March 17th reviews of books with zombies, terrors from the sea, and other horrors.

In this update we have:

In the adult Killer Animal section:
Erik Smith reviews Dead Bait by David Dunwooody et al.

In the adult Apocalyptic/Post Apocalyptic horror section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews A Catch in Time by Dalia Roddy.
Jim Cobb reviews Empty World by John Christopher

In the adult Horror Anthology section:
Erik Smith reviews The Bitter End: Tales of Nautical Terror by edited by Jessie Marie Roberts.

In the adult Vampire section:
Bret Jordan reviews Lord of the Lash and Our Lady of the Boogaloo by Weston Ochse.

In the adult Zombie section:
The Monster Librarian reviews The Best of All Flesh: Zombie Anthology edited by James Lowder.
Colleen Wanglund reviews Dead America by Luke Keioskie.
Michele Lee reviews Z.E.O. A Zombie's Guide to Getting A(Head) in Business by Scott Kenemore.
Erik Smith reviews Snow by Ronald Malfi.

In the adult Supernatural horror section:
David Agranoff reviews The Girl in the Woods by David Jack Bell.
Michele Lee reviews Donny's Day by Brandon Bertson
Colleen Wanglund reviews On the Third Day by David Naill Wilson.

In the adult Human Horror and Psychological Terror section:
KDP reviews Friday Night in the Beast House by Richard Laymon.

In the young adult Killer Animals, Kaiju, and Creatures of Legend section:
Colleen Wanglund and Jim Cobb both review Raiju: A Kaiju Hunter Novel by K.H. Koehler.

Finally, in the Scary Books for Kids section:
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Ghosts of Fox River Valley by Donna Latham.

A reminder we still have our Hex Hall t-shirt contest going on now in our young adult Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy section.

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8/1/09 A big furry update as part of Werewolf month

Werewolf month continues here at Monster Librarian.

For werewolf horror novels, Bob Freeman reviews The Wild Hunt by James A. Moore.

For werewolf urban fantasy titles Rhonda Wilson reviews Prey by Rachel Vincent, Michele Lee reviews Patricia Briggs' Blood Bound and Iron Kissed.

For werewolf paranormal erotica Rhonda Wilson goes on a reviewing spree and reviews Wolf Tales, Wolf Tales II, Wold Tales III, Wolf Tales IV, Wolf Tales V, Wolf Tales VI, Wolf Tales VII, and Wolf Tales VIII by Kate Douglas. Rhonda also interviews Kate Douglas as part of Werewolf month!

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7/15/09 Interview with Guy N. Smith, reviews of horror fiction for adults and teens.

In this update:

We have an interview with Guy N. Smith.

For young adults we have Kirsten Kowalewski reviewing Richard Lewis 's Monster’s Proof and Stacey L. Wilson reviews Katie Alender's Bad Girls Don’t Die.

For adult readers Michele Lee reviews Paul Kane's Red as part of Werewolf month, Bret Jordan reviews Alexander Zelenyi's Experiments at 3 Billion A.M., and David Agranoff reviews Midnight Walk edited by Lisa Morton.

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Hazy Days of Horror and Werewolf Month

MonsterLibrarian.com is excited to announce that we have two different reading projects launching in July.

For those looking for something scary to read this summer, five sites dedicated to horror fiction reviews are collaborating on a special summer reading project titled Hazy Days of Horror. The participating sites include Hellnotes, Dark Scribe Magazine, Horror Fiction Review, Horrorworld, and MonsterLibrarian.com. By visiting any one of the participating sites’ Hazy Days of Horror page you will find not only that site’s reviews but a link to the other sites’ review pages, creating a virtual guide to reading horror this summer. This project is intended to both help librarians with their horror reader’s advisory and collection development this summer but also to help readers find another good book to read. Go to our Hazy Days of Horror page. Participating sites will be launching their pages and posting their reviews in the first week of July.

