These covers are unlocking memories of loving these books!

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Danalove915@reddit

Weekend was my favorite, talk about a blast from the past!

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If anyone wants a trip down nostalgia lane, check out the Teen Creeps podcast. They review YA pulp horror, mostly from the 80's and 90's, and the hosts are huge Christopher Pike fans. They've also introduced me to some fun newer books with a similar style that I never would have found otherwise.

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ravenscroft12@reddit

There’s also a podcast called The Pikecast. It’s pretty funny as well.

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Significant-Style-73@reddit

I wish the Pikecast would come back, I don't think they've put out a new episode for a few years now.

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deephurting66@reddit

I used to read these working night shift at a hospital the kiddie section had a library and these were pretty enjoyable reads.

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SweptThatLeg@reddit

In my most impressionable years, I remember reading one of Pike’s books that ended with a cheerleader tying the protagonist to the bed and feeding him laced cocaine until he died.

What a world we grew up in

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Significant-Style-73@reddit

I think that's Die Softly

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Solid-Hedgehog9623@reddit

‘MIKE’

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TurboAssRipper@reddit

So, his book Midnight Club was made into a Netflix series (only got one season though) and instead of the stories they normally told in the book, the stories they told were all abridged versions of other Christopher Pike novels!!! The series wasn't picked up for another season but its really great and made me reminisce a lot about reading the books as a kid

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New_Collection5295@reddit

I was watching that and kept thinking “Their stories are SUPER familiar.” Googled and facepalmed that I didn’t figure it out first.

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ProsodyProgressive@reddit

The Starlight Crystal is hands down my favorite YA book!

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Professional-Tap82@reddit

Huuuuuuuuge fan of Christopher pike back in the day. Read every one I could get my hands on

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Lllsfwfkfpsheart@reddit

I absolutely loved Christopher Pike as a teen. I feel like Chain Letter might have been my intro but, I was just reading whatever looked interesting in the YA Horror or Sci-fi/Fantasy section of the library, so I didn't really clock the author. I didn't become an fan an actively seek out his books till I read Witch. I think I maybe missed a book or two till '95. The Last Vampire was the last of his books I read. I didn't even finish the series. '95 was a turning point in my life . . .

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_pineappledreams_@reddit

Christoper Pike is how I learned what “the bends” are!

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Lllsfwfkfpsheart@reddit

Same!

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PrecociousCapricious@reddit

These. Were. The. BEST. I think "The Weekend" was my first and favorite!

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Lord-Sinestro@reddit

Found Weekend in the school bookcase of my 4th grade class. Never returned it 😆 love that book

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MommaOfManyCats@reddit

I got in trouble in 6th grade for a Pike book. Pretty sure it was Road to Nowhere? Another student told the teacher we were talking about dirty things because it mentioned sex and abortion. My mom just told me to read them at home lol

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Lord-Sinestro@reddit

Pretty sure that was Road to Nowhere. Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn (?) were the passengers telling their stories.

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thepatientwaiting@reddit

I don't remember which Christopher Pike book it was, but the only thing I can remember is something about a knitting needle in the context of an abortion. I was in 5th grade or so and had noooooo idea what was going on. I vaguely recall thinking they put the knitting needle through her bellybutton and didn't understand why she didn't die....

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ravenscroft12@reddit

Whisper of Death, probably.

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thepatientwaiting@reddit

Yup, plotline sounds familiar. I'll have to see if my library has it on Libby.

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LeopardDue1112@reddit

Whisper of Death still haunts me to this day. I can't believe I was 13 when I first read that twisted story.

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KarisPurr@reddit

I remember-ish one Christopher Pike book where a girl and her bff went to Greece and it turned out that they were both reincarnated goddesses and one tried to kill the other? Is this a fever dream?

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Significant-Style-73@reddit

The Immortal

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KarisPurr@reddit

You’re my hero

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Uncooperativesloth@reddit

I LOVED Remember Me!!!

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Intelligent_Flow2572@reddit

Was that the one with the boat and the fire? That one was awesome.

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all_neon_like_13@reddit

Me too!! It was SO good. 30+ years later I still remember that Remember Me had my favorite main character/heroine of all this books.

