This book is the perfect mix between 80’s nostalgia and horror. I’m new to Steven Rhodes work but am definitely now a fan. Funny, creepy and perfectly nostalgic - this book will make a great coffee table book or gift for horror lovers!
I’m a Babysitters Club fan so my favourite page would have to be the ‘Alien Abduction Club’ parody page - would love to blow this up as a poster! The artwork throughout the book is fantastic and I look forward to seeing it in the physical edition.

"My Little Occult Book Club is a hilarious collection of Steven Rhodes' parody book covers for the aspiring occultist, exorcist, necromancer, and more, illustrated in his fan-favorite artistic twist on retro '70s and '80s children's books.

The humorous fake titles include Sell Your Soul! (Economics for Children), Necromancy for Beginners, and Caring for Your Demon Cat, and much more.

Written in a playful voice that parodies subscription book catalogs
Features puzzles, activities, and even a free fold-out poster
Funny fake mail order offers for gifts such as "Cursed Videocassette"

Whether you're looking for a health guide for your changing werewolf body or a simple introduction to alien abduction, this silly and twisted read features a wide selection of books for any occult need.

For fans of dark humor, nostalgic horror, and vintage books alike, don't wait - order today!

Perfect gift for fans of Stranger Things, IT, and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Add it to the shelf with books like Yiddish with Dick and Jane by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman and My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel by Grady Hendrix"

As a graphic designer and book cover connoisseur who has a dark sense of humor, this is a must buy book for me.

I picked this up because it reminded me of My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. The two books would look very well on a shelf together or make a very nice gift packaged together. The 80’s nostalgia (with a bit of 70’s in this book) mixed with occult and horror themes makes for a very entertaining book. It’s styled on those old catalogues of books for kids with some puzzles and activities (join the dots on Satan, anyone?), short descriptions on some of the books and order forms for occult items such as a cursed video tape. It’s mainly a collection of very funny horror-parody children’s book covers. I would love to have some of them as posters for my office especially the “Sleep is my God” one.

The illustrations are wonderful and the horror/occult theme is entertaining throughout never passing into grotesqueness.

*review posted to blog www.elainehowlin.com on release date

If you shop at Hot Topic or ever bought anything from Wicked Clothes, chances are you're familiar with Steven Rhodes' work. I'm a big fan and absolutely love the ringer tees made with his work that pays homage to 70s and 80s kids book. The retro style is so nice and the dark twist is really humorous. Fans of his will recognize some of his more internet famous works like Sell Your Soul! or Easy-Bake Coven, along with new adverts and activities that really tie the book together to actually look like a retro book order catalog. I'm a fan of these coffee table visual books, another in the same vein that I own is The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds. I'll definitely be buying My Little Occult Book Club when it comes out!

Thank you so much Chronicle Books and Steven Rhodes for my DRC via Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.

This was fun in a creepy way and creepy in a fun way. This is a book I'd definitely want to have, as it has so much fun stuff. It has a lot of vibrant and occultic illustrations, and a lot of elements in the book took me back to my childhood reading Apple Scholastic books.

The book featured a lot of fun entries, and the titles really made me LOL. This is one book I recommend for everyone!

Very cute and clever drawings within ... both nostalgic and extremely well done.

Review copy had large X marks over each page, even the table of contents, thus providing difficulty in reviewing the content they supposedly want us to read and comment on. Fail.

No plot spoilers for this one because there is no plot, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t laugh-out-loud the entire time reading and going through these pictures.

My Little Occult Book Club is for anyone looking for a good laugh. Do you know that t-shirt so many people seem to have, the “Let’s summon demons” one with a kid laying in a pentagram? No? Okay, go look it up, because that is the exact thing you’re going to find in My Little Occult Book Club. I’m not even joking. That image is actually in the book. HA.

I really couldn’t stop laughing, and I don’t think I can say it enough.

This book has images which I totally want poster copies of to hang on my walls, such as “My first voodoo doll,” “Everybody’s doing the spider-walk,” “Let’s call the exorcist,” and “Easy bake coven!”

What I found most funny is that this book is written as though you could send away for different items like the Cursed Videocassette, as featured on TV! I mean, come on. Who wouldn’t want to have a video to curse their home, Ring-esque style??

Overall, the book was short and demonically-sweet, sitting at about eighty-or-so pages, that will leave you dying for more!


Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this review copy!

This was a quick, quirky read.* I didn’t really know what to expect, and yet somehow, this delivered it exactly. I guess that’s the magic of Steven Rhodes.* I could see this making a good housewarming gift for the right friend.

*Only two blood sacrifices necessary for book access!

Do you miss ordering books from a catalog? Was the Scholastic Book Fair the best part of your school year? Do you see horrifying visions of blood and bones when you close your eyes, reminding you of your own mortality and also of that man you hit with your car and left for dead? This may be the right book of illustrations for you.

I wish I had the book Your Changing Body as a kid, so I could've been more aware and really more confident of my time of the month. I wasted so much time on clothes that ripped apart during my change, and ate so many whole rabbits. So, so many whole rabbits. If I had known more about lycanthropy to begin with, I would've been so much safer and probably way cooler in middle school. I think I probably did have the Cursed Videotape, though. Or maybe that was just a videotape of Mac and Me I forgot to return to Blockbuster.

