I think The Metamorphosis is pretty freaky.
--Katie S.
The atmosphere is creepy and disconcerting and tinged with dark wonder. The protagonist's weird point of view makes the seeming mundane urban reality around her shaky and untenable. Is she really a witch or just a disturbed girl in the throes of teenaged angst? Full of haunting lovely language and images. One vivid scene where she creates her own homegrown spell by breathing a name into a glass of tap water and then drinking it
down, will always stick with me.
--Andrea P
***Sarah H is a fan too!
I'm a wimp, so my scary book is really mild.
Blossom Culp is about 10 or 11 years old in an early 1900s Midwest small town. She meets a little boy who drowned on the Titanic. She and her mother (a psychic) barely scrape by, living on the "wrong side of the tracks". The only other person who can see the boy is Alexander, the boy from a well-off family who lives in the house on the hill.
-- Mindy
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