For today’s
countdown to Halloween reading suggestion: Doorbells at Dusk. It is an anthology
of contemporary horror stories set on Halloween night. Or day,
sometimes. Quite a lot to love here: a paranoid psycho turns out to be
right about an alien invasion of doppelgängers, a young boy
from a religious family who may or may not have a mental illness
discovers (or hallucinates) his true supernatural parentage, a gang of
home invaders get into trouble with undead creatures, a divorced father
high on booze and drugs becomes afraid of the monster hiding under his
son’s bed, a teenage boy unleashes a devilish entity by carving pumpkins, a
midwife turns out to be a baby snatching witch. And that’s just a few of the stories there.
Not great literature perhaps, but very entertaining and it does give good chills. It was this year's discovery for me in my Halloween reads. Friday, 19 October 2018
Doorbells at Dusk
For today’s
countdown to Halloween reading suggestion: Doorbells at Dusk. It is an anthology
of contemporary horror stories set on Halloween night. Or day,
sometimes. Quite a lot to love here: a paranoid psycho turns out to be
right about an alien invasion of doppelgängers, a young boy
from a religious family who may or may not have a mental illness
discovers (or hallucinates) his true supernatural parentage, a gang of
home invaders get into trouble with undead creatures, a divorced father
high on booze and drugs becomes afraid of the monster hiding under his
son’s bed, a teenage boy unleashes a devilish entity by carving pumpkins, a
midwife turns out to be a baby snatching witch. And that’s just a few of the stories there.
Not great literature perhaps, but very entertaining and it does give good chills. It was this year's discovery for me in my Halloween reads.
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