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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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 Hell’s Aquarium

Meg#4

By Steve Alten

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Genre: Horror

MY REVIEW

I have no desire to go deep. Imploding and drowning is a big fear of mine. And let’s not forget that the oceans are one of the last places for discovery on the planet. If you thought a seventy-five foot megalodon was bad, wait til you get a gander at what’s lurking in the Philippine Plate. Or I should say, what’s beneath it.

What does this have to do with Jonas, you ask. Isn’t he busy dealing with Angel and her five female pups? They’re outgrowing their pen and the risk of escape is looming over his head. Jonas sells the two smallest of the litter to a rich Dubai prince but there’s one condition holding up the deal. The prince wants Jonas’s son, David, to come take care of the sharks in Dubai.  Distracted and desperate, Jonas agrees. Uh oh.

From both sides of the globe humans were on the menu. The megalodon was believed to be extinct and it made it’s bloody appearance. If you could believe it, what’s discovered next was even more deadly. I said bring it on and Alten did it. The series kept giving me what I wanted.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

The Philippine Sea Plate: — The most unexplored realm on the planet. Surrounded by subduction zones and no less than six abyssal gorges — including the seven-mile-deep, 1,500 mile long Mariana Trench — the sea is also home to an incredibly anomaly, for hidden beneath its primordial crust lies the remains of the Phantalassa, an ocean that dates back 220 million years. vast and isolated, the Phantalassa is a purgatory of existence, inhabited by nightmarish sea creatures long believed extinct.

Tanaka Institute, Monterey, CA:

Four years have passed since Angel, the 76-foot, 100,000 pound Megalodon returned from the Mariana Trench to birth her litter of pups — five females — far too numerous and aggressive to keep in one pen. As accidents mounts, one solutions presents itself: A Dubai royal prince is building the largest aquarium in the world and seeks to purchase two of the “runts”.

The deal hinges on hiring Jonas Taylor’s twenty-one year old son, David, to be their handler.

Jonas reluctantly agrees, and David is off to Dubai for the summer of his life, not realizing he is being set up to lead an expedition that will hunt down and capture the most dangerous creatures ever to inhabit Earth.

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 Primal Waters

Meg #3

By Steve Alten

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Genre: Horror

MY REVIEW

It’s been eighteen years since Jonas has been eye to eye with a megalodon. That’s fine by him. What’s not fine is how his life is going. He’s in debt and the financial situation is putting a strain on his family. So, when a production company offers him a job doing the commentary on their new show Daredevils he thinks what can go wrong. Well, plenty. You have a bunch of adrenaline fueled competitors trying to outdo each other. The cocky arrogance could fuel the ship.

The first thing I thought was why Jonas. His fame has faded. My suspicion grew and it turns out I was right. Then the screaming and dying begins and the drive to win is now the drive to survive. There are a couple of scenes that had me realizing I was so right in my decision from some time ago to stop swimming in the ocean.

This was not my favorite in the series but still a lot of sharky fun. 

4 STARS

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Synopsis

It was the apex predator of all time, the most fearsome creature that ever lived — a 70-foot, 70,000 pound Great White shark. Hundreds of 7-inch serrated teeth filled jaws that could swallow an elephant whole. It could sense its prey miles away, inhaling its scent as it registered the beat of its fluttering heart, and if you ever came close enough to see the monster…it was already too late.

Eighteen years have passed since Jonas Taylor last crossed paths with carcharodon Megalodon. Now a middle-aged father of two, he is overwhelmed by mountains of bills and the daily strife of raising a family. But life is about to change. A Hollywood television producer wants Jonas to join his new survival series: Daredevils. For the next six weeks, two teams of crazy daredevils on a South Pacific Ocean voyage will try to outperform one another in front of the cameras. Jonas needs the money, and the job of doing the color commentary seems easy enough. But behind the scenes, someone else is pulling the strings. And before it’s over, Jonas will again come face to face with the most dangerous creatures ever to stalk the Earth.

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 The Trench

Meg #2

By Steve Alten

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Genre: Horror

MY REVIEW

Once again Jonas is having to face his fears. Four years ago he proved Megalodon’s existed and killed it, capturing it’s offspring. Angel, I call her the angel of death, is outgrowing the aquarium she’s held in. Solutions must be found, quickly. Can he convince a billionaire to finance his failing institute and keep the shark contained? Will Angel escape and wreak havoc?

I don’t think I’m alone in finding sharks fascinating. In fact, the bigger the better. I watch the documentaries and wait each year for Shark week. And I watch most of the movies. I loved Meg, the first book in Alten’s series, so it was a no-brainer to continue with the series.

Well, Angel does escape and it ain’t pretty. Not pretty at all. Blood is in the water and anything, and I mean anything, is on the menu. Am I a bad person? Some of my favorite scenes were the bloodiest.

Do you believe a megalodon can exist? Me, probably not. I can’t see how they’d survive so deep. There’s not much to eat. To really enjoy this book, I suspended my belief and rolled with it. Pure adrenaline spike!

5 STARS

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Synopsis

In this thrilling sequel to Steve Alten’s sci-fi thriller, MEG: Deep Terror, paleobiologist and Megaladon expert Jonas Taylor must face his deepest fears in order to save his job, his family, and himself.

Four years after the incident at the Mariana Trench that unleashed a pregnant Megaladon, Jonas Taylor now houses her one surviving offspring at the Tanaka Institute. Deep in debt, Taylor has turned to an eccentric billionaire to help keep the institute afloat, but it doesn’t come without a price. Drawn into a web of deceit and lies, plagued by nightmares of his own death, Taylor must once again face frightening monsters of unimaginable power. Only this time, it’s not just the sharks he has to watch out for.

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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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 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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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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 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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 Terror On The Tundra

By  J. Erskin Miller

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Genre: Horror

MY REVIEW

Yes, another story taking place on a frozen tundra. This time it’s Alaska. Animals have to be double tough to survive the environment. As do the people who choose to brave the harsh elements. The residents of Chintikook Village are prepared for the local wild life, but something has arrived that they’ve not encountered before. They unite, knowing it’s their best chance of survival. The Super Wolves are hungry and looking for new territory. The humans are on the menu and in their way.

I enjoy creature features. Viking war dogs, AKA Super Wolves, was a new one for me. They’re big so, naturally, they’re hungry. They were left to live or die on their own so it’s a given that they’re smart. I enjoyed the author taking me back in time to how the dogs came to be the creatures they were now. In a lot of ways they should be feared more than polar bears.

I enjoyed the main characters. They weren’t your average hero types and that made it more suspenseful as the wolves executed their attacks. Many authosr don’t hesitate to kill their main characters and, with that in mind, I was fearful for them.

The only thing that disappointed me was the ending. It was rushed and I would have liked it to feel like an actual ending.

4 STARS

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Synopsis

Jim Miller, writing as J. Esker Miller, has five previous thrillers that cover diverse but exciting times. But it was Alaska, the northernmost fringe of civilization, that intrigued him most of all. After years of flying over the desolate landscape and hearing the stories of the people there, he imagined a remote island, a desolate, hostile place where evolution was free to create unique creatures. And so, a single pair of shipwrecked Viking war dogs evolved into terrifying Apex Predators that ravaged the island unchallenged. Eventually, the breakup of Arctic ice floated a few of the beasts to the North Slope of Alaska. There, they faced the valiant townspeople of Chintikook Village. Along with a boyish paleontologist and the local schoolteacher, the humans teamed up to battle the attacking creatures they called Super Wolves. It’s an adventure that pits the fangs and claws of giant devil dogs against the wits and bravery of a small group of townspeople who don’t know how to give up despite impossible odds.

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