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“Skinamarink” Written and Directed by Kyle Edward Ball

Siblings Kaylee and Kevin are regular kids, living with their single dad. But when they wake up one night to find all the doors and windows in their house gone and that their father has disappeared, the two struggle to make it through the night by themselves while the force that manipulates their home starts […]

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“I Was a Teenage Slasher” by Stephen Graham Jones

Told by Tolly Driver, a teenager trying to just get by in a desolate small town in West Texas in 1989, I Was a Teenage Slasher turns the genre upside down and tells the story from the perspective of the vengeful killer and not his victims. How does one become a slasher? How do slashers […]

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“The September House” by Carissa Orlando

Most people might be put off by the ghosts living in their house, but Margaret is not most people. She is patient, she knows the rules, and she will not let a little disembodied screaming chase her out of her dream home. Sure, some of the ghosts bite, and yes the walls bleed horrendously every […]

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“The Innocents” by Jack Clayton

“The Innocents” (1961), directed by Jack Clayton and starring Deborah Kerr just a few years after she filmed “An Affair to Remember” and “The King and I”, is a creepy, dark ghost movie-cum-psychological thriller well worth a peek (during the daytime, with a friend in the room). Based on Henry James’ iconic ghost story The […]

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“Vampires of El Norte” by Isabel Cañas

Growing up on her family’s hacienda in 1840s Mexico was difficult enough with the threat of aggressive Anglo settlers from the north, but Nena wasn’t prepared to face the sinister and terrifying creatures that come from the dark and seem to suck the very life from people.  It is one of these creatures that changes […]

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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom

So, take The Handmaid’s Tale and bring it back to it’s origins: Puritan, colonial America. Now, make the main character reactive Janine instead of calculating June. And give her a friend who happens to be a demon that is having an existential crisis. Yes, I’m serious. And this is just the start. This book, beloved […]

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Daunting Movies and Haunting Reads Booklist

This month we are featuring a booklist of scary movies to watch and spooky books to enjoy! Looking for something new? We have many booklists to spark your interest! “Hereditary” directed by Ari Aster Watch the psychological supernatural horror film Hereditary, about a grieving family who is haunted by a tragic and disturbing occurrence. Then […]

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“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” by Ana Lily Amirpour

The vampire in “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” (2014) doesn’t seem to relish being a vampire. It seems she’d rather be listening to music, or eating hamburgers brought to her by cute boys. There are only three kills in the entire movie, two of them perpetrated against men mistreating women. In between these […]

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Jaws by Peter Benchley

Just in time for Shark Week. Have you read the book that started it all? Before the iconic movie there was this book published in 1974 and written by Peter Benchley. If you can get past the egregiously dated language and attitudes of the 1970s, this book makes entertaining beach reading or can help extend […]

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Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Becca is new to Piedmont High and quickly attracts the attention of the most popular girls in school. To her confusion and amazement, they want her to join their squad – sit with them at lunch, go shopping after school, and attend parties. At one said party, Becca finds herself being led into the woods […]