This story starts out like a ghost story before it descends into a disjointed paranoia...in the best way possible. This book is the first one that has really spooked me in a long time. I am a fan of Paranoia horror - think The Stepford Wives, Karyn Kusama's The Invitation, Rosemary's Baby, etc., and this book completely delivers on this. I had to stop reading, go to bed, and finish in the daytime. I live alone and I have a creepy basement - this was a definite "must read int he daytime"...

An unchaperoned trip to Fear Island leads to a terrible accident, a vow of secrecy...and just a little light misogyny. Spoilers ahead. The third book in the Fear Street series introduces a new spooky location into the world of Shadyside: Fear Island. Della and her five friends in the Outdoors Club (really - that's the best we could come up with to justify a planned camping trip?) are disappointed when the club's advisor, Mr. Abner, announces that he has a family emergency and can't take them...

"Between truth and madness lies ecstasy. Or perhaps between ecstasy and truth lies madness." Before this book, I had never heard of The King In Yellow. I was talking about which books I should read next on a livestream, and when I read the description of this book, some excitedly mentioned that this was related to a 19th century work about a cursed play. Published in 1895, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a collection of short horror stories about a madness-inducing play of the...