A really good read. As someone who grew up in the early 2000s this book was a great blend of horror and nostalgia. I found that the book was a little bit slow in parts but it was overall a well paced horror/thriller. It was a great book overall and I’d really recommend it for the fall season!

Helloween by Duncan Ralston was the funnest romp with a book I’ve had all year.

This book genuinely has it all, friendship, possessions, furby’s, you name it!
So grab a Rockstar and hop into Helloween’s immersive aspect where I pictured myself right alongside the protagonists as all chaos ensues. It provides a blast from the past, full of throwbacks from multiple decades including pop culture and vernacular. It touches on what some would consider topics that changed the course of American history, but does it so great. Every element combined into this rollercoaster behemoth are everything I want and need when reading.

The phrase “Goosebumps for adults,” is being used to describe it, and that couldn’t be any more accurate. The comedy is blended with the horror.

So buckle (zip) up your Demonia boots and have a hauntingly good time.

This is an epic tour de force of supernatural horror with so much nightmare fuel you might not sleep peacefully for days after.

Set in a small town over Halloween night, an eldritch god is released from it's dark void underground after an accidental "sacrifice". It can possess and manipulate everything from humans to inanimate objects to even raising the dead to do it's bidding.

Rubber and plastic Halloween decor comes to life with horrific bloody consequences as a group of high schoolers, trying to make a student film for a class project, are thrust into a hellish and terrifying nightmare as they struggle to survive and stop the carnage.

The characters are all different and very well portrayed. You never know who's going to live or die as the body count keeps getting higher and higher.

Duncan takes the reader on a thrilling, never ending horror fest and drives the narrative like a runaway train. I highly recommend this one.

This was an enjoyable and interesting read that took me a while to get into but once I did I was in for the entirety, I couldn't put it down. I will definitely be rereading this next halloween

Really wanted to like it, as I still consider WOOM to be one of the all-time greatest extreme horror novellas ever written.

Great concept. It just moved a little too slow for my taste. A lesser page count would've helped immensely.

I love all things Halloween, so I jumped at the chance to read this novel which features delightful cover artwork. I've read several of Ralston's novels, and they have been hit or miss for me. This book has an interesting premise, but unfortunately I found it a bit of a chore to get through. I really enjoyed the part where all of the decorations in the haunted house become animated and start attacking people. Helloween seems to take inspiration from Maximum Overdrive and Desperation, but it's lacking what makes Stephen King novels great, namely characters that you care about. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing an ARC for me to review.

I’m about halfway through this book and I absolutely love it. Thank you so much for letting me read this. It’s so cute and I’m glad that it comes out the day before Christmas Halloween is my favorite. I can’t wait to buy it.

Every time I read a book by Duncan Ralston I end up having to sit back and wonder what kind of human I am if I enjoyed it. Helloween made me feel the same, 5 stars!