The Third Horror

The Third Horror is the creepy grand finale to the 99 Fear Street trilogy—and it’s a favorite in my classroom! When a movie crew shows up to film at the famously haunted house, things go from spooky to deadly fast. Students love the meta twist of a horror movie being filmed inside a real haunted house. This one has ghosts, gore, and a fast pace that pulls even the most reluctant readers straight into the Fear Street world. A must-read for fans of haunted house stories and scary endings.

This is pretty much just a rehash of the first book. Cody returns to the house with a film crew and they’re attempting to film a movie about her life in the house. A few new things happen, but mainly it’s just them blocking scenes and things going wrong and people getting hurt in almost the identical way that it happened in the first book.

Please note this has spoilers for The First Horror.

Well this didn't work at all. Following Kody (from book #1) was interesting, but the girl we met in that book and the young woman we meet in this one don't even sound the same. I also have to say, someone coming to Shadyside to film a movie about a murderous house seems like a bad stretch. The whole book felt flat. It didn't help that Kody and her I am going to free my sister seemed to forget about her for long stretches of time and was mad at her fellow actress a lot more. It just turned really odd there in the end.

"The Third Horror" takes place 2 years after the events in the first book. Kody Fraser now an actress, has returned to Shadyside to film a movie based on what happened to show more her and her family (yeah I don't know). Kody though also wants to free her sister who she thinks is still trapped within 99 Fear Street's walls.

Kody is just bland. I didn't think too much of her in the first book, but the Kody in book one was interested in working with her hands, renovations, etc. She also felt passed over and she didn't even sound like the type of person who decides, yes I will be an actress. Also it's weird it's not mentioned how her parents felt about this whole thing especially since you know they lost two other kids because of what went on. The whole thing felt bizarre.

The other characters are just non-descript. I didn't care about them. We get to see Cally again, but then once again that whole thing is just quickly dealt with by Kody showing her something. It was very anticlimactic.

Considering the other two books, I just thought it could have ended a lot better than what we got here. show less

This is pretty much just a rehash of the first book. Cody returns to the house with a film crew and they’re attempting to film a movie about her life in the house. A few new things happen, but mainly it’s just them blocking scenes and things going wrong and people getting hurt in almost the identical way that it happened in the first book.

Best of the trilogy, all three of these were fun little books

Possible spoiler alert:

How dumb would you have to be to go back to a house that you know is haunted and filled with evil? Why would a movie made about a house that is known to be haunted and filled with evil be shot on location? At the very least, they should have kept cameras rolling at all times so they could catch the actual gore. At least the place finally got blown up.

"A Parachute Press book."--t.p.