Holly’s BFF Thea Mack shows up and starts prattling on about boys, but then they hear someone calling for help. So here Holly is at Camp Nightwing, freaking out over a spider, and swearing off boys after a bad break-up. (Okay, it was the measles, but the plague is so much more dramatic.) So Uncle Bill invites Holly even though she lives on Fear Street because he’s desperate, and what’s worse than fire and death anyway? And he is family so it’s not like Holly can say no without like major guilt tripping at the next family get-together. Turns out Camp Nightwing is not nearly this cool despite a disaster happening every year: lightning strike, fire, accidental death, the plague. Five points to Hufflepuff if you guess the other 90s reference in this image.

Now with a name like that, you might be picturing something like this: Why, yes, that is 90s Nightwing with a fabulous 90s ponytail. So why is she a camp counselor, you ask? Well, her Uncle Bill cajoled her into helping him out at Camp Nightwing. In fact, she hates all things creepy, crawly, and outdoorsy. Even though she is terrified of spiders, she cannot bring herself to kill one. We then switch scenes to Holly Flynn, our heroine and junior camp counselor, trying to shoo a spider out of her cabin. The first begins with one of these letters where “Me” diabolically insists that he/she will “make them pay.” So much intrigue! Who will pay? The chapters in Lights Out alternate between letters addressed to a person named “Chief” and signed “Me” and the third person narrative typical to Fear Street.

There’s nothing particularly cheesy about it, and anytime I see a full moon in the background, I expect werewolves. Unfortunately, it’s not a camp for superheroes, but murder and intrigue do occur! CoverĪnother Bill Schmidt cover, it has the usual scared, pretty young female, but I find this one disappointing. Holly Flynn is cajoled into being a camp counselor for her uncle’s struggling Nightwing Camp. Stine rebooting the series! You can read the previous review here. Welcome to the third review in the Fear Street reread project in celebration of R.L.

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