Family Crypt

Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #20

by Joseph Trainor

Life turned sour for Janet Marie Simpson the day she agreed to cut school and join the gang on Senor Bunk Day. What could be nicer than a cruise across Lake Champlain on a beautiful summer day? How could they have known that the motor would conk out, that they would have to spend the night on a tiny, nameless island in the middle of the lake?

For Janet, her parents' punishment-indefinite grounding-is only the beginning. The dreams and the blackouts are far worse. Blackouts that leave her weak and exhausted. Dreams that always end up in a graveyard.

Then Janet begins to understand that an old evil is trying to escape from the place where it has been imprisoned for so many years. Is Janet a victim, or is she the vehicle of doom?

Genres: Horror, Young Adult, Paranormal

168 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 14, 1984

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I ADORED this series as a pre-teen. I remember excitedly buying the each book. This particular book along with The Haunted Dollhouse (#18? #22?) scared the bejibbers out of me. I'm not even going to lie: Even as a mature lady of fort..COUGH this book still scares the hell out of me :) I am happy to say that I still have all 26 books in the series. In fact, after writing this I think I may want to reread them!

[Thomas · Rating 2 out of 5]

While I don't expect any of these books to be great, I certainly expect them to be better than this.

[Terri LH · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series sure gives me the warm fuzzies remembering the simpler times. I'd say the story and writing was "ok" but it's lines like "Linda wore a royal blue terry playsuit" that is truly priceless. Not that this 80's fashion reference was relevant to the story in any way, but I chuckled at the mere mention of a terry playsuit, as images from a 1982 JCPenny catalog went through my mind. The theme to this book is witch craft in early America. Not original, but still fun. Worth checking out if you can find it, but getting your hands on a cheap used copy of these relics are getting harder and harder. No thanks to the A-holes selling some of this series for over $900.00 per book through Amazon. Way to go with trying to take advantage... I found this out-of-print gem for less than $12, and I sure hope I can find more of this series that doesn't cost as much as a new refrigerator .

[Islam Ismail · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good horror story but from the classics

[Mell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was really into this creepy series as a teen.