Happy Halloween

Creepers

by Edgar J. Hyde

Samantha, James and Mandy are brother and sisters. Their parents decide to take a break in a quiet village over Halloween weekend. The children are rather concerned that staying in a boring village is going to spoil their trick-or-treating. Whilst Halloween is certainly going to be very different to usual, it will be far from boring! Samantha discovers an old book of spells and quickly realises that she alone is capable of harnessing its dangerous powers. She is soon drawn into a sinister and terrifying world of wizards and witches and must escape or lose her life and risk the safety of the normal world.

123 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 4, 1998

Reviews

[Jason Harlow · Rating 2 out of 5]

Edgar J. Hyde's writing style is just absolutely atrocious - so much so that I may be done with these lame Creepers books forever. The story follows sibling trio Samantha, James and Mandy who end up having to spend Halloween in a village (for no apparent reason other than their parents randomly decided they wanted to go there). Samantha, the oldest of the trio, starts reciting spells and soon enough all kinds of crazy stuff goes down. Cornelius Brown, the story's antagonist, is really stupid and it totally kills the vibe. There is also nothing very Halloween-y in this other than the fact that the kids want to go trick-or-treating. This wasn't Nola Thacker (aka D.E. Athkins/Tom B. Stone)-level bad, but this was really bad. This gets a 2/5 as opposed to a 1 because there was a decently graphic death towards the end, and I do respect the author for being slightly edgier in this series than what you'd expect after reading the other Goosebumps knockoffs series. Not recommended.

[Tor Domay · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was an honest drag to get through and leaned too heavily on exposition. The saving grace is it had a solid premise and the rules of magic didn't really exist, which served for a chaotic finale that managed to bewilder me.

[Dani · Rating 2 out of 5]

Definitivamente, um dos mais fracos da coleção. Protagonista antipática e insuportável!

[Pulp_Fiction_Books · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a book named 'Happy Halloween' it had very little/almost nothing to do with Halloween itself. I did really like how much this revolved around magic and spells but I wish it had leant more into horror rathan than it being more fantasy based. There's also a weird story beat throughout where our protagonists (a thirteen year old and two twelve year olds) seem to be obsessed with drinking tea, which just didn't seem believable to me and felt a strange narrative choice (2.5 rounded up).

[Louise · Rating 3 out of 5]

One by Simon Bedding. I liked the story, although I lost interest at some of the fight scenes. I remember the bit about the mouldy vampire teeth very clearly from my childhood reading for some reason. Not that keen on the prose style, and my children's choice edition has a lot of mistakes in.

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m really not a fan of Hyde’s writing style. I find it repetitive and annoying, though the actual stories are quite good.

[Neveen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Been a lovely read.
I loved the ending.

[Ivan Magnus · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first few chapters were dragging, it's only 100+ pages but I felt it.

[Giovanna Collins · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Eduardo Mattje · Rating 3 out of 5]

um ótimo livro infantil