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Fieran was a young warrior driven by revenge. He created the Fear amulet--and cursed the Fear family for all eternity. Christina is a young servant girl struggling for survival, who finds the Fear amulet centuries later. Now, she may be destroyed by its evil....Tags
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A centuries-old curse bound to a deadly amulet resurfaces in The Sign of Fear. When servant Christina uncovers the relic forged by ancient warrior Fieran, she unknowingly revives long-buried vengeance against the Fear family. This 150-page Fear Street Saga blends historical folklore, supernatural suspense, and teenage peril in quick, tense prose. Ideal for readers ages 12–17 who want fast-moving, chilling horror with a mythic twist.
I was annoyed as usual with the historical inaccuracies in this series, primarily focused on the Celts this time, but I'm not going to go into the complete misrepresentation of druids. Anyway, this book is set up as two parallel stories of deciding between good and evil. Both Fieran and Matthew Fier choose evil, and both end up in a sorry state because of it, as does Emily, practicer of the "dark arts." I am, by the way, thoroughly sick of the term "dark arts," which are some sort of thing Stine has made up involving lots of blood and gore.
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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
- The Sign of Fear
- Original title
- The Sign of Fear
- Original publication date
- 1996-12-01
- People/Characters
- Christina Davis; Fieran; Matthew Fier; William Goode; Aunt Jane; Conn (show all 10); Brianna; Mistress Peterson; Benjamin Fier; Emily Peterson
- Important places
- Western Pennsylvania Frontier; Massachusetts Bay Colony; Ancient Britain
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Horror, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .S86037 .S07 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, French, Russian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 2
