The Haunted Forest Tour
James A. Moore and Jeff Strand
Earthling Publications, $45, Limited to 500 num bered and signed copies, Halloween Series #3, ISBN: 0979505429
reviewed by Barry Hunter

Once again Earthling presents an extraordinarily eerie novel for the horror reader. It is one that combines strong characters and plenty of gross-out action and monsters and creatures by the score.

Four years before a forest rose up in the middle of New Mexico and wiped out a town. The forest is filled with strange creatures and the HF Company has been able to carve out a pathway that enables it to give tours of the forest.

This year they have decided to run the first Halloween Haunted Forest Tour – which will go further into the forest than ever before - and has publicized it into the must see event of the year. The tourist include Christopher and his mother, a hoax debunker, Tommy and his aunt and uncle, Barbara - the tour guide, Eddie - the tram driver, and others to make up the forty people that make up the first of two tram loads of tourists for the trip.

The tram breaks down and the monsters attack. Ogres, giant dragonflies, giant worms, specters, alien looking vampires, and a plethora of other creatures make up the other worldly cast of Haunted Forest inhabitants.

As the secrets of the Haunted Forest are discovered by the survivors, the National Guard is brought out with little result as the forest begins to grow and it takes the courage of a few to a solution.

Filled with adventure and some graphic horror, this is the best entry into the Earthling Halloween Series so far. Don’t miss this one, it will be a classic.