Horror Book of the Week: I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street by Ben Farthing

 

This week’s Horror Book Recommendation is I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street written by Ben Farthing. Published in December 2023, this book is on the bestsellers list for U.S. Horror Fiction and Horror Suspense. 

Customers who bought this book were already fans of the author’s work and found this to be another engrossing read. They described the book as unsettling, emotional and thrilling. 

Quick Book Review of I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street based on sample

Douglas is setting up Christmas decorations around his house. His friend David and his friend Harold are helping him set it up. It is established that something tragic has happened in Douglas’ family but we don’t get to find out  what it is just yet. 

Douglas has been borrowing decorations from his neighbors, and sometimes even resorting to stealing them, just so he can reinstate the Christmas spirit in his parents again. 

That is when he notices the lights coming from the sewer drain near his house. The scene is quite reminiscent of the famous scene from the horror novel IT. But instead of a creepy clown, Douglas spots a string of Christmas lights. He is overjoyed as he imagines wrapping them all around the house. 

But his joy is short-lived when he also sees carolers in the drain. There is something off about them and he is completely freaked out. 

The author’s writing style pulls you into the story immediately although it seems to be stumbling at first when he tries to describe the lights from the storm drain. 

For a few paragraphs, the author seems to be trying to find his footing but in a few pages, the story roars ahead and you will find yourself completely enraptured by it. 

And before you know it, there is already a creepy scene to give you the chills. 

I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street is a long title but it is part of the author’s I Found Horror series and just like his previous work, this book will show you how something innocuous can be frightening in a matter of seconds. 

I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street Plot (Taken from Amazon)

Something festive is growing in the sewer...

After last year’s tragedy, Douglas’ parents are ignoring Christmas.

But when Douglas finds an eerie strand of lights slithering through the sewer, he unwittingly unleashes merry terror upon his neighborhood’s tacky lights contest. String lights spread like invasive kudzu, turning festive decorations into surreal, predatory nightmares.

Determined not to lose both Christmas and his family forever, Douglas gathers his courage to confront the source of the holiday horror: deep in the concrete pipes beneath the street.

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