Fear Street: Who Took The Book? Every Candidate Theory Explained
At the end of the Fear Street trilogy’s final chapter Fear Street 1666, a pair of hands grab the occult book that has been used to set the events of these slasher horrors in motion, but who do they belong to? The Fear Street trilogy was released by Netflix throughout July 2021. The gory teen horror Fear Street: 1994 pitted its heroes against a string of supernatural killers, while the sequel flashed back to the ‘70s for a summer camp-set slasher that fleshed out the trilogy while being even more brutally dark than the first installment.
The question of who was behind this was answered in Fear Street 1666, which revealed that Sheriff Nick Goode was controlling the killers via a cursed occult book. He did so back in 1978 and his family had a long history of sacrificing Shadysiders to the devil. The final film in the trilogy was no less violent than its predecessors, but it did see the slaughter come to an end and ensure that the victims of earlier outings and the survivors got justice despite their ordeal.
Sacrificed to the devil by the seemingly benign Goode family over the centuries, the Shadysiders who succumbed to was believed to be Sarah Fier's curse were victims of the devil’s bargain with Solomon Goode way back in the 17th century. Luckily, Fear Street 1666 ended with the heroes defeating the family for good and killing Sheriff Nick, causing his subterranean lair’s pentagram markings to disappear and the town to find peace after decades of brutality. That is until the closing credits depicted saw someone grabbing the Goode family’s occult book that they used to summon the devil, prompting the Fear Street trilogy’s biggest unanswered question yet - who took the book?
The most obvious candidate to have taken the book is also, unfortunately, the least interesting. The assumption that many viewers likely have, after seeing a pair of hands snatch the tome accompanied by a dramatic musical sting, is that it must have been a villain who hopes to harness the devil’s power and take over Shadyside through another series of brutal slaughters. However, Fear Street's heroes (particularly Josh and Deena) prove remarkably savvy to the horror genre’s conventions throughout the action of the Fear Street trilogy and avoid common pitfalls as they work out how to handle the supernatural threats. As such, all of the movie’s surviving heroes would likely want to get the book to avoid anyone nefarious getting their hands on it. Although Josh (who lost his love interest Kate to the killers, and was already obsessed with Shadyside’s bloody history) seems the most likely candidate here, the hands look more like Deena or Sam’s (based to their momentary appearance), or possibly another important survivor.
Ziggy Berman is another heroic character likely to have taken the book back, although for slightly more personal reasons than Josh, Deena, and Sam. As depicted throughout the Fear Street trilogy, Ziggy has been living in fear and isolation for years thanks to the events of Fear Street 1978, and her last-minute reunion with Nurse Lane proves that she wants victims of Shadyside’s brutal history to know that they aren’t crazy. Ziggy may not have gotten possessed like Sam but her life was still shaped by the so-called witch’s curse, and having tangible, solid proof that Nick Goode and his family were more than mere mortal murderers could bring her, Nurse Lane, and other victims of their paranormal killings some solace. She also may have wanted to return the book to Nurse Lane, and speaking of her…
Although the hands that grab the book look a little too young to be hers (once again, it’s tough to tell much detail by the glance), the last relatively heroic character they could belong to is Nurse Lane, the mother of Ruby Lane. The well-meaning caregiver may have retrieved the book to prove she was not crazy, but she also might want access to it for more morally dubious reasons. After all, her young daughter Ruby was one of the many fine young Shadyside citizens transformed into Jason Voorhees-style slashers and died by suicide at a tragically young age after killing her friends. Nurse Lane may well want to broker a deal with the devil to get her daughter’s life back - and she’s not the only character who could want the book for the wrong reasons.
Okay, so viewers were treated to the satisfying sight of surprise series villain Nick Goode getting a knife through the skull near the end of Fear Street 1666, so it is fair to say that the character was killed. However, the series made it clear that villains don’t stay dead in the world of Fear Street, and the many killers that Nick controlled through their Friday the 13th-style slasher killing sprees were impervious to injury and eventually reformed themselves. As such, with the power of the devil on his side, it seems more than possible that Nick survived in some form or another and is still able to snatch the book and start to plan his bloody revenge by the trilogy’s end.
The killers of Shadyside were never guilty but rather controlled by a force they couldn’t stop. This force was the devil, sure, but it was specifically the devil as commanded by Goode family members, ranging from Puritan settler Solomon down to 1994’s sheriff Nick. Sarah Fier was framed, ParaNorman-style, by the sheriff’s ancestors to ensure that the Sunnyvale would prosper at the cost of Shadyside. There's no reason to think other members of his family would not know about the Satanic tome that their family’s influence relied on. Technically, Nick's mayor brother denied any knowledge about the killings, but this seems impossibly unlikely between how much clout would be needed to hide the subterranean lair, how many family members must have called on the devil over the centuries, and how much power Nick's brother has also gained.
As revealed by the end of Fear Street 1666, the Goodes start their Satanic dirty dealings young, with Nick etching Tommy Slater’s doom into stone before he was even out of his early teens. It is also presumably no small feat to engineer the many slayings of the trilogy, with a young Nick needing to control the killer of Fear Street 1978 and ensure Tommy didn't kill any Sunnyvalers throughout the sequel’s action. As such, it seems likely that the rich, influential Goode family would have already chosen and trained an heir to take Nick’s place before he even lost his life to Deena, meaning the brood’s most recent acolyte of Satan likely owns the hands stealing back their occult book.
The final, and admittedly least likely, candidate to have stolen the Goode family’s Satanic bible is Josh’s potential new paramour/fellow Shadyside amateur historian the Queen Of Air and Darkness girl. In case that name is unfamiliar to viewers, she is the classmate of Josh’s who the hero talks to via AOL in Fear Street 1994, and who eventually meets him in person in Fear Street 1666’s denouement. Josh’s new love interest seems like an unlikely new villain, but with some of the Fear Street trilogy’s scariest villains like Billy Barker never getting a chance to shine in the movies, there is a chance that a character a bit too obsessed with the town’s history would be compelled to revive the killers and take control of them in the next Fear Street outing.
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