𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩: It's Halloween night 1984 in Coventry, Massachusetts. Families are getting ready for a night of trick-or-treating. Everything seems going well until the neighborhood kids meet four children who beg them to protect them from The Cunning Man.

𝙈𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨: First of all, this cover definitely is creepy, spooky, and super eye-catching! Halloween night in the 80s?! I'm all for it!

I have to say that the setting was good, with intense story-building. I could visualize everything in my head!

I tried to like this story since Road of Bones was one of my favourite reads last year. Unfortunately, this one didn't work for me. As much as I like the story build-up, I felt it was way too long and draggy before the main event finally happened. The main plot was obscured by all the side stories - family & neighborhood drama. Moreover, the story is told from too many POVs and I struggled to keep track who's who.

Overall, this book is not my favourite by this author. It didn't feel like a horror read to me, but more of a donestic suspense sprinkled with light horror. But please do not let my personal thoughts deter you from picking up this book. You may enjoy it more than me!

𝑃𝑢𝑏. 𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑒: 𝐽𝑎𝑛 24𝑡ℎ, 2023

***𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑆𝑡. 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛'𝑠 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑐𝑜𝑝𝑦. 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛.***

A spooky atmospheric 1980s read. I enjoyed the fast-paced plot and creepy vibes. However, there were way too many characters. Often times, they also shared the same last name creating a lot of confusion. Also, the publication date of January doesn't really make sense and a Fall release would have been better suited.

Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to review this advanced copy.

This feels like a classic, all things Halloween and all things spooky rolled into one frightful night leaving you wanting more.

Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts

Time for Trick or Treating, haunted houses and scares!

Told through the POV of various neighborhood members, All Hallows follows a neighborhood on fright night! Tony Barbosa has hosted the ““Haunted Woods” for years but this year will the last. Everyone looks forward to this, it's a good scare and yearly tradition. But this year, there were extra children in the mix. Children who ask for help getting away from the "Cunning Man".

I had high hopes for this book. I was hoping it would be creepy and scary. It did work in the creepy area with the children in their vintage costumes. There was great atmosphere in this book. I could visualize the children trick or treating with the chill in the air.

I liked the creepy trick or treaters that no one recognized or could place. Their old/vintage costumes had me reminiscing about the costumes I wore as a child. How did we breathe or see out of those masks? I trick or treated in the 70's and 80's so this one hit all the nostalgic vibes for me.

While this kept my attention, and I thought it was good, I wasn't wowed by it. These was something missing that I can't quite put my finger one. There is drama to go with the creepy vibe. While I enjoyed the drama, I wish there was less of it. I wanted more of: who are those kids? Who is the cunning man? Is this part of the haunted woods? Wtf is going on? and run for your lives! Basically, I wanted more creepiness and chills.

This is another book that I think would work well as a movie. It does have tension and atmosphere. It does have that something isn't quite right element that I enjoy in books.

Vintage costumes are such a creepy idea and I loved the premise for this book but I quickly lost interest in the beginning. The pages of in-depth thought that Tony had about questioning how he raised his kids was not the hook I wanted to start a horror novel. Unfortunately that continues with more coming of age drama and domestic problems and multiple narrators. I didn't get the creeping terror or shocking fear that I wanted from any of the characters. I love Christopher Golden but this book is not his best. It left me bored and skimming most of it.

All Hallows is a fun Halloween book with some chills and thrills. This isn't necessarily a scary book, but it's like watching a fairly entertaining movie which some nice twists and turns. Overall I'd recommend this for anyone who wants to try spooky books.

Oh what a haunted tale this is! Halloween with a vengeance.

A small town that is celebrating its last Halloween with a family and their haunted woods attraction. Sinister children, unknown to the townspeople, appear for some trick or treating fun. A patch of woods bent on revenge and the accumulation of new souls. What possibly could go wrong?

This was an amazing read. Fun, fast, and interest keeping at its best. This is one I’ll be recommending to everyone who loves a spooky story, curses, haunts and chills.

Thank you so much to #NetGalley, the publishers and author for extending me an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Be sure to grab this one and start your new year right in preparation for Halloween 2023! You can’t go wrong.

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Wow! This book!

It was very well-written and the pacing and the tension was spot-on!

I wanted to be walking through their haunted woods, at least until the creepy halloween costumed 80's kids showed up!

I really loved the father daughter dynamic, their relationship made me smile.

The book is spooky and creepy and then gets gory.

I am surprised it is releasing in January and not around Halloween. Luckily I was able to read this digital ARC during the Halloween season!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this ARC!

I look forward to more from Christopher Golden!

A suburban horror story - 1984 and a small neighborhood is going to pieces during Halloween night. The Cunning man is coming for them all - of course there is a creepy woods! Engaging and scary - I give all books I like 3 stars

Creeped me right out, but way too many characters to keep track of. Were they all necessary?
Glad I didn't read it before Halloween or I would never have let my child go trick or treating.

