My POINT HORROR Book Collection

[@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf]

Thriller is how companies get away with featuring horror without it being "horror. " It's something that really became noticeable with Silence of the Lambs. The Academy reviles horror so by calling it "thriller" is how you get away with handing out an award to a slasher movie (albeit an excellent, truly disturbing one.)

[@mst3KGf]

Especially the dreaded "psychological thriller" label they love to give to artistic horror movies they really don't want to admit are horror because "horror movies can't be art" or some bullshit like that.

[@emilywhitfield2780]

I worked at a public library in the 90s and the Point Horror/ Thriller books were very popular! Goosebumps and Animorph series were popular as well! I tried to encourage reading in the middle and teen patrons and horro and thrillers was the way to go!

[@ivanmagnusmartinez78]

The Baby-sitter by R.L. Stine was my first Point horror book, also read it in a single day.

[@sherylchilders6]

I read so many of these as a pre-teen girl in the 90s & was looking for something that showed that red logo bc I hadn’t seen it in so long. I just ordered a used copy of Avalanche to start reading the series again for fun. It’s such a warm feeling seeing that logo lol, like remembering childhood! My mom used to take me to the bookstore on Fridays & it was the highlight of my week. Thanks for the video of your lovely collection.

[@davelewis8270]

I read a lot of these as a kid and for some reason i have a big nostalgia for Trick or treat which I've read multiple times as an adult. It's so over the top and i love it.

[@LibraryMacabre]

Me too, I love how over the top some of these books are 😅

[@MatthewWeekley]

One of the best collections around.

[@Books_BrewsandBeyond]

This was an incredible collection of Point Horror books Cam- awesome video.

[@vintagehorrorlibrary]

I was thinking earlier, nah it’s not today that Cameron uploads a video and.... Wow! You are the best KZbinr. The very best. Keep up the awesome work!

[@IncrediblyHandsome]

I have so many great memories of Point books. Man I love Slumber Party so much.

[@Trentaco715]

Oooh you said Autumncrow high SERIES I’m so excited!!! The cover gives me Nightmare Hall vibes and I love it

[@reirken]

Very cool collection! Makes me want to start collecting Point Horror too lmao On The Fog cover, I think I prefer the second one you showed with the girl looking out the window at the fog rolling in. Feels creepier to me cuz it's like she has no where to run with the fog about to fully engulf her

[@amrlreader]

I’m trying to get my collection like this!!! I have a long way to go but collecting them is part of the fun. Love your collection!

[@udryx]

I just have to say the expert level of mood lighting your library/collection shelves have always impresses me. This was a fun vid, can't wait for the next.

[@rajramnarine123]

Agreed!

[@paigefaulk4041]

Hey Cameron love your videos as always and can't wait to see more soon!

[@booknerd3850]

Loved this video man! These books bring back some awesome memories for sure. Any chance of you making a video on how you catalog your library?

[@talespointhorrorbookclub5631]

Love this video! And your collection! Also loved Buddy Reading The Fog and The Christmas Killer with you! So much fun! What a fab book!

[@MATRIX---_---]

Hey there Cameron I am a returning viewer i have been subbed for over 1+ year I was very sad when you were gone for so long and then when you released your returning video I came right back on board you are what got me really in to reading and I appreciate that thanks Cameron for all the good memories and I hope more great vids are on their way.

[@NikkiMiller87]

I'm glad I searched your channel for this video! Watching now!

[@cindywingetbooks]

I am definitely jealous of your Fear Street and Point Horror collections!!! Lol great video! I really wish there was a half priced books where I live 😥

[@kevinburke3573]

I can't wait to see your UK collection of Point Horror Books. I live in the UK and grew up with those books so it will be a good trip down memory lane for me.

[@pinkdruidess6236]

Those taglines are incredible, LOL!

[@Pumpkinshire]

I just noticed the paper backs on risers two rows to a shelf. Fantastic idea.

[@edlewisnoctreviews]

Nightmare Abbey is one of my favourite Point covers. Love that one for The Surfer, too.

[@opheliasgrace]

I really miss Point Horror.

