With Fear Street, R.L. Stine emerged as YA’s preeminent teen slasher

Only one person dies in The New Girl, R.L. Stine’s first proper Fear Street volume, released in 1989. She dies right in the first chapter, but the next time we see her she’s alive, so the question of whether or not she actually did die is a big one. Nowhere else does Stine shoot, stab, or dismember the beautiful,…

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Source: io9 – With Fear Street, R.L. Stine emerged as YA’s preeminent teen slasher