Fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread and sometimes fear in both the characters and the reader. Includes ghosts, monsters, vampires, zombies, supernatural creatures that threaten, the Occult, slasher, survival horror, etc.
It's been years since I last read a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, but man did I used to love them! I remember opening up the white bordered covers, flipping through the possible answers (to cheat, so I lived, of course!) and I remember hours of fun with a book at a time when reading … Continue Reading ››
The dead are walking - and eating - the living. No one knows how or why. The only concern is survival. This first novel in the cultural phenomenon that is The Walking Dead takes the reader back to the beginning and those first frantic days in the late Georgian summer focusing on a small group … Continue Reading ››
What better way to start a book than with a heinous murder committed in a legendary special effects studio in Hollywood? Throw in a famous ghost and give us a character that can talk to them, and you’ve got a good story on your … Continue Reading ››
Maggie McKay is going to High School - well, any school really since she's been home schooled her whole life - and she's spooked. It doesn't help that a local ghost won’t leave her alone, either.
Friends with Boys
by Faith Erin Hicks
First Second
February 2012
Fortunately, … Continue Reading ››
When Edward Kelley was young, his parents died in plane crash while on a missionary trip. Years later his sister, Beth, died as a result of a chronic medical condition that health insurance wouldn't cover. Alone in the world and grieving, Edward turns his back on the god that his parents and sister so devoutly … Continue Reading ››
I think I'm officially in love with China. Every time I read another work I am more astonished by the unfettered creativity brough to it. This is not your normal short story collection - it is deeper and wider and more entertaining than most of … Continue Reading ››
The story stars our titular character, Chuggie, who is the walking incarnation of Drought. His ability to rapidly pull in moisture from his surroundings, which includes people, causes him to be shunned the world over. Immortal and homeless, he wanders the earth until he comes … Continue Reading ››
WOW! What an amazing scary book. If you are a believer - you will want to recommit. If you are a nonbeliever - you will want to immediately ask for God's forgiveness and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. You certainly don't want to go to HADES.
Hades
by Alexandra Adornetto
Feiwel & Friends
August 2011
Even … Continue Reading ››