Smith (author), Diane Hoh, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Christopher Pike, and Caroline B.
While the Point Horror series did not attract much serious attention, British children's novelist and literary historian Gillian Avery noted the series was "invariably structured around oppositions" in that teen horror novels "does not 'put an end to the opposition between the real and the imaginary' but, instead, affirms the distinction".
[4] Roy Fisher wrote the series embodied and represented "the fears and anxieties of young people about their lives in general and about school in particular".
British educational historian Mary Hilton wrote in her book Potent Fictions: Children's Literacy and the Challenge of Popular Culture (Routledge, 1996) many young readers viewed the female characters as the ones who get "upset, killed, or dumped".
Nightmare Hall is unique amongst the offshoots as the entire series was written solely by Diane Hoh.