Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Octavius Grimwood's Graveyard Guide

Octavius Grimwood's Graveyard Guide: 
Vampires, Zombies, and Things You Don't Want to Meet in the Night
     written by Rod Green



 Open the coffin lid of this book if you dare (yes this book is actually in the shape of a coffin!) and you are in for a spooky read!






Octavius Grimwood shares his investigations and personal notes with you about the supernatural, spooky, and weird.



His ghost serves as a guide through the book as you learn about ghosts, skeletons, mummies, zombies, and vampires.

You'll read graveyard tales, find out details about haunted houses, learn about witches through history and literature, how to cast a spell, and so much more.

ISBN: 978-0-7641-6377-7

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

You Can't Scare Me!

You Can't Scare Me! A guide to the Strange and Supernatural
      written by Ticktock






Here is a collection of real life trivia about the supernatural organized into different categories with photos to accompany the text. Learn about everything from hauntings, to ghosts and vampires, to antural monsters, werecreatures, mysteries and the occult, ESP, close encounters, chnneling the supernatural, witches and warlocks, mysticism and miracles, magic, energies, and psychic powers, and more.

Learn about fakes and frauds, restless souls, phantom ships, ghost busting, and classical monsters, how to cast the oracle, use tarot cards, and dowsing for water.



ISBN: 978-0-545-28101-0

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into/ Bones: Terrifying Tales to Haunt your Dreams

Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into
 Bones: Terrifying Tales to Haunt your Dreams
    a flip book edited by Lois Metzger
                      
  Guaranteed to tickle your horror bone, here is the ultimate flip book of scary stories from familiar tween and teen authors and screenwriters. 14 stories are shared, seven each flip.

From the "Bites" Side you are forewarned with the following advise:
1. It's not enough to watch your back....Watch your neck too!
2. There isn't always honor among vampires.
3. Do not become the "guests of honor" at a vampire dinner.
4. Stay out of direct sunlight. At the very least wear sunblock.
5. Never remove the silver bullets from a dead werewolf body.
6. Don't steal...especially rare artifacts.
7. You can't teach a ghost dog new tricks.

There are seven stories about bites on this side of the book....but as the author states, " Sometimes, one bite is all it takes!
Read on at your own risk!

The flip side of this book is "Bones," the author lets you know that none of the stories really happened so the reader can relax and enjoy....except that the eye-witness descriptions are chilling and seem based in real events and happenings...so could it be that the goal is to lull the reader into a false sense of security???? Seven more stories of ghosts, hauntings, and stalkings so be sure to keep looking ver your shoulder, someone might be following you after all!

Included at the end of each flip side are bio trivia about each of the authors including their other works, horror or not. I especially liked these sections so that if the reader liked a particular story, the author is right there to recommend other titles that particular author has written. Great idea!

ISBN: 978-0-545-27651-1

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness

Four classic tales, "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," "Hop Frog," and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by the master of classic horror and mystery Edgar Allen Poe, are retold for the younger set and accompanied by the spidery inked drawings of illustrator Gris Grimly. 

Throughout the telling of each tale, the myriad of drawings lend a graphic novel feel to this delightfully wicked horror collection. Warning! Not for flashlight readers! Be sure to keep your lights on :)

Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Madness. Revised ed. Simon & Schuster Children's, 2004. 

ISBN 978-0689848377