So anyway, there's a 90s Halloween YA book trilogy where Michael Myers actually shows up.
Much as I love the Eric Morse 90s Friday the 13th YA book quadrilogy, at no point do we actually get Jason in those, just his mask.
Well, these Halloween books are so rare, they're about $300-$500 a pop on eBay or Amazon, on the rare instances they show up there. And they were never released as ebooks. So these literary artifacts were out of my reach.
Internet Archive FTW!
Odd additional factoid: these ebook versions are apparently hand-done transcriptions from The Slasher Librarian (no relation to me). He apparently adds gore and cuss words to YA books he transcribes.
Well, I just read the first one, The Scream Factory (no relation to the fantastic media company). No cuss words in this book, but plenty of gore that made me wonder how much was in the original publication. I will not shell out the cash to find out!
So, "HOW IS IT?" is what I assume you may be screaming at me.
Meh. It's sub-Christopher Pike mean-spirited teen drama. Better than R.L. Stine, but not by much. Story doesn't matter, nor do the characters, like any good slasher story.
My only quibbles: Michael Myers doesn't even appear until page 90 out of 126 pages!
And then no one dies until page 114 of 126!
WHAT KIND OF HALLOWEEN IS THIS!? All tricks, precious few treats.
I'll spoil the ending since the book is 25 years old and past the statute of spoiler limitations. Mike Myers gets a guillotine blade dropped in the middle of his face.
One more spoiler: he's not dead yet.
I won't promise I'll read the next two books in this grand literary trilogy. But I won't promise I won't.
-B.P. Kasik/Phony McFakename, Former Amazon-Published Author, some of my books still on Barnes and Noble here. I don't post stuff online, except this blog I just wrote to promote my brand.
