This time of year is known for being cold and dark, highlighted by warm drinks next to a fireplace. What better way to spend these winter evenings than to read a book of morbid poetry by author Ridley Mortis: Poems of Grave Importance.
Having just finished his newest work this summer, Brink contacted me again to review Bound by Blood, a tale of brothers in a battle of good versus evil. Challenge accepted.
There’s plot. There’s history. There’s blood. There’s horror. There’s mystery. There’s everything you need in a fast-paced, gory horror comic.
For our third installment of an OG Goosebumps book review, I picked the story from an episode I have seen a million times: One Day at Horrorland.
Many years ago, I was gifted a book, Harvest Tales & Midnight Revels: Stories for the Waning of the Year. All Hallows’ Eve is the night when the veil between the living and dead is thinnest, so it’s fitting that so many different stories can all relate to the same thing: Halloween.
And we’re back with the second of three Halloween-themed children’s books from my mom’s past (that she has given to me, and that I share with my own kid). This time it’s Humbug Witch, a book about a little girl that dresses up as a witch and has a lot of fun doing so.
I’m continuing my Goosebumps kick with 1997’s The Haunted School. Bell Valley Middle School has some secrets, and new student Tommy gets right in the middle of this ghostly mystery.
Halloween is great because it can be as scary or harmless as you like. Ron Reese’s Halloween is a simple masterpiece.
It’s not the first book in the series, but Stay Out of the Basement is one whose imagery is forever cemented in my head.
When local school paraprofessional Sasha James rescues a child from a mysterious assailant, she unknowingly marks herself as the next target. To survive this supernatural foe, she will need to search deeper than the physical, pray for power beyond the natural, and fight like there’s no tomorrow.