The ‘baddie’, unidentified, gives his side of the story, and, my feelings began to change about him. More accidents happen surrounding the Boardwalk and the reader is kept intrigued by a switch of narrator. Tess thought she saw something under the ride, running away after the accident, and from then on,she starts getting mysterious, threatening anonymous messages – and disaster seems to follow her! One person is killed and others are badly injured. So Tess is the main character here, and the story really gets interesting when a ride called ‘the Devil’s elbow’ goes terribly wrong and flies of the tracks. It kept me guessing, as well, which was very good. I was just beginning to read this one around Halloween and I was admittedly a little disappointed that it wasn’t scarier, earlier on, but it does get quite scary later in the book. It centres around ‘the Boardwalk’, which is a sort of fair-type theme park thing. My Mum said that this was one of her favourites, as a child – and I found it really gripping and creepy, too. Today, I’m going to be reviewing three of my favourites in this dark, witty series.įirst of all Diane Hoh’s Funhouse (1990). My Mum read them as a teen, and now I have a reasonable collection of these books. Personally, R.L.Stine and Diane Hoh are my favourite authors in this long-running series of children’s horror books from the 80s and 90s. I really like Point Horror books – they’re interesting, often quite original, fast-paced, light-hearted, yet surprisingly chilling.
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