#Spooktober ‘Zombie Town’ by R.L Stine

About the book…

This used to be such a nice, quiet town. But that was before all the zombies. When twelve-year-old Mike and his friend, Karen, go to see a horror movie called Zombie Town, the last thing they expect is for the title characters to come down off the screen and chase them through the theater. And it’s not popcorn these hungry creatures want to chomp on—it’s human brains!

Now Mike and Karen frantically try to flee through the panicked streets of their hometown before shuffling bands of zombies turn every last citizen into a ravenous flesh-eater. But if Mike thinks he’ll be safe once he reaches his house and warns Mom and Dad, he’d better think again. When the zombies say it’s lunchtime, no home is safe! Zombie Town is R.L. Stine’s delightfully spooky take on the horror genre that’s infecting the world, bite by bite.

Published in e-book,audiobook  and paperback, ‘Zombie Town’ is one of quite a number of R.L Stine’s books which are available via Kindle Unlimited, and which make perfect reading for the spooky season!

Headsup RL Stine fans, this is one of a vast series of short novels which make perfect palate cleansers between longer books. As usual, there is a narrator, a boy who is scared or everything, being taken to a Halloween film festival at the local cinema. Karen, Mike’s friend, is determined to get him to chill out and enjoy Halloween, but things start to make both kids a bit twitchy when they notice they are the only people in the screening of the latest Zombie film.

What is worse than being alone, in a darkened cinema, watching a horror film?

Realising that you aren’t alone, you are in the company of the shambling undead…

There are some genuinely creepy moments, and a fair splashing of gore that will satisfy kids and adults alike, a great bait and switch end that really brings home why RL Stine is , after decades at the top, still one of the best for delivering the thrills and chills.

It is 75 pages of classic teen/tween horror and what more could you want this spooky season?

About the author…

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children’s literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children’s author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids’ Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA’s Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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