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Afraid of your own shadow? Vinny Salvo is. Lately weird things have been happening to his shadow. It's grown horns. And claws. And big sharp teeth! Now it's coming after him! Vinny needs someplace to hide -- and quick. But where can you hide from your own shadow?Tags
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I'm 32 and still glad I didn't read this at night. R.L. Stine has a really incredible way of packing a lot of creepy into a short novel.
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R. L. Stine was born in Columbus Ohio on October 8, 1943. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965. Under the name Jovial Bob Stine, he wrote dozens of joke books and humor books for kids including How to Be Funny, 101 Silly Monster Jokes, and Bozos on Patrol. He also created Bananas, a zany humor magazine which he worked on for ten years. show more His first teen horror novel, Blind Date, was published in 1986 under the name R. L. Stine. His other works include Beach House, Hit and Run, The Babysitter, The Girlfriend, the Goosebumps series, and the Fear Street series. He also wrote an adult novel entitled Superstitious. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Revenge of the Shadow People
- Original title
- Revenge of the Shadow People
- Original publication date
- 1996-06-01
- People/Characters
- Vinny Salvo; Bobby Beasley; Sharon Lipp; Detective Flynn; Joey Salvo; Mrs. Salvo (show all 14); Mr. Salvo; Mr. Ridgley; Emily Nicholson; Mr. Emerson; Ms. Young; Dustin Crowley; Lindsay Holman; Ms. Grindly
- Important places
- Shadyside, Ohio, USA; Fear Street; Shadyside Middle School; Fear Street Woods; Fear Lake; Golden Dragon (show all 13); Shadyside Middle School; Fear Street Cemetery; Simon Fear Mansion; Fear Street Woods Cave; Waynesbridge Middle School; Waynesbridge; Shadyside Police Station
- First words
- "I'm telling you, Vinny, it was totally gross. It chased me all around Fear Lake, dripping thick, green snot. I never saw anything like it."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The unmistakable shadow of a donkey.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Horror
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .S86037 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.33)
- Languages
- 5 — English, German, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