Reviews we have as part of this project:
Moonbane by Al Sarrantonio

Necropolis by John Urbancik

The Unseen by Alexandra Sokoloff

Restore from Backup by J.F. Gonzalez and Mike Oliveri

Cthulhu Unbound, Volume One edited by Thomas Brannan and John Sunseri

Black Jack Derringer: Book One: Ace of Spades by Karen Koehler

In addition to Hazy Days of Summer, MonsterLibrarian.com is proud to announce that July is Werewolf Month! This is our second annual appreciation for all things lycanthropic and whether it is horror, urban fantasy, or paranormal romance, we will be bringing you a list of new werewolf titles coming out, reviews, and this year we will be featuring the werewolf artwork of Jerrod Brown. Come visit our Werewolf page to see more.

We have reviews of:
Moonbane by Al Sarrantonio

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn


Symptoms of a Broken Heart by Cory Cramer

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6/15/09 Interview with Wrath James White and more horror fiction reviews

In this update we have:

Rhonda Wilson interviewing Wrath James White and doing a second look review of his novel Succulent Prey. Rhonda also reviews Bryan Smith's Soultaker and John Grover's Feminine Wiles.

K.D. Payne reviews Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, Edward Lee's The Golem, Jack Ketchum's Cover, and Jeff Strand's Pressure.

Finally, Michele Lee reviews Tales from the Crypt #4 Crypt-Keeping it Real by Stefan Petrucha, Alex Simmons, Scott Lobdel, Joe R. Lansdale, John R. Lansdale, Aries Kaplan, Jim Salicrup.

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6/1/09 interviews with John Everson, RA Salvatore and Geno Salvatore, and reviews of horror for all ages

We have some great interviews and reviews this update:

Bret Jordan conducts an interview with RA and Geno Salvatore.

Rhonda Wilson interviews John Everson and reviews his recent release Sacrifice and the prequel Covenant. Rhonda also reviews Michelle Rowen's Stakes & Stilettos.

David Agranoff reviews David Morrell's The Shimmer.

The Monster Librarian reviews Monstrous edited by Ryan C. Thomas.

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews a new young adult vampire title, Vamped by Lucienne Diver.

Courtney Lerner reviews Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.

Michele Lee reviews Tales from the Crypt #3: Zombilicious by Mort Todd, et al

and finally, K.D. Payne reviews The Brass Dragon Code by R.D. Henham.

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5/5/09 Interviews with TimWaggoner and David Moody plus new reviews!

In this update

Rhonda Wilson interviews Tim Waggoner and reviews his upcoming release Nekropolis.

Bret Jordan interviews David Moody and reviews Kealan Patrick Burke's You in? and Weston Ochse's Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way.

Michele Lee reviews Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's A Dangerous Climate

K.D. Payne reviews R. Thomas Riley's The Monster Within Idea.

Kestrell Rath reviews Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth in the young adult zombie section.

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Spring into Terror Update!

For those young adult vampire fans we have a review of Evernight by Claudia Gray

Remember that as part of Spring into Terror we are hosting an art contest.

The reviews are starting to appear at the various Spring into Terror participating sites.
So far we have:


Horrorworld reviewing The Nobody by Tom Piccirilli

Hellnotes reviewing The Society of S by Susan Hubbard


Dark Scribe Magazine's Spring into Terror page
Dark Scribe Magazine reviewing Bone Soup by T.W. Wright, Last Days by Brian Evenson, Gunpowder by Joe Hill , Jake's Wake by John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow

MonsterLibrarian.com reviewing The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff (review by Kirsten Kowalewski), The Black Act by Louise Bohmer(review by Rhonda Wilson), Garbage Man by Joseph D’Lacey (review by Bret Jordan), and The Severed Nose by Jeff Strand (review by Rhonda Wilson)

The Horror Fiction Review's Spring into Terror Page
The Horror Fiction Review reviewing Red by Paul Kane, The Monster Within Idea by R. Thomas Riley , As Fate Would Have It by Michael Louis Calvillo

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Spring into Terror, 2009

This week we start the launch of Spring into Terror. Spring into Terror is a collaborative horror fiction review project where your favorite horror review sites link up to create a guide to reading horror this spring.

You can visit the Spring into Terror page here.

For the launch of Spring into Terror we have author interviews with both Fran Friel and Louise Bohmer.

We have updated our Coming Horror Fiction Release page for the spring.

