Fear Street · Book 5
The Wrong Number
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 165
- ISBN-13
- 9781665927680
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Wrong Number is the 5th installment of R.L. Stine's best-selling YA horror line, published in 1990 with the same relentless cliffhanger pacing and twist-ending structure that made Fear Street a defining series for a generation of teen readers. It runs 165 pages.
Its place in Fear Street
The Wrong Number is book 5 in the Fear Street series. It follows Missing. It is followed by The Sleepwalker. 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 9781665927680