Cat's Cradle Halloween Horror Horror Book Review

I read this book when I was 12 years old, fresh into junior high school.  I’d found it among my brother’s book collection when he moved off to college and relished the freshness of ... a book without the rosy-tinted happy-endings of our Accelerated Reader program at school.


Now, about ten years later, I seem to remember the book traumatizing me a bit.  I had nightmares quite a bit after finishing it.  Nevertheless, it was a life-changing book for me (taking this statement with a grain of salt—I was, after all, 12).  The blood, gore, evil, and general terror of the novel made me appreciate the darker side of literature.


Not for the faint of heart.


And not for people who like cats.  I do like cats, and I was terrified for weeks of my own.