Fear Street · Book 39

The Boy Next Door

by R. L. Stine

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
147
ISBN-13
9780671894320
Type
novel

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Cover of The Boy Next Door

About this book

Like every Fear Street book, The Boy Next Door (1996) hands its cast of Shadyside teens a new self-contained mystery rather than continuing a previous book's story -- it sits between The Confession and Night Games in the original numbered run. It runs 147 pages.

Its place in Fear Street

The Boy Next Door is book 39 in the Fear Street series. It follows The Confession. It is followed by Night Games. 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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