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No Doors, No Windows by Joe Schreiber

If there are no doors, how do you get in?

Reviewed Oct 26, 2009
When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?Scott Mast thought he got away--first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home, and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.Fifteen years ago, Scott's mother died in a fire. And now the shadowy circumstances--the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the lives ripped apart that fateful day--are starting to be revealed. The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscript--an unfinished ghost story written in his father's own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will uncover all that has been hidden--and perhaps finish his father's unspeakable work.From the Trade Paperback edition. Genres: Family secrets, Haunted houses, Horror, horror tales, Suspense
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Nobody doesn't like Jamie Lee!

Reviewed Oct 9, 2009
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason. Genres: Horror, Thriller
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Halloween II

Think of the bright side. If he does attack you here, you...

Reviewed Sep 4, 2009
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim. Genres: Horror

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

When playing with your Terminatrix, always remember the s...

Reviewed May 21, 2009
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
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The Terminator

The only things that can make it through the time machine...

Reviewed May 14, 2009
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine? Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek

It's taken 11 movies, but the mystery is finally uncovere...

Reviewed May 9, 2009
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Star Trek: Nemesis

Begun the clone war has

Reviewed May 1, 2009
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller