Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You May Now Kill the Bride | 2018 | Fear Street | Buy |
| 2 | The Wrong Girl | 2018 | Fear Street | Buy |
| 3 | Drop Dead Gorgeous | 2019 | Fear Street | Buy |
Return to Fear Street is a three-book series by R.L. Stine, published by HarperTeen in 2018-2019. After the Relaunch series (2014-2017) brought Fear Street back through St. Martin’s Griffin, this new trio of novels moved to a different publisher and carried a slightly different tone. The books are standalone horror stories set in Shadyside, following the classic Fear Street formula of teenagers in deadly situations.
You May Now Kill the Bride opens the series with a wedding-themed horror story, The Wrong Girl involves mistaken identity with fatal consequences, and Drop Dead Gorgeous deals with a beautiful new girl in town who may not be what she seems. Each book runs longer than the original 1990s Fear Street novels, giving Stine more room to develop his plots and characters.
These were among the last Fear Street books published before the 2021 Netflix film trilogy brought massive new attention to the franchise. The movies, while not directly adapting any specific books, drew on the overall Fear Street mythology (particularly the Fear family curse and Shadyside’s dark history) and introduced millions of viewers to the world Stine had been building since 1989.