[@scotthammond4381]

Awesome collection i also have the same snowman book by R. L stine

[@parkerandme6506]

This is an amazing collection! I read lots of these as a teen and watching this video has made me want to start collecting and re-reading them. New subscriber here, looking forward to watching some of your older videos!

[@jamieserrano827]

The fog cover that I like is the 1 with the young green or lime green lettering I will always go for that day

[@alanalexander]

Hey man - this video never gets old! 🤗So good - I have all UK point horrors and most of US ones - I still have a 20 odd to go but I hope my collection will look as amazing as yours when done 😀

[@alyssanicholson4312]

I have The Babysitter and The Babysitter 2 I have currently read the first one and I absolutely loved it!!!!! it was such a good book your collections are amazing I want to collect more of them for sure

[@rajramnarine123]

Thanks for another great video, Cameron. U made my Sunday!

[@crawlingflamingo]

I guess we know what Michael Scott was doing after the office 😅 26:00

[@KamisKorner]

I did the exact same thing! I switched from alphabetical by author to by publication date! However you trump me in titles. Apparently the “list” I was using was missing some titles. But I still have a hefty collection. I collect UK and US versions as well.

[@StormReads]

Such an awesome collection!

[@MsBubu26]

We’re getting more of what we really want basically! Yesss! 😁

[@Tata-ly4md]

Love this content Cameron! I have been watching your videos repeatedly all the time and Im so. so glad that you have finally uploaded a content like this!! I have a huge collection of Point Horrors mostly UK edition ( Im in the UK) . this is amazing!

[@djangoesque]

Great video!...whenever I'm in a reading slump I reach for a movie novelization or some 90's YA horror!

[@shadowatcher228]

@Cameron Chaney. Awesome collection and one that i hope to aspire to. I am slowly building out my YA and specifically point horror collection. I notice that you have two rows on your shelves. what do you use to elevate the back row? it looks like cardboard but it there something specific? Thank you so much :)

[@ZeASK]

Great collection, thanks for showing it! I'm definitely excited for future ones, and those hauls. I only have a few Point Horror books that I got in my childhood. Seeing all of yours really makes me want to go out and really properly add to my collection

[@CourtneyGruenholz]

I'm always in awe of your collection Cameron!! I've been trying to build my own up to try and keep up with you but that may be totally impossible lol 😉 A few of the books you stated as hard to find I have and a few are truly impossible for me it's Krazy 4 U by A. Bates. I get most of mine through Half Price Books and Thriftbooks via Amazon. I'm scared to get on eBay and be in a bidding war with someone for a book 😬 Ones I have that you don't as far as I can see are Twisted by R.L. Stine and Double Date by Sinclair Smith?

[@canterburyange24]

Wow cool video, I collected these as a child but unfortunately lost some throughout the years. Not sure how popular they were over here in NZ but I loved them. I'm on a mission to find some more to add to my collection

[@lShishkaBerryl]

Ahhhhh yes! I have both the ones you're holding in the thumbnail lol. Truffle Shuffle in UK sold some Point Horror shirts at one time but I was took broke to buy att 😥

[@marcelprado6528]

Wow Cameron has dark hair now, is this an effect of the lights 🤔? Anyway, looking good man. Were "Whisper of Death" and "Remember me" and "Midnght club" released under the point thriller category or are they from a separate line from Pike's books?

[@mst3KGf]

Those weren't with Point Horror or Scholastic. They were Archway paperbacks published by Simon & Schuster. Pike only did a couple Point Horror books early on and then was largely with Simon & Schuster, both with Archway for his young adult books and Pocket Books for the "Spooksville" series.

[@marcelprado6528]

@@mst3KGf Nice! Thanks for the explantion!

[@AquilaLorelei]

I was watching another one of your YA shelfie vids and for that sticker residue, provided the cover is plastic-coated, TRY Vitamin E oil (GENTLY!) on the edge, working under the glue. Use a face cloth or paper towel, POSSIBLY a plastic razor if necessary. Please note this WILL NOT work on, say, those B&N "cardstock"-texture covers, the oil will soak in and you're screwed lol. Also, do you have a spreadsheet or a list set up to let your followers know what you're looking for? I have more bookstore credit than I'll EVER use so I like to pay it forward if I know my content creators are looking for something specific. Cheers!

