Our Halloween update: New reviews, author interviews, and a contest

Happy Halloween everyone!

Just a reminder that our Halloween Horrors! book review project is still going on with some of the best horror review sites on the web collaborating to bring you reviews of horror books for this Halloween. Visit our Halloween page to learn more.

In this update:

For adults:
For those librarians who might be looking for a zombie book to take advantage of the popularity of the movie Zombieland that is in theaters now, The Monster Librarian reviews Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead edited by John Skipp and Season of Rot by Eric S. Brown.

KDP reviews Brian Keene's Urban Gothic.

For young adults/teens:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Mari Mancusi's young adult vampire titles, Boys that Bite, Stake That!, and Girls that Growl. Rhonda also interviews Mari here.

Also for those that enjoy young adult vampire titles Kirsten Kowalewski interviews Kimberly Pauley author of Sucks to be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire(maybe) and we are running a giveaway contest for her book. Also The Monster Librarian reviews the latest in Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Bloods series The Van Alen Legacy.

For kids:

KDP reviews David Siden's Bang goes a Troll. Also in case you missed in Where the Wild Things Are is coming out as a live action movie and Kirsten Kowalewski takes a look at the book by Maurice Sendak.

In case you have missed it, the folks over at Spook House Dave! show are running a 31 days of Halloween with a new show each day this month. Stop on over and take a look!

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8/17/09 Reviews of books with teen vampires, zombies, and cannibals.

In this update:

Bret Jordan reviews our own Michele Lee's zombie book Rot.

The Monster Librarian reviews Max Turner's teen vampire book Night Runner and teen gothic horror title The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey.

Michele Lee reviews young adult vampire title Hannah's Story: Vampire Love Never Dies by Giulietta Maria Spudich.

Rhonda Wilson reviews Shaun Jeffery's The Kult, Michael Louis Calvillo's As Fate Would Have It, and David Doub's Dusk.

David Agranoff reviews Brian Evenson's Last Days.

Finally, we would like to welcome our newest reviewer Kelly Fann reviewing Bradd Quinn's Under.

We are holding giveaway contests for both Night Runner and The Monstrumologist over at our Contests page.

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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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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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8/19/08 New reviews, a new horror ficiton list, and a little remodeling

In this update:
Bret Jordan reviews Simon Clark's Vampyrrhic and Vampyrrhic Rites in the adult Vampire section. Bret also reviews Whitney Lakin's Mutiny in Heaven in the adult Supernatural section. The Angry Princess reviews Charles Matthew Saur's Deus ex Machina Logos in the adult Supernatural section. Bob Freeman reviews Lydia Roberson's Fright House in the Anthologies and Collected Works section. The Horror Master reviews Scott Smith's The Ruins in the adult Killer Animal section.The Monster Librarian reviews A.M. Jenkins' Night Road in the young adult Vampire section.

We have added a Polar/Winter Horror Fiction List in our Horror Fiction Lists by Theme/Setting section which is found in our newly reformatted Book Ends section.

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6/23/08 Reviews of a Killer Animal title, a Young Adult Vampire Book, and Horror Non-Fiction

In this update Bret Jordan reviews Through A Glass, Darkly by Bill Hussey in the adult Supernatural Section and The Chronicles of the Planeswalkers Part I by B.T. Robertson in the adult Horror Adventure/Fantasy section. Francesca the Librarian reviews Matthew Warner's
Horror Isn't A 4-Letter Word in the Horror Non-Fiction section. The Monster Librarian reviews Nancy Kress's Dogs in the adult Killer Animal section and the young adult vampire book
Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley in our Y/A Vampire section.
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4/16/08 Demon Queen, Vampires, and Zombies

In this update: Bob Freeman reviews Ramsey Campbell's The Grin of the Dark in the adult Supernatural section. The Horror Master reviews John S. Hornsby's zombie novel Every Sigh, The End in the adult Zombie section. The Monster Librarian reviews Demon Queen by Richard Lewis in the young adult Supernatural section and London, 1850 (Vampire Plagues I) by Sebastian Rooke in the young adult Vampire section.

Stop by your local library and help celebrate National Library Week which is April 13-19, 2008 and check out a book.

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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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