The October Society: Season One

The October Society: Season One

Softcover
3.23

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"The six tales in The October Society reflect the six characters who tell them. From haunted drive-ins to Halloween night, Robertson gives us stories that are fun, enchanting, and everything in between. More than that, he gives us a cast of characters that we can all relate to in some way." - Kelly Brocklehurst (editor of Welcome to the Funhouse).
"A weird and whimsical collection of heartfelt horror stories that never fail to entertain or thrill." - Jamie Stewart (author of I Hear The Clattering of the Keys and Other Fever Dreams).
"The writing is as clear and descriptive as seeing the scenes unfold in front of you on TV." - curiosityboughtthebook.com.
Halloween approaches, and The October Society gathers. They come to share their stories. Tales of dark magic and crooked lies. Of tragic pasts and wicked cruelty. Of misguided misadventure and sinister pranks…
Collected here are the first six episodes of the spookiest show that never was. A series only found in the static between channels, that can only be watched on broken TVs in dusty attics and damp basements. Tune in, if you can, because the author of My Zombie Sweetheart welcomes you to The October Society.

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Format
Softcover
Pages
230
Price
15.03 €

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The October Society, Christopher Robertson 2/5 This was a rather confusing book for me… Not for the writing or storytelling part but for rating the book. It felt a little bit like a tug of war. I liked the fairytale-ish writing and storytelling of the first story, sometimes it felt rather tough to read through the book, motivation wise, and at times I thought about DNFing. While the format of a TV show was quite interesting, I expected to read scary, horror stories but instead they were more like stories you would, and easily could, tell children. Nonetheless, none of them were bad - don’t get me wrong. The group scenes, however, were partially really strange for me, with a lot of slang, which felt pretty cringey to read. For the most part the stories were very slow paced, sometimes fast(er), even too fast, paced for my taste (even for short stories). The most horror-ish story out of the six was the fourth, of which I enjoyed the twist at the end. Though, I felt like the messages/ads in between were interrupting my/the reading flow which lead me to skip them and, if, read them afterwards. All of this being said, strangely enough the stories kept me reading and I ended up finishing The October Society. I don’t know if it’s the twist at the end or the feeling I got from this book after finishing it but, oddly enough, I kept thinking that I want to read season two (the second book) as well…

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