Horowitz Horror

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He is also renowned for the Alex Rider series which has sold 19 million copies worldwide and is much cherished among his loyal readers. The train he boards crashes and injures him severely, leaving him with the same yellow face as the one in the photo. In fact I wrote my first book when I was ten, stuck in a miserable, north London boarding school where reading and telling stories were my only lifeline.

I initially thought the story would pan out similar to “killer camera” or “bath night” with a object having a sinister origin story or motive.It's a collection of Horowitz's horror stories and I felt like each story is scarier than the other.

The way these stories are written, I did feel that the author does seem to enjoy meting out these retributions on them.

Not necessarily dead bodies and dripping blood, but the shadows that lie just outside our vision, the secrets behind closed doors. The main character of ‘Bath Night’ speaks badly about her best friend who is overweight, and says how she herself used to be fat when she was 9 but now is “getting in shape” and dieting at the age of 12. Finally Peter reveals he is the man with the yellow face thirty years onwards looking in the mirror. Even as a child, this has always been my clear favourite - this story follows two brothers who board a sinister night bus who has no intentions in taking them home. Here we have an idiot thief whose crimes include (but are not limited to) stealing from his mother and throwing a brick at a cat for no reason.