Farmingdale Library Teens: VINTAGE '90S TEEN HORROR TO ENJOY

Farmingdale NY

24 July, 2021

6:29 PM

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Press release from Farmingdale Library Teens: July 24, 2021 One of the most prolific publishers of horror in this era was Point Horror, an imprint from Scholastic. It launched in 1991 and included books by authors such as Stine, LJ Smith (Vampire Diaries), Diana Hoh, Caroline B. Cooney, and Christopher Pike, among others. Point helped launch Stine's career in horror, though the imprint itself faded in the early '00s. A reboot of the imprint in 2003 didn't gain momentum and we've yet to see another stab at it. That could change, though, both because of the continued growth in horror, the popularity of '90s YA horror in contemporary nostalgia culture, and because HBO Max bought the rights to develop Stine's Point books into an anthology project in 2019 (though there's not been an update to the project since). Random House got into the game as well. Bullseye Chillers was their response to Point Horror, and those vintage thrills included books by authors like Ellen Steiber, Kate McMullen, and Les Martin. Series books reigned supreme in this era, so it's no surprise many of the '90s YA horror did as well. The series were loosely connected via imprint or via the type of thrills it intended to deliver — Fear Street is an excellent example of this. Other books were part of a larger franchise, including the popular Friday the 13th horror books for teens. Author Eric Morse, likely a pseudonym or name for a ghost writer, penned the trilogy Tales From Crystal Lake, which followed Jason as he continued to create terror for local teens. You can also thank David Bergantino for authoring a series of Freddy Krueger reads, too. Do the scares from these titles still hold up? Do they lack anything due to the absence of technology from the plot? Maybe…or maybe it's the fact there isn't a reliance on devices that keeps these books a deliciously creepy ride. Will they survive? Will they get back to take those SATs? His mother: gone. Now a mysterious stranger is following Edmond around the cold, lonely city. The stranger offers to help but instead makes a bigger mess for Edmond and simply will not leave him alone. This press release was produced by Farmingdale Library Teens. The views expressed here are the author's own.