Either way, this book is a fantastic look at Steven Rhodes' spooky retro art. You could use it as a great coffee table book, give it to a friend, or anoint it with some grave dust and animal fat before burying it under the right cornerstone of your enemy's house. They deserve it. They know what they did.

This is a cool little book I would recommend to all horror enthusiasts. It takes art you'd see on old school books and kid's magazines, think Babysitters Club and Highlights, and injects them with a good dose of horror. There's not story or anything per se, but it's cool to add to your horror shelf. It's worth it alone to check out the cool art.

I've seen Rhodes' work circulating everywhere: T-shirts, social media, websites. In short, I love everything about the way he marries innocuous grade school book club content with extreme reverence for the Dark Lord.

Truly laugh-out-loud stuff; each page deserves its own poster.

My Little Occult Book Club is set up like those Scholastic catalogues of old. The editor welcomes you with news of impending doom, making titles like Pyrokenisis perfect for devious young minds.

The book is mostly cover art and blurbs of fictional titles, written by authors with gag names. There's a scattering of activities throughout, like helping a boy get to Hell through a maze, or finding out what demon has been summoned by a little girl.

Perfect for horror fans, or those who love a sly joke hidden amongst their parody. This would make a great gift for someone who loves retro horror and jokey books poking fun at the olden days.

Unfortunately it's not for me - since I'm not a horror fan, and found the above elements got a little tired after a while.

Not recommended for anyone who is sensitive to illustrations of blood, or references to the world ending.

I was provided a digital copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Remember those Scholastic catalogues you used to drool over as a kid? This book is sort of like those, if they went over to the dark side. Retro style book covers are given a makeover by artist Steven Rhodes.

Although you can easily imagine the contents of the stories these covers depict, blurbs accompany a few of them. You’ll also find some activities scattered through the book, including a join the dot abomination and find a word (words I found include necromancy, grave and hex).

Make sure you pay attention to the names of the authors. You’ll find such gems as Lou Siffer, who wrote ‘Pumpkin’s Revenge’.

“After centuries of being plucked, carved, and left to rot, the Pumpkin Demon has awoken, and this Halloween it will have its revenge!

A spine-tingling tale of vegetable justice!”

This was a fun but very quick read. My favourite covers were ‘Worship Coffee’ and ‘Timmy has a Visitor’.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for the opportunity to read this book.

N.B. The quote is taken from the ARC, which may be subject to change.

I actually picked this book up because Mehsi over at Twirling Book Princess let me know about it over on Twitter. She said she thought it might appeal to me, and she was absolutely right!


You know Steven Rhodes’ work – even if you don’t know that you know it. You know those ‘Let’s Summon Demons’ t-shirts available at every Hot Topic/Spirit of Halloween/etc.?

Yeah, he’s that guy. This book is cute. It’s funny. I kind of want to own it. It’s set up like a Scholastic Book Fair catalogue, which appeals to my inner 80s-baby, and the entries are all great. The artwork is all on par with the aforementioned shirt, and the descriptions of these fictional books (that I wish were actual books, just for the record) are cheeky and fun.

actual rating: 3.5

This was a fun book to look through but didn't really have enough content for me to feel like I should bump it up to 4 stars. A few of the book covers also had a plot summary to go with them which were really funny so I wish they had done that with more or all of the covers. Still, the art is really good and the 80s children's book meets classic horror tropes idea is a very good one. Probably would be good as a coffee table book or maybe even to take apart and frame some of the pages if you get the physical copy.

Absolutely loved the dark humor of the art and the titles of these "imaginary" books. I would loved to read more books like this one!

If you are a fan of Steven Rhodes, you would love this! It’s a compilation of all of his illustrations. These also appear on the t-shirts that he is known for.

It’s such a specific art style!
I highly recommend this to everyone who has a sense of humor that skews a little on the dark side.

This was very fun, and if you're familiar with Rhodes' viral art, you'd probably appreciate this. I loved the nostalgic combo of the occult mashups with the book club/order form format-cute as fuck. I particularly liked the BMHex 'devil went down to Georgia'-style plot summary, where Satan competes against a BMX bike girl gang. There aren't as many plot summaries as I'd hoped, as it's 75% covers, but the covers are so fun it's still a great novelty book. Thanks to NetGalley for the copy.

This book made me smile. It is only for those with a certain sense of humour so if easily offended don't read this.

I love these designs, having seen them all around the internet as merch, so a compiled coffee table book of them was straight up my alley, combining 2 of my great loves, nostalgia & creepy shit. This is not a book for the humorless or the uptight! It was a trip down memory lane with titles and designs straight out of 70s / early 80s Scholastic book club order forms, & I could swear that back in the day, there WAS an actual book called It Followed Me Home, Can I Keep It? (Except about a puppy, not a zombie, probably.) I read this as a digital book, and I think part of the effect is having a physical copy of it, but nonetheless, it was an enjoyable flip-through, as it’s mostly “book covers” and “book jacket blurbs”. My fave is still Easy Bake Coven. I could also easily see these as a postcard set or coloring book. Fun for weirdos & Stranger Things fans.