Tie Ins: Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Kreuger began as a slapstick vaudevillian and only got worse from there.  His wise cracking is personally responsible for the death of 80s film horror.  Having said that, all the parts without Freddy can be genuinely creepy, and the series is begging for a fan edit.

The various novelizations and continuations look intriguing, but they all cost way too much.  The links are to Amazon, if anyone richer than me wants to throw some affiliate money my way.

Here are the adultish novelizations - note there are none I could find for Part 6 and the 2010 reboot.

• The first three movies are collected with a now non-canon story of Freddy's past in The Nightmares on Elm Street The Continuing Story Parts 1, 2, 3 by Jeffrey Cooper, 1987
• Parts 4 and 5 were collected in 1989 in The Nightmares on Elm Street: Parts 4 & 5 by Joseph Locke (aka Ray Garton)
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare by David Bergantino, 1994
• Freddy vs Jason by Stephen Hand, 2003

Additionally, there are several short, young adult adaptations.

• A Nightmare on Elm Street by E.L. Flood, 1991
• Parts 1-6 by Bob Italia, 1992

A 1991 short story anthology Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams edited by Martin K. Greenberg,

Freddy Kreuger's Tales of Terror was a young adult series with stories hosted by Freddy, published by Tor from 1994-1995.

• Blind Date by Bruce Richards 1994
• Fatal Games by Bruce Richards 1995
• Virtual Terror by David Bergantino 1995
• Twice Burned by David Bergantino 1995
• Help Wanted by David Bergantino 1995
• Deadly Disguise by David Bergantino 1995

Black Flame published several continuing stories.

• Suffer the Children by David Bishop 2005
• Dreamspawn by Christa Faust 2005
• Protégé by Tim Waggoner 2005
• Ripped from a Dream: Omnibus of Suffer the Children, Dreamspawn, and Protégé 2006
• Perchance to Dream by Natasha Rhodes 2006
• The Dream Dealers by Jeffrey Thomas 2006