Halloween Party by R.L. Stine
So I don’t even know what to say. What a crazy ride this book was. Also it takes place in 1984 and I maybe laughed at how some of the characters were talking. But the main plot and reveal of what the villain was up to made me go what in the world. And then I started to wrack my brain and wonder if I had seen a tv movie based on this book or what since it sounded familiar to me. I never read […]
Locke & Key, vol 6: Alpha & Omega by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
#CBR11 Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (horror) (Would also work for Illustrated) Spoiler warning! This is the sixth and final volume in the Locke and Key series. It is absolutely NOT the place to start. This review will probably contain spoilers both for earlier and this collection, so don’t read it unless you’re completely caught up. The first volume is Welcome to Lovecraft. In this final volume, the Locke kids have to confront the evil that has been haunting their family for over a generation. If there was any doubt that […]
Daemon Hall by Andrew Nance
I’m not one to search out horror. I don’t read horror, I don’t watch horror movies, and I only go to haunted houses because I think they’re funny. (And I used to work in one. So yes, I go to judge.) And Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark gave me nightmares as a kid. So I can’t really say why I picked this up. Our general story is that a famous horror writer is having a contest for kids in his old hometown. Kids […]
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
In an effort to read some spooky literature for this, the high holy season of Halloween, I went for one of my comfortable standbys, good old Neil Gaiman. Winning both the Hugo and the Nebula awards in 2003 and 2004 for best novella, Coraline deserves all the acclaim it received. Clocking in at only a little over 100 pages, Gaiman works his magic to build a terrifying little universe in a short space. Even though this book was in the children’s section of my library, […]
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
I knew going in this wouldn’t be a conventional mystery novel but I was still impressed at how well William Hjortsberg followed the traditional tenets of what constitute a hard boiled novel. For about 90% of the book, this reads like a decent PI tale. And though I found the cult aspects to be boring and the reveal to be predictable, I still enjoyed the writing. This is a book that wastes no space. There are 48 chapters and each one exists to move the […]
The Whisper Man by Alex North
CBR11Bingo Not My Wheelhouse. I was a precocious reader as a child. I learned to read before kindergarten, and pretty quickly outpaced my elementary school library. I read everything I could get my hands on, and when I ran out of my own reading material I moved on to my parent’s books and magazines. Which is how I came to read the work of Stephen King at an inappropriate age. For several years, starting in about third grade, Stephen King’s books were my constant […]