We will be posting reviews and updating the links to our fellow Spring into Terror participants' sites through out the week

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2/15/09 Reviews of horror fiction for all ages

We would like to welcome our newest reviewer, Rhonda Wilson. We have a packed update for you:

In the adult horror Graphic Novel section:
Bob Freeman reviews The Fall of Cthulhu written by Michael Alan Nelson, illustrated by Jean-Jacques Dzialowski

K.D. Payne reviews The Chair written by Peter Simeti, illustrated by Kevin Christensen, edited Erin Kohut

In the adult Horror Anthologies and Collected Works section:
Bret Jordan reviews Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel
K.D. Payne reviews Traumatized by Alexander S. Brown
Rhonda Wilson reviews Hot Blood by Jeff Gelb and Lonn Friend
David Agranoff takes a second look at Sheep and Wolves By Jeremy C. Shipp

In the adult Werewolves section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Pride by Rachel Vincent

In the adult Human Monsters and Psychological Horror section:
The Angry Princess reviews Splattered Beauty by Brandon Ford

In the adult Vampire section:
The Monster Librarian reviews Vampire Apocalypse: Descent into Chaos by Derek Gunn

In the young adult Zombies section:
The Monster Librarian reviews You are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay

In the young adult Vampires section:
Michele Lee reviews VAMPS by Nancy A. Collins

In the Scary Books for Kids section:
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Gris Grimly

K.D. Payne reviews Coraline by Neil Gaiman.

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1/17/09 Reviews of books with Zombies, Werewolves,and the Supernatural

In this update K.D. Payne reviews Wayne Simmons' Drop Dead Gorgeous in the adult Zombie section, Wrath James White's Succulent Prey in the adult Human Horror section,
Nate Kenyon's The Reach and Black Cathedral by LH Maynard and MPN Sims in the adult Supernatural section. The Angry Princess reviews Zoe Whitten's Redemption Lost in the Human Horror section. Bob Freeman reviews Evil Ways by Justin Gustainis in the adult Urban Fantasy section. Michele Lee reviews Victor Pelevin's The Sacred Book of the Werewolf in the adult Werewolf section. Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Laura Ruby's The Chaos King in the teen Dark Fantasy section and Mike Thaler's The Librarian from the Black Lagoon and Ella Burfoot's Darkness Slipped In in the Scary Books for Kids section. We have started our Coming Horror Fiction Releases for 2009 and will have updates through out the year. Finally, we have updated our Winter Chills horror book review project page.
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1/2/09 Winter Chills horror book review project

With this update we are launching our Winter Chills seasonal horror book review project. Horror fiction review sites such as HorrorWorld, Dark Scribe Magazine, and Horror Fiction Review are reviewing horror titles for your winter reading leisure. As reviews are posted, we are providing links to each other's reviews. As each site posts further reviews, new links willl be provided. For this project, MonsterLibrarian.com is going graphical, with all reviews of graphic novels, including reviews of Hybrid by Peter Kwong art by Pablo Churin and Mary Cataioa and Zombie Tales Vol. 1 by Andrew Cosby, John Rogers, Keith Giffen, Michael Alan Nelson, and Johanna Stokes in the adult graphic novel section and Death Valley by Andrew Cosby, Johanna Stokes, and illustrated by Rhoald Marcellus and Agnes Quill: an anthology of mystery by Dave Roman, illustrated by Jason Ho, Raina Telgemeier, Jeff Zornow, and Dave Roman in the young adult Graphic Novels section. We encourage you to check out the reviews at all of the participating sites and read a little horror under the covers this winter.
Visit our Winter Chills page to learn more.

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11/10/08 New reviews for adults, young adults, and kids

In this update new reviewer KD Payne reviews Jeremy C. Shipp's Sheep and Wolves and Dustin LaValley's Lowlife Underdogs in the adult Horror Anthologies and Collected Works section. David Agranoff reviews D.Harlan Wilson's Blankety Blank in the adult Bizzaro section. The Monster Librarian reviews Rich Ristow's Into the Cruel Sea in the adult Supernatural section and Jesus Hates Zombies:Yea Though I Walk created by Stephen Lindsey in the adult Graphic Novel section. For Young Adult Vampire fans there is a review of Brian Meehl's Suck it Up and for kids there is a review Joshua Gee's Encyclopedia Horrifica. We have added a Mummy Horror Fiction List.


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