Halloween Time Books Reviewed

The Garden of Evil (originally The Lair of the White Worm) By: Bram Stoker
Fiction- horror, 220 pages

One would think that a book written by the man who’s most famous book has been used in countless movies, shows and books as the definitive book on the vampire (Dracula) would be good at writing horror stories. (Sure, Dracula is not that scary of a book, but that is because one is well versed in the story years before reading it so you know what’s going to happen.) But this book sucked!!! For starters it took 5 chapters to get to all the main characters. Not that there were many, only 9, but they spend so much time on things less then important or interesting. Also, they would start to say something important and then go, “wait, we can’t talk now, the servants will hear.” And five pages later they get to it and half the time it’s something that is most likely common knowledge or myth that the servants would already know! Also it contains pysdo-science, archaic spelling and racism that often ruins the flow of the book for modern reader as they stop to think over what the writer was trying to say or in surprise at what he wrote.