Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and 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 Beast Of Barcroft
by Bill Schweigart
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Genre: Horror / Supernatural
MY REVIEW
This book took me back to when I was in my early teens. I went to bed. Got up the next day and a house that wasn’t there the day before was now in the once vacant lot beside my house. It was kind of rundown and the neighbors junked up their yard. Not saying that happened in this book, just that every neighborhood has one of those problem houses.
The Bancroft House is one of those problem houses. The older woman who lives there is somewhat of an animal hoarder. And it’s developed into a rat problem. This has the affect or ringing the dinner bell, and something answers. Then the dying begins. No one is immune to it’s appetite.
Nothing pings my radar more than a creature horror story. The beast was everything I could have hoped for. And so was the mayhem. I ate this up, almost as voraciously as the beast ate it’s victims.
Great character building and wicked action scenes made this one of those straight through reads.
4 STARS
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Synopsis
Ben McKelvie believes he’s moving up in the world when he and his fiancee buy a house in the cushy Washington, D.C., suburb of Barcroft. Instead, he’s moving down-way down-thanks to Madeleine Roux, the crazy neighbor whose vermin-infested property is a permanent eyesore and looming hazard to public health. First, Ben’s fiancee leaves him; then, his dog dies, apparently killed by a predator drawn into Barcroft by Madeleine’s noxious menagerie. But the worst is yet to come for Ben, for he’s not dealing with any ordinary wild animal. This killer is something much, much worse. Something that couldn’t possibly exist-in this world. Now, as a devilish creature stalks the locals, Ben resolves to take action. With some grudging assistance from a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and the crackpot theories of a self-styled cryptozoologist, he discovers the sinister truth behind the attacks, but knowing the Beast of Barcroft and stopping it are two different animals.
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