Image Comics, 2016 ISBN: 978-1632155443 Available: Webtoons, Amazon, ComiXology Blood Stain is a slice of life comic that pits chemistry major and chronic loser Elliot Torres against creepy, probably man scientist Dr. Vlad Stein. When Elliot loses yet another job in her small town the pressure of trying to help her sister support both […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk** BOOM! Studios, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781684156979 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comixology (Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Ruthie and Ezra Dillon’s father Matthew and uncle Frankie have purchased the old Hollywood movie studio, Monstrosity, known for the best horror flicks of the 1950s. Matthew’s dream is to resurrect the defunct studio and produce modern […]
*Covers Issues #14-19 of Deadpool: World’s Greatest comics. ISBN: 978-1-302-90148-6* Deadpool has been trying to get his life together, and it’s kind of worked. He runs a business, the Mercs for Money. He has a wife. He has a kid. He’s somehow managed to become an Avenger. But balance is not something that Deadpool is […]
Book Review: Extasia by Claire Legrand
March 31, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Extasia by Claire Legrand Katherine Tegen Books, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0062696632 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Extasia is a fiercely feminist dark novel of a post-apocalyptic community drenched in patriarchy and cult-like violent misogyny straight from The Crucible and Year of the Witching. The dogma is that women were responsible for […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** BOOM! Studios, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781684156979 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comixology (Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Ruthie and Ezra Dillon’s father Matthew and uncle Frankie have purchased the old Hollywood movie studio, Monstrosity, known for the best horror flicks of the 1950s. Matthew’s dream is to resurrect the defunct studio and produce […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Dark Horse Comics, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781506721200 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org ) Dark Horse’s reprints of EC Comics’ The Haunt of Fear allows readers who have never been exposed to these great comics experience horror comics from the 1950s which were originally published between May 1950 and April 1951. Volume one collects The […]
Book Review: Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
March 22, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Wednesday Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1250787101 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Within These Wicked Walls takes its inspiration from the classic gothic romance Jane Eyre. Set in England, Jane is an orphan who arrives to work as a governess in Thornfield Hall, home to the wealthy Edward […]
TV Review: Doctor Who Season One (2005)
March 19, 2022There’s no question that Doctor Who is a long time essential speculative fiction world. The 2005 reboot propelled the title into the lives of a new generation of people, building a wonderful world of a unique mesh of science fiction, fantasy, and, yes, horror. My first exposure to the Doctor came from horror, namely the […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Hear Us Scream, 2021 ISBN: 9780645235500 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Vivid and intimate, these nonfiction reflections examine how and why folks find homes in the horror genre. The women and nonbinary contributors’ offer personal horror journeys that blend and balance scholarly insights with intensely personal […]
Book Review: The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux
March 15, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk. ** Quill Tree Press, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0062941428 Available: Preorder (available March 8) hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) So many readers wish they could enter the worlds of their favorite books. The Book of Living Secrets will make them think twice. Adelle and Connie have been best friends for […]