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Book Review: Haunted Massachusetts by Cheri Revai

Book Review: Haunted Massachusetts by Cheri Revai

My Rating: ★★★½☆

Massachusetts is home to many strange and ghostly stories handed down for generations, from vengeful witches and tragic ghosts to UFOs and monsters. This book tells the best stories of the state by region. Featuring: The Legend of Lucy Keyes, The Dover Demon, The Black Flash, The Lizzie Borden House and North America’s First UFO.

Book Review: Before Cain Strikes by Joshua Corin

Book Review: Before Cain Strikes by Joshua Corin

My Rating: ★★★½☆

School is in session. The subject is murder. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. The only problem is, in this online classroom the students are would-be serial killers eager to learn the tricks of the trade from a master, the enigmatic Cain42. FBI consultant Esme Stuart is struggling to stanch the doubt and fear eating away at her marriage. Now a seedy truecrime writer is dredging up the deadly confrontation that nearly destroyed her. Esme knows her involvement in the case could cost her everything. Her marriage. Her daughter. Her life. But when Cain openly challenges his “students” to embark on a killing spree, she has no choice but to act— before Cain strikes another victim down…

The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)

The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

Troubled by her mother’s recent psychotic breakdown, Molly (Haley Bennett) hopes to start fresh at a new school by befriending a fellow senior (Chance Crawford) and trying her hand at being a regular kid. But the horrifying truth about her mother is destined to catch up with her. When Molly turns 18, she’ll be held accountable for a supernatural bargain made long ago … one that she can’t escape. Jake Weber co-stars in this sinister yarn.

Book Review: Weird Massachusetts by Jeff Belanger

Book Review: Weird Massachusetts by Jeff Belanger

My Rating: ★★★☆☆

If it’s unusual or unexplainable or fantastic, and in the Bay State, you’ll find it all here in Weird Massachusetts. See how the world’s biggest elephant now fits into a peanut butter jar and why it brings good luck to students, listen for those unexplained booms in Nashoba, discover the hidden secrets at Wizard’s Glen and Altar Rock, escape from the Sea Witch and the Cape Cod Mermaid, check out the Museum of Burnt Food, or eat an apple from one of Isaac Newton’s famous apple trees—but whatever you do, don’t pick up a red-headed hitchhiker on Route 44. It’s all here. It’s all weird and it’s all in Massachusetts.

Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

My Rating: ★★★★★

Jason, now at the bottom of Crystal Lake. Hitches a ride on a high school graduate cruise ship, where he picks off the teens one by one. He also makes it to New York City! Where he stalks down Rennie and Sean. Can Rennie over power Jason?

Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

My Rating: ★★★★★

The legendary horror series continues. After lying dormant at the bottom of Crystal Lake, Jason is released from his watery grave by Tina (Lar Park-Lincoln), a telekinetic teenager who returned to the site where her father drowned. She hoped to bring him back from his watery grave by using her psychic powers, but instead she sets off a killing spree helmed by the hockey-masked murderer. Can she control her powers enough to stop Jason?

Book Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Book Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

A collection of horrific tales to captivate readers. There is a story here for every reader. Tales of lovers who come back from the dead, skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth, and people who stand on graves to be grabbed by death.

Book Review: Scary Stories for Stormy Nights by R.C. Welch

Book Review: Scary Stories for Stormy Nights by R.C. Welch

My Rating: ★★★½☆

Get ready to meet a camping buddy that might just turn out to be an alien, or a strange group of people who can change themselves into just about anything. It’s all here in Scary Stories for Stormy Nights, ready to rain buckets of bone-chilling fun on everyone!

Friday The 13th Part 3 (1982)

Friday The 13th Part 3 (1982)

My Rating: ★★★★½

So we pick up where we left off in Part 2, (luckly we don’t get a 6 minute re-cap.) Jason springs to life again! He finds some new clothes, and off he goes to pray on more teenagers.This was the first Friday the 13th to feature Jason with his hockey mask!