Fear Street · Book 21

The Dare

by R. L. Stine

Published
1 January 1994
Pages
160
ISBN-13
9780671738709
Type
novel

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Cover of The Dare

About this book

The Dare (book 21, 1994) is one of the fresh-cast standalone entries that made Fear Street the best-selling YA horror series of all time, R.L. Stine's slasher-plot take on Shadyside's teenage body count. It runs 160 pages.

Its place in Fear Street

The Dare is book 21 in the Fear Street series. It follows The New Boy. It is followed by Bad Dreams. 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…

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