![]() ![]() ![]() She imagines this while making out with her boyfriend. Heather fantasizes about murdering her Uncle James in various ways, from letting him freeze in the snow, to tossing him off a roof. We open on a familiar scene to any Fear Street reader. Like with the cover, it’s minimal, but that makes it good. Short, sweet, sinister, gives nothing away. TaglineĪlso a good tagline! Dang, this book is killing it. ![]() I think what sells the beheading is the scarf standing just above, hinting at what would be a neck otherwise. The headless snowman is a cliche but good image, and the footsteps leading to it hint at something sinister. I’m a little disappointed I could only find the high contrast images of it, because I feel like the softness is lost, and that’s part of what sells it. This cover (borrowed from YA Revisted) is actually very good. (One day I may have to reread all of the Last Vampire series, but saints help me on that day.) The Cover So today’s sampling is not from Fear Street, but rather from the Point Thrillers series, which had a number of YA horror writers submitting books for it, including my second fav Christopher Pike. Luckily, I work in a library, and just about every day we get book donations, and sometimes an R.L. I was trying to figure out what to do for the last update in December, especially since last year I burned through the best material. ![]()
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