Anime Review: Castlevania: Nocturne

A distant follow up to Netflix’s Castlevania series, Nocturne is set during the French Revolution and focuses on Trevor and Sypha’s descendant Richtor Belmont, his adopted sister and magician Maria Renard, Annette, a former slave with Orisha powers, and Edouard, Annette’s best friend and a opera singer. I started watching right after finishing the first […]

Anime Review: Castlevania

Castlevania isn’t a true anime, as it’s produced by Netflix, and written by Warren Ellis (who is amazing), done in an anime-inspired style of artwork, however it presents itself as one (thanks to multiple anime alumni also being involved) so I’m reviewing it as one. Something it’s also not is aimed at teens, with sexual […]

BOOK REVIEW: THE LOST GIRLS BY SONIA HARTL

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Page Street Publishing, 2022 ISBN: 9781645673149 Available: Hardcover, e-book, audiobook  ( Bookshop.org )   In this book, a group of young women who were turned by the same gaslighting vampire team up to take him down.    Since 1987, Holly has been an eternal teenager, stuck with one of the era’s […]

GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: LUGOSI: THE RISE AND FALL OF HOLLYWOOD’S DRACULA BY KOREN SHADMI

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula by Koren Shadmi Life Drawn, 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1643376615 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology ( Bookshop.org  |  Amazon.com )   Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula is a graphic biography of one of the most recognizable men to portray Dracula, Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, or simply Bela Lugosi. […]

Movie Review: Morbius

Warning: This is going to be a rambling review from yours truly. My introduction to Morbius, the Marvel comics character was this dude: A character from the 90s Spiderman cartoon series. Unlike the other Spiderman cartoons, this one introduced Morbius, had Blade as a guest star, and I have to admit it, I was a […]

Graphic Novel Review: Dusk Vol. 1 by David Doub

**Cross posted from the ML Archives** David Doub, 2009 ISBN:  978-0-578-01436-4 Available:  New     Dusk is David Doub’s first graphic novel.  The book has four chapters.  The first chapter jumps into the story without providing much background, but the reader easily picks up that Eve is the willing servant to Vampire Lord Ash, and that the two […]

Book Review: All These Bodies by Kendare Blake

**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Quill Tree Books, 2021 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062977168 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In All These Bodies, Kendare Blake imagines a murder spree throughout the Midwest in the summer of 1958, known as the “Bloodless Murders” or “Dracula Murders” because the victims have all been drained of blood. On September […]