fuck yeah christopher pike

Let’s Play The ‘Ann’ Game

* In Master of Murder, Martin Summer (a write), makes many references to his sister Ann in his work.

* Chained Together (Chain Letter and Chain Letter 2: The Ancient Evil) is dedicated to Ann.

* The Season of Passage is also dedicated to Ann.

* The main character of Remember Me is named Shari Ann Cooper.

* In Last Act, Rindy Carpenter’s middle name is Ann

* Fall into Darkness has an Ann Rice.

* Much of the plot of the Final Friends trilogy focuses around the circumstances surrounding the death of Alice McCoy in the first book, The Party. At the end of the last book (The Graduation) we learn that her middle name, and the forename of lead protagonist Michael Olsen’s newborn sister, is Ann (also the first time a main character’s name was Ann and not a middle name).

* In the Spooksville series, there is a woman called Ann Templeton who is suspected of being a witch. She appears many times along the different books of the collection.

* In Whisper of Death the main character’s name is Roxanne.

* In the fifth book of The Last Vampire series, he dedicates it to his ‘sister, Ann, who is a vampire’

ironylovesme:

christopher pike: 9

the teenage work book and a book of a thousand days which is about a princess and is in mint condition. the pike books are okay and unused but some have creaky spines. its okay, all my books are like that. as long as i can keep my imagination and my english grades alive.

can you imagine spellbound was written in 1988??

CHRIIISTOPHER PIIIIKE.

i need to own more of his sci fi stuff

ria:

one for 2 bucks, 3 for 5

one novel for 5.90, 2 for 10

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my dad is trying to pretend he’s an expert piano player. he plays the same song since i was a kid when he’s playing it. my mom thinks he use to fantasise about being a famous piano player when he was a kid. yeah he sure thinks he is.

i need to buy ‘remember me’

dontweall

xo

j

Try The Starlight Crystal and The Last Vampire series which is being re-released starting in August. The Remember Me series is amazing as well.

Let’s Talk Christopher Pike

You have your Lois Duncans, your R.L. Stines, etc. but those never truly scared me. The endings were predictable. Christopher Pike on the other hand, wrote the fucking creepiest books ever. I just realized, thanks to my local used bookstore, that he released an adult novel in 2007.

Um, why wasn’t I notified? His adult novels have been hit or miss. However, Season of Passage seriously changed my life. Turn off the computer. Go ge a copy. Read. It. Now.

But, Christopher Pike ruled my teen years when I got too old for Kristy and the Gang and the Wakefield twins. The first one I picked up was Chain Letter and it scared me to the core! In other teen horror, there was some ending where the main character always saved the day. People died in Pike’s books. And died pretty gruesomely. Something about Chain Letter totally had me freaked out but also had me hooked.

Most of his main characters were headstrong teenage girls in their junior or senior years of high school, and seemed really older than their ages. They always were pretty confident in themselves and seemed pretty mature. As in, they were able to hatch their own murderous plans and figure out intricate supernatural conspiracies. I’m getting ahead of myself.

Although I devoured every single one of his books with glee, they always kind of had the same elements:

• Everything is perfectly fine and normal in their lives until one day….
• They usually just have recently had sex with their boyfriends for the first time
• Something that may have a simple explanation turns out to be some convoluted, way out there plot involving time travel, government conspiracies, ghosts, robotronics, the space program, etc.
• Near the end, the mastermind behind the plot will take the character hostage and reveal all the details of their genius plot
• the women often dressed in silk shirts and colored slacks

Here are some of my favorites and the plots that I can recall from memory. Sometimes I think I may have imagined these while on a bad acid trip.

Scavenger Hunt: the school organizes the titular hunt but really its a plot hatched by two lizards from an ancient lizard society posing as a brother and sister at the school. One of the other characters starts to realize that they are not what they seem when they see them making out. Wtf kind of drugs would make someone come up with a plot like that?

Die Softly: Two cheerleaders are really murderous scheming coke addicts until one turns against the other and fakes her death in a firey car crash. She sets up the dorky school photographer to see pictures of the killing for some reason that suits her plans. In other words, awesome.

See You Later: A guy befriends an older couple who really turns out to be him and his girlfriend who came back from the future (how he couldn’t tell this I’ll never know). They are back to warn them to not fall in love because somehow them being together is the cause of an intergalactic nuclear war. I also remember this one made me bawl like a baby every time I read it.

Fall Into to Darkness: One rich spoiled brat is jealous of her best friend so she frames her for her murder; she jumps off a cliff so it looks like the friend pushed her, but she really had a hidden rope. The friend that she enlists to help her is secretly evil and actualy kills her for real. The friend is on trial and she finally figures out the plot. Sadly, this was made into a tv movie starring Jonathan Brandis (RIP) and Tatiana Ali. I never saw it though.

Whisper of Death: this one needs to be a movie. Produced by the sci fi channel, but with better special effects. A group of a few teens wake up one day to find that they are the only ones left in their town, save for a classmate of theirs who died recently. She write fables about each of them which turn out to come true, and predicts their deaths, one by one.

Remember Me: This one was longer and more involved. Shari is pushed over a balcony, but wakes up as a ghost and helps investigate her own death. Turns out she was pushed by her brother’s girlfriend, the daughter of their housekeeper, who is really her mother because she and her brother’s girlfriend were switched at birth. That’s right, her brother was actually dating his biological sister. She tried to inject him with too much insulin but ghost Shari and her ghost crime fighting friend save the day. It was actually less cheesy than it sounds.

I missed some of the later ones, like the Last Vampire Series and all the stupid sequels to Remember Me. What was it about these books that were so haunting? They stay with me even today.

(Source: The Dairi Burger)

What is your favorite Christopher Pike book?