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Tender Prey

Part Horror, Part Thriller: A Mother's Dilemma Author: Julia Grice Sherry Vincent is haunted by memories of her summer as a 12-year-old: of the handsome teacher, the secret meeting with him and her friends, what he did, and what the town did afterwards. It’s something she can never escape, and now as a recently divorced single mother, raising her beautiful 12-year-old daughter Kady, all the fears are coming back. When someone begins to buzz their remote house with a snowmobile, unsolicited and decidedly adult glamour shots of her daughter appear in town, and violent pornographic tapes start to arrive in the [...]

Frances Carden2022-10-01T12:24:30-07:00October 1st, 2022|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, thriller|

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|