Fear Street · Book 48
Best Friend 2
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN-13
- 9780671529659
- Type
- novel

About this book
Best Friend 2 is Fear Street's direct sequel to The Best Friend, one of the handful of numbered pairs in R.L. Stine's otherwise standalone Shadyside horror line -- a rare case where picking up the earlier book actually matters. It arrived in 1997 as book 48 of the original run, running 160 pages.
Its place in Fear Street
Best Friend 2 is book 48 in the Fear Street series. It follows Into the Dark. It is followed by Trapped. See the full Fear Street reading order.
Shadyside is a small town with a body count -- and Fear Street, the road running through it, is where the bodies pile up. R.L. Stine's teen horror line traded Goosebumps' younger, gentler scares for real stakes: characters in Fear Street actually die, romances turn homicidal, and the killer is as often the popular girl next door as any supernatural force. Every book is a fresh cast of Shadyside teenagers -- cheerleaders, prom queens, campers, babysitters -- caught in a slasher-movie plot with a twist ending Stine…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671529659