Category Archives: Horror

Review: Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Jenn

  Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition (September 13, 1991) ISBN-10: 0060217944 Source: Personal copy Scary Stories 3 wraps up the Scary Stories trilogy.  Like the others, it contains a collection of scary folklores/legends collected … Continue reading →

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Review: More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: HarperCollins (August 24, 2010) ISBN-10: 0060835214 Source: Personal copy Yesterday, I reviewed Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a collection of folklore collected by Alvin Schwartz. More Scary Stories to Tell … Continue reading →

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Review:The Disappearance by Bentley Little

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Jenn

Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Signet (September 7, 2010) ISBN-10: 0451231031 Source: Publisher A group of UCLA students make the long drive to Nevada to attend the Burning Man celebration.  They let loose and enjoy the party atmosphere around them.  One … Continue reading →

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Review: Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Jenn

Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 18, 2010) ISBN-10: 0399156356 Source: Publisher Warnings: Mild gore, violence, language Nathaniel Cade isn’t your typical secret agent-he’s a vampire who has been protecting the Presidential office for the past 140 years.  Cade … Continue reading →

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Review: Darling Jim by Christian Moerk

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Jenn

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (March 31, 2009) ISBN-10: 0805089470 Source: Purchased Three women are found dead in a home in a Dublin suburb.  They are identified as Moira Hegarty and her two nieces, Fiona and Róisín … Continue reading →

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Mini-Review: Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Jenn

Pub. Date: January 2010 Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated Format: Mass Market Paperback, 264pp ISBN: 0843960914 Source: Publisher Walden is your average small town. That is, until residents awoke to complete and total darkness, darkness that only covered the town … Continue reading →

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Review: A Dark Matter by Peter Straub

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Jenn

Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (February 9, 2010) ISBN-10: 038551638X Source: Publisher The year is 1966 in Madison, WI.  Four high school students Hootie Bly, Dilly Olson, Jason Boatman, and Eel Truax, become enamored by Spencer Mallon, a … Continue reading →

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Mini-Review & Giveaway: Blind Panic by Graham Masterton

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Jenn

The entire United States is suddenly hit by a surge of mass blindness.  No one is immune, not even the most powerful man in the country.  Thousands upon thousands are killed when planes fall from the sky and cars plunge … Continue reading →

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