Trick or Treat (Point) [Mass Market Paperback]

Richie Tankersley Cusick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1990 | Series: Point

Soon after Martha moves into the Bedford house, the threatening phone calls begin. The murderer of the girl who had been killed the previous Halloween in that very same house had never been caught and now he's back...for Martha!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 10 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (October 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059044235X
• ISBN-13: 978-0590442350
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,410,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trick or Treat book description, November 29, 2004

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Lyn (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trick or Treat (Paperback)

Book description on back of book:
"Martha knew there was something evil about the house she was moving into. It was so cold...and creepy. And it wasn't just the house that was giving her a weird feeling. Martha was sure someone was following her...watching her every move.

Then the practical jokes began--the scarecrow with the carving knife in its head, the fire. And the phone calls: 'Trick or Treat, Martha...you're dead.'

It was October, but these were no Halloween tricks. Someone would be coming home this year with more than just a bag of treats. And Martha was the prize.
Trick or Treat"

This is one of the first books by Richie Tankersley Cusick that I read, and I still enjoy reading it. I love the setting, which is a "haunted" house outside of a small town, around Halloween. Martha and her dad and her new stepmom and stepbrother Conor move into this deserted house. After living in the big, lonely house for about a week, their parents go on their honeymoon, so Conor and Martha are all alone. Martha is terrified of the new house, because she thinks weird things are happening. To make matters worse, at her new school she is not doing so well. Luckily she has made a few friends: Blake, a cute guy who seems to like her, and his cousins Greg (who works at their school and is Martha's advisor), and Wynn, who is Martha's age. Martha finds out from her new friends that a girl named Elizabeth Bedford who was her age and looked a little like Martha was killed in her bedroom in the Bedford house, but no one ever found out who the killer was. I really liked this book because it was a scary, easy read that I couldn't put down, and the ending is so surprising. Richie Tankersley Cusick's other books are just as good.
Try: The Lifeguard, The Mall, Someone at the Door, Vampire, and Scarecrow.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you like Christopher Pike, you'll probably love it..., November 11, 2011

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Kat "Reviewer @ Shivers Of Horror" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trick or Treat (Point Horror) (Kindle Edition)

I'm giving this one 3.5/5 stars as an adult. If I were a teenager, I would have given it 4 stars. It could have been a lot more spooky and gory. But from what I hear that's not the authors style...well this is a "teen" sort of book so maybe it SHOULDN'T be that way haha. I'm a huge horror fan so that's what I like.

The only thing I would have liked better about this book, is if it had more to do with Halloween. Being named Trick or Treat it didn't have a whole lot of Halloween themed stuff, which is the #1 reason I picked it up in the first place.

This author is definitely up there with Christopher Pike & I wish I had known about her books when I was a teenager reading R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike's books.

Look for a more in depth review of this on my Horror movie/book review blog Shivers of Horror. Link in my Amazon profile.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books!, July 4, 2002

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Jessica R. (Oklahoma City, OK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trick or Treat (Point) (Mass Market Paperback)

I first read this book about 9 years ago and loved it. I'm 24 now, and re-read Trick or Treat a few times a year. I think all of Ms. Cusick's books are great, but this one has to be the best of them all...Silent Stalker is a close second though! I would recommend this book to anyone! It's got the perfect mix of suspense and romance...