Friday the 13th

Author: Jimmy Palmiotti

Illustrators: Adam Archer, Peter Guzman

Publication Details: New York: DC Comics 2007

Friday the 13th has a novel and comic, which are based on the 1980 movie. The content and images are very graphic with extreme violence and nudity.

This title takes us to a time of teenagers tasting freedom for the first time when things take a turn for the worst. As they conspire to have the time of their lives at Camp Crystal Lake, a horrible murderer awaits.

Every character introduced dies a horrible, horrible death. Blood and guts everywhere, this title showcases the ultimate horror one could face. There is blood and horror written all over this title.

Friday the 13th is recommended for teenagers and young adults. Take some time and immerse yourself in this title. This title is very frightening.

The Lake

Author: Richard Laymon

Publication details: New York: Leisure Books 2004

This title is fast paced and richly detailed. It is also gruesome, disturbing and creepy. It also is available in audiobook format. It is set in the small American town of Wisconsin.

In this book, a woman is forced to confront her horrifying past when her eighteen-year-old daughter, while hanging out at the lake during the summer, is tormented by a sadistic killer. He plunges them both into a world of terror and insanity. This makes them beg for death.

This book features 2 main characters, Leigh (the mother) and Deana (the teenage daughter). The other main character is the killer. Other characters have men and women relations.

This is suitable for teenagers and young adults. This is violently horrific. However, this is of high interest to this audience.

Cuts

Author: Richard Laymon

Publication details: New York: Leisure Books 2008

This title is fast paced and plot driven. It is also gruesome, disturbing and violent. It was also set in the time period of the 1970s.

Obsessed with cutting pretty girls, a killer leaves a bloody trail across the country as he encounters several woman who are looking for something special in their lives. Cutting people is the one passion of this main character. He is about to leave a trail of blood from Chicago to California.

The main character who is also the killer, is named Albert Prince. The other characters in the book are teenage girls who are his victims. Also mentioned, are prostitutes.

Cuts is recommended for teenagers and young adults. Take some time and immerse yourself in this title. This title is very violent.

Hack/Slash, Volume 1 First Cut

Author: Tim Seely, Illustrator: Stefano Caselli

Publication details: Chicago, Ill.: Devil's Due Pub. 2005

This title is a comic and a graphic novel. This is also written in the 3rd person. This is also the first
book of the Hack/Slash series.

A child has survived two killing sprees by a serial killer, who just happened to be her mother. Now she and her partner travel the country. They hunt down other slasher killers, ending their murder sprees.

There are 3 main characters. Cassie Hack, her mother AKA “The Lunch Lady” (Serial Killer) and the mother’s monstrous partner, Vlad. This book is full of violence and black magic.

This is suitable for teenagers and young adults. This is violently horrific. However, this is of high interest to this audience.

Once upon a halloween

Author: Richard Laymon

Publication details: Baltimore, Md.: Cemetery Dance Publ. 2000

This book is fast paced and plot-driven. This book is also available online as a Google book. This is a gruesome and gritty read.

This book is set on Halloween night. The old Witherspoon house stands all alone in the dark. The last house on a dead-end street. Its only neighbours are thick woods and a moonlit graveyard. It is where a murder/suicide took place and it is said to be haunted.

There are 2 main characters in this book. They are teenage girls named Laura and Shannon. They are young, pretty and friendly, but best of all, they are generous with their candy.

This book is good for teenagers and young adults. Take time to engage in to this title. It is horrific.

77 Shadow Street

Author: Dean R. (Dean Ray) Koontz, 1945-

Publication details: New York: Bantam Dell 2011

This book is a fast paced read and is very compelling. There is also an audiobook for this title. It is also very creepy.

This book is about affluent occupants of luxury apartments, housed in a 200-year-old mansion with a checkered past. They enter into a terrifying waking nightmare when the haunted house reawakens. This leaves no one safe from its terrifying grip.

The apartment occupants are the main characters in this book. There are also newer and more sinister characters in this book. Each character in this book narrates the story.

This is a very good title for teenagers and young adults. It is highly suggested that they read this. It is very violent and menacing.

The Girl Next Door

Author: Jack Ketchum 1946-

Publication details: New York: Leisure Books 2005

This title a crime novel. There also a movie and an audiobook for this title. This novel is very Disturbing, Violent and Suspenseful.

This book is about a teenage girl who is held captive and brutally tortured by neighbourhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.

The novel is based on the murder of Sylvia Likens, in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1965. Names of people involved, as well as other details of the crime itself have been changed. In 2007 it was made into a film, The Girl Next Door.

This is a good novel for young adults and teenagers. It is suggested as an interesting read. The violence will be disturbing.

The Cellar

Author: Richard Laymon

Publication details: New York: Leisure Books 2006, c1980

This title is book 1 in the Beast House chronicles. There is also an audiobook for this title. This book is very gruesome, violent and disturbing.

This book is about a brutal man, who is released from prison. He, his ex-wife, along with her daughter, go on the run, and unwittingly head straight towards Beast House, a place with a history of butchery and sadistic sexual enslavement where a creature of pure evil lives, waiting to slaughter all who enter.

The main characters in this book are Donna, her ex-husband and her daughter. They face the ultimate horror. Things go horribly wrong for them.

This book is recommended for teenagers and young adults. Take time to read this engaging book. It is brutal.

American Psycho

Author: Brett Easton Ellis

Publication details: New York: Vintage Books 1991

This title is a first person narrative. There is also a movie with the same name released in 2000. This book is very gruesome, violent and disturbing.

This title is about a twenty-six year old who works on Wall Street; he is a handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent psychopath. This takes us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream- and its worst nightmare - this is black comedy about a world which we all recognize but never wish to confront.

Every character in this book is twisted and unlikable. This title highlights the meaning of horror. Things do not end well for the characters.

This book is recommended for teenagers and young adults. Take time to read this book. It is full of horror.

Psycho

Author: Robert Bloch, 1917-1994

Publication details: Mattituck, N.Y.: Rivercity Press 1976, copyright 1959

The first book in a series, the story was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 seminal film of the same name. There are 2 audiobooks for this title. The content in this book is Creepy and Disturbing.

We are taken into the life of a woman on the run. She has the misfortune to stop at the motel operated by Norman Bates. Bates lives an "orderly and ordained" life with the mother he has a rocky relationship with.

Norman Bates is the main character. Other characters include mothers and sons, and people many disorders and mental illnesses. This book is fast paced. This is a horror classic.

This book is suitable for teenagers and young adults. Take time to engage in to this title. It is thrilling.