So many years ago, my dear friend Kyle told me that there was a young adult series I should read. After all, I studied children’s literature and young adult literature, and I loved all things spooky and macabre. The series was right up my alley. So I said I’d read it, and I even purchased an omnibus edition of the first three novels. And then, like we do with so many books, I put it on my nightstand and didn’t read it for years.