![]() ![]() ![]() Definitely would recommend this one to kids. The Snowman becomes scary through the legends that are told and the insular climate, which succeeds fairly well considering. Point Horror, Goosebumps, Fear Street, slasher films we love it all. Stine has performed a Christmas miracle by writing a book we ACTUALLY LIKE Join Kirsty Logan and Heather Parry to lovingly dissect the best (and worst) of 90s teen horror. For the bulk of the book the Snowman is nothing but a specter, unlike the pumpkin heads in. Horny murderous teenage girls, insufficiently roomy vaginas and FBI agents who might be aliens R.L. ![]() managed to be a good Goosebumps book by relying more on the unseen than the seen. Plus, there's a strange hermit and his wolf living on the mountain, legends of a killer Snowman and sorcery, and the not so small matter of an odd poem that can't be forgotten back from the vestiges of childhood. The town is tiny, a sharp contrast to Chicago, and covered in these weird sinister Snowmen. Our main character is transported, largely to her chagrin, by her aunt to the town of Sherpia which is.somewhere. The only thing I wish this book had done more was emphasize just how killer the cold can be. While it lacked the fearsome crevasse scene (all too quickly resolved in the other book), it made up for it with better snow descriptions, the fearsome ice cave, the general feel of seclusion and superstition that permeates so many small towns. Poor little rich girl. This book was everything I wished was from page one. The Snowman is the 23rd book in the Point Horror series, and the 8th book in the series written by R.L Stine. ![]()
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