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notoriousrdc@reddit

Same. I reread it a couple years ago, and it still holds up. Literature needs more ghosts trying to solve their own murders, imo

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codenameZora@reddit

Remember Me and Die Softly were by far my 2 favs.

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Susie4ever@reddit

Me too! I reread that one too many times to count.

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twirlerina024@reddit

Is that the one narrated by a ghost?

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Pale-Conference-174@reddit

OMG I did too!!! Followed by Last Act, Die Softly and the Last Vampire. So fucking good. All if his books, honestly. I've read thousands of books, I still remember his plots and twists so well.

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skeptical_hope@reddit

All of these are straight bangers.

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BlacksmithThink9494@reddit

100%

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Fabulous_Audience_92@reddit

I read a bunch of his books but the only one that really stuck with me was Die Softly. That one's ending really prickled me.

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SqueakyTieks@reddit

I’m so glad I kept all of mine.

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intime2be@reddit

Spellbound was my first Pike.

Congrats on this collection!

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SqueakyTieks@reddit

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sassyfontaine@reddit

I was reading Fall into Darkness TODAY

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intime2be@reddit

My first and favorite. Poor tragic Jonie. I named my first hamster after her.

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bearbeartime@reddit

Memory unlocked! I used to LOVE Christopher Puke books.

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Cloudy_Worker@reddit

Aw I wonder if kids called him that when he was a kid 😭

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C919@reddit

So much better than RL Stine books. And I believe my stepping stone to King.

My reading obsession progression: Babysitter's Club > Choose Your Own Adventure > Christopher Pike > Stephen King

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Cloudy_Worker@reddit

Weird I think I did the Choose-your-own-adventures first, then Babysitters then Christopher Pike 😁

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blondeinabubble@reddit

whoa you blew my xennial mind with this, thanks you 🤯 way too real

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GenevieveLeah@reddit

The Xennial book-readers pipeline

Some detours to Caroline B Cooney and Diane Hoh

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Glass-Marionberry321@reddit

Loved ALL three of those!

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_buffy_summers@reddit

Chain Letter has the better plot, but Chain Letter 2 is more violent. I actually prefer these to I Know What You Did Last Summer.

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Emotional-Finish-648@reddit

Those books were sexually so fucked Jo

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MuffStuff3000@reddit

ALL of the Remember Me books!!!

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iminthemoodforlug@reddit

I def had Chainletter. Pretty sure someone is beheaded and maybe there’s something to do with a puppy?

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lumberjac03@reddit

When I first saw the trailer of (the original) I Know What You Did Last Summer…I thought it was based on “Chain Letter”. Haha

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RaisinToastie@reddit

Lois Duncan!

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Equivalent_Grab_511@reddit

Me too!

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blondeinabubble@reddit

i am sooo jealous of everyone who still owns their copies.

can someone remind me, which is the one where she makes the bungee cord too long?? does this ring any bells?

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Significant-Style-73@reddit

Fall Into Darkness

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wait_ichangedmymind@reddit

I read The Last Vampire after I had already started on the Anne Rice vampire books that my mom had at home. I was just happy to read anything that wasn’t goosebumps because I hated those and thought they were too childish. 11 year old me was a book snob apparently.

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sarahprib56@reddit

I loved the Last Vampire series. I still do. There was also one novel where the teens are infected by an alien meteor or something and become cannibals or something. I think Monster was a part of the title? I can see the cover in my mind. I loved these books.

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GenevieveLeah@reddit

I still have my copies.

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singlesunbeam_enough@reddit

Remember Me was one of my all time favorites!!! ❤️

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CJKatz@reddit

The Final Friends and Remember Me trilogies were very memorable to me and impacted my life in some strange ways.

Remember Me 3 jumped the shark really hard by the end.

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TheFilthWiz@reddit

They’ve missed a real trick not re-releasing a lot of Pike’s stuff. Hard to find affordable. Especially surprising considering the recent Netflix series of The Midnight Club.

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CJKatz@reddit

I remember seeing a lot of his books re-released around 10 years ago. Including a bunch of later vampire novels I think? I never read those.

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LikelyLioar@reddit

That show was so terrible, though. Really gross what they did to a beautiful book.

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kismetkissed@reddit

Man, here I was thinking Flanagan really captured the essence of the book. I loved it. To each their own, I guess.

