Then there’s a Ray Bradbury book that I always recommend to kids. I think I’ve stolen that plot at least four or five times! And Misery, that’s an amazing book, I think.

I think Stephen King is a great storyteller and I think he’s written a couple of horror novels that are just amazing. What kind of horror do you like to read? Who are your horror idols? So in that way, it’s the same old Fear Street I think. But the fears - being afraid of the dark, being afraid that someone is lurking under your bed or in the closet - those things never change. It’s just the technology changes and the way we talk to people changes. I always say the fears don’t change at all. People aren’t walking around with Walkmans or something. Your new book Party Games has been described as Fear Street for the 21st century. And now it’s happening - all because of Twitter. Why don’t we talk?” Like 10 minutes later! We had lunch and I said I would love to do a bunch of them. Martin’s Press who said, “Well, I’d be interested. So one night on I just decided to be honest and I said, “You know, I thank you for all your interest in Fear Street but after all this time I really don’t think any publisher would be interested.”Īnd then I got this tweet from Kat from St. And I had all these people asking me for Fear Street. Oh, “we loved your books when we were kids” or “I wouldn’t be a writer today if it wasn’t for you” - I mean, wonderful things! That’s why I’m there. I think it’s led to the real resurgence in horror.Īlso, I’m on Twitter and everyone on Twitter, they’re all in their twenties and thirties, and they’ve been begging me to bring Fear Street back.

I think now, well, it’s not a great time. I think it’s just a way that people with anxiety about the real world. I always think that in scary times horror becomes popular. And now I see horror is popular again in many ways. I did about 80 of them and we had a spin-off series and the sagas.

Well, I thought I had killed off enough teenagers. Why did you stop the series? And what made you decide to bring Fear Street back? There were the two families, the Fears and the Goodes, and this horrible wicked feud they had over generation after generation. It went back in history, all the way back to the colonial days and how Fear Street became Fear Street, this cursed place. We did the first trilogy of the Fear Street saga - those were three of the best books, I think. There are a lot of stories like that.Īnd then there was this whole historical aspect of Fear Street. So they realize something really bizarre is going on. And they call where their parents work and they’ve never heard of them their. At first they think it’s great, but after a night or two they get really worried. One of the very early ones I remember was called Missing, these two teenagers come home from school and their parents never come home. But I would say about half the Fear Streets were supernatural.

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