I received a copy of My Little Occult Book Club from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Oh my god this book was just so much fun and would make for a great book to leave laying around when guest come over. Lol.

This is mainly a graphic book that features the different shirt designs that I have seen around and there are a few that I had never seen before but I need immediately!

The art is fun, funny, really colorful, and just all around eye-catching.

Thanks to the publishers for sharing this one. I'd seen a few examples of the artist's work around on t-shirts and it was good to see some more that I hadn't come across before. It's a cute, funny book that would make a good gift for someone with a bit of a dark sense of humour. My full review appears on Weekend Notes.

I love these illustrations, specifically "Easy Bake Coven" and the "mommy can I keep it?" drawings. Very humorous parody of a Schoolastic book fair catalog. If I had a print copy of this book, I would definitely cut out all of the pages and use them as posters.

This book took me back to my roots as an EC Comics reader. The combination of comic book images and dark humor was funny and, at times, a strange kind of entertaining. Very creative!

As someone who loved poring over the Scholastic book order flyers, this kitschy collection of parodied 70s children’s book covers was so much fun. I’ve seen Steven Rhodes’ art around on the internet, and I only wish that there were some more book descriptions to accompany the cover art because they made me laugh out loud.

This was a fun collection of art work and activites based around Steven Rhodes' famous designs. I really enjoyed this as it was a great pastiche of the original style but it gave it a fun and new twist. I found this a quick and highly enjoyable read!

Fun but disposable. I would maybe give this as a gift for someone who is into old school kids books or satanism.

This was a hilarious satire book. An easy read with some funny captions and great illustrations. Would recommend to teenagers and pre teens!

I immediately preordered this the second I finished it.

The pictures are amazing and the book is downright hilarious. An homage and throwback to vintage paper ordering of books, this takes a sinister turn with the fake occult products.

I will even hock his posters and tshirts because what is in the book you can find on those products.

An absolute definite for anyone who likes a fun conversation book or just collects weird stuff... I fall into both categories.

I am hoping for more of these!!

An enthusiastic 5/5 stars.

I received a copy of this book from the Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This is a hilarious satire of childrens books from the 80's and the illustrations are phenomenal! I loved it so much!

A really cool parody of children’s books from the seventies and eighties and horror movies/books.

The parody book covers are really awesome and would make amazing posters.

I love the satire and dark humor in this book and the full color illustrations are very nicely done!

Recommended for horror and dark comedy fans!

This was a lot of fun.
It reminded me of the old Scholastic book flyers from my childhood.
I can totally see this becoming a gag gift for many of my friends.
Thanks to NetGalley, Chronicle Books & Steven Rhodes for my DRC.

Amazing parody of children's classics. The illustrations are great, and would probably make cool posters!

Well, I have to say this was better than I at first thought. It's a direct, played-straight parody of old-fashioned mail order catalogues, designed for kids with too much pocket money and parents gullible enough to send a cheque off in the post for them to get absolute tat. In our world that would have been X-ray glasses, fortune-telling plastic fish and Charles Atlas bumf. Here, in the Occult Book Club ("unsubscribing is not an option") you buy books warning of stranger danger that feature the neighbourhood idiot going off with an alien, and guides to pyrokinesis, caring for satanic pets and summoning the devil. You get activities to do, such as joining the dots (not exactly 666 of them, but the results are the same) and taking part in the latest dance craze, walking down stairs on your hands while head first and upside down. It does feature some weakly feeble puns of the wackily-named fictional author variety, but I certainly laughed at the rest, and the designs, evoking our childhood advertising and book covers from the 1970s, are spot on. I don't think it's something you'd read through often, but going into this knowing it's a cheesy 'gift book', I think you'd be well satisfied.

Do you have fond memories of the 80s Scholastic book fliers? Do you like horror / paranormal / fantasy?

If you answered yes, this is the book for you. Although it isn't what most folks would call a coffee table book, this is one you will want to lay around as there are more pictures than text.

Probably not for those who are easily offended or who cannot find humor in things like Satan.

I would totally wear most of these covers as t-shirts. I hope there are t-shirts! There is one about coffee that my hubby definitely needs. I know many who would want the Death Metal cover on a shirt or poster. I have a very sweet demon cat, there is a cover for that book too! I need the My Imaginary Friends Think I’m Cool as a shirt.

Let us not forget the activities - connect the dots, a maze, a word search, a paper doll, a coloring page, how to make shadow puppets, all mixed up (finding objects to help Molly on her vampire hunt), Who lives here where you match the monster to their homes,, Odd One out where you help a witch pick which animals make a good familiar and which one would not.

This is a super fun book!

What an enjoyable little read! I always enjoy seeing Steve Rhodes's designs on merch and this is a really nice edition to his style. I wish the entire world has this kind of vibe - it would be a much cooler place.

This is hilarious! As a child of the 80s, I loved this. The illustrations are great and every page made me laugh or remember a part of my childhood. I would recommend this book!

"Jack and Jill went up the hill
to tetch a pail of water,
The well was cursed.
they fell headfirst,
to vile and gruesome slaughter."

Looking for a perfect gift for the little rascal you know? My Little Occult Book Club is filled with great recommendations that you or the child you know can choose from. Like Let's Sacrifice Toby, Easy Bake Coven, Curses and Spells for Kids and many more.

This was just really short and fun. Some of the illustrations made me giggle and I kind of wish some of the titles were real because I'd most definitely add them to my collection.

The Scholastic Book Club Meets Grady Hendrix

MY LITTLE OCCULT BOOK CLUB is an absolute, 110%, must-read for the following demos:
1. Children of the ’80s.
2. Book nerds.
3. The SPN fandom.
4. All of the above.

Graphic artist Steven Rhodes gives the 1980s Scholastic Book Club flyers the Grady Hendrix treatment, to pretty awesome effect.

Here you’ll find advertisements for would-be books such as B.M. HEX Gang by Diane Rott, MY FIRST ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (Abbie Toir), and ALIEN ABDUCTION CLUB; connect-the-dots games where the dots = demons; adverts for spirit specs and alien-attracting helmets (for the anti-tinfoil hat crowd); and unholy word search games.

There’s even a mock order form at the front of the book! That sound? The squealing of my inner middle-schooler.

Most of the artwork consists of book covers, which seems like it would get repetitious – if not for Rhodes’s talent, style, and wicked sense of humor.

According to his bio, Rhodes’s designs grace t-shirts in Spencer’s and Hot Topic, so that should give you an idea of his overall aesthetic.

I would not object to receiving unisex tees and/or mid-sized posters sporting any of these gems.

I have a soft spot for the sell your soul one, since my youngest brother sold his to a second-grade classmate for a mere fifty cents. Needless to say, we still tease him about it a decade and a half later.

I loved it and it was a lot of fun to read.
The illustrations are great and I laughed a lot.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.