Out of all the popular Universal monsters, werewolves may have appeared the most often in ‘90s children’s literature. There was something about these hirsute creatures of the night that appealed to young readers back then. Through adult eyes, werewolves are a duality of man and beast, day and night, and good and evil. For kids, […]
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The theater is no doubt a stressful place to work. From technical difficulties to difficult talent, no production is without its troubles. Yet sometimes more than a good show is at risk — lives are threatened. This installment of Buried in a Book shines a spotlight on the unexpected horrors lurking behind the curtains. Jahnna […]
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Almost a year after Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday sent the infamous Mr. Voorhees into the not-so-sweet hereafter, the third book in Berkley’s Camp Crystal Lake series was published. At the time, it wasn’t clear when Jason would be back on the big screen, but his story continued in random books (not novelizations) […]
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Dolls will never go out of fashion as a child’s toy, but in horror literature, they reached their peak somewhere in the 1980s. There was no quicker way to convey unease by illustrating a creepy doll on a book cover, though on many occasions a doll wasn’t even a crucial part of the story. These […]
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Had it not already been taken, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” would have been a better title for Michael August’s second volume in the Scream series. Instead, this 1994 book borrows the name of a relatively obscure 1980 slasher movie, New Year’s Evil, but it hardly has any slashing. August (real name: Sidney Williams) […]
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The 1991 anthology Haunting Christmas Tales is rooted in a British tradition that dates back to the Victorian age — telling ghost stories around the holidays. The nine authors here all pay homage to this creepy custom. From spirits with unfinished business to an ominous pair of dolls, every original story here delivers Christmas chillers […]
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Of all the many Fear Street stories he’s written, author R. L. Stine managed to narrow his personal favorites down to eight books. And if someone wasn’t familiar with Stine’s fondness for humor, they might be surprised to see Silent Night as one of his top picks. The second volume in the spinoff series Fear […]
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All Andrea wants this year for Christmas is a little peace. And after being the target of harassment for the last year, she deserves it. The teenage protagonist at the heart of the 1993 book Slay Ride can’t even ride the bus to school without being made the subject of lewd jokes and unfounded rumors. […]
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Dreams can often be a welcome retreat from reality, but other times they’re a source of dread. The teenage characters in this edition of Buried in a Book find themselves at the mercy of evil when they fall asleep. The answers to their extraordinary real-life problems are hidden somewhere deep within their psyches. From archaic […]
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College applications and the SATs are already part of a stressful time for young people without adding murder to the mix. Much like her contemporaries, though, Nicole Davidson knew death could strike at any time or any place. The young-adult author uses this familiar rite of passage as the backdrop of her 1990 novel Crash […]
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Classic children’s literature often reflects their young readers’ real-life issues at home and school. But somewhere in the 1980s, the kids in these books started having less ordinary predicaments. On top of their usual concerns were now ghosts and other unnatural threats. And if there was one author who helped launch and maintain this new […]
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Considering his pen name, it comes as no surprise that Christopher Pike is a fan of science fiction. Pike, born Kevin Christopher McFadden, is well regarded as a horror author, yet a closer look at his written output reveals an affinity for sci-fi. Of course his publishers were more inclined to hide that aspect back […]
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One of the most common (and overused) setups in horror has to be a young babysitter fending off a killer. The trope existed on and off screen before Halloween, but there’s no denying the 1978 movie influenced countless people to make their own comparable stories about imperiled caregivers. Now, readers will take one look at […]
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“Let’s murder her!” What started out as a morbid joke among friends is now dangerously real in the 1993 book Halloween Night. A simple class assignment — plan the perfect murder — inspires Brenda Morgan and her two best friends to kill. Things have been tense since Brenda’s cousin Halley moved in with her family; […]
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The Point Horror line made every day feel like Halloween, but the Scholastic series had only a few books specifically set around the October holiday. The first of these seasonal offerings, Richie Tankersley Cusick’s 1989 book Trick or Treat, centers around a teenager who’s deathly afraid of her own home. As everyone else around her […]
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