"Home Before Dark" by Riley Sager

In Home Before Dark by Riley Saser, Maggie Holt's dad wrote a book called House of Horrors, a true story about a haunted house his family lived in.  It made a lot of money.  On his death bed, he told Maggie to never go back to that house and she agreed.  But Maggie did not keep her word and goes back to that house.  Will anything happen?  

For the first 200 pages, I was bored.  However, the next 354 pages were good, very good!  This has one of the best ending I've come across in a book for a long time!  Maggie was a great character!  (Gerard's review, 5++ stars)

Teaser from page 21:  It wasn't safe, my father told police.  Something was wrong with Baneberry Hall.  Unaccountable things had happened there.  Dangerous things.

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"How to Hang a Witch" by Adriana Mather

In How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather, Sam has moved to Salem, the site of the infamous witch trials.  Her family had some history in those, and when strange things begin to happen to people when Sam is nearby, people say that she is "cursed" and they want her gone!

This novel was okay.  I connected with Sam, but not so much with the other characters.  This would be a really good book to read around Halloween because it certainly is spooky!
(Gerard's review, 3.5 stars) 

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"The Boy Who Drew Monsters" by Keith Donohue is a Spooky Story

The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue is about Jack Peter Keenan, a boy with Aspergers who is afraid of going outside so does not, ever.  Jack draws pictures of monsters and then people begin to see them, or do they?  He has one friend, a boy about his age.   This is a really good spooky story!  I LOVED it a lot!  The ending is one of the best I have read in a while.  Give it a chance.
(Gerard's review, 5++ stars)

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"The Winter People" by Jennifer McMahon

Keep the light on after reading this one!

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon is about a mother of two young girls who one day just disappears and the girls try to find her.  There is so much more to the book than that, but to tell more would give away too much.  Suffice it to say this book will have you turning pages quickly.  If you read it at night, you might want to keep your light on.  There is plenty of "wow" moments in this one; it doesn't get much better than this!  I highly recommend it!  Read and enjoy! 

teaser from pg. 57:
Snow thudded off the branches of one of the apples trees, making Ruthie jump.  Had something else moved, something deep in the shadows?  She held her breath, waiting.
(Gerard's review, 5++ stars)

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"The Night Strangers" by Chris Bohjalian

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian is about Chip, an airline pilot. One day, through no fault of his, he has to make an emergency landing on water. Unlike the “miracle on the Hudson” landing, lots of people die. Chip and his family decide to move to a new town and buy a new house. As you would expect, this does not go well at all! Talk about a page turner, I had trouble putting this down. It's a perfect spooky read for Halloween season!
(Gerard's review)

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"House of Reckoning" by John Saul

I liked House of Reckoning by John Saul because it was so strange and gripping. It made me want to keep reading to see what would happen and drew me in right from the start.  I immediately liked the main character, Sarah, a 14-yr. old who was plowed into by her drunk father on her way to the bar to bring him home and was put into foster care when her father was taken to prison for killing the man he fought with at the bar.  She was befriended by a boy at school who was an outcast because he hallucinated so was viewed as a nut case.  

That’s when spooky things began happening.  The ending was just so far out that I felt it pushed the book into the fantasy or science fiction category.  When the house actually became alive, it was even beyond creepy and eerie.  This isn’t the type of book I normally read but it made for a great change of pace.

(Karen's review 1/15/10)

 
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"Coral" Moon by Brandilyn Collins

Coral Moon by Brandilyn Collins is a murder mystery that involves evil spiritual forces and that was a hard one to figure out. It is certainly unusual and spooky. It deals with ghosts, curses, demons and seances. I didn't like the creepiness of this one but it kept my interest to the end.  This is the second book in the Kenner Lake series and the one I liked the least.
(Karen's review April 2009)

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