There were really only two stories that even came close. I found it to be very lacking in that promise. Stine himself, promised to be full of horror and suspense. I feel like I have to go middle-of-the-road on this, because it's an anthology of stories with varying degrees of scariness, maturity, and punch.

They are all grown now and appear to be (as if there's such a thing) relatively normal members of society. We, parents are the final arbiter on what we feel our children can reasonably absorb, and my kids were desensitized early. If anything I communicate makes you dubious, please err on the side of caution. Because Stine is usually considered a young reader storyteller, the suggestive aspect may take some parents by surprise, but I don't recall anything overtly objectionable, other than some violent descriptions. Some stories have content that is a little more mature, sexually suggestive, not explicit, nor profane. Fear: 13 Stories, is an interesting anthology blend of horror shorts that are not all horror, some are scary, or gotcha types. My middle son was the most impressionably resistant to horror, so the other boys were acquiescent to Stine as a compromise. Stine always had a horror bend that my boys and I could really bond with despite him not being nearly hardcore enough. Stine works as they grew up, and I would either read to them or they would read to me.

I initially saw the audiobook available on YouTube and decided to get a hardcopy book to read along.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.

No Answer by R.L. Stine