Steven Rhodes

No plot spoilers for this one because there is no plot, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t laugh-out-loud the entire time reading and going through these pictures.

My Little Occult Book Club is for anyone looking for a good laugh. Do you know that t-shirt so many people seem to have, the “Let’s summon demons” one with a kid laying in a pentagram? No? Okay, go look it up, because that is the exact thing you’re going to find in My Little Occult Book Club. I’m not even joking. That show more image is actually in the book. HA.

I really couldn’t stop laughing, and I don’t think I can say it enough.

This book has images which I totally want poster copies of to hang on my walls, such as “My first voodoo doll,” “Everybody’s doing the spider-walk,” “Let’s call the exorcist,” and “Easy bake coven!”

What I found most funny is that this book is written as though you could send away for different items like the Cursed Videocassette, as featured on TV! I mean, come on. Who wouldn’t want to have a video to curse their home, Ring-esque style??

Overall, the book was short and demonically-sweet, sitting at about eighty-or-so pages, that will leave you dying for more!

Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this review copy! show less

The Scholastic Book Club Meets Grady Hendrix

(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley.)

My Little Occult Book Club is an absolute, 110%, must-read for the following demos:

1. Children of the '80s.
2. Book nerds.
3. The SPN fandom.
4. All of the above.

Graphic artist Steven Rhodes gives the 1980s Scholastic Book Club flyers the Grady Hendrix treatment, to pretty awesome effect.

Here you'll find advertisements for would-be books such as B.M. Hex Gang by Diane Rott, My show more First Zombie Apocalypse (Abbie Toir), and Alien Abduction Club; connect-the-dots games where the dots = demons; adverts for spirit specs and alien-attracting helmets (for the anti-tinfoil hat crowd); and unholy word search games.

There's even a mock order form at the front of the book! That sound? The squealing of my inner middle-schooler.

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Most of the artwork consists of book covers, which seems like it would get repetitious - if not for Rhodes's talent, style, and wicked sense of humor.

According to his bio, Rhodes's designs grace t-shirts in Spencer's and Hot Topic, so that should give you an idea of his overall aesthetic.

I would not object to receiving unisex tees and/or mid-sized posters sporting any of these gems.

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I have a soft spot for the sell your soul one, since my youngest brother sold his to a second-grade classmate for a mere fifty cents. Needless to say, we still tease him about it a decade and a half later.

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I picked this up because it reminded me of My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. The two books would look very well on a shelf together or make a very nice gift packaged together. The 80’s nostalgia (with a bit of 70’s in this book) mixed with occult and horror themes makes for a very entertaining book. It’s styled on those old catalogues of books for kids with some puzzles and activities (join the dots on Satan, anyone?),with short descriptions on some of the books and order show more forms for occult items such as a cursed video tape. It’s mainly a collection of very funny horror-parody children’s book covers. I would love to have some of them as posters for my office especially the “Sleep is my God” one.

The illustrations are wonderful and the horror/occult theme is entertaining throughout never passing into grotesqueness. show less