Originally posted at Hooked on Books 
 Out of all the books I read for Halloween Book Week this year, I knew right from the get go, that not only did I need to review this book, but that I would the final spot of the event for it. Because when it comes to horror, few can compare with R L Stine. Before I was waiting in lines at midnight for the newest Harry Potter, I was reading Goosebumps. They scared the pants off me. First the books and then later the shows. When I heard he had a new novel just for adults, I was confident it would be just the scare I was looking for. 
 The story starts out on a small, very creepy island off South Carolina in the midst of one off the worst hurricanes in years. From the wreckage, Lea (an out of work travel writer) finds a pair of orphaned boys and takes them back home to Long Island. I can officially say, that because of R L Stine's I am terrified of twins. Honestly if I ever meet a pair of blond twins, around 12 years old, I may run screaming in the other direction. To me, the mark of a great horror story is when something ordinary, because the stuff of your worst nightmares. And this is something R L Stine has always done really well. 
 One nice thing about the mystery and the thrills in Red Rain was that they were really well paced out. There's nothing I hate more than when the action seems to happen all at once, giving the reader no chance to react and absorb what's going on. Red Rain unravels slowly, leading the reader step by step to the final conclusion. It had me biting my nails down to the quick, worrying and wondering about what surprises where ahead. 
 Red Rain was exactly what I wanted in a horror novel. It was creepy, it was twisted, it kept me up long into the night. And it proved that R L Stine is just as capable of scaring me now that I'm adult as he did when I was a kid. 
 Recommendation: A super creepy read that is certain to give you chills this Halloween (or any other time of year!)