Horror Movie Freak: James Wan’s Dead Silence.


with its easily digestible plot synopses of each featured movie, as well as an abundance of stills, quotes and marketing materials littering its 250-plus pages, Horror Movie Freak could easily succeed as a makeshift Intro to Horror class.


JESS PEACOCK SCARY SCIENCE: 25 CREEPY EXPERIMENTS


[Our fearless eleven-year-old critic gives us the kid’s-eye view on mad science.] Most kids love experiments, no matter how old they may be. Some kids like experiments because


they make a huge mess, while other kids like them because they are learning something. All of the experiments in this book are horror-related and include different characters, such as ghosts, goblins and zombies. The experiments are supposed to be scary, but honestly, I don’t think they were very scary at all. However, what the book does provide are really cool and interesting exper- iments based on science, using items found around the house – eggs, rubber bands, nylons – and cooking ingredients, like baking soda and vinegar. I was able to do fifteen out of the 25 experiments. Most I did without adult supervision, but the


ones that suggested help do so for a reason, since some of the tasks are a bit tricky or could end up in a big mess (like Bubbling Alien Blood and The Exploding Stomach). Almost every experiment worked out just as the book said it would (except Spiderwebs, which I found time-consuming since it took more than five hours to make and didn’t even turn out in the end). For the ten experiments I didn’t do (including Flesh-Eating Zombie, Levitating Spirits and Things That Glow in the Dark), it was mainly because I didn’t have the supplies, like a black light, borax, guar gum, citric acid or a PVC plumbing pipe. These items can be purchased at stores with the help of parents but not having them on hand will make it impossible to do the experiments. I would recommend this book because I like doing experiments and these ones are especially


fun. I also liked how the book gave a scientific explanation for how the projects worked and why I ended up with the results that I did. I think this would be a great book for people to have at home because you can do most of the experiments using supplies on hand and kids can do some of them independently. Teachers could also use this book at school because it’s a fun way to learn about science and there are “Strange... But True” facts for each experiment that would keep the students interested.


HANNAH GARCES-SLOANE


THE PLAGUE YEARS Michael Marano Cemetery Dance With this many unreliable narra- tors, you may never trust a protag- onist again. Award-winning dark fantasy author and frequent Ceme- tery Dance contributor Michael Marano compiles seven shorts and two novellas for this collection of abstract stories exploring disjointed minds. Explore the delusional brain of a serial killer in “Displacement” or examine how illness erodes sanity (“Winter Requiem”). An inconsistent but intriguing series of mindfucks.


STORIES FROM JESSA SOBCZUK


AUTUMN David Moody


Thomas Dunne David Moody’s Autumn tells the story of (sigh) another zombie pandemic and the people who must survive it. As is typically the case with Moody’s work, it’s well written and features strongly ren- dered characters, but this tale ul- timately lacks the spark of his high-octane Hater, and will feel too familiar to anyone who has read or watched any- thing rotter-related in the past ten years. For completists and unrepentant zombiephiles only.


BRAD ABRAHAM


THE ART OF DREW STRUZAN Drew Struzan


and David J. Schow Titan Director Frank Darabont’s railing introduction against the current trend of Photoshopped movie posters versus beautifully hand- crafted artwork almost brought tears to my illustration-loving eyes. And he’s absolutely right, Drew Struzan is indeed a dying breed of artist. This new oversized coffee-table tome gives us a privileged step-by- step look at Struzan’s process (with Hellboy and The Green Mile) and insight into his most iconic works (including The Thing and The Mist).


GARY PULLIN


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