Midnight Games: Fear Street Nights
by
R. L. Stine
Order:
USA
Can
Pulse, 2005 (2005)
Paperback
Reviewed by Hilary Williamson
M
idnight Games
follows
Moonlight Secrets
as the second episode in
Fear Street Nights
. It all started with teens taking treasures out of the old Fear Street Mansion, as it was being demolished. Strange and horrible things began to happen ...
T
he previous episode ended on a cliffhanger, in which Candy's neck was broken in the presence of Nate, Nikki and Nate's wild friend, Shark. Now they all have nightmares. They're part of a group of teen
Night People
(started by Jamie and Lewis in the first episode) who sneak out regularly and, unbeknownst to their parents, congregate at an all-night bar,
Nights
.
J
amie is obsessed with contacting her dead cousin Cindy's spirit, and attempts spells from an old spellbook she found. Jamie's poor cousin Dana Fear shows up to stay with her, just after Nate is attacked by a vicious, one-eyed blackbird. Odd happenings surround Dana, people start to die, and she is blamed - after all, she's a Fear, so she must be an insane murderer.
R
. L. Stine can always be counted on to deliver horrific stories with twisty plots.
Midnight Games
ends with a frightening cry - '
The evil lives! The evil lives!
' And it plans its revenge in
Darkest Dawn
.
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