Ruby Lane Fear Street Novels & Stories

My pulse was still hammering against my ribs, but I forced myself to lean back, stretching like I hadn’t just been slammed into the door then slowly turned to look at the owl but it was gone. “What, did a squirrel blink at you funny?” Rowan shot me a glare through the rearview mirror. “Kael.” “No, I’m serious,” Lily cut in, her voice trembling. “It wasn’t a squirrel. It was.. ” She swallowed, wide eyes darting between us. “It was standing in the road. Tall. Dark. And its eyes were white and lifeless.. it looked human” She stopped, pressing her hand to her mouth. Rowan swore under his breath. “A deer, Lily. Maybe a wolf. This isn’t the time to.. ”

Something I buried years ago because even I feared what it would turn me into. And Ronan… Ronan erupted it all. Serena’s scent hit me first with sharp fear layered under her natural warmth. My Luna was trying to hold herself together, but her pulse was wrong. Too quick. Too high. She was terrified. Lyla’s heartbeat was worse ... .thready and shaking, her little fingers buried in Serena’s hair as if she feared the world might rip her away again. Then Ronan looked at me. Not just looked…assessed, like he was calculating how many ways he could destroy me before Serena had a chance to scream.

The name sat there. Heavy. Lila’s hands curled into fists. “He isn’t dead,” she said. Bennett’s eyes shifted to her. “What makes you say that?” “The man in the grey coat.” “People lie.” “He didn’t.” Lila’s voice was steady now. Not because she was less afraid. Because she had reached the point where fear stopped having anywhere left to go. “He told you that is what they told you.” Bennett did not respond. Rory stepped closer to her.

The shoes were still against the wall. Lily-Rose lay down with the phone on the far chair again. Sienna was out. Not on these steps. Not a town she could walk to in the dark. Alive. The week had teeth, and then it spat one true sentence. Morning would bring the name or more waiting with a different kind of fear: not a hole in Hale, but a door in another place and a house that still needed her to wake on this same floor.

I couldn't tell which was making her scared, maybe it was the threat from Matilda or just the mention of Kieran. “I see you two are her hounds,” Luna Cara scoffed, trying to keep up a hard face. But I could still smell the fear that rang in her voice. “Keep lapping at her legs so she'd rub her hands on your head.” After saying that, she stormed off. Her legs echoing down the hallway.

Of the men that had won great feats of war to tell of, and the women which were mad with laughter, the air was full. I went out into the hall. “She was a scared deer,” a voice said. “More like a rat” went another voice. I looked down. All I wanted was to set the tray down and not cause a scene. I went up to the table and placed the tray. “Careful there,” she purred but it was a false sound. “Our little Lyra is a bit green when the eyes of the world are upon her.” Then a voice broke in. Her friends at the table laughed. I went quiet and my face grew hot.

Fear Lana’s POV I ran alongside Leo, my heart pounding with a mix of fear and adrenaline. Each step felt heavy as we dashed through the dimly lit streets, the shadows around us seeming to stretch and twist like dark fingers reaching out to pull us back into danger. I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was lurking just out of sight, watching us. We reached my apartment building, a modest brick structure that had seen better days. I fumbled for my keys, my hands shaking. “Hurry,” I urged Leo, glancing over my shoulder. “We need to get inside.”

Sirens scream in the streets below, blending with the distant growls and snarls of wolves shifting beneath a blood-red moon. My knees buckle. I slump into the chaise, crying into my quivering fists. Fear coils tight in my belly, horror for Aaron… and for Lucian.

The creepiest part was that there was a faint red glow in its dark eye sockets, making it seem extremely creepy. Luna could not help but grab Alex’s hand. Her palm was slightly sweating as she said, “Don’t be afraid, isn’t this just a dead skeletal ghost? My sister is an expert ghost hunter, and I’ve seen this kind of thing many times.” Alex could feel the sweat in her palm. He said, “Don’t shake your hand when you speak. Otherwise, it will betray your inner fear.” “My fear? You really know how to spew nonsense!” Luna took out the Sky-Devil Zither from her mind palace and was ready to attack.

“Whatever you’re seeing isn’t here. It’s not real.” “It *feels* real!” “I know.” Ryland’s voice softened. “But you’re stronger than the fear. Push it *out*.” The glow in Silas’s hands flared, then dimmed. He went limp, sobbing into Ryland’s shirt. “I don’t like it…” “I know,” Ryland murmured, holding him. “I know.” Selene crawled into my lap, her tiny fists clutching my sleeves. “The bad men are coming, Mommy. They’re close.”