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Party Like It’s 1997: R.L. Stine&#8217;s <i>The Surprise Party</i> and <i>All-Night Party</i>

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Cover of R.L. Stine's The Surprise Party and All-Night Party
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Teen Horror Time Machine

Party Like It’s 1997: R.L. Stine’s The Surprise Party and All-Night Party

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Covers of The Boy Next Door by Sinclair Smith and The Boy Next Door by R.L. Stine
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Teen Horror Time Machine

Domestic Terrors: Beware the Boy(s) Next Door

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Covers of Christopher Pike's Gimme a Kiss and R.L. Stine's The Thrill Club
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Teen Horror Time Machine

Write What You (Don’t) Know: Gimme a Kiss and The Thrill Club

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Image from Gravity Falls episode "Summerween": the Summerween Trickster holds a jack o'melon
Featured Essays

Summertime Spookiness: On the True Meaning of Summerween

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Collage of three close-up shots from movies: Willem Dafoe in Streets of Fire, Roh Jeong-eui in Badland Hunters, and Antonio Banderas in The 13th Warrior
Movies & TV
bad movies

Movies That Are Not Very Good, But Are Still Very Cool

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Book cover of R.L. Stine's One Evil Summer
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Teen Horror Time Machine

Algebra, Murder, and Supernatural Powers: R.L. Stine’s One Evil Summer 

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Book covers of When No One Was Looking by Rosemary Wells and Win Lose or Die by Diane Hoh
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Teen Horror Time Machine

Game, Set, Match: Tennis Terror in When No One Was Looking and Win, Lose or Die 

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Dawn Wiener dances to the music in Welcome to the Dollhouse.
Featured Essays
Social issues

Contemplating the Past and the Future With Welcome to the Dollhouse and Eighth Grade

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Cover of R.L. Stine's Lights Out and an image of Sadie Sink as Ziggy in Fear Street Part Two: 1978
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Teen Horror Time Machine

Welcome to Camp Nightwing: R.L. Stine’s Lights Out and Fear Street: 1978

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Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) dances with Jareth (David Bowie) in a scene from the movie Labyrinth
Lists
Fairy Tales

Five Fantasy Movies With Timeless Fairy Tale Vibes

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Book covers for Lael Littke’s The Watcher and Richie Tankersley Cusick’s Starstruck
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Teen Horror Time Machine

As Seen on TV?: The Watcher and Starstruck 

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Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) drives a pale yellow convertible in an image from the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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The SF Path to Higher Consciousness

Kolchak: The Night Stalker’s “Horror in the Heights” Misdirects in Many Dimensions

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“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”

N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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