2/1/10 Winter Chills book review project 2010!

"Winter Chills" is a collaborative effort to give readers of horror fiction a virtual guide to horror titles for your winter reading.

For librarians, “Winter Chills” is an opportunity to get reviews and information you need to recommend appropriate titles for readers and make informed decisions about collection development. In addition to providing reviews of horror titles you might be interested in adding to your collection, “Winter Chills” highlights participating horror fiction review sites that cover both small press and mainstream horror. This year participating sites include Hellnotes, Horrorworld, and Horror Fiction Review. Come visit our Winter Chill's home page!

As part of Winter Chills we are reviewing:

In the adult Zombie section:
Erik Smith reviews Dead Tide by Stephen A North
Rhonda Wilson reviews Zombie Bastard by Jerrod Balzer.

Michele Lee interviews zombie author Eric S Brown.

In the adult Killer Animals section:
Jim Cobb reviews Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez and Mark Williams

In the adult Human Horror section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews The One-Percenters by John Podgursky

In the adult Supernatural and Occult horror section
Rhonda Wilson reviews Gord Rollo's Strange Magic,
Michele Lee reviews The Haunting of Sam Cabot by Mark Edward Hall,
Erik Smith reviews Stronger than Death by Steven L. Shrewsbury.

Jennifer Lawrence reviews Blind Panic by Graham Masterson.

In the adult Horror Anthologies section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews Thomas Ligotti's Teatro Grottesco

In the adult Graphic Novel section:
The Monster Librarian reviews Blackest Night by Geoff Johns

In the adult Bizarro section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Gina Ranalli's Swarm of Flying Eyeballs, Rotten Little Animals by Kevin Shamel, and Piecemeal June by Jordan Krall.

In the young adult Vampires section:
Stacey L. Wilson reviews The Vampire Kitty-Car Chronicles by Ray Rhamey

In the young adult Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy section

Jennifer Lawrence reviews Intertwined by Gena Showalter
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Michele Lee reviews Elphame's Choice by P.C. Cast

We are also hosting a giveaway contest for HarlequinTeen's latest release The Iron King in our Contest page

In the Scary Books for Kids section:
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Fear this Book: Your Guide to Fright, Horror, and Things that Go Bump in the Night by Jeff Szpirgla

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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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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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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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New Year, New Reviews

Happy New Year from all of us at MonsterLibrarian.com! To kick off the New Year, Bret Jordan reviews Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott in the Something Different Section for adults. There is a review of City Slab magazine in the Horror Periodicals section. Dennis Latham's Michael In Hell is reviewed in the adult Human Horror section. Finally, for the fans of young adult vampire titles there is a review of Marked: House of Night by P.C. and Kristen Cast in the young adult vampire section. The Coming Horror Fiction Releases has been started for 2008 and will be updated as new releases are announced. We are pleased to offer an introduction to Splatterpunk by John Skipp in the Splatterpunk 101 page found in the Book Ends section. We have selected MonsterLibrarian.com's Top Picks for 2007 for adult, young adults, and children's titles.
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10/1/07 Halloween horror reviews and more

We are excited to announce that MonsterLibrarian.com has teamed up with horror sites Horrorworld, Horror-Web, Hellnotes, and Dread Central to review Halloween themed horror books. Visit the new Monster Librarian Halloween Page to check out the reviews. Also be sure to stop by Horror-Web's 31 Days of Hallow-theme page and Horrorworld's Halloween Page. A special thanks to Bret Jordan for our pumpkin images for the Halloween page.

Bret Jordan reviews Tim Waggoner's Like Death in the adult Human Horror section. Bob Freeman reviews Graphic Classics: Edgar Allen Poe edit by Tom Pomplun in the Young Adult Graphic Novels section. Francesa the Librarian reviews Hallowmere: In the Serpent’s Coils by Tiffany Trent in the new Young Adult Dark Fantasy section. The Monster Librarian reviews Gary L. Holleman's werewolf Halloween title Howl-o-ween in the adult werewolf section. The Links page and the Coming Horror Fiction Releases have been updated. Finally, a reminder that we have some great Contests going on.
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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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8/21/07 New reviews of vampire fiction for young adults, vampire fiction for adults, and zombie fiction for adults.

