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Evil Santa's reflection in a jingle bell on the cover of Jo Gibson's Slay Bells
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Thrift Store Finds: Slay Bells

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 8, 2019April 5, 2020
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You better watch out, you better not cry. Santa Clause is coming to decimate a bunch of teens.

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Soul Eater house from Dana Brookins' horror novel
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Thrift Store Finds: Soul Eater

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 2, 2019April 5, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Dana Brookins’ Soul Eater checks the boxes of a classic haunted house book: flawed characters, a run down town, skeptics, believers. And yet in classic mid-80s fashion, it still ends up marching to the beat of its own drum.

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The top of Angelina's cane. A closer look at the cover of Black Ambrosia.
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Paperbacks From Hell: Black Ambrosia

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on November 14, 2019April 5, 2020
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Angelina Watson wasn’t bitten by a vampire.

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Cover design for "The Cellar," featuring a door knob and claw marks.
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Thrift Store Finds: THE CELLAR, or “What Did I Just Read?”

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on October 8, 2019April 5, 2020
  • 3 Comments

You’ll find a bit more than the regular basement fare down here.

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A crop of the cover design for the book "Scarecrow."
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Thrift Store Finds: SCARECROW

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 22, 2019April 5, 2020
  • 5 Comments

I think we can all agree the scarecrow sub genre could use more good stories.

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Thrift Store Finds: DEMON FIRE

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 15, 2019April 5, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Aloha! Welcome to hell.

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Thrift Store Finds: SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 10, 2019April 5, 2020
  • 1 Comment

“Save the Last Dance For Me” is the perfect horror novel gateway drug for those into soap operas, rogue detective stories, or happen to be a pre-teen girl.

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Thrift Store Finds: SALEM’S CHILDREN

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 2, 2019April 5, 2020
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Thrift Store Finds–Analog Books. Digital Reviews. I find a lot of horror novels at thrift stores. Instead of letting them languish on the shelf, I’ve decided to start a little […]

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Thrift Store Finds: THE BEAST WITHIN

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 1, 2019April 5, 2020
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“The Beast Within” is a roller coaster ride in a trash compactor of bottom-of-the-barrel fun.

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