9/2/09 Reviewing zombie titles, a slasher story, and a tale of the supernatural.

In this update we give you a double dose of zombie mayhem with Bob Freeman reviewing Derek Gunn's The Estuary and the Monster Librarian reviews Anthony Giangregorio's Road Kill.

Bob Freeman also reviews Gregory Lamberson's Personal Demons, KDP reviews Bare Bones #11 edited by Kevin L. Donihe. Bret Jordan reviews Simon Clark's This Ghosting Tide.

For our children's section KDP reviews RD Henham's Green Dragon Codex.

We are still running our two contests. The first is for a copy of the latest y/a vampire title Night Runner by Max Turner and the other is for a copy of Rick Yancey's Gothic horror Monstrumologist at our Contest page.

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5/20/09 Interview with Jeff Strand and reviews for all ages

In this update we have:


Rhonda Wilson interviews author Jeff Strand and reviews his latest release Benjamin's Parasite. Rhonda also reviews The Hunger of Empty Vessels .

We would like to welcome Stacey L. Wilson who reviews Melissa Strangway's 56 Water Street and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book in the Scary Books for Kids section. She also reviews young adult vampire title Look for Me by Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn.

Bret Jordan reviews Anthony Giangregorio's The Rage Plague.

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Mouse’s First Halloween by Lauren Thompson, ill by Buket Erdogan in the Scary Books for Kids section.

David Agranoff reviews Clive Barker's The Adventures of Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Cricus.

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10/1/08 Halloween Horror Book Review Project Launch

Tonight we launch the 2008 Halloween Horror Book Review Project. This year MonsterLibrarian.com, Horrorworld, Horror-Web, Hellnotes, FearZone, Horror Drive-In, and Dark Scribe Magazine will be offering up reviews of horror titles, many set on or around Halloween. Reviews will be posted throughout the month, so please check back here for the latest Halloween fun. The Monster Librarian reviewed Ghost Walk by Brian Keene in the adult Supernatural page and Bound for Evil edited by Tom English in the adult horror anthologies page. Horror Drive-in has contributed a review of Miranda by John Little in the adult Something Different section. Hellnotes already has posted their review of Night Country by Stewart O"Nan. We will have additional reviews and goodies all through October.

We have also started the final update of the 2008 Coming Horror Fiction Releases page for October, November, and December and will have part 2 of the update next week

For teens and to help with YALSA's Books with Bite program we have put together the latest list of young adult vampire fiction.


For the 12 and under readers we have started our own Halloween Book List for Kids page

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6/4/08 Reviews, Lovecraft Collection Development Guide, and an Author Interview

In this update Bret Jordan reviews Joseph D'Lacey's Meat in the Human Horror section. David Agranoff reviews The Haunted Forest Tour by James A. Moore and Jeff Strand in the adult Supernatural section. Bob Freeman reviews Shadows Over New England by Scott T. Goudsward and David Goudsward in the new adult horror Non-Fiction section. The Monster Librarian reviews The Morningstar Strain: Thunder and Ashes by Z.A. Recht in the adult Zombie section. There is a review of James Burr's Ugly Stories for Beautiful People in the adult horror Anthology section. In the Scary Stories for Kids section there is a review of The Lima Bean Monster by Dan Yaccarino by Francesca the Librarian and the Monster Librarian reviews My Sister The Vampire by Sienna Mercer. There is an interview with Generation Dead author Daniel Waters in the Author Interviews section. Also we are still running our Generation Dead T-Shirt giveaway contest in the Contests section. Finally, Jamie Blackman has developed a fantastic H.P. Lovecraft Collection Development Guide.
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3/17/08 A new look, new reviews, and more lists

MonsterLibrarian.com has a new look to make it easier to read and navigate the site. In addition to the changes to the site, we have new reviews with Bob Freeman reviewing Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths edited by Colleen Morris and Joel A. Sutherland in the adult horror Anthologies section. The Angry Princess reviews The Possessed by Ronald Dondeigo in the adult Supernatural section. We have revisited our review of Pod of Horror since its move to Horrorworld.org In the Scary Books for Kids section Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, ill. Christopher Myers.

