Title: How to Survive a Horror Movie
Author: Seth Grahame-Smith

Thoughts: This book takes a humorous look at the tropes and clichés of the horror movie genre. It even comes with a list of suggested movies to watch in the back of the book. I was glad to find that I already seen several of the movies and that several more are on my Netflix queue.

The author writes as if the reader of the book is already in a horror movie as why else would someone possess such a book? It does seem to be a trope in itself in horror movies; that you get a strange book and after that, bad things start to happen.

What I found especially amusing was the “Figuring out what horror movie stereotype you are” bit. It was amusing to me because I just did not fit into these categories at all in high school (nor do I now). I would more likely than not end up being the quiet, creepy kid you shouldn’t poke at. There’s a reason why some people limited themselves to just throwing things at me from a distance (I still haven’t forgotten about that kid who thought it was funny and clever to throw a Starburst at me, which hit the bridge of my nose exactly and made me cry - I probably won’t ever meet him again anyways as he wasn’t in my year).

Anyways, it was a short, but hilarious read, especially for those of us who love horror movies.