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Date read: July 23, 2023
Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper
1. Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper
2. Cold Shadows
3. The Crawling Darkness
4. Terminal
5. House of Whispers
6. Maze of Souls
7. Lullaby
8. The Keeper
9. The Tower
10. The Monster Museum
11. Fire Devil
12. The Necromancer's Library
13. The Trailwalker
14. Midnight Movie
15. The Lodge
16. Cabinet Jack
17. Fallen Wishes
18. Sunset House
19. The Funtime Show - Paperback | Kindle
20. Miracle Mountain
21. Mortuary Manor
22. Robber's Road
J.L. Bryan
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Come here, children, play with me,Thoughts on The Funtime Show: Hoo-boy. Ellie and Stacey are on a case that has a creep factor of 11. Because dolls. I mean, technically they're puppets and/or marionettes, but in the grand scheme of things those are a subset of dolls and NOOOOOO. Seriously, no. Like I said, creep factor of 11. ELEVEN. Maybe even 12.
I'm the friend in your TV...
The Calvert family's new home used to belong to the recently deceased creator of a forgotten children's program from the early days of television. The family's younger kids are fascinated by the basement rooms, a chaotic wonderland of discarded stage sets, props, costumes, and puppets.
At first, the parents are glad to see the kids put down their screens and play creatively with the old theatrical elements, but their performances and their experiences grow more disturbing over time.
In this house, the reruns of a dark past never stop playing, and paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan must protect the family from a malevolent presence trying to draw them into the infernal show.
Anywho. This is one of those fun cases where one half of a couple (the wife, this time around) is all "We have a problem" and the other half (the husband) is all "You're probably wrong and I'm begrudgingly humoring you, but I'm not going to make things easy on the investigators you've asked to look into this." Which means Ellie and Stacey spent part of their investigation skulking around the house and woods and the other half trying to figure out if the husband was legitimately skeptical or actually possessed. Because ghosts are creeps like that.
They also had some children they needed to keep safe who were WAY too into those puppets. Seriously, subset of dolls and NO.
So. A case with a bit of mystery since there wasn't a lot of history for Ellie and Stacey to work with. Puppets (which are dolls with the added bonus of occasional movement. Gross.). A family in danger. PUPPETS THANKYOUBUTNO. A creepy workroom. A long-reaching evil. Ellie being thrown around kind of a lot. Some solid food choices on all fronts (these books always make me hungry because of the intriguing foods Ellie and Stacey get to sample). Did I mention the puppets? Yeah, creepy with a side of danger. YIKES! (But also GOOD STUFF because these books are wildly fun even when they have to deal with potentially possessed dolls.)
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