Trains as a mode of travel seems old-fashioned nowadays, but in storytelling, they remain a persuasive setting for tales of unease and suspense. The endless railroad does wonders for Diane Hoh’s 1992 young-adult book aptly titled The Train. By placing her characters on a cross-country tour with no handy means of escape, the author underlines that feeling of being trapped with not only strangers but also your worst fears.
This Point Horror entry takes place at the tail end of August right before the new fall semester starts up at Parker High School. Thirty students in total are participating in this end-of-summer school trip from Chicago to the West Coast, and the final destination is San Francisco. The main characters are Hannah Deaton, Kerry Oliver, Mack McComber, Lewis Joseph Reed and Jean Marie Westlake. Hannah, who is the story’s protagonist, is wary of trains; she’s already thinking of...
This Point Horror entry takes place at the tail end of August right before the new fall semester starts up at Parker High School. Thirty students in total are participating in this end-of-summer school trip from Chicago to the West Coast, and the final destination is San Francisco. The main characters are Hannah Deaton, Kerry Oliver, Mack McComber, Lewis Joseph Reed and Jean Marie Westlake. Hannah, who is the story’s protagonist, is wary of trains; she’s already thinking of...
- 8/26/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
I grew up as a kid of the 80s and 90s, and while I was in junior-school I found a series of books called Point Horror. A range of horror titles for young readers written by a variety of authors, Point Horror became a bit of an early 90s fad and many kids of my age back then were reading them and swapping them. All these years later, I’m still a fan of Point Horror. A good reason for that is the nostalgia I have for the books, but I also have a lot of love for some of the stories themselves too. There’s a real throwback tone to many of the stories, yet there’s some scary, cool and interesting things going on in many of the books. With authors like Diane Hoh, Carol Ellis, Richie Tankersley Cusick and R.L. Stine, who would go on to create the world of Goosebumps,...
- 11/6/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
’90s nostalgia is in full swing and horror fans are loving it. Many people are revisiting movies they grew up with, while others are discovering those same titles for the first time. And it’s not only cinematic terror that has everyone talking.
Over the past couple of years, the interest in retro books has been on the rise. Combined with ’90s sentimentality, teen horror fiction from the decade has become a special niche for collectors, many of whom are part of Instagram’s enthusiastic community of “bookstagrammers.”
A large portion of the teen horror titles released during the ’90s are now available in e-book format, but the original editions with their colorful covers and witty taglines are the ones we look for while perusing the shelves of used bookstores.
Here at Daily Dead, during a series of seasonal posts, I’m going to be sharing books from my own collection,...
Over the past couple of years, the interest in retro books has been on the rise. Combined with ’90s sentimentality, teen horror fiction from the decade has become a special niche for collectors, many of whom are part of Instagram’s enthusiastic community of “bookstagrammers.”
A large portion of the teen horror titles released during the ’90s are now available in e-book format, but the original editions with their colorful covers and witty taglines are the ones we look for while perusing the shelves of used bookstores.
Here at Daily Dead, during a series of seasonal posts, I’m going to be sharing books from my own collection,...
- 10/18/2019
- by Bryce Gibson
- DailyDead
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