Cain's Literature of Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-fi Blog

Coraline is probably one of my favorite children's books by far. As a kid I loved it and as I child I loved it. Rereading it as an adult it is a pretty scary book if you look at it as an adult. Like going and looking at the mother was scary as heck.

So my weekend was full of Neil. I watched the series "Lucifer" and read the book "Wolves in the Walls". Lucifer is 100% series I would suggest to anyone who enjoys the supernatural and a Hollywood show that actually has a pretty diverse cast of main characters. But to the book. I love Neil Gaiman's children's books. This one I do have to say is a rather beautiful one. The illustrator,

Gosh, I love Harry Potter and the series. My mother read me these books to me as a child and I remember loving them then and even now they still hold up. For me, this book is truly a demonstration of how wonderful imagination and magic can be. First off I really admire J.K. Rowling as a writer in the modern era and just who she is as a person. (Bringing attention to our incompetent president on a platform he has no business on.)  But back to Harry Potter. Harry Potter I think in and of itself is a great book for escapism for children honestly. For those who go through abuse or feel as though they are an outcast the book makes you feel as though there is something more out there. She writes Harry as a awkward troubled young Man who struggles with the death of his parents living in an abusive household that is introduced to this magical world. I think perhaps that is why I liked it so Much as a child because of the relatable. Because even though Harry was given the short end of the...

I really loved the Hobbit. When I was younger I played an elf in a kid adaptation. Ended up for whatever reason getting my wand for behavior or something. So what I noticed about the Hobbit is the "we and us" Tolkien is inserting himself into the story. Which in fact is what he does after realizing that this was meant to be an oral story that he told to his children which that I thought that this story needed. Was an oral telling. Honestly, had I known I would have audio booked it. Regardless, so having seen the movie and doing the play before reading the book. There is so much that they actually changed about the book to be able to fit the movie adaptation. One thing I particularly found odd was the far less mention of Bilbo's mother, the elves themselves, the lack thereof women as characters, and the brown wizard vs. what they did with him in the movie. I mean, to be fair a majority couldn't help but have to be changed for the sake of Hollywood and making it appro...

So I both read and watched the new movie as well as got through the book. And let me just start by saying there was quite a bit left out of the book from the movie but nothing I felt truly took away from the book. The book is gruesome. Like no joke it is one of those things that is just brutally gory which I think the second movie compared to the first acknowledged.  I also think that we just saw into the characters more so than we ever had. Obviously, movies can only cover so much. But the book just made me feel closer to these kids who in the end are just children and we see that with how they interact with one another and each other. You can even bring up the group sex scene that ends up happening in it (weird part) can be equated to a coming of age portion in the book and binding all of these kids together.

So the book I read for our witches week was Beautiful Creatures by  Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl. First, let me just start by saying that I genuinely dislike first-person stories. That rule definitely lifted a bit with reading "M iss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" so I was willing to give beautiful creatures a shot. I like supernatural things. Even more so I like witches quite a bit. So for this book, it is sort of all about the consequences of good and evil as well as any teenage dream trivial romance. But it isn't real and blatantly so. Ethan is written for young teenage girls- the emotional romantic that isn't actually seen a lot today due to the devastating toxic masculinity in which boys are raised in. To me personally, he comes off as somewhat a whiny underling with delusional interests, however, this could be because in life love doesn't work just by seeing someone in a "dream" and hoping they would magically fall In love within...

Carved is a Japanese horror film that is all about child abuse. I actually really enjoyed this movie because not only was it all about bringing awareness to a relevant issue but it focused on the supernatural entity as an idea rather than actual creature. An idea that would infect others causing them to commit hanses acts. I mean, yes, in the end it was a ghost and the introduction to the teacher/son was a tad odd overall but the idea that the more a rumor spreads and grows the more real it becomes I thought was an interesting point. It goes into a lot of fables and the origins of them and how do these stories get started? Well someone tells someone and that person tells another and so on and so forth. I like that which touches on the roots of the topic. Like also in alot of Japanese tales the Japanese are ot afraid to show violence towards children which I think is definitely interesting as compared to our westernized culture where generally the child or children end up safe in the en...