We live in the Nightmare Place. I could never imagine worse horrors than the very real headlines of today or yesterday’s news. Past, present, or future, our world is not a safe place and the most vulnerable among us are at risk at all times. Parents, especially parents who love horror and understand its relationship to truth telling, should get started on the horror brain train as early as possible.
Where are kids safe? School? Church? Home? Outside? Anywhere?
The threat comes from all sides. I remember learning about “stranger danger” as a child and it’s crazy that strangers are the least threatening on a list of suspects. It’s parents, teachers, church leaders, and their peers.
C. S. Lewis has this great quote:
My husband crafted a Haunted Little Free Library for me. I filled it up with adult horror and immediately noticed the neighborhood kids stalking it—DAILY, and because I don’t have any Middle Grade horror, I went to the local thrift stores and found some:
A collective of Middle Grade Horror authors on bookstagram known as “Spooky Middle Grade” reached out to me with an offer to donate books to my Haunted Little Free Library. I got a huge stack of signed Middle Grade Horror & swag
Allow me to highlight/credit each and every author and their donation:
It Came From the Trees & Down Came the Spiders by Ally Russell
Daybreak on Raven Island & Midnight at the Barclay Hotel by Fleur Bradley
Don’t Wake Up & Lost on Doll Island by Cassandra Ramos-Gomez
Field of Screams & Stage Fright by Wendy Parris
The Girl Who Loved Monsters by Insha Fitzpatrick & Ashley Robin Franklin
The Afterlife of the Party & Grounded for All Eternity by Darcy Marks
Beware the Jacks & The Thirteen Doors of Black House by Laura Lavoie
The Curse of Willow Cove & The Witches of Willow Cove by Josh Roberts
Nox Winters Book 1 & 2 by Rochelle Hassan
S’More Spooky Stories A National Park Anthology
The Haunting of Bellington Cottage by Laura Parnum
Don’t Want to Be Your Monster by Deke Moulton
The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things by Rob Renzetti
Get the kids started on their horror fiction journey as soon as possible, it just might save their life.
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