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Fear Street / Novel

Fear Street Super Chiller: The New Year’s Party Review

3 reasons why you should read Fear Street Super Chiller: The New Year’s Party – and 1 why you should avoid! R. L. Stine’s New Year holiday horror Super Chiller, The New Year’s Party was released in December 1995 (for New Year’s 1996). 30 years later, it is being reviewed here on the blog! As promised, within this review there will be 3 reasons why you should bother with this particular Fear Street. Even though it’s currently January, that reason alone shouldn’t be sufficient. The first reason you should read this book is that it is structured very differently from...

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Documentary

Review: ‘Scary Stories’ A nostalgic treat full of empty calories

Being a kid in the 1990s was to live within the heyday of horror YA fiction. There was an explosion of horror book series aimed at children and teens, including; Goosebumps, Spooksville, Fear Street, Point Horror, Shivers, Creepers, Spine Chillers Mysteries, Bone Chillers… I could go on!

Looking to appeal to this same target audience was anthologies of short stories, yet little to none of these captured the public imagination like the trio of Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark (1981-1991). The Scary Stories documentary aims to delve deeper into these books…

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Novel / Spooksville

Spooksville: Aliens in the Sky Review

Aliens in the Sky shows a lot of social conscience for a book aimed at YA audience. With such sentiments as ‘girls can be heroes too’, awareness of the effects of climate change, themes of activism and even a comment about race relations can all be found here. There was also a particular level of violence, or at least hinted at, in this book – making it an interesting read overall!

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Novel

36 Sci-Fi Horror and Alien Books from the 90s

Over the past couple of weeks, I have really got the sci-fi bug. Whilst you won’t find me watching Star Trek or Star Wars anytime soon, I have been enjoying science fiction, particularly books that feature extra-terrestrials, but with a horror twist.

This of course led me to research what sci-fi horror titles are out there. Here is that list!

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Goosebumps / Novel

Chicken Chicken Review

According to the Goosebumps Fanwiki, R. L. Stine took inspiration from Stephen Kings’s Thinner when writing Chicken Chicken. Will it compare? Surely not?! Let’s scratch a little deeper…