…that came out a little more bloodthirsty than I intended. Okay, someone we’ve heard of right from book one gets killed! That’s more like it. Or because she’s a normal person who gets creeped out by your morbid conversations? Just putting that out there. She guessed it was because her last name was Fear. Jennifer hated discussing stuff like fate and strange, mysterious deaths. Also, don’t repeatedly walk home alone at night, and don’t go check out the rundown shack deep in the woods (ever, but especially not at night).ĭeidre nodded okay. Things to be learned from this book: If there are people being killed (and drained of their blood) in your school, and coincidentally two new students have enrolled, don’t trust them. Other Stine-ian Twist: Then Deirdre kills Jon as well, having worked out that he’s also a vampire. Jon shows up in time to kill her, and she crumbles neatly into dust, as one does. It’s really easy to fake your own death-by-exsanguination when you’re a vampire. Stine-ian Twist: When Deidre and Dana go searching for Jon at the abandoned cabin in the woods where he likes to hang out, they find a coffin, and Anita springs out of it and attacks them. Then Anita is found dead, and drained of blood! Is that….actually something you’d know before you try out for the very first time, Anita? Suspicious. She says people are always telling her she should play basketball because of her height, so she “thought she’d give it a try,” then says she plays forward. That’s not a euphemism for anything.ĭeidre also tries out for basketball, where she once again crosses paths with newcomer Anita Black, a tall redhead who causes several “accidents” on the court. Deirdre’s okay, though, other than singed hair and clothes, because Jon puts out the flames on her arm. If I lived in Shadyside I would literally never go camping or to lake parties.ĭeidre also nearly falls into the bonfire (see what I mean about camping trips in Shadyside?), because a new redhead in town bumps into her. Twins Dana (the cheerleader who dates Mickey Myers) and Deidre Palmer (who likes mysterious new guy Jon Milano) each get bitten, but not fatally, on a camping trip.

The central plot: In this book, people (one senior student, one teacher) are found dead with all their blood drained.

That’s cheating! I wanted deaths from among the characters I’d heard of, damn it.Īnyway.

So they added people in to the yearbook pages in later books, just to cross them off. One does die in this one, but if you check the people in the “yearbook pages” back at the beginning of book one, she’s not there.

No Answer by R.L. Stine