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The Monster Librarian Presents:
The Mission of MonsterLibrarian.com
MonsterLibrarian.com was created with the following goals
1) To support Public, Academic, and School Librarians in developing their library horror fiction collection and assist in readers advisory.
2) To help current readers of horror fiction find another good book to read
3) To encourage fans of horror to expand their interests beyond movies and television, and introduce excellent horror fiction.
4) To help teachers and librarians use horror to reach reluctant readers.
5) To help promote small and independent press horror genre publishers in libraries.
About the Site
The Monster Librarian welcomes you! This site is dedicated to all the books that are creepy, scary, and give us the willies. It is meant to be a resource for readers and librarians. For readers of horror, this is designed to be a site where you can find other books that fall into the horror category that you might be interested in reading. For librarians, this site provides tools to help in collection development, readers advisory, and program planning. While the site will have information on current mainstream horror it will also include in the various lists older books that may be of interest. This site has no other agenda than encouraging people to read, and supporting readers of the horror genre. I hope to update every two weeks. My goal is to keep the site going with no advertisements, likewise my links page will contain just text hyper links to the various site. The reason is that I wish to keep this site as easy to use and read as possible.
The Monster Librarian Staff
Dylan Kowalewski aka The Monster Librarian
Webmaster/Reviewer
I obtained a Master’s in Library Science after catching the library bug working as reference assistant at an academic library. I am currently working part-time at the reference desk of a small branch library. I have been reading horror fiction and watching horror movies for as long as I can remember. My current interest in the field of library science is using horror fiction as a tool to attract reluctant readers to the joy of reading. E-mail the Monster Librarian.
Francesca the Librarian
Contributor/Reviewer
Francesca the Librarian has a Master's degree in library science and is certified to teach school library media. She has worked as a children's librarian in a large public library and as a school library media specialist at the elementary level. She's had kids of all ages ask her "Where are the scary books?".
Bret Jordan
Reviewer
Bret Jordan is a 39 year old Texas resident. He is married and has four
children, all girls. By day he programs computers for a local business, and
by night he works as a freelance artist specializing in horror and fantasy
artwork. When not working, drawing, or spending time with his family he
reads and writes horror stories.
Bret currently has an online serial at Graveside Tales that can be found
here.
Michele Lee
Reviewer
Michele Lee has been a
friend and supporter of libraries and librarians since middle school when
she discovered the first in a wonderful line of book lovers who would pull
her from classes and indulge her love of roaming the stacks. Now she's a
writer and a reviewer trying to share her love of books and stories with
anyone who will listen. She keeps a web site (www.michelelee.net)
and a personal book review blog (micheleleebooklove.blogspot.com)
where she reviews everything from romantic erotica to unflinching horror.
David Agranoff
Reviewer
David Agranoff is a Science Fiction and Horror author who spent time in prison for the first amendment and eats massive amounts of vegan food at his home in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of the collection Screams from a Dying World and co-author of The Gutter Limits both available from Punk Horror press. 2008 will see the release of his first novel Hunting the Moon Tribe and he is currently working on a dystopian cyberpunk novel and blogs book reviews and points of view on a regular basis at www.davidagranoff.blogspot.com
Bob Freeman
Havoc
Reviewer
Havoc is a bibliophile with a BA
in literary studies and a masters degree in teaching. She has been teaching
middle school English for Minneapolis Public Schools for the last 9 years
with no interest in stopping. When not
discussing books with her
students, or taking care of her family, she can be found reading.