Trains as a mode of travel seems old-fashioned nowadays, but in storytelling, they remain a persuasive setting for tales of unease and suspense. The endless railroad does wonders for Diane Hoh’s 1992 young-adult book aptly titled The Train. By placing her characters on a cross-country tour with no handy means of escape, the author underlines […]
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According to the horror genre, summer camps are teeming with killers and other unusual dangers. These seasonal getaways designed for adventure and fun quickly turn into fights for survival. And it’s not just in the movies where a young camper’s sleeping bag doubles as their body bag; books also present camps as hotbeds of death, […]
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Anyone who spent a great deal of their childhood reading them knows for a fact that there is no dearth of romance in the paperback young adult horrors of yesteryear. Unfortunately those brushes with young love left behind scars; they put these pulpy stories’ teenage characters in mortal danger. In their heyday, young adult horror […]
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