The Smell of Ink/Lukten av Trykksverte

I recently read the non-fiction book Every Camp Has A Crystal Lake by Connor Flynn and today I'll post my review of the book. Description from Goodreads Summer camp, recess and amusement parks provided me many thrills during my childhood and no doubt for many of you. They are places of fun and enjoyment, however; when the sun goes down and the lights turn off, there are chills that lie beneath. From haunted dorms, ghost coasters and monsters under the staircase, my friends and I have had to fend off many spooky things. The historical locations in the pages of Every Camp Has A Crystal Lake are filled with many puzzling stories... try not to become the next chapter! My Thoughts on the Book I liked the idea of this book, but I felt it was so poorly executed, with little talk about the paranormal encounters and stories, and the backstory of locations and what-not, I almost felt a bit cheated. Perhaps I'm a bit spoiled in the sense that I've read quite a few well researched boo

I found the book tag called The Official Spooky Season Book Tag over at The Artsy Reader , and I honestly couldn't resist doing this one. 1: You hear a strange noise in the night – the monsters got inside! Which book character would you choose to protect you from harm? Clive from The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore & Bar by Seana Kelly 2: You go on vacation and your hotel is located right next to a cemetery. Which book character do you really hope is not hiding in the shadows? The Dover Demon from, you guessed it, The Dover Demon by Hunter Shea 3: It’s a particularly cold night and you decide to stay inside. Which three book characters would you like to spend a trivia quiz and board game night with? Keira, Zoe, and Mason from The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates 4: Time for a big adventure! The scary book you pick transports you into its world. Where do you end up? I would end up in the Scottish Highlands if I pick up Hearthstone Cottage by Frazer Lee 5: No Halloween without Trick o

It's perhaps time for another Book Blogger Hop post courtesy of  Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer  and today's topic is " Which horror-themed book or novel is your all-time favorite? Which one made you shiver or made you feel like it was Halloween? ". Book Blogger Hop For some, it may not come as a surprise when I say Bram Stoker's Dracula is my all-time favourite when it comes to horror-themed novels. While I can't deny it's fairly mild on the horror by today's standards, I still love it. I even wrote my final paper on that novel when I majored in English at university, so I am a bit of a geek when it comes to that gothic novel. Funnily enough, it was the movie Dracula - Dead and Loving It that made me interested in Dracula in the first place.

As it's soon Halloween, it's only fitting that I review some Halloween-themed books. A good while ago, I read the short story collection Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season by Kealan Patrick Burke and today I'll post my review of the book. Description from Goodreads Two brothers find themselves drawn to the only house in the neighborhood not decorated for Halloween…A man returns to his hometown to bury his overbearing mother, and finds more than memories awaiting him in the shadows of his childhood home…A young girl walks a lonely country road, recalling a rhyme that brings with it memories of death…A teenager hoping for romance gets more than he bargained for when the object of his desire introduces him to the object of hers…An aging millionaire awakes buried in a cheap coffin with only a lamp and a bell for company…The son of a woman accused of being a witch accepts the villagers' peace offering at her funeral, but all is not quite as it seems…A woman with

It's Wednesday yet again, which means it's time for another Top Five Wednesday post courtesy of  the Top Five Wednesday Goodreads group . As the theme of the week was national horror movie day, I decided to write a list of five underrated horror novels. Here's my five spine-chilling reads. Slash by Hunter Shea Description from Goodreads Five years after Ashley King survived the infamous Resort Massacre, she’s found hanging in her basement by her fiancé, Todd Matthews. She left behind clues as to what really happened that night, clues that may reveal the identity of the killer the press has called The Wraith. With the help of his friends, Todd goes back to the crumbling Hayden Resort, a death-tinged ruin in the Catskills Mountains. What they find is a haunted history that’s been lying in wait for a fresh set of victims. The Wraith is back, and he’s nothing what they expected. Greyfriars Reformatory by Frazer Lee Description from Goodreads Nineteen year-old Emily's acute

Earlier this month, I read the short story collection This Is Halloween by James A. Moore and today I'll post my review of the book. Description from Goodreads Author James A. Moore offers up ten autumnal tales of the darker things that lurk just around the corner of Indian Summer. A man learns of a town's obsession with scarecrows and tries to find the answers as to why they are so important. Children move through familiar streets and find that Halloween makes everything different. Tis' the season when ghosts are real, witches soar through the night, and things in the Beldam Woods are not always what they seem. Sometimes it's the monsters that wear the masks. My Thoughts on the Book James A. Moore has a writing style that sucks you into the short stories and almost makes you feel like you're tagging along. I especially enjoyed some of his descriptions in the short stories. As with the short stories themselves, there were of course some I liked more than others, su