Yikes of all Yikes. How is this a New Year book?! This is prime Halloween material, better than most horror stories I've ever read. The depth of the monsters, the variety of the players, the sheer horror (ha) of it - astonishing. My only critique is that the first third or so could use some more spookiness. It's hinted lightly, but I was not drawn to keep reading until about the 40% mark when things started to ramp up. I would love to hear this in audio format for sure, but the casting would be insane! If you take this book on, be ready for some seriously gross gore, "creepy kids" horror, and some renewed hope in the human condition - no cowards to be found among the mass of characters! I would 100% recommend this as a spooky October/fall read though, so I'm bummed it's publication is in January of all times. Hopefully it makes some top-charts for 2023 Halloween so it can be truly appreciated.

**Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the eARC**

This book was well-written, but it wasn’t very tense or scary, and it kind of struggled with pacing. The plot didn’t pick up until the last 30% or so...however when the plot picked up, it PICKED UP in the bloodiest of ways. There are lots of chapters (I think 50+?) that all switch off between the POV of about 15 different characters, which lent an interesting perspective to the story, and I really liked the Halloween vibes and the 80s nostalgia.

All Hallows is a fun read. It takes place on Halloween night in the 80’s (my favorite time period).

So is domestic horror a thing? This book is part domestic suspense and part horror.

It’s got several povs and it gets confusing at times. So much neighborhood domestic drama and it’s hard to keep up with whose kid is whose etc.

There is a lot happening here and it gets muddled a bit towards the end. Super creepy and a pretty good read. 3.5 ⭐️

I had high hopes for this one because of the Stranger Things/80’s vibes and while it delivered that pretty well, I wouldn’t say this book blew me away. There were way too many characters and POV to keep up with easily and their storylines were just meh. The real fun began toward the end but at that point I was ready for the book to be over.

3.5 rounded up
Thank you to St. Martin's Press for my ARC copy.
What a wicked wild ride.
I'm reminded of that same feeling I got when I first watched Stranger Things. You know, that feeling of-these kids are in way over their heads, where are the parents?! But loved it just the same.
This is Halloween, 1984 and we're following neighborhood kids as they begin trick or treating for the night. Things feel simple and fun, but this isn't a normal night and not all of these kids belong.
There's something in the woods hunting the strange kids, the kids whose costumes are faded and who seem more terrified than the rest, for completely different reasons.
This book flew by for me because I'm such a fan of the-kids-against-evil trope that I just couldn't wait to see what happened next. Readers get a glimpse into the lives of the characters, their families, and friends thought the plot moves quickly and I never felt too invested in any one character, which I don't know that I really needed in this story.
Overall, it's the perfect spooky/horror read if you're craving some Stranger Things vibes. But be warned, this is not just a spooky story, things do get very horror-story very quickly so look up trigger warnings if you need them.

Let's just dive on in.... This book could have been a so much better. The amount of characters was too much. This book jumps between so many characters, I couldn't keep track of who was who and what was going on for most of the book. Every time I figured out who was who and what was what in each chapter, the chapter would change.

The whole who was good and who was bad had me wondering who I was rooting for. When I was able to follow some of the characters, I was fully invested with their storyline.

This book took me back to the good ole days of growing up in the late 80'/early 90s. I felt very nostalgic of the days when kids could go out in the dark and play in their neighborhoods without much worry. (Maybe except for the boogeyman, but I digress.)

Overall, this was a good book. It was slow moving because it had too much going on. It could've been told all the same minus the amount of characters.

I have loved Christopher Golden since I was a teenager and "All Hallows" proves why he's one of the best horror authors out there.

Thank you NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Christopher Golden for the advanced copy of All Hallows in exchange for my honest review.

I unfortunately decided to DNF this one around 30%. The story just wasn't progressing enough for my liking and it felt more like a series of family dramas than the creepy read I was expecting.

As always, I will not rate this book on any platform aside from Goodreads since I did not finish it.

This is a great Halloween spooky read. It definitely has a Stranger Things feel and 80’s nostalgia. I really enjoyed the haunted woods set up and Halloween night as a setting. It made the book feel even creepier, especially with the mysterious children wearing vintage costumes and makeup.

This wasn’t just a spooky slasher read. It has a small town feel with family drama and coming of age side plots. I did find that these side parts made the story a bit slower and the switching multiple POV’s sometimes made things a bit confusing.

The ending wrapped up decently scary and the last 30% really picked up. It felt like the Halloween and Friday the 13th kind of movies but in a book. Overall it was a good scary book full of creepy kids and a sinister entity. I definitely recommend reading this around Halloween or fall.

Thanks to St. Martins Press and Netgalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.

What a deliciously creepy book! I really enjoyed almost all of it. The ending kind of went a little sideways for me but only because of one minor detail which of course I can't say because it would spoil so much.

This book is a great option for a Halloween read or even just something to tie you over until Halloween comes back around.

Just a warning, if you have an issue with gory books involving children don't even bother with this one. On the flip side, if you like horror involving family (especially children), drama and a pretty good amount of gore then read this one!