Fear Filled Reads

It is that time of year, Happy Halloween.

This is the time of year that I tend to read more horror, thrillers and scary stories.  What are some of your favorite scary books?  Here are some of mine...

Griffin Hayes has managed to suck me in to his twisted, delightful world.  He has easily become one of my favorite authors, and I love turning to him any time of the year, but especially this time of year.  Malice is by far one of my favorite Griffin Hayes books, and I highly recommend them and encourage you to check him out.

My review of Malice is here.
               

Stephen King is the spinner of many tales that craft the twisted landscape of my nightmares. The Shining is by far one of those books that gets under your skin, at least it gets under mine and I love books like that, I really, really do.  If I had some extra money, or if it was readily available at my library I would be reading Doctor Sleep, the second book in the Shining Series this Halloween.  It is one that I will definitely be adding to my collection because I'm by far a huge fan of Stephen King.

This book by Todd Russell absolutely is not a book to read in the dark.  It will definitely get under your skin and make you fear things in the dark.  I only read this in daylight hours because it got under my skin that much, and I loved each and every moment of this book.  It was fantastic! I highly recommend it, and it is still free on Smashwords if I remember correctly!

My review of Fresh Flesh can be found here.

There are several other books that I won't read in the dark, and I love them dearly.  I tend to read to them especially around this time of year, among other times when I want the spine tingling thrill that they bring.

Thriller Thursday!

Welcome to Thriller Thursday!

Today's reviews are a pair of horror books one by Todd Russell titled Fresh Flesh and the other is Malice by Griffin Hayes.  If you love scary stories then these books are for you.  They will get your imagination flowing and have you jumping at things that go bump in the night.

Review: Fresh Flesh by Todd Russell
Review: Malice by Griffin Hayes

Scary stories and movies have always been around.  We've all come into contact with them at some point in our lives - summer camp, ghost stories at slumber parties, urban legends that we just had to try out and various other things.  These things for me have always been a guilty pleasure, especially the psychological thrillers that get in your head and completely mess with you.  I've been hooked on authors such as Stephen King and even as far back as reading the Goosebumps and Fear Street Saga series by R.L. Stein.  I've been a horror junkie for as long as I can remember.

I love things that get into your head and make you almost afraid to turn off the lights at night because well, there just may be something out there that can and will eat you! *insert evil laugh here!*

In all seriousness, some of my favorite movies are psychological thrillers such as The Cell staring Jennifer Lopez (I realize most people thought this movie was crap, but I ABSOLUTELY adored it!).  I also am so entirely a pathetically drooling fangirl of the original Silence of the Lambs movie (not so much the movies of the other books in this series).  Anthony Hopkins can be my boogie man any day...just like Tim Curry can be my nightmare inspiring clown whenever his little heart desires.

We are all afraid of something, no matter how hard we try and deny it.  Clowns, bees, wasps, insects in general, thunder, lightning, the dark.  Something terrifies us and makes us wish that we could be cuddled and coddled until it goes away, or makes us want to do something to remove said fear inspiring thing from the general vicinity.

What makes you tremble? What are you most afraid of?

What are your favorite horror stories? Your favorite urban legends? What is your favorite scary movie?

Book Review: Fresh Flesh by Todd Russell

Title:  Fresh Flesh
Author:  Todd Russell
Rating: 4/5

Summary:  The ocean surrounds the secret.
Last night a wicked storm swept a beautiful sacrifice onto the shore.
Shipwrecked Jessica Stanton is about to be discovered, cherished, and trained to survive on a remote island by a man who is not what he seems.
There is a place on earth where unrestrained evil flourishes.
Welcome home, Jessica.(Taken from Goodreads.com)


Review:  From the title, one would expect a zombie story, however this is most definitely not a zombie story.  More so it can be classified as a modernized pulp story, and it is a cross of Battle Royale, Lord of the Flies and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

It took me a few pages to get into the story, but with that nagging gut feeling that the twisted part of my mind that adored books like this told me to keep reading and I’m quite glad that I did.  I was sucked onto the island with the rest of them as their back stories began to unfold, and as I learned more and more about them I wasn’t exactly sure what in the heck to expect.  The ending was bittersweet, but as this was pretty much a horror story, it was fitting and I wouldn’t have expected anything less. 

This is one of those stories that lingers with you, and it is most definitely going to linger in the dark corners of my mind for quite some time.


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