We have put together lists of graphic novels focusing on Zombies and Vampires. We have updated Coming Horror Fiction Releases for April and May. Finally, we have gotten the updated link for Dark Scribe Magazine reviewing Alexandra Sokoloff's The Price which is part of the Spring into Terror horror review project If you have any thoughts, suggestions, or feedback on the new format for our site please let us know by sending an e-mail to MonsterLibrarian@MonsterLibrarian.com

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"Spring into Terror" horror review project!

We are excited to announce the Spring into Terror horror book review project. Spring into Terror is a collaborative effort presenting reviews of horror fiction that will be available for your reading pleasure this Spring. In addition to providing reviews of horror titles you might be interested in adding to your collection, “Spring into Terror” will highlight participating horror fiction review sites that cover both small press and mainstream horror. Collaborating review sites include: Horrorworld.org, Horror-Web.com, Hellnotes.com, DreadCentral.com, Fearzone.com, HorrorDrive-in.com, MonsterLibrarian.com, and Dark Scribe Magazine. Visit the Spring into Terror to see a list of the titles reviewed at participating sites.

MonsterLibrarian.com has reviews of The Unwanted by Diablo, Mark Michaels, Juan Romera, and Jason Arthur in our adult Graphic Novel section. Bob Freeman reviews Horrors Beyond 2: Stories of Strange Creations ed. by William Jones in the Cthulhu Mythos section and The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff in the adult Something Different section. Michele Lee reviews The Man on the Ceiling by Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem in the Something Different section. All these reviews are part of the "Spring into Terror" project.

Michele Lee also reviews J.W. Coffy's A Wager of Blood in the adult Supernatural section. The Monster Librarian reviews Peadar O Guilin's The Inferior in the young adult Dark Fantasy section. Finally, for the kids there is a review of Damien Graves's The Midnight Library: The Cat Lady in the Scary Books for Kids section.
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1/15/08 New reviews of titles for adults, teens, and kids

In this update Bob Freeman reviews Richard Dansky's Firefly Rain in the adult Supernatural section. Michele Lee reviews John Paul Allen's Monkey Love in the adult Supernatural section. David Agranoff reviews Die Earthman Die by MF Korn, DF Lewis, Mike Philbin and David Matthew in the adult Bizarro section. There is a review of Mike Dubisch's graphic novel Weirdling in the adult graphic novel section. Francesca the Librarian reviews Stories for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe edited by Andrew Delbanco and Michael Morpurgo's Beowulf in the young adult Supernatural section. Francesca also reviews Dav Pilkey's Dogzilla in the Scary Stories for Kids section. Willow May Goes to the Midnight Carnival by Icats Nitram in the Scary Stories for Kids section.
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12/1/07 Zombies, Cthulhu, and a Supernatural Rubber Chicken

In this update The Monster Librarian reviews zombie anthology The Undead Vol 2: Skin and Bones edited by D.L. Snell and Travis Adkins and Mark Justice's zombie comedy Deadneck Hootenanny in the adult zombie section. For fans of Cthulhu fiction Bob Freeman reviews
Horror Between the Sheets edited by Michael Amorel, Oliver Baer, and Benjamin X. Wretlind and The Monster Librarian reviews C.J. Henderson's Things That Are Not There. In the adult Human Horror section Michele Lee review Jeff Strand's Disposal and The Angry Princess reviews Zoe Whitten's Trail Of Madness . For the kids there is a review of upcoming Mirrorstone release Supernatural Rubber Chicken by D.L. Garfinkle. The Monster Librarian posts our first DVD review of slasher flick Plasterhead which can be found in our Monstrous Media section. Finally, you will notice we have be working on a redesign of our site, we always appreciate any feedback so please drop us a line at MonsterLibrarian@MonsterLibrarian.com and let us know what you think.
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10/15/07 New reviews and Teen Read Week

This week is American Library Association's Teen Read Week sponsored by Mirrorstone Books. The Teen Read Week logo on both the Main Page and on the young adult page will take you to the Teen Read Week page.

