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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3/8/10 Reviews of Hex Hall and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, an interview with Rachel Hawkins, and a new contest.

A short update this time.
In our young adult Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy section:
Michele Lee reviews Rachel Hawkins' Hex Hall and also gets an opportunity to interview her. We are hosting a Hex Hall t-shirt giveaway contest so head on over to the review to the Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Section to enter.

In the adult zombie section:
Michele Lee reviews Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith.

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March 2nd: New reviews, new author interviews, and more

In this update we have:

In the adult Zombie section:
The Monster Librarian reviewing Pallid Light: The Walking Dead by William Jones
Colleen Wanglund reviews Resurrection by Tim Curran
Michele Lee reviews U.S. Army Zombie Combat Skills edited by Cole Louison
In honor of the upcoming release of the movie Alice in Wonderland, Rhonda Wilson reviews Alice in Zombieland by Lewis Carroll and Nicholas Cook!

In the adult Supernatural horror section:
In a take two review both Jennifer Lawrence and Colin Leslie review Brian Keene's latest Darkness on the Edge of Town
Erik Smith reviews Skin Medicine by Tim Curran
Rhonda Wilson reviews The Gray Zone by John R Little

In the adult Vampire section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Blood Bar by Norm Applegate

In the adult Human horror section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Scissors by Ray Garton and also interviews Ray Garton as well.

In the adult horror Non-Fiction section:
Michele Lee reviews Writers Workshop of Horror edited by Michael Knost

In the adult Apocalyptic horror section:
David Agranoff reviews The Day Before by John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow

In the adult horror Anthologies section:
David Agranoff reviews The Bleeding Edge edited by William F. Nolan and Jason V. Brock and Coach's Midnight Diner Volume 1 Jesus vs. Cthulu Edition and Volume 2: Back from the Dead

In the adult horror Graphic Novels section:
David Agranoff reviews Dark Entries by Ian Rankin

In the young adult Vampires section:
The Monster Librarian reviews Blood Ninja by Nick Lake
We are still running our Blood Ninja giveaway contest.
Michele Lee interviews P.C. Cast co-author of the House of Night series

In the young adult Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent
Jennifer Lawerence reviews The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
We are still running our The Iron King giveaway contest.

In the Scary Books for Kids section:
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

We have started a new feature this month, book recommendations based upon horror movies that have just come out. It is a new effort to help librarians to take advantage of current horror movies to promote their horror books.

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12/16/08 New reviews and an interview with Melissa de la Cruz

Happy Holidays from all of us at MonsterLibrarian.com!

In this update, Michele Lee reviews Suzy McKee Charnas's The Vampire Tapestry in the adult Vampire section and Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by James and Deborah Howe in the Scary Books for Kids section. The Monster Librarian reviews David Wellington's Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale in the adult Vampire section, Hard Way Studios' Morbid Myths in the young adult Graphic Novel section, Kim Paffenroth's Dying to Live: Life Sentence in the adult Zombie section. Bret Jordan reviews Horror Library Volume III edited by R.J. Cavender. K.D. Payne reviews Ben Larken's Pit-Stop in the adult Supernatural section. Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Tonya Hurley's ghostgirl in the young adult Supernatural section.

In addition, we have an interview with Melissa de la Cruz, author of the young adult vampires series Blue Bloods!

In January, please visit us for our first winter horror review project titled Winter Chills, where we will be reviewing books that will be having you shiver with fear with other horror review sites!

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9/1/08 Books with werewolves and zombies, and YALSA's Books with Bite

Bret Jordan reviews A.P. Fuchs' Axiom-Man: The Dead Land and The Monster Librarian reviews Bits of the Dead by Keith Gouveia and Xombie : Dead on Arrival by James Far in the adult Zombie Section


Michele Lee reviews The Beast Within edited by Matt Hults and The Monster Librarian also reviews Master of the Moore by Kealan Patrick Burke in the adult Werewolf Section. Bob Freeman reviews The Dead Will Inherit The Earth by Thom Olausson in the adult Horror Anthologies and Collected Works section. The Monster Librarian also reviews Steve Vernon's Gypsy Blood in the adult Horror Adventure.

For librarians, Francesca the Librarian and I have put together a guide for Books with Bite- Teen Reed Week, 2008 which is October 12th-18th. Books with Bite is the theme for this years Young Adult Library Services Association's Teen Read Week.

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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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5/7/08 Reviews of Vampire, Werewolf, and Zombie titles.

David Agranoff reviews Paul Cave's Cold Light of Day in the adult Vampire section. Michele Lee reviews Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Lost Prince in the adult Werewolf section. Bret Jordan reviews Andrzej Sapkowski's The Last Wish in the adult Horror Adventure section. The Monster Librarian reviews David Dunwoody's Empire in the adult zombie section. Finally, there is a review of Walter G. Klimczak's The Oak Hotel: The Chronicles of Burnam Tau’roh: Book One in the young adult dark fantasy section. We have updated the Coming Horror Fiction Releases page for June and July.
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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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2/1/08 Reviews of Flesh Feast, History is Dead, and Dark Hollow

Bob Freeman reviews Brian Keene's latest Dark Hollow in the adult Supernatural section. Zombie anthologies The Undead Vol 3: Flesh Feast edited by D.L. Snell and Travis Adkins and History is Dead edited by Kim Paffenroth are reviewed in the adult Zombie section. The Coming Horror Fiction Releases pages has been updated for February and March.
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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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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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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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