[@horrorbookgeek8993]

Great collection!

[@alyssanicholson4312]

Rl Stine is my fave book author 🥰

[@mst3KGf]

Okay, I find it inadvertently hysterical that at 25:20, you say that a lot of the upcoming books are very rare and hard to find and then the first one you bring up is "The Surfer" which you say was really hard to find...and I found it last month for $1 at my local Half-Price Books. 🤣

[@robertcourtney4081]

I've been waiting on this video forever! So those 20 you said were missing, where do I find them and what place are they in the series? Also, thanks for another great video!

[@N.N.N-w7f]

beautiful library!!!!

[@paulphillips270]

Love the collection. Don't have those early ones, though I don't have the time or money to hunt them down these days! Ones I don't think I saw on there were "Prom Date" by Diane Hoh and "Driver's Dead" by Peter Lerangis, both really good books.

[@ReadingKeepsRealityAway]

I used to read point horror as a teenager. I’ve just started collecting them(wish I had years ago now)

[@doglover12345andfr]

The moment you said The Cat-Dog my brain started singing the theme song to s particular cartoon....

[@nikkihall7994]

This was so much fun. I had 26 of these myself. Strangely, at about the exact time they switched from the "p" on the spine to the dripping blood was when I apparently stopped buying these.

[@80sdreamwave32]

Nice collocation point horror books

[@kaitlyng.473]

You have solved a huge mystery for me! I remember reading a book as a kid in the 90’s with a boat and a drowning hand on the cover. I loved it, but everything i searched kept bringing up The Accident. No, it’s Dreadful Sorry! I’m going to go to eBay and pick up a copy right now!

[@LibraryMacabre]

I love hearing this! I’m so glad I could help. 😁

[@Restless786]

I just found the bride at a savers today for $.50 i’m excited to read it

[@mischievousoliver6678]

Agh! I had “Last Seen on Hopper’s Lane” in my hand yesterday but put it back on the shelf. I didn’t think it was part of the “Point Horror” collection. 😫

[@cheshirecat5033]

Entertaining and knowledgeable as always, it is indeed good to see you back - strange as you are, but ah well - that is bipeds in a nutshell. You all need to sleep longer and rest more, this cat thinks it would be good for you Teeth and mists

[@nikkis.2066]

Horror/Thriller is just the best...books, movies and games, it's my lifeblood in life! I def need to get to picking up more, both new and old. Recently had a nostalgia trip and picked up some childhood favorites. Got a handful of Deadtime Stories books, some Christopher Pike (what Horror lover in the 90s isn't know Christopher Pike's books?). And while not entirely 100%Horror, been picking up Stephen King books, quite a few of em hardcover first Editions! Never read em growing up, but always saw em, but curious to check out Patricia Wallace books. Had a hard time finding like a Wikipedia and info about the author. Of course my favorite and classic of classics is R.L. Stine's The Snowman. I must've read it a dozen times as a kid! I have to say, I REALLY miss us getting these kind of books WITH here kind of book covers, the 80s & 90s Horror VHS cover types....that stuff is a drug for me.

[@jameswilke9777]

You had me at "trash masterpiece!" LOLOLOL! (11:30 - R.L. Stine's THE BOYFRIEND) That book just got bumped to the top of my reading list. Thanks, Cameron. And you make a lot of other great recommendations in this video too, like THE ACCIDENT, so thank you for that. (P.S. As an author, wouldn't that be when you really know you've made it? When someone calls your work a "trash masterpiece!")

[@princessjen6009]

Let us know which ones you are still missing. Maybe someone could send you one you don't have yet!

[@Feareads4]

I have a copy of The Surfer but someone bent every single corner :( also I personally like the reprint cover of the fog more it is the version that I have

[@MisterSali]

Really enjoying these videos, do you have a movie tie in horror collection? The condition of most of these books is unreal!

[@LibraryMacabre]

Thank you! I’ll be doing a movie tie-in collection video soon. :)

[@spidernate9573]

so many point horror books. So far I only have the 2 Christopher Pike did, I also got The Girlfriend, Blind Date and Hit N Run by R.L.Stine. I also have The Dead Girlfriend but i don't know if that's point horror or just a stand alone novel by him. I also have Funhouse by Diane Hoh coming in the mail soon. Blind Date i absolutely fell in love with

[@debpehowic6939]

I'm reading the dead girlfriend right now. it was one of point horror collection by rl stine.

