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  • Scary Stories Treasury – Wait Till Martin Comes

    Scary Stories Treasury – Wait Till Martin Comes

    Wait til Martin Comes Kitty: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐⭐ Winterjoy: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I always liked this one, because I was obsessed with cats, and, well, cats are the subject of this story! This post is a bit of a long one, so I’ll just get right into it. Wait til Martin Comes An…

  • Scary Stories Treasury – The Slithery-Dee and Aaron Kelly’s Bones

    The Slithery-Dee – Kitty ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Winterjoy ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This month is a double feature! Since the next one is a shorty short poem, we thought we’d do both The Slithery-Dee and Aaron Kelly’s Bones. I realized today that February’s post marked exactly two years that we’ve been doing this series. Yay! It really is quite an accomplishment…

  • Scary Stories Treasury – The Attic

    Scary Stories Treasury – The Attic

    The Attic Kitty: ⭐ ⭐ Winterjoy: ⭐ Welcome to the second story in the humor section of the first Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark book. This one is called The Attic. It is told from the recollection of Alvin Schwartz. The Attic A man named Rupert lived with his dog in a house…

  • Planet of the Apes

    Planet of the Apes

    Planet of the Apes (1963) by Pierre Boulle ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a reprint of the 1963 hardcover novel. Although it has images of the 1968 film on the front and back, it is not a novelization of the movie. I was surprised to learn that the book is very much different from the film. The…

  • A Hole in the Head

    A Hole in the Head

    A Hole in the Head (1959) by Arnold Schulman ⭐⭐ This is a Gold Medal book, published by Fawcett Publications. This was originally a play that ran at the Plymouth Theater for six months in 1957. It ran for 156 performances. The play was then turned into a 1959 film with Frank Sinatra, which is…