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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2026! I’m so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Meg

Meg #1

By Steve Alten

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Genre: Horror

MY REVIEW

I don’t even know how many times I’ve read this book and the rest of the series. It’s one of my go to books when I want to just relax and enjoy the story. Plus, I love anything sharks. Who doesn’t.

Jonas Taylor is one the best in deep sea submersible dives. When he’s sent down on a secret dive into the Marianna Trench, he barely makes it back alive. His claims that a Megalodon almost ended his life are met with derision by his peers and he sinks into depression. After years trying to prove he’s right and waking up screaming from freakish nightmares, Joans is compelled to once again brave the deep, and what happens next is worse than any nightmare he’s ever had.

Oh yeah, I loved this book. From the character’s, to the shark, and everything in-between, it was awesome. Steve is a wonderful storyteller and has you believing Megs do still exist. There’s much argument about that, which I won’t go into, but I choose to say, who knows? The ocean is the least explored place on our planet and new species are discovered all the time.

I myself, hope they do but, then I don’t. After reading books and seeing movies about Great White Sharks, I think they’re bad enough. For something that could use a 20 footer as a toothpick to arrive in our waters is truly terrifying.

Dive into MEG. Meet her up close and personal. Once the action starts, it’s a whole lot of gnashing and blood. If your a fan of sharks and horror, you’ll eat this up.

This one is from my bookshelf. My review is voluntarily given.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean’s deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he’s sure he saw but still can’t prove exists–Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds

Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub.

Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he’s never imagined, and what he finds could turn the tides bloody red until the end of time.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2026! I’m so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 The Wolfen

By Whitley Strieber

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Genre: Horror

MY REVIEW

This review is long overdue. I read Wolfen back in the late 1970s and loved it. Then they came out with the movie in 1981 and I loved that too.

The wolf creatures are mentioned as werewolves but that doesn’t do them justice. They’ve lived among us silently, evolving and preying on those who won’t be missed. They don’t change from man to wolf. They are super intelligent and deadly. And woe to those who threaten them.

Two police officers are torn apart and the man and woman brought together to investigate couldn’t be more different. I liked how events forced them to accept what shouldn’t exist and use their individual skills to find a solution. One figured annihilation would be best while the other wanted to figure out why the animals had shifted their strategy.

Whitley was good at accelerating the story and allowing me to see through the animals eyes. I was sympathetic for their plight but I also wouldn’t want to cross paths with them.  They slipped in and out of your vision like ghosts and when they decided a confrontation was required it was executed with almost military precision.

I’ve still got my original copy. The cover is worn, the edges curling up from multiple reads and I loved everything about it.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

The savage killing of two New York City policemen leads two detectives, a man and a woman bound together by a strange, tough passion, to hunt down the wolfen, called werewolves in former days.

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THE MOVIE

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Other Covers.

The one I shared at the top of the post is the one I own. These are some alternates. Which one do you like the most?

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Thanks so much for visiting fuonlyknew!

For a list of my reviews go HERE.

To see all of my giveaways go HERE.

Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2026! I’m so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires

By Grady Hendrix

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Genre: Horror

MY REVIEW

A true crime book club. I wish there was one in my area. I’d be all in. And I hope I’d be as nosy as Patricia.

Routine can get monotonous. The  one thing that breaks that up is the book club. Patricia and the other members have lively conversations not confined to just books. For instance, the handsome new neighbor. He’s worthy of their attention and is on the top of their list. Then the children start going missing.

I get that Patricia zeroed in on the new guy when the kids kept disappearing. My radar pinged at what seemed an obvious suspect. And that was where the story really sunk it’s teeth into me, pardon the pun. A grip that didn’t let go until the end.

Egads, Grady writes like he’s speaking out loud, with a voice that has you leaning forward. To say I couldn’t wait to turn each page is true. The light hearted scenes became overshadowed the further in I got. Then, the dark settled in and I loved all of it. Especially the ending. Just you wait and see.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.

One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor’s handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in years. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind—and Patricia has already invited him in.

Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia’s life and try to take everything she took for granted—including the book club—but she won’t surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.

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