A review by kerasalwaysreading
All Hallows by Christopher Golden
4.0
This one was definitely creepy. I read this a few chapters at a time every night before bed until I finished it and it definitely gave me the creeps. Something about children in old, drab, scary costumes giggling in the woods is enough to scare anyone, I’d think.
In a small town in New England, on a suburban street called Parmenter Road, All Hallows focuses on a handful of families in the neighborhood on a deadly Halloween night in ‘84.
It’s a Halloween like any other but there are children in tattered old costumes and creepy makeup walking around and begging people to help them; to save them from The Cunning Man who is after them.
This was a pretty slow burn and I really enjoyed it. You don’t really get into the traditional horror until a little later in the book. Instead, we are given a plethora of narratives throughout the first half, demonstrating the crumbling of some family dynamics. The dysfunction in these peoples lives is the perfect set up for the horror that is to come, establishing that people and the supernatural alike can both be monsters.
In a small town in New England, on a suburban street called Parmenter Road, All Hallows focuses on a handful of families in the neighborhood on a deadly Halloween night in ‘84.
It’s a Halloween like any other but there are children in tattered old costumes and creepy makeup walking around and begging people to help them; to save them from The Cunning Man who is after them.
This was a pretty slow burn and I really enjoyed it. You don’t really get into the traditional horror until a little later in the book. Instead, we are given a plethora of narratives throughout the first half, demonstrating the crumbling of some family dynamics. The dysfunction in these peoples lives is the perfect set up for the horror that is to come, establishing that people and the supernatural alike can both be monsters.