Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours. Charlie Reade …

Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis by Yoshikazu Takeuchi My rating: 5 of 5 stars Several years ago, my daughter was going to get rid of this book because she didn't like it as much as the movie and she asked if I was interested in checking it out, I said 'yes'. I mean…

Boneset & Feathers by Gwendolyn Kiste My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow. This story turned out to be quite the dark fairy tale, and I was hooked from beginning to end. Odette lives in a village full of people who don't want her there because they're scared she's a witch. Ye…

Cynthia Pelayo sings a song for the least of us, the victim we want to forget as soon as possible, the one who disappeared before ever really appearing. With a fairy tale gaze and a heart bigger than the world, her siren song insinuates itself past our defenses, past the hardened calluses…

Last year, while working on the edit for WALL OF DOLLS , I decided it was time to put a Revision Plan  together... It took me well over a year to complete this goal. I started in April 2021 and finished September 2022. The plan was long and involved a lot of hard work, but I committed b…

Hey! Long time no blog, huh? So, how are you? What's new? What have you been up to? 😁 After getting several revision drafts done in a row, I decided to take most of August off, and spent it with my awesome husband while he was between jobs. It was a lovely break and prepared me for t…

The Lenormand Fortune-telling Cards: The Legendary 18th-Century Oracle by Harald Josten My rating: 5 of 5 stars Okay, this is another deck we picked up during pre-Covid sales in a bookstore. It's more Oracle deck than tarot, but I love the artwork. The writing on the actual cards…

Tarot Deck by Bounty My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had this tarot deck for quite a while and can't believe I haven't reviewed it yet. 👀 This deck isn't fancy, it's pretty much all the cards stuck inside a snug box that fits them perfectly. There's also no gu…

The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck and Guidebook by Kim Krans My rating: 5 of 5 stars This happens to be a tarot deck that I forgot I had. 👀 I vaguely remember picking it up at a bookstore pre-Covid, but I'm not sure where. I think it might've been in the city, and it could'v…

The Literary Witches Oracle: A 70-Card Deck and Guidebook by Taisia Kitaiskaia My rating: 5 of 5 stars Yet another beautiful deck to add to my collection! This one features 30 creative women from literary history, including Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Plath and Angela Carte…

When The Ghost Dog Howls by R.L. Stine My rating: 2 of 5 stars Late last week, I set myself a small reading challenge: read the 10 Goosebumps HorrorLand books we found in one of our local thrift stores earlier this year. Well, this is the last one. And I have to say it's one …

Escape From Horrorland by R.L. Stine My rating: 3 of 5 stars While the previous Goosebumps HorrorLand books were novels with a shortie at the end, this entire installment takes place in HorrorLand. Well, actually, that's not right. It takes place in Panic Park. That's righ…

Help! We Have Strange Powers! by R.L. Stine My rating: 1 of 5 stars Okay, so this book was SO meh, I had to skim a lot of it. The problem is that I didn't find Jillian and Jackson very interesting. Actually, their story was boring and quite ridiculous. These two are twins who d…

Say Cheese - And Die Screaming by R.L. Stine My rating: 2 of 5 stars This happens to be the eighth book in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series and I didn't enjoy it as much as some of the others. I read another Say Cheese and Die! story a few years back, which I really enjoyed. …

My Friends Call Me Monster by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars You know, when I started reading this book, I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy it. I mean, it starts with three friends breaking into their teacher's house to dump a black cat, hoping to freak her out becau…

Who's Your Mummy? by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'm really enjoying this Goosebumps HorrorLand reading binge. Especially after finishing this AWESOME book. Abby and her brother Peter go to stay with their Uncle Jonathan, who they don't know, because their grand…

Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz by R.L. Stine My rating: 1 of 5 stars I know this is aimed at kids, but there's a reason why people don't like stories that end with 'and it was all a dream' . Although this book didn't end on that note exactly, the same vibes are t…

The Scream of the Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, this happens to be the fourth book in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series. It's also technically the third book about the dreaded Haunted Mask, but because I've found most of these books in thrift stor…

Creep from the Deep by R.L. Stine My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the second book in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series and although the cover is super cool, it doesn't match the story. At all. When siblings, Billy and Sheena spend the summer on their uncle's boat, they'…

Revenge of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars This happens to be the first Goosebumps HorrorLand book, but it's not actually the first I've read in this series. Britney Crosby doesn't like her annoying cousin, so when Ethan arrives with a creepy ven…

Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love the cover illustration for this story as much as the story. It's awesome, but also fits the narrative perfectly. A laborer called Chessup works with a small crew hired to help clean up a flooded creek outside…

Disney Villains Tarot Deck and Guidebook | Movie Tarot Deck | Pop Culture Tarot by Minerva Siegel My rating: 5 of 5 stars My husband surprised me with this beautiful, but wicked Tarot deck the other day. Actually, I didn't know it was coming until it arrived. It was such a love…

The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells-told by the bombshell herself. Yours Cruelly, Elvira is an unforgettably wild memoir. Cassandra doesn't shy away from revealing e…