With copies of Fear Street flying off shelves, it only made sense for other publishers to put out their own young-adult horror series in the 1990s. And Berkley Books’ venture was Terror Academy, a fifteen-volume collection of high-school horror and thrills. C. A. Stokes, writing under the pen name of Nicholas Pine, kicked things off with the 1993 entry Light Outs. The Berkley artwork shows a teen girl walking down the halls of the titular institution, oblivious to the knife-wielding stranger closing in on her. However, the actual story and cover art don’t exactly match up.
Lights Out starts out cheery and unaware, much like its protagonist. Mandy Roberts is about to be a senior at Port City’s Central Academy, the main setting of these books, and her biggest worry now is telling her father she wants to step down as the school newspaper’s editor. She fears Vernon Roberts...
Lights Out starts out cheery and unaware, much like its protagonist. Mandy Roberts is about to be a senior at Port City’s Central Academy, the main setting of these books, and her biggest worry now is telling her father she wants to step down as the school newspaper’s editor. She fears Vernon Roberts...
- 9/9/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
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