A Taste of Terror in November

Little Star is by John Ajvide Lindqvist who wrote“Let the Right One In.” This was made into the movie “Let Me In” and is about a little girl vampire. His new work is on a different subject. A man finds a baby in the woods, left for dead. He brings the baby home, and he and his wife raise the girl in their basement. When a shocking and catastrophic incident occurs, the couple’s son, Jerry, whisks the girl away to Stockholm to start a new life. There, he enters her in a nation-wide singing competition. Another young girl who’s never fit in sees the performance on TV, and a spark is struck that will ignite the most terrifying duo In modern fiction.    

You loved him when you were a kid, now the guy that gave you Goosebumps is writing for adults. His first adult novel is Red Rain by R.L. Stine and it taps into some grown-up fears. Lea Sutter finds herself on a small island off the coast of South Caroline, the wrong place at the wrong time. A merciless, unanticipated hurricane cuts a path of destruction through the island and Lea barely escapes with her life. In the storm’s aftermath, she discovers two orphaned boys—twins. Filled with a desire to do something to help, to make something good of all she witnessed, Lea impulsively decides to adopt them. The boys, Samuel and Daniel, seem amiable and immensely grateful; Lea’s family back on Long Island—husband Mark, a child psychologist, and their two children, Ira and Elena—aren’t so pleased. But even they can’t anticipate the twins’ true nature—or predict that, within a few weeks’ time, Mark will wind up implicated in two brutal murders, with the police narrowing in.