Microreview Round 8: Spook-tober
To play: answer the prompts and tag your friends to do the same. Optional: use #microreview and check out @microreviews for “rules,” reviews, and more!
What do you like in a spooky book? Slow burn? Ghosts? Monsters? Zombies? Serial killers? I like slow burn psychological horror. Is the house really haunted? Are they really stalking you? Are you just losing your mind? Who knows! I also love game-changing plot twists, like everything I’ve read up to this point hasn’t been at all what I thought it was.
What’s your favorite Halloween read (be it horror, thriller, graphic novel, etc.)? Recently, it’s been Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts and Dawn Kurtagich’s And the Trees Crept In.
What about it makes it your favorite? They’ve both got the things I like. You assume one thing is happening, but is it really? These are both different kinds of horror. Tremblay’s deals with a family and an exorcism, Kurtagich’s is about orphans trying to survive surrounded by a spooky forest.
What's a good horror or scary movie to pair it with? Hm... My first instinct would be to say The Exorcist, for one. For Trees I would say Blair Witch (2016) or The Forest. Lots of questioning reality and sanity. But watch at your own risk, because these movies can be quite triggering.
I can’t wait to see what everyone else has to say!
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