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The New Year's Party (Fear Street Superchillers) Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon Pulse
- Publication dateSeptember 9, 2008
- Reading age16 years and up
- Grade level11 - 9
- File size4367 KB
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- ASIN : B003DYGOV4
- Publisher : Simon Pulse; Repack edition (September 9, 2008)
- Publication date : September 9, 2008
- Language : English
- File size : 4367 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 212 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,169,548 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author
Why is Tim Jacobus R.L. Stine's favorite illustrator? Maybe because they've done so many scary books together. Tim did the cover paintings for more than 80 Goosebumps books, as well as the six amazing Amazon books. Recently, the two of them got together and asked the questions they've always wanted to ask each other...
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TIM (the illustrator) asks R.L. STINE (the author):
TIM: When I illustrate, I can "see" the image in my head before I start to draw. Do you "hear" a story when you write?
R.L.: I hear kids when I write. I try to hear the voice of the boy or girl who is telling the story. I visit schools a lot and talk with kids so I can keep up with what they are saying these days and what real kids sound like. Then I try to hear their voices tell the story as I write it.
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TIM: You've written so many books I can't do the math, but I bet you've used millions of words. What's you favorite word?
R.L.: Someone once got in an elevator with a very witty author named Noel Coward and said, "Say something funny." And Coward said, "Kangaroo." Kangaroo has been a favorite word of mine ever since I heard that story. But as a horror writer, I guess my favorite word is SCREAM!
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TIM: Where is the strangest place you have come up with an idea for a story?
R.L.: An empty movie theater. My wife and I went to see a scary movie in a big, old movie house-- and we were the only ones in the theater. It was kind of creepy. Then about halfway through the movie, I turned around and saw that the back row was filled with people sitting straight and still. Suddenly, I thought-- They are zombies! I'm trapped in a dark zombie theater! And that's where the idea for the book Zombie Town came from.
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TIM: If you couldn't write-- and you possessed all skills-- what would you like to do for a living?
R.L.: I drew comic strips from the time I was in 4th grade, and I always dreamed of being a cartoonist. You can imagine my shock when the other kids told me how bad my art was. They were right. I stunk! I got over my extreme disappointment by starting to write. But if I had the skill, I would love to do what you do, Tim.
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R.L. STINE (the author)asks TIM (the illustrator):
R.L.: If you couldn't be an artist what would you like to be?
TIM: I would like to be a "Snowmaker" at one of the big ski resorts, out west, like Mammoth Mountain in California. You work at night when everyone goes home. Set up the snow guns, cover the slopes, and groom them with the Sno-Cat track machine. It's kinda like a snow tank! Then, you get to ski for free! I love that snow!
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R.L.: When we were kids, my brother and I used to go to a horror movie every Saturday. We loved them all. The covers on our six Amazon books look like movie posters to me. Were you also influenced by horror movies? If so, which ones?
TIM: I was a complete "chicken" as a kid. I couldn't sit through any horror movie. The first scary movie I saw was on TV. It isn't really a horror movie. It was the Hunchback of Notre Dame-- the black-and-white version with Charles Laughton. That movie freaked me out! The mutant, Quasimodo, was something that REALLY could exist. Black-and-white movies, black-and-white photos—they all seem more "real" than full color to me.
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R.L.: You have painted so many great covers. I think your scariest Goosebumps cover was for The Barking Ghost. And the black cat on The 13th Warning is really creepy. Do you have a favorite cover? Is it a scary one or a funny one?
TIM: It's hard to pick a favorite. But you gotta love the blue bathroom blobs in Monster Blood IV. That one is a little creepy and WAY funny. For just outright scary, I love the ticket taker in Zombie Town!
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R.L.: What was the weirdest thing someone ever asked you to draw?
TIM: Oh, I have drawn a lot of weird stuff. One time, I had to paint a pimple! You know... acne! It was a medical illustration. Gross. When I first started illustrating, I painted pictures of food. My food illustrations were used in the Sunday newspaper for the local supermarket. I painted every food you can imagine. I can draw a pretty mean potato!
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In the start Beth and her friend Karen are attending a New Years party Karen disappears for a while when two men grab Beth's brother Philip John and hold a gun up to his head and say they will kill him it turns out Karen was behind the who thing and Beth storms out and accidentally run over a important person and ends up killing her and her brother in a car accident many years later a new girl named Liz and her P.J move to fear street and join a group with Reenie and some others they play a prank on P.J and Liz and P.J goes missing then gruesome murders start to be committed to people in their group What's going on did P.J do it or is something more evil
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The age group I would recommend read this is 11 and older because it's very bloody and gruesome
I remember reading this as a teenager so decided to have another pass as a pallet cleanser. Stine has a habit of laying out all the bread crumbs so if you're paying attention, you will see the twists and turns but it's still interesting to follow how he'll take you there. This story focuses on the thin line between pranks and cruelty, which given the time now with social media, seems even more relevant. It's amazing what you'll put up with from friends in order to fit in and not make a scene. Even now.
My copy is wonky and I had to share, I've got two sides of page 71 but no page 72. Thankfully, the story's not difficult to follow and it doesn't make you miss anything. Just left me scratching my head for a few moments. Other than that glitch, I'm glad I snagged a copy for my library. It's always fun to have those childhood horror pieces too.
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
I remember reading this as a teenager so decided to have another pass as a pallet cleanser. Stine has a habit of laying out all the bread crumbs so if you're paying attention, you will see the twists and turns but it's still interesting to follow how he'll take you there. This story focuses on the thin line between pranks and cruelty, which given the time now with social media, seems even more relevant. It's amazing what you'll put up with from friends in order to fit in and not make a scene. Even now.
My copy is wonky and I had to share, I've got two sides of page 71 but no page 72. Thankfully, the story's not difficult to follow and it doesn't make you miss anything. Just left me scratching my head for a few moments. Other than that glitch, I'm glad I snagged a copy for my library. It's always fun to have those childhood horror pieces too.
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Sehr interessantes Buch. War ein guter Kauf.
本作は、オカルト好きにはお奨めだと思いますよ。
とはいえ、あんま怖くはないか(笑
That said, this book is exactly what I wanted it to be. I read it for nostalgia and a dose of trashy 90s teen horror, and I enjoyed it for what it is.
The only problem is that in the copy I recieved page 72 was missing. Page 71 is duplicated and then it goes straight to page 73.