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Halloween IV

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This is a fantastic novelization of the movie "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers." Nicholas Grabowsky has managed to pull out all the stops in this terrifying novel. Ten years after the mayhem of Halloween I and II, the town of Haddonfield, IL, has managed to put the past behind. Now, Michael Myers has once again escaped from the Smith Grove Institution. He has returned to Haddonfield to seek out and kill his nine year-old niece and anyone who gets in his way. Hot on his trail once again is the psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, but will Loomis be able to stop Michael before it is too late? It's Halloween again, and this time no one is safe!

This novel is great! This is a very rare novel, but worth any amount of money. I read this novel really fast and was astounded by the suspence.
It is ten years after Michael Myers had been burned in the hospital basement. Myers has been in a coma for ten years and on the night before Halloween Michael awakes and escapes from the ambulance. This time, he is after his 6 year old niece (she was 7 in the movie, weird, huh?) who is living in his hometown, Haddonfield, Illinois. But Dr. Loomis, Michael's doctor, is hot on his trail!

There are a few things in life I'm pretty passionate about. One of them is reading a great book and the another one is definitely the Halloween franchise and just about everything it's become in its almost three decade existence. Please don't make the mistake of thinking this review has been written by someone wearing rose colored glasses due to his love of the franchise, because that couldn't be further from the truth. Believe it or not, I read this novel with very low expectations having just finished the novelization for Halloween II and being utterly disappointed because I got absolutely nothing out of it that I didn't already know from seeing the film. It was literally a transfer from screen to paper and to me, that's just plain boring! No character development or depth of any kind.

What Nicholas Grabowski does with Halloween IV is completely different! He takes the readers on a journey through the fictitious town of Haddonfield and does it so well that you can literally smell the pumpkin pie and feel the weather getting colder as the leaves change colors and fall to the ground. Each character was constructed in such a way that you truly felt as if you knew them, even though in the film, they were either gone within minutes of their introduction or you simply never heard of them again because they weren't an integral part of the story. This was just another one of the things I felt that Nicholas Grabowski did with his novelization that not only worked so well, but made it so much more complete than watching the movie ever could by itself. If you were given the task of writing a character as complex as Michael Myers, how would you do it? Well, Nicholas Grabowski has absolutely MASTERED it here! Michael Myers' presence is felt and there is a constant sense of foreboding throughout the entire book that I have to say, was really creepy and left me with the same exact feeling I had as I sat in the theater and watched this movie for the first time.

I'm a person who likes to call things as they are and I know the ONLY reason you could possibly have for reading this review is because like me, you too are a fan of this particular franchise? At some point or another one of these movies (most likely the original in 1978) left a mark on you and since that time you've watched them all, good or bad, and never looked back. In this case I am giving this book the absolute highest recommendation one Halloween fan can give to another! It's been out of print for a while and that makes it pretty rare these days. If you happen to come across a copy though, pick it up and I guarantee you won't be disappointed!