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Comprehensive-Sale79@reddit

I’m sorry 😞 I quite enjoyed the Netflix Midnight Club series and expect my appreciation might have jinxed it. Everything I dig is always getting 86ed so it may be all my (unintentional) fault

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queenofcaffeine76@reddit

The series was so good if you read all the books they referenced!

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regeya@reddit

Might be a little confusing with Paramount+ running a series about Captain Christopher Pike

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rouend_doll@reddit

Right? They could even just release an ebook

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Shejidan@reddit

Did he write the books before or after he was incapacitated by the delta radiation leak?

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opinionatedhugger@reddit

Yes! Oh my god I LOVED Christopher Pike books. They were my Stephen King prelude. 📚❤️

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Comprehensive-Sale79@reddit

I think I liked Chain Letter (it’s been eons since I read it) but it’s suffering from not having the classic Pike cover treatment.

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

Damn. Author AND a Star Fleet Captain!

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Imaginary_Attempt_82@reddit

I LOVED Christopher Pike when I was a teen.

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Professional_Pea1621@reddit

Loved these in my teen years

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Unlikely_Tea_2038@reddit

I LOVED these books. I tho l it’s time for a reread.

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Slow-and-low-15@reddit

Omg I have like 12 of these in a little wooden bookstand in a cabinet in my living room today. Love them!!

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momofwon@reddit

My mother was super strict about TV and movies but had no problem with me reading these. Hilarious.

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NW_Forester@reddit

What would be objectionable about these? I recognize them but never read them myself.

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Unit_79@reddit

He wrote in genres like horror, mystery, supernatural, etc. for kids and teens. A lot of people think that’s inappropriate.

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Ill-Description8517@reddit

IIRC, there was also teenagers having sex in these. My mom was fine with me reading them, until one day she decided to read one and then she took them away. (I got them back because she just put them on her bookshelf, lol)

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sassyfontaine@reddit

Same!!! These and VC Andrews 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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allthesamejacketl@reddit

Dude. Why did my troop leader give me Flowers in the Attic? Why?

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maecatzhooman44@reddit

I don’t know how Flowers in the Attic wound up in my hands but that series corrupted us all. 🤣

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Iceprincess1282@reddit

Oh VC Andrew’s was life! My mom was also crazy strict about tv but would hand me her books when she was done 😂😂😂

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PizzaDonutCoolness@reddit

Yes! So from Christopher Pike I graduated to Dean Koontz and for a long time I had a theory they were the same person based on similarities I found in the writing. Thanks to the internet I now know they’re not, but it was a fun teenage conspiracy.

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kismetkissed@reddit

Man. Pike was my tween self's intro to horror, which has been a nearly life -long love affair. The Remember Me books, The Last Vampire series...I couldn't get enough. It was quite the jump from BSC and SVH to the genre but it's informed so much of my media consumption since. Can't say enough about these books.

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JeepnHeel@reddit

Someone getting a tombstone that just says "MIKE" is sending me

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Magpie_Coin@reddit

I used to LOVE reading Christopher Pike and the covers were so well designed

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noonesaidityet@reddit

I was just thinking of chain letters the other day, and how we were told at church when I was a kid that they were evil and not to participate, without ever being told why. One of those "just don't do it" things.

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Adventurous-Ice6109@reddit

I had totally forgotten about these! I totally devoured them!

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ilovepi314159265@reddit

Loved Christopher Pike and in the last several years I found some of my faves for my library

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Munchkin531@reddit

Yes!! Christopher Pike was my favorite author as a kid! I used to get a lot of weird looks reading his books as a tiny 12 year old, but I didn't care. I should try and find some of these!! Now I'm reading fantasy and thrillers.

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booksbutmoving@reddit

Reread these books recently and they’re still a lot of fun… more teenage boob talk than I remember, but still quite enjoyable.

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muthermcreedeux@reddit

I was just talking about Christopher Or the other day. I loved his books - and honestly they are probably part of the reason I am into True Crime and murder mysteries.

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BalkiBartokomous123@reddit

What was the ski trip one? The Resort? I'm not sure if it was Christopher Pike but it was the same teen horror genre.

I loved these books!

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