Joyland by Stephen King

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘📘
Genre - Ghost Fiction, Horror Anthologies
Format - Paperback
Length - 288 Pages


*Amazon Blurb*

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

*My Review* 

If this was a movie, I bet there would have been that cheesy music like they play in movies like Friday The 13th. I thought this book was very cheesy.
Devin takes a job at an amusement park where he learns that a woman was murdered years before. He also befriends a woman and her sick son who live nearby. Devin becomes slightly obsessed by the woman's murder and is hoping to be able to catch a glimpse of her ghost that so many others have claimed to have seen.

It seems like the last few books that I've read by Stephen King haven't been good and he use to be my favorite author. Either I'm picking up his worst books, or I've read so many other good books and his writing just isn't reaching my expectations. (Wow, that's harsh.)
I'm curious, who else reads Stephen King? What are some of your favorites? What ones didn't you care for?

The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting Of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

Availble on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘📘
Genre -
Format - Audio Book

*Amazon Blurb*

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

*My Review* 


This book had me hooked, but then let me down.

The book is about four people getting together to stay at Hill House and to keep a notebook of any strange behavior they experience. The book changes the point of view from the four people that are staying there, but it was easy to follow along. I didn't like how none of them ever seemed to write anything down. It also seemed to take forever for anything to happen in the house and when it did it wasn't anything I was expecting....meaning it was kind of boring.

The house is supposed to be haunted so I really thought there would be all kinds of incidents during the stay, but it just seems like the only incident was them getting lost in the big house.