This week Bret Jordan reviews Yasuyuki Kasai's WWII killer animal book Dragon of the Mangroves. Bob Freeman reviews Anne Frasier's vampire novel Pale Immortal and the sequel Garden of Darkness and the Monster Librarian reviews Philip Henry's Vampire Twilight in the adult vampire section. David Agranoff reviews M. F. Korn's Confessions of a Ghoul and other stories, Bradley Sands's It Came from Below the Belt, and John Edward Lawson's The Troublesome Amputee: Collected Poetry in the adult Bizzaro section. There is a review of upcoming children's fantasy novel Red Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham in the Scary Books for Kids section. We are extending our Contests deadline until October 31st, so stop on by and check out the latest contests.
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9/3/07 Reviews for adults, y/a, children, contests, and more

I want to welcome two new reviewers, Bob Freeman and David Agranoff, to the staff of MonsterLibrarian.com. We are excited to have them join us. In this update, Bob Freeman reviews Elder Signs Press's periodical Dark Wisdom edited by William Jones in the Horror Magazine section. The Angry Princess reviews Zoe Whitten's The Lesser Of Two Evils in the adult Human Horror section. The Monster Librarian reviews Midlisters by Kealan Patrick Burke also in the human horror section. There is a review for Eric S Brown's zombie chapbook Zombies II;Inhuman in the zombie section. For those who like young adult vampire fiction there is a review of Melissa de la Cruz's follow up to Blue Bloods, Masquerade. For the children The Monster Librarian reviews Mirrorstone Book's A Practical Guide to Monsters by Nina Hess. In the Monster Librarian's Spotlight we focus on book trailers. For the next two months we are running a few Contests, including one surrounding David Morrell's Scavengers and art contests for both children and adults. Finally, there have been new entries added to the World War II Horror fiction list and an update on Rio Youer's End Times.
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7/4/07 Reviews of books with zombies, vampires, and Godzilla for kids

Bret Jordan reviews David Moody's Autumn and I review Eric S. Brown's zombie tale The Queen in the adult zombie section. There is also a review for James A. Moore's Harvest Moon in the adult supernatural section. For vampire lovers Bret Jordan reviews Blood Coven by Christopher Fulbright and Angeline Hawkes in the adult vampire section. Bret also reviews Christopher Fulbright 's Sometimes Women Are So Cold and Echoes of Terror with stories selected by Katherine Smith, Garrett Peck, and Giovanna Lagana in the something difference section for adults. There are reviews for Who’s Afraid of Godzilla? by Di Kaiju and Godzilla on Monster Island by Jacqueline Dwyer. Finally, the site has a new feature called Monster Librarian's Spotlight, to showcase a publisher, author, or topic that we think you should know about. The current spotlight is on the small press chapbook publisher White Noise Press.
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6/25/07 New horror fiction reviews for adults, teens, and kids

A host of new reviews this week. Bret Jordan reviews Tapestry of Dark Souls by Elaine Bergstrom in the adult Horror Adventure section. Francesca the Librarian reviews Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith in the young adult Horror Adventure section.. The Angry Princess reviews The Island by Richard Laymon in the adult Human Horror section. Patricia reviews Rebirth by Scott McKenzie in the adult vampire section. I review Gary Braunbeck's Smiling Faces Sometimes and spotlight White Noise Press in the adult Something Different section. Finally, I review I See a Monster: A Touch And Feel Book by Laurie Young in the Scary Book for Kids section. Finally, we were mentioned in the Rue Morgue magazine's In the Roadkill form the Info Highway section in the June,2007 edition, it is noted in the Monstrous Sightings section. We love to hear from our visitors with comments, suggestions, or just to say hi. Feel free to e-mail us here at MonsterLibrarian@MonsterLibrarian.com.


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6/5/07 New reviews for adults,y/a, and one for the kids

Bret Jordan reviews M.F. Korn's Rachmaninoff's Ghost and Swamp Witch Piquante & Scream Queen Bisque (Over a Bed of Rice) in the adult Supernatural section. I also review M.F. Korn's Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear. Two of Julie Kenner's books get reviewed with me reviewing the young adult vampire book Good Ghouls Do and Francesca the Librarian reviewing Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon- Hunting Soccer Mom. In addition, Bret Jordan reviews Gary Braunbeck's Destination Unknown in the Something Different section for adults. I add to this weeks update with reviews of Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft edited by Tom Pomplun for the young adult Graphic Novels section, The Pandora's Box Trilogy: Book One: Into the Void by Adam Teachout in the newly created Horror Themed Adventure section for young adults, and Favorite Scary Stories of American Children by Richard and Judy Dockrey Young in the Scary Books for Kids section.
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5/16/07 New reviews for adults, teens, and children

This week guest reviewer David Agranoff reviews John Shirley's Living Shadows in the something different section for adults. A review of Dead Sea by Tim Curran is in the supernatural section for adults. For young adults, Kate-Lynn Williams reviews the third book in Cate Tiernan's Sweeps series Blood Witch in the young adults supernatural section. In the Scary Books for Kids section there is a review of Mercer Mayer's There Are Monsters Everywhere.

