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Joyland

Coming of Age and Killers Author: Stephen King Devin Jones is having a strange summer. It’s half magical, and half deadly. His long-time girlfriend has recently dumped him, and now that he is growing up, still a virgin, he is experiencing his first heartache. Everywhere at the college reminds him of the girl who left, and so this summer, instead of working at the college, he goes to a small-town amusement park in North Carolina, named Joyland, to get away from it all. He is seeking isolation, but what he finds is a strange kind of magic. Some of it is [...]

Frances Carden2022-09-17T21:03:10-07:00September 17th, 2022|Tags: book review, crime, ghost, horror, mystery, read, reading, stephen king, vintage|

Rats, The

A Problematic Creature Feature Author: James Herbert There have been a few gruesome incidents in East London lately. Rats eating sleeping homeless men alive, swarming isolated people, picking over the remains. And these rats, they aren’t your regular city rodents. They are bigger. Much bigger. And somehow more aware. Will Harrison, a nearby schoolteacher, doesn’t know anything about the growing problem. He’s just here to do his job, tame his unruly students, try to teach them something. But when the classroom degenerate gets bitten by a large rat and is rushed to the emergency room, Will wonders about what the boy [...]

Frances Carden2022-09-11T10:11:24-07:00September 11th, 2022|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

Into the Drowning Deep

Killer Mermaids and Campy Characters Author: Mira Grant Imagine is a cheesy company known for their low budget horror films and spooky mocumentaries. Their ill-fated voyage on the Atargatis is just another such venture only slightly authenticated by some geeky scientists. The project? Go to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench and talk some shit about scary mermaids. Nothing is going to happen, so the film crew is ready to give it that B-movie flair and add this little fake mocumentary to their archives. Only this time, someone was inadvertently right. Something does live out in the depths of the [...]

Frances Carden2022-09-02T17:08:23-07:00September 2nd, 2022|Tags: book review, horror, mermaids, read, reading|