Rockinghorse

by William W. Johnstone

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082171743X
• ISBN13: 9780821717431
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Totally Fun Read

This book was horrific, fun, crazy, gory, and everything you could ever want out of a horror story. I had way too much fun, especially in the third act. Loved the characters and loved just how off the wall this story is. Definitely recommend

The Devil's own toy

The Bowers family inherits a Georgia Plantation from a dead aunt, they go down south to spend the summer and meet up with more than they bargained for. From a luxurious house to devil worshippers, a lazy embezzling groundskeeper, a scientist investigating the supernatural occurrences, ghost children in the woods, and a rocking horse that was made from a hanging tree and those ghost kids blood soaked into its wood that is the source of all the evil. It's a good page turning read, and leaves you begging for more.

I love this book

I almost didn’t buy this book. Thinking of a scary rocking horse just sounded lame. I decided to give this a chance since it’s by Johnstone. Once I started reading this, I never wanted to put it down. This book would make a great movie, but Hollywood would just lame it out with over done computer animation like they always do. I highly recommend reading this.

Truly Frightening!

I finally picked up my battered copy of this book after it was sitting on a shelf, collecting dust for about a year. I picked it up because I was just beginning to go through a Johnstone phase. At first I really didn't know what to expect. The cover was cheezey and the synopsis on the back made the book sound like a B-grade horror movie about a killer rocking horse. Boy was I in for a suprise!Lucus Bowers and his wife and two kids head down to his dead aunt's old plantaton home in the Georga wilderness. What seems to be a nice start to a long summer vacation soon turns into terror as the Bowers' discover the grisly secrets of the house, the woods and the whole town. This eventually leads them to the discovery of an old rocking horse, which seems to be the center of all the bad luck...Since this book is by Johnstone, you get MUCH more than what you bargained for. It all comes in a neatly wrapped package of devil worshipers, ghostly children in the woods, a haunted house and rocking horse, a run-in with the Devil and LOTS of blood and guts! While reading, there were times that I was so increadibly petrified, I couldn't turn the page! There were numerous scenes that made me jump! And I NEVER do that while reading a horror novel. Altogether, this book is a good beach read, and would reccomend it to anyone who likes a good, bold and horrifying story packed with alot of blood, guts and other bodily fluids! Try to get your hands on a copy of this rare book. You won't be dissapointed!

I really enjoyed this book!

Set in south georgia in an old rural manse, the story of the ghost children in the wood will sadden you and the action at the end will excite you. I have loved this book since the sixth grade(I read it when it first came out in 86).