Congratulations to the winner of the Vampire Dawn contest:
Jack P. from Philadelphia, PA

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5/1/07 Review of Bloodline for young adults and Scary Books for Kids

This week brings a review of young adult vampire book Bloodlines by Kate Cary. In the Scary Books for Kids section there is a review of Grampa's Zombie BBQ by Kirk Scroggs, Judy Sierra's Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie, and Cheryl Harness's Midnight in the Cemetery: A Spooky Search-and-Find Alphabet .

Remember we are running the Vampire Dawn contest until May 15th go to the Contests page to enter!
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4/24/07 Reviews for horror for adults, children and kids

Bret Jordan reviews The Blackest Heart by Vince Churchill in the adult something different section. Francesca the Librarian reviews Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret in the newly minted Something Different section for young adults. For the zombie lovers there is a review of Joe McKinney's Dead City in the adult zombie section. There is also a review of S.D. Hintz's The Offering in the adult supernatural section. For the 12 and under crowd there is a review of The Scarecrow's New Clothes by Lisa Thiesing. For those interested in a little musical levity we have added a link in our Monstrous Music section to Librarian by Haunted Love. Finally, we have added a profile to our latest staff member Havoc in the About This Site section.

Remember we are running the Vampire Dawn contest until May 15th go to the Contests page to enter!

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New reviews for adults, young adults, and kids

Bret Jordan reviews The Prison by Patrick Gates in the adult supernatural section. In addition, the horror/humor chapbook Right House on the Left by Steve Vernon, Mark McLaughlin, and L.L. Soares is reviewed in the something different section for adults. Christopher Pike's Slumber Party is reviewed for young adults human horror section. Finally, My Monster Mama Loves Me So by Laura Leuck is reviewed for kids.

Celebrate School Library Media Month !!!!

April is School Library Media Month which is sharing the same there as National Library Week.
Here are resources from The American Association of School Librarians(AASL):

This year's theme is Change your world @ your library(r)Get National Library Week resources athttp://www.ala.org/ala/pio/natlibraryweek/nlw.htm

Learn more about School Library Media Month at http://www.ala.org/aasl/slmmonth.html

Access all of AASL's advocacy resources fromhttp://www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Section=aasladvocacy

Read about School Library Media Campaign @ your library athttp://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/schoollibrary/schoollibrary.htm

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3/30/07 Reviews of Noir, Zombies, and Dracula vs. Grampa

This week Bret Jordan reviews Richard Matheson's Noir: Three Novels of Suspense. In addition, there are reviews for Permuted Press's latest zombie book Dying To Live by Kim Paffenroth. For those looking for a quick read the Monster Librarian reviews Angela Albee's Wedding Bells, Tortured Souls . A new scary book for kids review for Dracula vs. Grampa at the Monster Truck Spectacular authored and illustrated by Kirk Scroggs. There has been a small update on the Coming Horror Fiction Releases page and a small update for Monstrous Music in the Book Ends section.

In case you missed it The Road by Cormac McCarthy is one Oprah's latest reading picks. Click on the title to read Bret Jordan's take on the book

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3/15/07 New reviews and a new sighting

Bret Jordan reviews Angeline Hawkes's The Commandments and Steve Vernon's Nothing to Lose. Francesca the Librarian reviews Tom McCarthy's Remainder. The Monster Librarian reviews David Wellington's Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel. For kids The Monster Librarian also reviews L.M. Falcone's The Devil, the Banshee, and Me. Monster Librarian.com has shown up at Corsinet.com, check out Monstrous Sightings to see what they had to say. If you have any suggestion, comments, or concerns about the site or horror fiction please e-mail monsterlibrarian@monsterlibrarian.com.
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2/27/07 Reviews of horror fiction for adults, teen, and children.

