**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Tor.com, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1250781505 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes brings the present day into a literary and folkloric past that brings fairytales, history, and Jewish tradition together to form something new and unique. I don’t think I have ever […]
BOOM! Studios, 2007 ISBN: 1934506028 Available: New and Used Zombie Tales is a full color collection of zombie stories. The authors are a collection of comic book and television writers who take a unique approach and fresh look at the zombie genre. The stories range from the humorous to the horrific, and some are even touching. […]
Graphic Novel Review: American Cult edited by Robyn Chapman
February 3, 2022**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Silver Sprocket, 2021 ISBN-13: 978-194550963 Available: Paperback ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) American Cult is a graphic history of American religious cults dating from colonial America to the present. According to editor Robyn Chapman, the eighteen pieces in American Cult turn a critical eye to the cults and their behavior, but recognize the very human faces that entered […]
**Cross posted from the ML Vault.** Diablo Publications, 2008 ISBN: N/A Availability: New, Used and digital In The Unwanted, a demon is inadvertently released in a juvenile detention center when a staffer brings home an amulet from Tibet. As the demon proceeds to hunt down the kids, a teacher in the juvenile detention center and […]
Book Review: All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue
January 27, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Walker Books, 2021 ISBN: 978-1536213942 Available: Hardcover, audiobook, ebook (Bookshop.org) O’Donoghue’s foray into YA literature delivers tricks and treats for fans of Gothic, mystic stories dealing with social themes; but magic doesn’t solve everything this character-driven YA paranormal fantasy set in contemporary Ireland. Sentenced to cleanup duty in detention, 16 […]
Graphic Novel Review: Weirdling by Mike Dubisch
January 25, 2022**Cross posted from the ML Vault** Strange Fear, 2007 ISBN: 978097898113 Available: New Anna Mandretta is a crew member on a space ship in the middle of fighting a war against the alien Xax. She starts dreaming that she is a famous surgeon at Miskatonic Hospital centuries earlier dealing with a child who is […]
IDW Publishing, 2004 ISBN 0971977550 Available: New and Used Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost inhabited town in North America. The sun doesn’t set from May to August, and it doesn’t rise from November to December. It is this November to December time when the town is in total darkness that our story takes place. […]
Book Review: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
January 20, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Berkley, 2021 ISBN-13: 9780593201237 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, Audible audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) The Final Girl is the lone survivor of horror movies. She fought valiantly, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends who were each gruesomely dispatched by the killer. But after the truck drives away, the sirens fade, and the […]
**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Dark Horse Books, 2004 ISBN: 1569719357 Available: New and Used Criminal Macabre introduces us to Cal McDonald, a hard-drinking, drug-using detective with a ghoul sidekick by the name of Mo’lock. McDonald has to uncover who is behind a plot to turn the usual Vampires and Werewolves of Los Angles into super […]
Book Review: Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
January 13, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Quirk Books, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781683692157 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Audible audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Whisper Down the Lane, a true-crime based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the 1980s, is the second book by Clay McLeod Chapman I have read and it just makes it […]