Spine Chillers Mysteries

SpineChillers Mysteries: Attack of the Killer House [Review]

Attack of the Killer House is the second book in the SpineChillers book series. I’d never heard of the SpineChillers Mysteries books growing up in the UK, and I imagine most British readers will be in the same boat. In the US, the ’90s were a different story—Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark weren’t just popular, they were controversial, with certain parent groups accusing them of promoting satanic themes. (Utter nonsense, of course.) At the same time, plenty of authors spent the ’90s chasing the Goosebumps formula. But none of these so-called ‘knockoffs’ tackled the complaints from...