I picked this up because it reminded me of My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. The two books would look very well on a shelf together or make a very nice gift packaged together. The 80’s nostalgia (with a bit of 70’s in this book) mixed with occult and horror themes makes for a very entertaining book. It’s styled on those old catalogues of books for kids with some puzzles and activities (join the dots on Satan, anyone?),with short descriptions on some of the books and order forms for occult items such as a cursed video tape. It’s mainly a collection of very funny horror-parody children’s book covers. I would love to have some of them as posters for my office especially the “Sleep is my God” one.
The illustrations are wonderful and the horror/occult theme is entertaining throughout never passing into grotesqueness.… (meer)
(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley.)
My Little Occult Book Club is an absolute, 110%, must-read for the following demos:
1. Children of the '80s. 2. Book nerds. 3. The SPN fandom. 4. All of the above.
Graphic artist Steven Rhodes gives the 1980s Scholastic Book Club flyers the Grady Hendrix treatment, to pretty awesome effect.
Here you'll find advertisements for would-be books such as B.M. Hex Gang by Diane Rott, My First Zombie Apocalypse (Abbie Toir), and Alien Abduction Club; connect-the-dots games where the dots = demons; adverts for spirit specs and alien-attracting helmets (for the anti-tinfoil hat crowd); and unholy word search games.
There's even a mock order form at the front of the book! That sound? The squealing of my inner middle-schooler.
I have a soft spot for the sell your soul one, since my youngest brother sold his to a second-grade classmate for a mere fifty cents. Needless to say, we still tease him about it a decade and a half later.
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The illustrations are wonderful and the horror/occult theme is entertaining throughout never passing into grotesqueness.… (meer)