Book Reviews This Month, October
Dracula
Bram Stoker
When Jonathan Harker is sent to Transylvania to plan some business for a cryptic nobleman, he’s warned by the villagers that Count Dracula has evil powers and hellish desires. When Jonathon attempts to leave he discovers that the villagers are right and he is held captive by the count and barely escapes as well as being very injured. Meanwhile back in England, his beautiful fiance Mina, joins her friend Lucy in Whitby to wait for Jonathon to return. Lucy falls ill and begins acting very strangely and it becomes apparent that Lucy’s illness is related to the evil count. With the help of two of Lucy’s suitors, a great old professor is called. To protect Mina, Jonathon sets off back to Transylvania to destroy the blood thirsty beast.
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
Solicitor Arthur Kipps, is brought forward to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the house’s sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, unaware of the sorrowful secrets which lie hidden behind the windows of the house. The house stands at the end of a causeway, surrounded in a gloomy fog and secrecy, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that an uncanny sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the hesitancy of the locals to talk of the woman in black and her ghastly purpose.
Salem’s Lot
Stephen King
Many miles away from the small township of ‘Salem’s Lot, a panic-stricken man and boy still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. for a final confrontation with the inexpressible evil that lives on in the town, they must return to ‘Salem’s Lot. The turmoil of this book will leave you terrified to leave your own house!
Haunted
James Herbert
Psychic investigator David Ash is working to seek fraudulent psychics and prove false the theory of ghosts. David then goes to Edbrook house by Miss Webb who believes that she in fact being haunted. Throughout his stay, he then begins to encounter the chilling horrors of Edbrook and also the extended family of Miss Webb.
The Replacement
Brenna Yovanoff
There is something not quite right with Mackie Doyle. He lives in the small town of Gentry he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron and blood Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world. Mackie, more than anything wants to live amongst humans, to do human things and to spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate’s baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn completely into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place in this world or theirs.