[@traciemarsh1611]

i love the point horror books. id love the know what the first music on the audio tapes is called :) my favourite is the baby sitter :) ive got all 4 books in the b.s series love it. although i do love others love the snow man and trick or treat. the dead girlfriend is brilliant as well :) (im listening to it now:) ) ive got the audio books they released as well :) im the opposit to you cameron i wanted more of the baby sitter :) i read it every christmas :) have you made a video of the uk point horror collection yet?

[@BethMorris-qf3dv]

Not sure if you can help… my sister used to have a point horror books and one of her favourite ones had an artists palette on the cover with a witchy finger coming out of it. Any chance you know what that’s called? It’s her 40th birthday soon and love to try and get it for her.

[@nataliemjthomas]

I read every Point Horror book I could get my hands on as a kid. They had a whole bunch of them in my Primary School and I then sought them in my local library. I am trying to identify one of the books I read which blew my tiny little mind with the plot twist and changed how I read books. In this one the teenage girl protagonist turns out to be the killer. I vaguely remember her being hunted by 'the killer' in the highschool at night but then is dragged away by the police. I would love to read it again as an adult. Any help identifying it would be appreciated!

[@ronaldokatwaroo]

Just outta curiosity...Cam what's your favourite sub genre of horror? 👀

[@marisolherrera5818]

Is The Ripper by D. E. Athkins the same as The Cemetery by D. E. Athkins because they have the same cover art?

[@LibraryMacabre]

Indeed. :)

[@crow-skipaints9749]

A lady recently gave me some of her point horror books I found one called misjudged by Jeanette Mines is that a rare one ?

[@LibraryMacabre]

It is rare! Not a horror book though, just one of Point's non-horror books.

[@crow-skipaints9749]

@@LibraryMacabre oh awesome I’m new to collecting point books. I’m glad I have it in my collection.

[@Lunastorytellingtime]

The dutch edition is even different aahha

[@anouskasmall1079]

I didn’t see The Mall by Richie Tankersley

[@LibraryMacabre]

In the US, it wasn’t published as a Point book, just in the UK. The US edition is shown in my other YA horror collection video and the UK one will be shown in an upcoming UK Point collection video.

[@anouskasmall1079]

Thank you 😊

[@samanthavermist1401]

i got a Question if anyone could answer is point horror books any good? i ever seen them where i am

[@lindsayshermer3810]

Tell me what are your favorite Richie Tankersley Cusick books?! I must know! I'm so interested in ordering some cheap on eBay. I ordered "the house next door", have you read it? I also heard someone at the door is good. I'd love to checkout more by A. bates and Diane Hoh. Sadly my library doesn't have them because they're so old. I love the covers!! I was wondering is spirit walkers good? I have yet to watch this video but I will be tonight!

[@LibraryMacabre]

I’ve only read Trick or Treat by her but I enjoyed it! I’m about to read The Mall soon. :) I haven’t read The House Next Door either, but I’ve heard great things about it!

[@lindsayshermer3810]

Yes it had good reviews ! Thank you, I definitely want to read the mall !! I making a list of the ones you talked about that seem interesting!

[@brendacorrea9167]

I've read the boyfriend. It was good.

[@LibraryMacabre]

Great stuff! xD

[@NiGHTMAREiN3D]

*I'm looking forward to AUTUMN CROW HiGH. Will you be buying Tommy Lee Wallace's HALLOWEEN 3: WHERE THE HELL iS MiCHAEL MYERS? (Bear Manor)?

[@AquilaLorelei]

Sidenote, have you ever read John Bellairs?

[@LibraryMacabre]

Yes! I love his work. :)

[@valerievargas1548]

Aren't those for 13 and up or whatever? I'd figured Goosebumps is attended towards 8 and up.

[@LibraryMacabre]

Yes to both. Goosebumps is for kids, Point is for teens.

[@brendacorrea9167]

Early ninties.