Join me for 30 Days of Horror in which we spotlight one horror book for each day until we reach Halloween!
Happy Friday 13th horror fans!
I’ve chosen another recent(ish) release that I’m yet to get hold of for tonight’s horror book choice. It was definitely the striking colours of the cover that got my attention initially, but the premise sounds amazing too!
Published March 1st 2017 by Farrar Straus & Giroux
Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut
Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It’s the 1990s, pre-DVD, and the work is predictable and familiar; he likes his boss, and it gets him out of the house.
But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets, she has an odd complaint: ‘There’s something on it,’ she says. Two days later, another customer brings back She’s All That and complains that something is wrong: ‘There’s another movie on this tape.’
Curious, Jeremy takes a look. And what he sees on the videos is so strange and disturbing that it propels him out of his comfortable routine and into a search for the tapes’ creator. As the once-peaceful fields and barns of the Iowa landscape begin to seem sinister and threatening, Jeremy must come to terms with a truth that is as devastatingly sad as it is shocking.
Have you read it? What did you think?
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