This book is a pure romp, but in order to enjoy it, you need to be willing to get on board with cantero’s style and authorial choices, which can be jarring if you try to fight ‘em. Oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for best horror! what will happen? Lovecraft and pop culture, Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids is a strikingly original and dazzling reminder of the fun and adventure we can discover at the heart of our favorite stories, no matter how old we get.

It's their only chance to end the nightmares and, perhaps, save the world.Ī nostalgic and subversive trip rife with sly nods to H. The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake. which is remarkable, considering Peter has been dead for years. Luckily Nate has not lost contact with Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star who was once their team leader.

They will also have to get Nate, the horror nerd currently residing in an asylum in Arkham, Massachusetts. To find them she will need Kerri, the one-time kid genius and budding biologist, now drinking her ghosts away in New York with Tim, an excitable Weimaraner descended from the original canine member of the club. And Andy, the once intrepid tomboy now wanted in two states, is tired of running from her demons. There are too many strange, half-remembered encounters and events that cannot be dismissed or explained away by a guy in a mask. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in the old haunted house.

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids.ġ990. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster-another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Meddling Kids subverts teen detective archetypes like the Hardy Boys, the Famous Five, and Scooby-Doo, and delivers an exuberant and wickedly entertaining celebration of horror, love, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn.

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero