SAVANNAH VS. IT CAME FROM THE PUMPKIN PATCH

Savannah gets all stabby with Kate Reedwood and Chris Heinecke’s IT CAME FROM THE PUMPKIN PATCH

What happens when you put an Australian and a Canadian in the same virtual realm and encourage them to write? Pure genius mixed with hilarity and absurdity. Kate Reedwood and Chris Heinecke earned my lifelong love with their Mall Priest series, but their fall 2024 stunner, It Came From the Pumpkin Patch, cemented my commitment to this duo.

After all, who but Kate and Chris could come up with a genetically-modified rat creature from hell? Only these two, and I mean that in the ebay way possible. Do not read this book if you want to retain your love of all things pumpkin. Or, if you’re like me and think apple is the superior fall flavor, read on!

After all, thirteen-year-old Timmy Mantis has to endure the horrors of the pumpkin festival. Why shouldn’t you? In a book both hilarious and horrifying, Kate and Chris take readers on a journey of the perverse side of everyone’s favorite orange gourd. Pumpkin pie! Pumpkin pasta! Pumpkin muffins! Pumpkin death? Nothing is off the table in this terrifying yet zany adventure.

I love that Chris and Kate are masters of the scare. But more importantly, they’ve perfected horror comedy. Their personalities shine through in everything they write. Their tell-tale wit sets them apart from the competition, as they leave you grossed out and clutching your sides from laughter. It’s a delicate balance that they walk masterfully.

Synopsis: It Came from the Pumpkin Patch… and it doesn’t want to go back.Thirteen-year-old Timmy Mantis hates pumpkins and anything to do with them. Growing up in Harvest Creek, the pumpkin-growing capital of Wisconsin, has been a living hell. Especially at Halloween, when the small town becomes obsessed with everything pumpkin at the annual fall festival.

When an accident happens at the local research laboratory and one of the experiments escapes, Timmy realizes he was right to hate pumpkins. As the festival becomes ground zero for a monstrous invasion of gourds-gone-wild and the body count rises—literally—Timmy must face his greatest fears or become another victim.

Accompanied by a scientist determined to put things right, Timmy uses whatever means he can to save the town and his life. But how do you kill an undead pumpkin that has revenge on its mind?

Pumpkin carving takes on a whole new meaning in this Halloween-themed horror story

Savannah R. Fischer is the permanently exhausted pigeon in charge of two well-loved chaos gremlins. When not with her family, she can usually be found in her cave, wrapped in an oversized blanket and dreaming of spinach puffs. She wants to show her gremlins that they can do hard things, even when it’s scary, like pulling the wrong lever and ending up in a pit of alligators. No llamas were harmed in the making of her works of horror.