3/16/09 Reviews of books with monsters for adults, teens, and kids!

In this update:

Jennifer Lawrence reviews After Twilight: Walking with the Dead by Travis Adkins in the adult Zombie section.

K.D. Payne reviews The Pines by Robert Dunbar in the adult Supernatural section.

Rhonda Wilson reviews Bestial by Ray Garton in the adult Werewolves section.

Bret Jordan reviews Bitternest by Alan Draven in the adult Vampires section

The Monster Librarian reviews Generation Dead: Kiss of Life by Daniel Waters in the young adult Zombies section.

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews a trio of monster books in the Scary Stories for Kids section:
I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll, ill by Howard McWilliam
Monsters on Machines by Deb Lund, ill. Robert Neubecker
Monster Musical Chairs by Stuart J. Murphy, ill. by Scott Nash

We are gearing up for our 2nd annual Spring into Terror review project with an art contest.

Spring into Terror Art Contest

MonsterLibrarian.com and a number of other horror fiction review sites are conducting our second annual Spring into Terror horror fiction review project. As part of Spring into Terror we are holding an art contest to celebrate reading horror this spring.
Theme: Reading horror (books or graphic novels)

Deadline for submissions: 4/15/09

Prize: A Spring into Terror grab bag of horror and thriller books including at least one limited edition title.

The criteria for entries are:
File format: JPG
File Size: 2 Megs or Less
Medium: Digital, painting, or illustration
Dimensions: Any, but the larger the picture the larger the file
Send submissions to: monsterlibrarian@monsterlibrarian.com

By submitting art work as part of the contest you are giving MonsterLibrarian.com permission to use the submitted work

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11/18/08 new reviews of books for kids, teens, and adults

In this update Bret Jordan reviews Dean Lorey's Nightmare Academy: Monster Madness and Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Margery Cuyler's Skeleton Hiccups in the Scary Books for Kids section. Bret also reviews The Stowaway by RA and Geno Salvatore in the young adult Fantasy section and the Monster Librarian reviews Melissa de la Cruz's newest Blue Bloods book Revelations in the young adult Vampires section.Michele Lee reviews A.P. Fuchs' Blood of the Dead in the adult Zombie section and the Monster Librarian reviews Richard Laymon's The Woods Are Dark in the adult Supernatural section. In conjunction with the release of the newest Blue Bloods book there is a Blue Bloods sweepstakes going on check our Contests page for more information.
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2/15/08 Young Adult Horror Reviews

It is the great young adult update! Teen vampire book Uninvited by Amanda Marrone is reviewed in the young adult Vampire section. Weregirls: Birth of the Pack by Petru Popescu is reviewed in the young adult Supernatural Section. Raptor by Paul Zindel is reviewed by Robert Kent in our new young adult Killer Animal section. Finally, in our Scary Book for Kids section has a review of Everything I Know about Monsters by Tom Lichtenheld.
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Halloween update! New reviews

Happy Halloween from all of us at MonsterLibrarian.com. I hope everyone has a happy, safe, and scary Halloween. In this update, new reviewer William Simmons reviews Stephen King's
Salem's Lot in the adult vampire section and The Shining in the adult supernatural section. Michele Lee reviews Rob Rogers' upcoming dark superhero thriller Devil’s Cape. The Monster Librarian reviews Elizabeth Massie's Brazen Bull in the human horror section,
Michael McBride's Chronicles of the Apocalypse: Species in the adult zombie section, and Steven Niles' 28 Days Later: The Aftermath in the adult graphic novel section. The Coming Horror Fiction Releases has been updated for November and December. MonsterLibrarian.com was mentioned in the article "Boo! Focus on Scary Stories" by John Peters in the October issue of School Library Journal as a professional resource for librarians in helping with horror readers' advisory for kids and young adults! Thanks, John! I also wanted to thank the good folks at Horrorworld, Horror-Web, Hellnotes, and Dread Central for participating in our first Halloween Horror Fiction Book Review project. Check out the reviews on our Halloween Page.
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