**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** IDW, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684055982 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It’s 1953. Roman Ivanovich Morozov is a prisoner in the Siberian gulag of Kolyma for slandering Stalin, given 25 years of hard labor as punishment. He and his fellow prisoners are forced to work in harsh conditions. If the frozen […]
Tag: Bram Stoker Awards
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Spectre Deep 6 by Jennifer Brody and Jules Rivera Turner, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684424139 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Spectre Deep 6 tells the story of a diverse team of black ops called “Spectres”, an elite squad of soldiers who died in the line of duty and were reanimated by military scientists […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Vesuvian Press, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1645480082 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) The Bone Carveris the sequel to The Night Weaver, a previous Stoker nominee in the YA category. These two factors mean it has a high bar to jump, as the second book in a series usually isn’t able to […]
**Reposted from the Circulation Desk.** Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781946335319 Available: Paperback ( Bookshop.org ) Prince Prospero, trying to avoid a deadly plague, the Red Death, ravaging the land, walls himself up inside his abbey along with a number of other wealthy nobles. To combat the boredom, the prince hosts a masquerade ball within seven rooms […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Bone Parish, Volume 2 by Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Jonas Scharf BOOM! Studios, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1684154258 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Bone Parish, Volume 2 follows the Winters family, a New Orleans crime family that created a hallucinogenic drug made from the ashes of the dead. Anyone who takes the drug, […]
Book Review: Five Midnights by Ann Cardinal Davila
August 31, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Five Midnights by Ann Cardinal Davila Tor Teen, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1250296078 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, and audiobook “When the U.S. gets a cold, Puerto Rico gets pneumonia.” In the United States, the mainland tends to forget that Puerto Rico is part of the country, and many Puerto Ricans have […]
Book Review: Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner
August 27, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner Vesuvian Books, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1944109363 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Speak No Evil is an unusual book in that while it has some mild supernatural elements, is really about the often unspeakable horror of what humans do to each other. Melody is a selectively […]
Book Review: Oware Mosaic by Nzondi
August 24, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Oware Mosaic by Nzondi Omnnium Gatherum, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1949054163 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition I am always excited to see Afrofuturist writing getting positive recognition, so I was really looking forward to reading Oware Mosaic. The novel is set in Ghana in 2025, following worldwide natural disasters caused by climate change and […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Colleen Doran Dark Horse, 2019 ISBN-13: 9781506709796 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, comiXology Adapted from Gaiman’s short story in the collection titled Smoke and Mirrors, Snow, Glass, Apples is a dark fairy tale version of Snow White. The Queen, terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter, has her […]
Book Review: Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba
August 17, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba Reaktion Books Ltd, 2019 ISBN-13: 978 -1789140798 Available: Hardcover Do you know the origin of the word berserk? Have you heard about a community of vampires in Buffalo, New York? Do you think of Jesus as a shapeshifter? These are some examples […]