House of a Thousand Screams

Ghosts of Fear Street #17

by R.L. Stine, P. MacFearson

Moving into the home of her late uncle Solly, a world-famous magician, Jill looks forward to her new life on Fear Street, until she discovers that her uncle has left behind several nasty creatures from his act. Original.

Genres: Horror, Young Adult, Childrens, Paranormal

144 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Yeon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quyển này thì làm nhớ quyển "Những người vay mượn tí hon" ghê

[Dianna M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jill and her brother Freddy are new to Fear Street, they just moved into the house of their late great-uncle Solly (who also happened to be a world renowned magician). Although they are scared of all the eerie rumors they have heard about Fear Street, they are quite happy to finally have a place to call their home ( since back in Texas the lived in an apartment) and it was always their mom’s dream so they are happy for her too (and throughout the book really do try their best to not spoil it for her)
But as soon as the very first day they move in, they start to experience lots of strange things…like something I would call “paranormal accidents”. For example like things moving from one place to another, things falling off shelves (in general something that is always making a mess around the house) and getting them in trouble with their parents. (Mostly their mom) there are some instances where they get injured because of this and they are sick and tired of being the ones to blame for it all. So they decide to find out once and for all what it is that’s causing everything. Could it be as they call it a “poltergeist”? Is it paranormal or something more? Well.. They soon will find out!

Overall I think that House of a Thousands Screams was a decent read. It did not exceed my expectations..but it was just okay book, not really as scary or exciting (didn’t have too much of a good storyline.) I was also expecting more magic involved and scary scenes, as well as a more in depth story about their uncle and about the things or “poltergeists’ that were inhabiting the house. I did like the sibling dynamic the main characters Jill and Freddie had. I will say they were pretty like-able characters. At the same time they are also having to tackle the fact that they are the new kids in school, so the story also deals with that.

In my opinion, what I disliked the most about this book, is that the first half of the story wasn’t as good as the second half. It got better and most of the action happened towards the very end (final chapters). It would have been nice for it to have been like that throughout, but nonetheless I liked the book. I would also like to point out it also had a sweet ending that I enjoyed. Overall…it wasn’t a bad book, I had a good time reading it. It was a very fast and easy read! So with that being said.. I will be giving House of a Thousand Screams 3 out of 5 stars! :)

[Rock · Rating 4 out of 5]

P MacFearson sounds like a funny pseudonym, but the author did a great job ghostwriting this one with the RL Stine format. The writing was more matured and the pacing was great. It was refreshing to read a less goofier format that was always there in Goosebumps series. Had I have read this as a kid, I would have stayed awake in the middle of jight having difficult falling asleep. There was a part of this book that was somehow creepy and mysterious in a good way. You could feel the difference when it was ghostwritten because it did not possess the same repetitive format like Goosebumps.

The only bummer that didn't made it a 5-star book was the lack of background or the backstory. Where did the little came from? What is the mean blue monster exactly? It would have been nice if the little kids found out about how Uncle Solly got to know these creatures. Mystery was good, but these untold backstory felt like a piece of missing plot that should have been explain for a closure

Anyways, this was a good one. I have read a number of GoFS series and they never failed to impress.

[Haiiro · Rating 3 out of 5]

#2018ReadingChallenge #nonPopSugar

Mấy cuốn sau lại hơi bị mất đi chất kinh dị, chỉ còn một tí kì bí thôi. Mình thích 2 cuốn đầu hơn, không khí như kiểu ParaNorman, Corpse bride với cả Coraline ấy.

Với cả tập này chưa giải quyết rõ ràng được chuyện con rối. Chả lẽ cứ để mặc nó ở trong cái hộp thế thôi à, và nó phải chịu nằm im trong hộp chỉ vì hộp đã bị khóa và đóng đinh? Hơi đơn giản quá!

[Brooklyn N.]

i really liked this book ! i think it had some good twists in it. i would reccomend this to somwone wh likes kind of like mystery books and magic.

[Ngọc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cuốn này đọc thấy khá ổn, bình thường không quá xuất sắc =))) (hơn những cuốn khác).
Như bao lần, đọc lời viết cuối của giáo sư mà mình sởn gai gà =))))))))))) loll

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really interesting story and was pretty cool. Toward the end it got a little too cutsie for my liking and not scary at all. Still a good story just wish there was more of a horror element. 3.5 stars

[Owen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the fact that the monster is a puppet lol. Pretty cool book

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one really tested my patience. P. MacFearson begins their two-book run here, their other work here being Field of Screams (unless there’s a third and I’m mistaken), and the blurb was very ambiguous—or so I thought. The writing in this one is quite good and I liked how they brought in Texan identity to this story, since the characters are from there. It’s refreshing enough, alike to the ending, which is a nice, happy conclusion (for once). There’s some cool elements in here with the critters alluded to in the blurb and the true main antagonist, plus the whole glasses schtick, and whilst I enjoyed my time with the climax, I can’t say the same about the rest of this book. The first 80 pages are quite literally a textbook trope-filled fuckfiesta of repetitive nothing. There’s good moments but it all-in-all was just an unnecessarily slow build up. There’s “you gotta believe me” crap, kids getting blamed for the threat’s doing, scares that don’t do much when it comes to being unique or interesting, and it’s—again—80 pages of this with mild exceptions, let alone a whole school chapter that was just filler for the ending; it could’ve been spread out or played more of a role in itself, especially when it set up three characters just for them to not appear again until the last three pages—which didn’t even need to be there, even if I liked them. Rant on the first 80 pages aside… the villain is cool but doesn’t really do much for me, the parents are genuinely kind of irritating (specifically the mom), and there’s not a lot done when shit starts actually hitting the fan. There should’ve been something more to this one overall I feel. No less… cool cover, Mark Garro. Overall, 4.5/10. I genuinely thought I was having an aneurism when Freddy reached from the TOP BUNK to the NIGHTSTAND to grab his glasses and then a 6-foot Graboid-mouthed gremlin started spouting “peep.” Shoot me.

[Triniti Cheatham · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was way to short, and the characters weren't very developed they kind of just through you right to the story.

[Gemini · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Hãy quan tâm đến những người bé nhỏ và cháu sẽ giữ gin được cuộc sống cho mình"

[Ciera · Rating 2 out of 5]

dumb

[Mercedes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gah. Este es el primer libro de esta colección que me dio ternura.