Pledge of Allegiance for Oct. 26 – Ms. Lewis’ Class New Century Elementary
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10 Spooky Reads for your Halloween Book List
Spooky season is here which also means it’s perfect weather to curl up with a blanket, a mug of something warm and a spinetingling novel. From Edgar Allen Poe to Stephen King, scary stories have long held a special place in my tell tale heart. Who doesn’t love to get creeped out and hide under their covers, biting their nails, on the edge of their seats from a good book? Not only is reading fun, it’s also a proven way to keep your brain healthy and sharp! According to healthline.com, “A growing body of research indicates that reading literally changes your mind.”
Using MRI scans, researchers have confirmed that reading involves a complex network of circuits and signals in the brain. As your reading ability matures, those networks also get stronger and more sophisticated.
In one study, conducted in 2013, researchers used functional MRI scans to measure the effect of reading a novel on the brain. Study participants read the novel “Pompeii” over a period of 9 days. As tension built in the story, more and more areas of the brain lit up with activity.
Brain scans showed that throughout the reading period and for days afterward, brain connectivity increased, especially in the somatosensory cortex, the part of the brain that responds to physical sensations like movement and pain.”
With that in mind, here’s some scary stories presented for your enjoyment to implement into your spooky season!
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
If you’re a fan of the creepy clown genre of horror, this one’s for you! Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half.
On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can.
Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.
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Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare
The thrills and chills continue in the terrifying sequel to Clown in a Cornfield with Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives! After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again.
But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth—not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room.
So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that’s when people start to die.
@pennysportal Clown in a Cornfield 2 is out today! 🤡 Are you planning to read it? #frendolives #clowninacornfield2 #clowninacornfield #horrorbooks #slasherbooks #horror #horrorbooktok
♬ original sound - pennysportalLong Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas by SHEA ERNSHAW
While not super scary, diehard fans of Tim Burton’s masterpiece Nightmare before Christmas will definitely want to add this one to their spooky reading list. Jack and Sally are “truly meant to be” … or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams — if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town. Cast into the spotlight and tasked with all sorts of queenly duties, Sally can’t help but wonder if all she’s done is trade her captivity under Dr. FInkelstein for a different — albeit gilded — cage. But when Sally and Zero accidentally uncover a long-hidden doorway to an ancient realm called Dream Town in the forest Hinterlands, she’ll unknowingly set into motion a chain of sinister events that put her future as Pumpkin Queen, and the future of Halloween Town itself, into jeopardy. Can Sally discover what it means to be true to herself and save the town she’s learned to call home, or will her future turn into her worst… well, nightmare?
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♬ original sound - JordanIntercepts: a horror novel by T.J. Payne
Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.
His work just followed him home.The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.
They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.
All the test subjects went violently insane.
But the research continued.
Today it has been perfected.
Almost perfected.
NOS4A2: A Novel by Joe Hill
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be.
Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. The journey across the highway of Charlie’s twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.
Then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble . . . and finds her way to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie’s evil is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn’t stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won’t slow down until he’s taken his revenge. He’s after something very special—something Vic can never replace.
As a life-and-death battle of wills builds, Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all—or die trying.
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Brother by Ania Ahlborn
Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it’s served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don’t knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what’s buried in the Morrows’ backyard.
@sydneyyybooks Wtf did I just read. #booktok #books #horrorbooks #brother #aniaahlborn #horrortok #booktokfyp #bookrecs #bookreview #bookreviewer #fyp
♬ American Horror Story (Freakshow Theme) - Voidoid
But nineteen-year-old Michael Morrow isn’t like the rest of his family. He doesn’t take pleasure in the screams that echo through the trees. Michael pines for normalcy, and he’s sure that someday he’ll see the world beyond West Virginia. When he meets Alice, a pretty girl working at a record shop in the small nearby town of Dahlia, he’s immediately smitten. For a moment, he nearly forgets about the monster he’s become. But his brother, Rebel, is all too eager to remind Michael of his place…Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
From Reddit fame and Kickstarter success comes this epic novel of horror. In an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become engulfed by a larger story, he finds that it forms a tapestry of unbelievable horror that he never could have expected.
Each chapter completes a different piece of the puzzle for both you and the narrator, and by the end of it all, you will wish that you could forget what he never knew.@stephreadsalot Penpal by Dathan Auerbach #horrorbooks #creepypasta #reddithorror #penpal #booktokfyp #CorollaCrossStep
♬ original sound - StephReadsAlotThe Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.
Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.
@ezeekat Review of The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James. #book #tiktokbookclub #bookclub #booktok #horrorbook #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookworm #fyp
♬ The Creepy Music Box (Psychological Thriller / Horror) - Film Music ExperienceThe Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion
On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor’s kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night. But the Fleming family doesn’t have a child that age, and even if they did, why would she be doing housework at this late hour?
It would be easy for Sharon to just let this go, but when eighteen-year-old Niki, a former foster child, comes to live with Sharon, she notices suspicious activity at the Flemings’ house as well. When calling social services doesn’t result in swift action, the two decide to investigate on their own
@brigittereads Quick book review: The Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion #quickreviews #bookreviewtime #themoonlightchild #karenmcquestion #booktok
♬ original sound - Brigitte’s BookTok 🖤💀Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
A romantic cabin getaway doesn’t go exactly as planned. High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby woods: the screams of animals, the cries of children, and the mad babble of a hundred mournful voices. A dark figure looms near the windows in the dead of night, whispering to Faye. As the weather turns deadly, Felix discovers that his terrified fiancée isn’t just mumbling in her sleep – she’s whispering back.
@4everbooked Highly recommend reading this at night 👻 #scarybooks #booktok #felixblackwell #stolentongues
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