Aug 26, 20228 min readAll Aboard Diane Hoh’s 1992 Young Adult Horror Novel ‘The Train’ [Buried in a Book]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 […] The post All Aboard Diane Hoh’s 1992 Young Adult Horror Novel ‘The Train’ [Buried in a Book] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
May 24, 20226 min read‘The Cat-Dogs’: 1995 YA Horror Anthology Delivers Six Macabre Stories [Buried in a Book]The snarling hybrid on the cover of The Cat-Dogs suggests this 1995 anthology has an animal theme. On the contrary, this collection has only a few actual beasties in it. Editor A. Finnis curates an eclectic and largely British assortment of horror, featuring everything from mythical predators to a haunted train station. No two stories are […] The post ‘The Cat-Dogs’: 1995 YA Horror Anthology Delivers Six Macabre Stories [Buried in a Book] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Feb 10, 20228 min readLove Is in the Scare: 10 Throwback Young Adult Horror Books Perfect for Valentine’s DayAnyone 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 […] The post Love Is in the Scare: 10 Throwback Young Adult Horror Books Perfect for Valentine’s Day appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.