Hide and Shriek is the first novel in R. L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street series. It was first published in 1995. The main character is a spunky pre-teen named Randy Clay. It was followed by Who's Been Sleeping in My Grave?.
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Randy Clay is a girl who is transferred from her old school to Shadyside Middle School. There, she makes new friends and thinks that being a new kid is not bad at all. But then her friends tell her the legend of Fear Street Woods. Every year, on the tenth of June, all twelve-year-olds of Shadyside play a game of hide-and-seek with a ghost named Pete, who has been dead for many years. Every year, he wants a new body, so whoever he tags, during the game, has to give him one. Randy is terrified when she hears that Pete likes new kids the best and is likely to tag Randy before anyone else.
"Ready or not, here I come."
The cover depicts a skeleton in a baseball cap with its hands over its eyes, as if counting while people are hiding during a game of hide and seek.
Many books of the Ghosts of Fear Street series were ghostwritten by several different authors. Hide and Shriek was ghostwritten by Emily James.[1]
This was the only book in Ghosts of Fear Street which had a sequel. The sequel is called Hide and Shriek II.[2]