For my upcoming birthday, my co-blogger got me a subscription to Creepy Crate. As you may know, lately there seems to be a monthly subscription box for just about everything. From books, to barbeque sauce, to razor blades, and now one for horror fans. This makes my black little heart ecstatic! Before now, I really didn’t have any desire to subscribe to any sort of box thing. I have enough bills already and I’m not generally a fan of paying for stuff without knowing what I’m getting. I’m just weird like that. This review is for the first shipment. The 2nd shipment wasn't nearly as exciting. It had a little bit of cool stuff, but not like this one. Let me just tell you how excited I was when I opened my first Creepy Crate. Very. I was like a kid on Christmas morning. It takes a lot for me to get excited about stuff, but this blew me away. Inside was a variety of things obviously. There was a super cute limited edition pin, a strawberry flavored eyeball lollipop, a coupon code for a free horror book and 3 month subscription to the online horror channel, Shudder. But my 2 favorite items in the box were the Blood shower gel in a blood bag and the serial killer cards. YES FREAKIN SERIAL KILLER CARDS!!! I don’t actually know how much stuff is in the average subscription box because I don’t have experience with those, but I’ll tell you, the items in this box may not have been plentiful, but I can’t even tell you how much excitement those damn cards have given me. I even took them with me to one of my book events. There is one card that is blank and I keep telling my husband if he keeps it up, my picture is going on it! I’ll never use the shower gel, it goes on my horror shelf, and I let my kid eat the eyeball (she said it was delicious btw). So overall, my Creepy Crate experience was great. I now have something to look forward to every other month and I know each box will have the kind of disturbing things in it only twisted people like myself can enjoy!

I was shipped junk for $40

the first box I got from them was pretty good, but I noticed that the main book in the second one was an ARC, which is not cool for a $40 subsciption box. I suspended my subscription after that, and renewed it because of their recent Shudder cross-promotion. However, I was very disappointed in the contents of that box - no print book at all. I won't be reactivating this time.

I received my second Creepy Crate today and will be canceling. The first box was quite good, it definitely was worth the $39 but the second box was so far from good, the items in it were cheap promotional items (like what you get free at promo events) there was no print book in box (I didn't even get the little partial book others got in their box) and I felt like dumping it all in the garbage.

I signed up for this hoping for a good book and maybe some household items or something cool. I have had other horror subscription boxes in the past that were more for kids so I was really hopeful for this. I feel ripped off, this was a box full of garbage. I didn’t even get a full book out of it, supposedly they’re going to email you a book download but I don’t read digital books because they hurt my eyes. Just very disappointed.