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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‘Tis the season of gift giving, but when it comes to books, the choices can be overwhelming. This year has unleashed an endless selection of great options to fill those bookshelves, from fiction to graphic novels to nonfiction. Where do you even begin, you might be wondering? These 13 books are excellent gifts for you or […]
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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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I always wanted to be a Ghostbuster. Still do, honestly. Whether you’re a kid or an adult, Ghostbusters remains an appealing power fantasy. Unlike most cinematic action heroes of their time, the Ghostbusters were pragmatic capitalists to a fault. Their most formidable foes weren’t Gozer the Destructor or Viggo the Carpathian, but bureaucratic naysayers who […]
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Shaun Hamill’s excellent debut novel A Cosmology of Monsters is getting a small screen adaptation, with Deadline reporting today that the series will be an “elevated family drama.” From Saloon Media, “the book will be adapted into an eight-part series.” A Cosmology of Monsters follows the Turner family, who operate an immersive haunted house experience […]
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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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In late September, Encyclopocalypse unleashed Fright Night: Origins, a book touted as the definitive literary adaptation of Tom Holland’s 1985 comedy creature feature. Springing straight from the inkwell of Holland himself with some help from novelist A. Jack Ulrich, Origins is a (mostly) unabridged account of the events you remember from the original movie. It […]
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With the revival series going strong, Andrew Smith, Senior Vice President, and Publisher of Abrams Children’s Books, has announced today a forthcoming, 5-book middle grade novel and graphic novel series in partnership with Paramount Consumer Products and inspired by Nickelodeon’s hit anthology TV horror classic, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Published under the Amulet […]
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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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Mike Flanagan’s long-awaited adaptation of The Midnight Club has finally made its way to Netflix. Geared at a slightly younger audience, the series is an adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s novel about five teenagers living out their final days at Brightcliffe Manor, a hospice for terminal youth. Each night they gather in the ornate library to […]
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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 Haunted Mask II was originally published in October 1995 (Spine #36). The series adaptation aired on Tuesday, October 29, 1996 (runtime: 22 minutes and 22 minutes). Sequels are part and parcel with the horror genre, inescapably ever-present and all but inevitable when any particularly scary, spooky or otherwise strange property manages to profoundly connect with […]
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This month marks the publication of Titan’s final Michael Myers movie tie-in, Halloween Ends. Authored by the series’ co-screenwriter, Paul Brad Logan, Halloween Ends sets itself apart from the film version by giving fans entirely new side-stories involving The Shape, Laurie Strode and their doomed Haddonfield neighbors. Expanding the Blumhouse trilogy’s lore, throwing in some […]
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