In this update, Francesca the Librarian reviews Liza Conrad 's teen vampire book High School Bites and staying with the young adult vampire theme The Monster Librarian reviews Alex Duval's Vampires Beach: Rituals , the reviews are in the young adult vampire section. The Monster Librarian reviews Brian Keene's latest zombie book Dead Sea. Bob Freeman reviews Michael Smolanoff's vampire book The Oval Portrait and David Morrell's thriller Scavenger. Finally, Bret Jordan reviews Terry Brooks apocalyptic fantasy book Armageddon’s Children. A new link has been added to the Young Adult Fiction Resources section of the Links page. I also wanted to let everyone know that our own Bret Jordan has an online serial titled Plague at Graveside Tales that I encourage you to check out here.
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New reviews for horror anthologies, a zombie title, a Cthulhu title, and a title for young adults

Bret Jordan reviews David Moody's zombie novel Autumn: The City in the adult zombie section and Andre Duza's Jesus Freaks in the Apocalyptic Horror section. The Angry Princess reviews John Reid's Punishment And Sacrifice in the adult human horror section. There is a review of Elder Sign Press's Hardboiled Cthulhu edited by James Ambuehl in the Cthulhu Mythos section for adults. There is a review for horror short story collections Horror Library Volume II edited by R.J. Cavender, Apple of My Eye by Amy Grech, and Confessions of a Ghoul and other stories by M.F. Korn. Finally, Francesca the Librarian reviews Laura Amy Schlitz's A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama in the supernatural section for young adults.
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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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5/24/07 New horror fiction reviews for adults and young adults

Bret Jordan reviews Mark Leslie's One Hand Screaming in the something different section for adults. He also reviews the J. Robert King's Ravenloft werewolf book Heart of Midnight. In the adult supernatural section there is a review of Jason Brannon's Winds of Change. For those who like young adult vampire books there is a review of Julie Kenner's The Good Ghoul's Guide to Getting Even . There are new links for small press publishers a horror movie review site that have been added to the Links page. Finally, the Monstrous Music page has been renamed Monstrous Media with the addition of a link to a fun little zombie related library promotion video.
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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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5/10/07 New reviews for adults and young adults and links

Kate-Lynn Williams reviews Cate Tiernan's Book of Shadows and Coven the first two books in the Sweeps series in the young adult supernatural section. Patricia reviews Zoe Stead's The Amulet of Vichalace in the adult vampire section. For those who enjoy killer animal books there is a review of Brian Keene and J.F. Gonzalez's Clickers 2: The Next Wave. There is also a review of the chapbook Screams from a Dying World by David Arganoff in the adult something different section. There was an addition to the list of World War I and II horror related books and link to book reviews have been added. New links to small presses have been added to the Links page. There have been new sightings of MonsterLibrarian.com on the web which has been added to the Monstrous Sightings page. MonsterLibrarian.com even appeared in American Libraries Direct, a newsletter for librarians. A reminder that there are five days left in our Vampire Dawn contest found on the Contests page. For those you visit MySpace there is a MonsterLibrarian Myspace Page stop by for a visit.

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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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2/6/07 Reviews of The Road, Vamped, and Cirque Du Freak, new Monster Librarian image by Bret Jordan, and updated Coming Horror Fiction Release

Bret Jordan reviews The Road By Cormac McCarthy for adults in the Apocalyptic Horror section. There is a review of Vamped by David Sosnowski and for the young adults a review of Cirque Du Freak. Bret Jordan did a fantastic job of drawing an image of the Monster Librarian that can be found on the left hand frame of the frames version of the site. Finally, there has been an update to the Coming Horror Fiction Releases with additional entries for March and April.
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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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