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Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, The

A Quirky Read Worth the Hype Author: Grady Hendrix I’m not a Grady Hendrix fan, or at least I wasn’t, but my book clubs keep selecting his offerings. And I admit, I’ve been curious about this one for a while. So, I dove in. It begins with Patricia and her family. Her no-nonsense, all-business, absentee husband; her weird, Nazi fascinated child (Blue); and her declining and sometimes presciently creepy mother-in-law. Patricia is your everyday suburban mom: stressed, bored, trying to keep it together. Mildly affluent. Mildly happy. Mildly fake. This all changes one night when Patricia goes to take the trash [...]

2023-06-26T17:05:24-07:00June 26th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Sallow Bend

A Haunted Town and a Janitor Who Knows All Author: Alan Baxter In the small town of Sallow Bend two teenagers go missing just as the carnival rolls into town. The locals suspect the carnies, but the truth is far worse, mired in the history of the town itself. Two teenage girls went missing, but three come back. One of the girls has long black hair with a white streak, and everyone claims to remember her, except the school janitor, Caleb, an isolated man with a haunting past and an extreme sensitivity to people’s emotions and their lies. Caleb teams up [...]

2023-06-25T10:37:47-07:00June 25th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

All Hallows

The Last Halloween Author: Christopher Golden A small, seemingly innocuous neighborhood in Coventry Massachusetts is preparing for a night of delightful frights and chills – a haunted forest, some creepy outfits, and lots of suburban parents handing out candy and telling their kids to say “please” and “thank you.” But beneath the bustling preparations, old and new tensons live. Families harbor dark secrets, children are growing up and discovering the flaws in their parents and their friends, and for many this is the last night to trick-or-treat, the last night to be a kid. It is a night for goodbyes, for [...]

2023-06-13T18:08:38-07:00June 13th, 2023|Tags: , , , |
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