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Party Games

Rachel attends her crush's birthday party on Fear Island despite warnings. Guests begin dying, leaving the teenagers trapped with someone who may want them all dead.

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A killer crashes a teen's birthday party on Fear Island in this YA horror novel, from the bestselling series that inspired the Netflix movie series.

"A volume that proves why Stine's books endure." — School Library Journal

Her friends warn her not to go to Brendan Fear's birthday party at his family's estate on mysterious Fear Island. But Rachel Martin has a crush on Brendan and is excited to be invited. Brendan has a lot of party games planned. But one game no one planned intrudes on his party—the game of murder. As the guests start dying one by one, Rachel realizes to her horror that she and the other teenagers are trapped on the tiny island with someone who may want to kill them all. How to escape this deadly game? Rachel doesn't know whom she can trust. She should have realized that nothing is as it seems . . . on Fear Island.

"Stine revives his Fear Street series with a tale that brings together a group of Shadyside teenagers for a night of terror in an eerie mansion . . . Stine again demonstrates that he is a true master of the formula." ― Booklist

First published: 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Horror profile

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Creepy: Not rated
Gore: Not rated
Disturbing: Not rated
Weird: Not rated

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Each dimension runs from 1 (low) to 5 (exceptionally intense). A 5 is reserved for strongly consistent evidence. People experience horror differently.

Scary: Fear, tension and immediate threat.
Creepy: Unease, dread and an uncanny atmosphere.
Gore: Graphic injury, blood and bodily detail.
Disturbing: Upsetting ideas and lingering psychological impact.
Weird: Surreal, strange and reality-bending elements.

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