Shadyside is the home of many Shadysiders and where the killers originate from. Prior to the end of the curse in 1994, it was known as Killer Capital USA. It is located in Ohio. It is the rival town of Sunnyvale.
It appeared in the original Fear Street trilogy and its standalone sequel Fear Street: Prom Queen.
Origins[]
Prior to Shadyside being established as its own town, it was known as Union. On the 19th of July 1978, Christine Berman told her sister that no one could leave the town no matter how well-behaved they were and that the people of Shadyside were always cursed. After Shadyside was named, the Goode family continued their pact with Satan that involved a Shadysider losing their soul and becoming its next killer.
After each massacre, the town was ruled as unsafe and only known for the murders that occurred. After the Camp Nightwing Massacre, the Goode family stepped in and had the camp taken down where it was replaced with by a mall by the 1990s.
The curse[]
The curse of Shadyside originated after the death of Sarah Fier once she was condemned of being a witch. She would then become the town's story in which she had cut off her hand, for years, Shadysiders believed that the witch really had cursed them all and believed the reason why innocents were killing other innocent people were because they were possessed by Sarah who wanted revenge for being hanged. At some point, a rhyme was made about her.
Before the witch’s final breath. She found a way to cheat her death.
By cutting off her wicked hand. She kept her grip upon our land.
She reaches out from beyond the grave, to make good men her wicked slaves.
She’ll take your blood, she’ll take your head. She’ll follow you until you’re dead
Stopping the curse[]
After Ruby Lane committed her murders in 1965, her mother, Nurse Mary Lane, spent the next few years believing that her daughter did not do it willingly. By July of 1978, Nurse Lane uncovered research on the the Goode pact with Satan though she was removed from the camp after attempting to killed Tommy Slater, the counselor she discovered would be the next killer.
Upon trying to find out why Mary did what she did, Cindy Berman, Alice, Arnie and Tommy spent most of the night looking in the infirmary cabin before finding the map of Union before piecing together that Mary was trying to end the curse. Alice then found out that the curse could be stopped by reuniting the hand of Sarah Fier with the body. Later on, Cindy and Ziggy attempted to reunite the bones only for it to not work, resulting in the death of Cindy and the temporary death of Ziggy before she was resuscitated and deemed the only survivor.
End of the curse[]
The curse was ended on the 3rd of October, 1994, when Deena Johnson killed Nick Goode and ended the pact, exposing the truth of the Goode family's pact with Satan.
Trivia[]
- Shadyside is a real life location. There are actually two Shadysides: one is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and one is a village in Ohio along the Ohio River.