book is gory scary and it actually involves the whole family instead of just one teen. the book can also be sad sometimes but is totally unpredictable. sure its just a haunted house taken to the extreme but this house was so evil in the book that it was indeed sad. but even though it ended with a not so wonderful ending (like most stine books.) but its an awesome book and a must for any stine fan.

A new family moves into this house in Shadyside. They are the Frasiers. But little does the Frasiers know that the house is a seed of Evil. They're terrorized by it. Will the Frasiers be able to live in this house of Evil that has been haunted? Can Kody and Cally Frasier beat the evil that haunts this house?

Find out when you read the book!

This was the best of the trilogy. I loved this one, especially when James goes missing (to find out what happens to him in the end, read 99 Fear Street: The House of Evil - The Second Horror!) This one didn't hold back the gory stuff, especially the blood dripping from the ceiling and the garbage disposal scene. Cally and Kody rocked, although I didn't like how one of them died, it was way too short, and there wasn't much detail. All I have to say was this is the best of the three, and you have to read it, for sure!

Well not too scary. this book is kind of complex. it's fun, scary and sometimes funny! scary stuff starts to happen when Cally and Kody and their family move in to their new house. Cally and Kondy are twins. Cally is the good looking one. Well, each day something frightening happens and Cally always think that it's not true.

This book it kind of hard to understand but YOU MUST READ IT AND IT'S OTHER SEQUELS.

read the whole trilogy a couple of years ago and when I read it I couldn't stop. These books really frightened me and that is how a good horror book should be! this trilogy is amazingly scary and very good. LOVE IT!

99 Fear Street is the best series yet! The R.L. Stine sets off the stage of reading is incredible! The way Kody is jealous of her so perfect sister Callie, and the way the family ends up after the ending.

Read this book, it's amazing, exciting, and way to cool. This book is TIGHT!

I liked this book a lot, though I found some parts to be very diabolical and almost too creepy. It does set a great tone for a haunted house. The things that happen to the family though from the house were just so horrible too!