**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Lie or Die by A.J. Clack Firefly Press, 2024 ISBN-13 : 978-1915444417 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition (pre-order) Buy: Amazon.com Kass broke the friend code by kissing her BFF Thea’s ex. To prove she’s trustworthy, Thea insists they audition together for a new, livestreaming reality show based on their […]
T.V. Review: Trese
May 9, 2024Trese is a Singaporean anime-style t.v. show on Netflix based on the Filipino graphic novel series by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo. Like the Castlevania series, it is much more adult themed than a lot of anime and deals with dark themes, so watcher beware. However this mix of dark urban legend, monsters, and found family is […]
Midnight on Beacon Street by Emily Ruth Verona Harper Perennial, 2024 ISBN: 9780063330511 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com Midnight on Beacon Street has a fantastic first chapter, Seen through the eyes of six year old Ben, it starts just after midnight, and we immediately know something has gone terribly, violently, wrong. But there’s […]
ISBN: 9781643973579 BHC Press, 2023 Generation Annihilation is a bitter, dark YA horror book that starts with a murder, specifically main character Shaun Treadway killing his step father. More complicated than that, the killing comes after his stepfather has put his mother in the hospital again, and launches Shaun into a journey into adulthood […]
GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: FRAGMENTS OF HORROR BY JUNJI ITO
April 29, 2024**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2015 ISBN: 9781540050465 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com Junji Ito’s Fragments of Horror, consists of eight original manga horror stories published in Nemuki+ in 2014, created after a hiatus from horror. Tales have a wide range in terms of content and atmosphere. In “Futon,” new wife […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2021 ISBN: 9781974719846 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com In Lovesickness, originally published in 1996 and told in 5 parts, Ryusuke Fukuda and his parents move back to the town of Nazumi after his father accepts a job there. The […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2016 ISBN: 9781421590561 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com Femme fatale Tomie Kawakami, with long dark hair, hypnotic eyes, and a signature mole under her left eye, makes men love her, regardless of their age. She drives them to madness […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Del Rey, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0593355336 Available:: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com This reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau takes place on the Yucután peninsula in 1871 against the backdrop of the Yucután Caste War. A hacendero, Joseph Lizdale, hires the adventurer Montgomery […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781974719860 Available: Hardcover, Kindle, Comixology Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection brings together twelve of the horror mangaka’s earliest works. In “Bio House,” a young woman is invited to a strange meal where the after-dinner digestif is a […]
Anime Review: Castlevania: Nocturne
April 8, 2024A 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 […]