I think this might be my favorite of the Nocturnal Reader's boxes I got so far, you'll see why in a minute. The box has the theme: Monster Mayhem! As usual the Kuwaiti customs had to take their customary look inside the box, hope they were suitably creeped out 😆
So the first thing I decided to pull out of the box was the hat of course, and hidden behind the hat were two other things that I also loved, but first the hat. It is an exclusive hat inspired by Stephen King's The Strand. My husband called dibs on it and has been wearing it since it came out of the box.
Behind this pretty hat was a snuggly wrapped package which contained a mug (my most favorite thing to own besides books) and a bath bomb. The mug is an exclusive designed and created by Jeff at exhumedvisions.com and it features The Exorcist. The bath bomb is also an exclusive from Alice at Fizzy Fairy Apothecary entitled "Infected/Infested" and supposedly has a surprise in the middle...I gave it to my cousin, didn't tell her about the surprise in the middle *Evil Laugh*
The last four things to come out of the box before I go to the books are an amazingly creepy print by Ally Burke called "The Woman Who Never Killed Bugs" and you can find Ally at deadspiderhands.net, a glow in the dark pin inspired by Patient Zero made by Joe Ledger, a post card and a creepy bookmark.
Now let us talk about the books in this box. There are three pretties! Two of the books are new releases and one is a previous release.
Book One (New Release):
Title: The Grip Of It
Author: Jac Jemc
ISBN Number: 9780374536916
Pages: 272
Published: August 1, 2017
Publisher: FSG Originals
Synopsis (from GoodReads):
A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It tells the eerie story of a young couple haunted by their new home.
Julie and James settle into a house in a small town outside the city where they met. The move—prompted by James’s penchant for gambling, his inability to keep his impulses in check—is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh. But this house, which sits between ocean and forest, has plans for the unsuspecting couple.
As Julie and James try to settle into their home and their relationship, the house and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. The architecture—claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within rooms—becomes unrecognizable, decaying before their eyes. Stains are animated on the wall—contracting, expanding—and map themselves onto Julie’s body in the form of bruises; mold spores taint the water that James pours from the sink. Together the couple embark on a panicked search for the source of their mutual torment, a journey that mires them in the history of their peculiar neighbors and the mysterious residents who lived in the house before Julia and James.
Written in creepy, potent prose, The Grip of It is an enthralling, psychologically intense novel that deals in questions of home: how we make it and how it in turn makes us, mapping itself onto bodies and the relationships we cherish.
Book Two (New Release):
Title: Mapping the Interior
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
ISBN Number 9780765395108
Pages: 112
Published: June 20, 2017
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Synopsis (from GoodReads):
Mapping the Interior is a horrifying, inward-looking novella from Stephen Graham Jones that Paul Tremblay calls "emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant."
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.
The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.
Book Three (Previous Release):
As the sequel to John Dies At The End, we find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the world. As they race against the clock to protect humanity from its own paranoia, they must ask themselves, who are the real monsters? Actually, that would be the shape-shifting horrors secretly taking over the world behind the scenes that, in the end, make John and Dave kind of wish it had been zombies after all. Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrenching, This Book Is Full Of Spiders takes us for a wild ride with two slackers from the Midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse.
**So I was a little bummed that this is a sequel. I hate getting the second book in a series BUT I checked on Goodreads and apparently when they refer to events from the first book it is usually explain. So you can read this book without reading the first one. YAY!
And that is all she wrote. Amazing haul from this box in terms of books and other useful stuff!
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.
The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.
Book Three (Previous Release):
Title: This Book is Full of Spiders
Author: David Wong
ISBN Number: 9781250036650
Pages: 450
Published: October 8th 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Synopsis (from GoodReads):
As the sequel to John Dies At The End, we find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the world. As they race against the clock to protect humanity from its own paranoia, they must ask themselves, who are the real monsters? Actually, that would be the shape-shifting horrors secretly taking over the world behind the scenes that, in the end, make John and Dave kind of wish it had been zombies after all. Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrenching, This Book Is Full Of Spiders takes us for a wild ride with two slackers from the Midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse.
**So I was a little bummed that this is a sequel. I hate getting the second book in a series BUT I checked on Goodreads and apparently when they refer to events from the first book it is usually explain. So you can read this book without reading the first one. YAY!
And that is all she wrote. Amazing haul from this box in terms of books and other useful stuff!
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