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* Most of the ''Fear Street Saga Trilogy'' stories and follow-up ''Fear Street Sagas'' are quite downbeat, particularly the scenes showing Susannah Goode and her mother being burned at the stake (starting the Fear-Goode feud), Mary Fear's SanitySlippage, Ezra Fear losing one of his innocent children and accidentally destroying another's happiness, Simon’s daughters turning on each other due to jealousy and the toxic household they live in, Sarah Fear struggling to save her niece and nephew from a vengeful ghost, and the way that seemingly anyone who brings out many of the Fears’ best qualities or happier moments (Hannah Fear's pet dog, Daniel Fear's fiancée Nora Goode, Nicholas Goode's star-crossed lover, coworkers, BenevolentBoss, and BettyAndVeronica local admirers, etc.) keeps getting killed, traumatized, or corrupted.
* In ''Fear Street Cheerleaders: Second Evil'', the protagonists visit the parents of a friend who has recently died and ask to talk to her brother (who blames them for what happened), only to learn that he has disappeared to and his already-grieving parents are worried about him (for good reason, as he later turns up dead).
* Phoebe and the other cheerleaders' DueToTheDead moment for Jade at the end of Fight Team Fight adds some solemnity to what could otherwise be seen as a run-of-the-mill AssholeVictim meeting her fate.
* The way Marla Newman is tormented by her witch coven in ''Wicked'' for refusing to commit murder as an initiation ceremony.
* The end of ''Spring Break'' has Jennifer, Josie, and Dana all learn of the senseless death of Deirdre (Dana's twin sister, who was TrueCompanions with the other two) and crying over what happened, as Josie and Jennifer also realize how they just saw Deidre's mournful-looking ghost, who was there to help them out one last time, but thought it was Dana.
* Someone stabbing [[spoiler:Phoebe]] soon before graduation is a particularly downbeat part of ''Graduation Day''.
* In ''Fear Street Cheerleaders: Second Evil'', the protagonists visit the parents of a friend who has recently died and ask to talk to her brother (who blames them for what happened), only to learn that he has disappeared to and his already-grieving parents are worried about him (for good reason, as he later turns up dead).
* Phoebe and the other cheerleaders' DueToTheDead moment for Jade at the end of Fight Team Fight adds some solemnity to what could otherwise be seen as a run-of-the-mill AssholeVictim meeting her fate.
* The way Marla Newman is tormented by her witch coven in ''Wicked'' for refusing to commit murder as an initiation ceremony.
* The end of ''Spring Break'' has Jennifer, Josie, and Dana all learn of the senseless death of Deirdre (Dana's twin sister, who was TrueCompanions with the other two) and crying over what happened, as Josie and Jennifer also realize how they just saw Deidre's mournful-looking ghost, who was there to help them out one last time, but thought it was Dana.
* Someone stabbing [[spoiler:Phoebe]] soon before graduation is a particularly downbeat part of ''Graduation Day''.
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* The second half of the first book in the ''99 Fear Street: The House of Evil'' trilogy. It's the scene where Cally Fraiser is reading a picture book to her nine year old brother, James. Basically, James suffers a great deal of emotional stress due to the house. His dog, Cubby, goes missing a few days after receiving him, and the house taunts him by letting the dog's barking be heard CONSTANTLY throughout the halls, always making it seem like it's in the next room, only for them to arrive in said room and the barking shifts to another area of the house. He's also had to watch his parents suffer an equal amount of stress caused by the house. Cally notes that her brother has regressed to the emotional state of a baby, fearful of everything, when he asks her to read him a picture book he stopped reading years ago. Cally does indeed read the book to him, and wishes him goodnight, on the verge of tears from seeing her little brother in this state. [[spoiler: And then the house takes James in the same way it did his dog. His family can hear James crying for his parents to help him, but they can't find him. It isn't until the next book that James and Cubby, or rather, their corpses, are discovered by the new residents of the house. At least the house hadn't turned him into a vengeful ghost as it did his sister, Cally, who also died in the first book.]]
* The ending of ''The Stepsister'': A ton of bad stuff keeps happening to Emily, who keeps blaming her new stepsister Jesse (not completely unreasonably, as it didn't start until she shows up) Jesse always claims she's innocent, and thinks ''Emily'' is the crazy one. [[spoiler: at the end we find out it was Nancy (Emily's sister) who was doing this all a long, and Jesse really was innocent. Emily is [[WhatHaveIDone wracked with guilt]] over mis-blaming her stepsister all this time, and at the end the two of them have a tearful reunion and promise to be like real sisters]].
** And in the sequel there is [[spoiler: Emily finally forgiving Nancy, which is actually what gets her to stop.]]
* The ending of ''The Stepsister'': A ton of bad stuff keeps happening to Emily, who keeps blaming her new stepsister Jesse (not completely unreasonably, as it didn't start until she shows up) Jesse always claims she's innocent, and thinks ''Emily'' is the crazy one. [[spoiler: at the end we find out it was Nancy (Emily's sister) who was doing this all a long, and Jesse really was innocent. Emily is [[WhatHaveIDone wracked with guilt]] over mis-blaming her stepsister all this time, and at the end the two of them have a tearful reunion and promise to be like real sisters]].
** And in the sequel there is [[spoiler: Emily finally forgiving Nancy, which is actually what gets her to stop.]]
