Me, i love that stuff, but it definitely pulls the reader out of the story, so some will balk.Īpart from that dealbreaker-for-some, it’s a wonderfully overloaded buffet - sad and funny with elements of horror and adventure and many pop culture references, and like The Supernatural Enhancements proved, this guy writes some excellent dog-characters. The new hill two blocks away from there howlretched, for lack of a real word. An Endeish Nothing had erased the lake and the firs and the sky. it starts out in second-person before switching to the third-person POVs of a number of characters, and there are many instances of the author breaking the fourth wall, shifts to screenplay-format complete with stage directions, metafictional asides eliding certain conventional expectations like descriptions or filler-moments, the anthropomorphism of one character’s hair, unusual and specific similes: Bruises sprawled throughout his slender chest and arms like industrial developments in nineteenth-century Britain., and neologisms of the most arresting kind:

This book is a pure romp, but in order to enjoy it, you need to be willing to get on board with cantero’s style and authorial choices, which can be jarring if you try to fight ‘em. Oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for best horror! what will happen? Lovecraft, teen detectives, and a love of Americana, Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids is a story filled with rich horror, thrilling twists, outright hilarity, and surprising poignancy. Now she'll need to get the gang back together and return to Blyton Hills to find out what really happened in 1977, and this time, she's sure they're not looking for another man in a mask.Ī mad scientist's concoction of H. When the man they apprehended all those years ago makes parole, Andy tracks him down to confirm what she's always known-they got the wrong guy. Plagued by night terrors and Peter's tragic death, the three survivors have been running from their demons.

Now, in 1990, the twenty-something former teen detectives are lost souls. The trail of an amphibian monster terrorizing the quiet town of Blyton Hills leads the gang to spend a night in Deboen Mansion and apprehend a familiar culprit: a bitter old man in a mask.

In 1977, four teenagers and a dog-Andy (the tomboy), Nate (the nerd), Kerri (the bookworm), Peter (the jock), and Tim (the Weimaraner)-solved the mystery ofSleepy Lake. It's filled with high jinks both terrorizing and hilarious.' - USA Today 'The story proves as cleverly witty as its title.

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero