Mister Magic by Kiersten White
This horror novel about the surviving cast members of a mysterious TV series for children that ended in tragedy (think Barney & Friends, if Barney was cousins with the Babadook) reuniting to figure out the truth about the show’s final days, is really unique, and tailor-made for a generation of nostalgia-addicted millennials (aka, me: hi, hello, how do you do). How it manages to be the perfect cross between Stranger Things, Stephen King’s It, and whatever Olivia Wilde was trying to accomplish with her 2022 sci-fi thriller Don’t Worry Darling, I’ll never know, but Kiersten White pulls it off.