Bret Jordan reviews John Saul's Creature and the Butcher Shop Quartet a collection of four tales of terror edited by Frank J. Hutton. Finally, Bret takes a look at Cthulhu Sex Magazine. Guest reviewer Havoc returns with a review of Something from the Nightside a horror themed adventure book by Simon R. Green. For those who like zombie fiction we take a look at Robert McCammon's The Night Boat. There is also a review of Christopher Golden's The Shell Collector. For teens there is a review of The Hand of the Devil by Dean Vincent Carter. Finally,for the 9-12 crowd there is a review of Horror at the Haunted House by Peg Kehret. Keep reading!
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2/16/07 Reviews for adults, youngs adults, and kids. Music, Monstrous Sightings, and a store!

New reviews have been posted. First for the adults there is Bowie Ibarra's zombie title Down the Road: On the Last Day. For the young adults in the human horror section Fracesca the Librarian reviews Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg. Children will be interested in Monster Museum by Marilyn Singer and illustrated by Gris Grimly.


The week under the Book Ends section we have added:
Monstrous Sightings a page where you can see what has been mentioned about MonsterLibrarian.com in horror genre/librarian blogs and sites

Monstrous Music a page dedicated to music that we have come across that is either horror or reading related

Also, Monster Librarian is now on MySpace, stop by for a visit
Finally, there is now a Monster Librarian's Store through Cafe Press. So now you can buy Monster Librarian related merchandise for your favorite reader or librarian as support the MonsterLibrarian.com project at the same time.

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2/2/07 Two Scary Books for Kids reviews, a review for The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff and Hater by David Moody

Francesca the Librarian reviews Scared Witless: Thirteen Eerie Tales to Tell by by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss and The Boy of A Thousand Faces by Brian Selznick. Hater by David Moody is reviewed by Bret Jordan. Finally, a review for Alexandra Sokoloff's The Harrowing is also included in this weeks update. Keep reading! ML
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1/12/07 Reviews: Down the Road with Zombies, The Flock, and a guide to world monsters for kids.

This week reviewer Bret Jordan takes a look at Bowie Ibarra's zombie novel Down the Road. A review for killer animal book The Flock by James Robert Smith. Finally for the Scary Books for Kids section a review of The Gruesome Guide To World Monsters by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Henrik Drescher. For those who have been trying to subscribe to MonsterLibrarian.com update via e-mail and have been getting the following message when you verify your subscription "FeedBurner could not find the subscription", just copy the link and paste it in your address bar of your browser. I have let Feedburner know about the problem. Keep reading! ML
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1/5/07 Reviews: Vampires, Skeleton Man, and going Blood Crazy

In this update we have reviews for two different vampire books, Weep Not for the Vampire by William A Veselik and the electronic book Everdead by Rio Youers in the adult vampire section. There is a review of Edward Lee and John Pelan's Goon in the adult supernatural section. Bret Jordan reviews Blood Crazy by Simon Clark in the adult zombie section. Francesca the Librarian reviews Return of the Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac and Sally Wern Comport in the supernatural yound adult section and Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marisa Montes and Yuyi Morales in the Scary Stories for Kids section. Keep reading! ML
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12/27/06 New reviews posted: zombies, vampires, ghosts, and pop up books

In the end of year reviewfest we have reviews for Z A Recht's The Morningstar Strain: Plague of the Dead from Permuted Press in the adult zombie section. A Cemetery Dance Novella by Tom Piccirilli and Edward Gorman titled Cast in Dark Waters is reviewed in the adult vampire section. Harry Shannon's The Pressure of Darkness is reviewed in the adult Horror Adventure section. For the Young Adults there is a review in the Supernatural section for E. E. Richardson's The Intruders. For the 12 and younger crowd the fantastic pop up book Mommy?with art by Maurice Sendak, the scenario by Arthur Yorinks, and the paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart. Finally, Cemetery Dance magazine is reviewed in the horror periodical section. Keep reading! ML

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12/14/06 Reviews for the Scary Stories for Kids section

This week there are two reviews for the Scary Book List for Kids(12 and under) section. We have Freaky Flora, an alphabet picture book, by Michel Gagne and Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich by Adam Rex. Clean up work continues with the site and should be done in the next two weeks. Until next week, keep reading! ML