Chicks Dig Books

 

 

 

 

I don’t think I’ve been this hooked by a horror story since The Hellbound Heart.  The further I got into it, the harder it was to put it down.  This book is everything a horror story should be: original, suspenseful, and disturbing.  This should be THE book to read for this Halloween season.

 

In The Pumpkin Man, our heroine Jennica Murphy finds herself at a difficult time in her life.  Her father has been murdered, and soon after she is laid off from her job and evicted from her apartment.  Jenn later finds out that she has inherited a cabin in northern California, a home which has been in her father’s side of her family for many years.  Jenn and her best friend Kirstin decide to spend a few weeks in the cabin.  But while Jenn was hoping to use the free time to relax and come to terms with her grief, she ends up discovering an ancient evil hidden in her family’s cabin.  What she thought was a local legend is actually real.  And it is coming for her.

 

If you enjoy horror, The Pumpkin Man is a must.  Everson’s writing style pulls you right in from page one.  This book offers creepy settings, realistic characters, intense kills, and well-placed touches of humor.  The kill scenes are expertly laid out: graphic enough to scare you but leaving just enough to the imagination to really get under your skin.  Everson’s extensive knowledge of the occult clearly shows in his writing. 

 

I would say that this book would make a great movie if not for my fear that no screenwriter could do the story justice.  Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if this book was optioned for a screenplay in the next year or so, being as Hollywood seems to have run out of ideas for original horror films.  But I’m willing to bet that the book will scare the hell out of people more than a film adaptation will.