Fear Street is a teenage horror fiction series written by American author R. L. Stine, starting in 1989.

The Fear Street books take place in the fictionalized town of Shadyside and feature average teenagers older than the typical Goosebumps preteens, who encounter malignant, sometimes paranormal, adversaries.

Despite the family renaming, the curse survived, and Simon and his wife, Angelica, brought it with them when they moved to Shadyside sometime after the Civil War.

The curse started in Puritan (17th-century) times when Benjamin and Matthew Fier sentenced an innocent girl and her mother, Susannah and Martha Goode, to be burned at the stake for allegedly practicing witchcraft.

"[8] Old Mill Road crosses Hawthorne Drive, where you can find a small coffee shop called Alma's; this is the haunt of many local college kids.

[9] There is a neighborhood called North Hills, which is distinctly different from the rest of Shadyside; it has large houses and well tended lawns.

[13] After Stine told his followers on Twitter that there were no publishers interested in reviving Fear Street, Kat Brzozowski, an editor at St. Martin's Press, contacted him.

[13] In March 1997,it was announced Viacom Productions had signed a development deal with Parachute Entertainment to produce a primetime TV series based on the Fear Street and Ghosts of Fear Street series of books for either the 1997-98 or 1998–99 television season to debut during Mid-season.

[18][19] Karl Schaefer was announced as creator and executive producer on the series which would focus on a family living on Fear Street who encounter quirky things in their neighborhood.

The result was ABC's worst rating on record in that slot and a third-place finish for the night in homes and adults 18–49.

[23] On October 30, 1997, Variety reported Hollywood Pictures struck a deal to acquire the Fear Street series of books, which were set to be developed with Parachute Entertainment as a Scream-like feature franchise.

[19] On October 9, 2015, TheWrap reported a film based on the series was again being developed, by 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.

[25] On July 13, 2017, Variety reported that Leigh Janiak would oversee the development of the scripts as a trilogy, and direct the first film.

[26] On February 27, 2019, it was announced that Kiana Madeira and Olivia Welch would star as the lead characters in the trilogy.

[29] On April 1, 2019, Gillian Jacobs, Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd and McCabe Slye were cast in the second film.

While the trilogy had finished filming in September 2019, the series was placed in an uncertain status with the early termination of the Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox production deal.

[39] In November 2023, Netflix confirmed that a sequel film based on a specific book from the series was being worked on.