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Halloween Reviews

Happy Halloween everyone!

We have more reviews for your Halloween reading.
In our Horror Anthologies section:
David Agranoff reviews Harry Shannon’s A Host of Shadows.  Colleen Wanglund reviews Necro Files: Two Decades of Extreme Horror edited by Cheryl Muellenax.

In our adult Supernatural Horrors section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews The Watching by Paul Melniczek,  The Samhanach by Lisa Morton, and  Smile No More by James A. Moore. Colleen Wanglund reviews Eternal Unrest: A Tale of Mummy Terror by Lorne Dixon and  A View from the Lake by Greg F. Gifune.  Jennifer Lawrence reviews Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Black Light by Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan, and Stephen Romano, and The Pumpkin Man by John Everson.

In the adult Urban Fantasy/ Horror Adventure section:
Hannah Kate reviews The Last Seal by Richard Denning.  Michele Lee reviews The Fatal Circle by Linda Robinson and Death Sword by Pamela Turner.

In the adult Zombies section:
Michele Lee reviews Asylum by Mark Allen Gunnells.

In the  young adult Vampire fiction section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Drink, Slay, Love by  Sarah Beth Durst.

In the Scary Books for Kids section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews The Stoker Legacy Book 1: I was a Seventh Grade Monster Hunter by A.G. Kent. Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Little Goblins Ten by Pamela Jane.  Michele  Lee reviews Beware the Snallygaster by Patrick Boyton.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

 

Posted on October 29, 2011 by , Reply

Halloween Horrors! is here.

We here at MonsterLibrarian.com are pleased to announce the fifth annual “Halloween Horrors!” horror book review event. Starting on October 1, outstanding horror fiction review sites will come together to create a virtual guide to titles that will keep readers up at night.

“Halloween Horrors!” is an excellent way for librarians to get acquainted with horror genre titles both mainstream and small press.  The event provides a tool to help librarians with reader’s advisory and collection development as well as become familiar with online review resources for what can be a challenging genre.

Each participating review site will have a project page dedicated to reviews of horror genre books that links to the other participating sites’ review pages. We will also be including a list of book recommendations that can be paired with horror movies to promote reading horror.

Participating sites in this year’s project include MonsterLibrarian.com, Horrorworld, Hellnotes, Horror Fiction Review, and Spooky Reads. Each site will be updating their page and reviews throughout the month so remember to visit often.

Visit our Halloween Horrors! page.

To start off Halloween Horrors! we have

In our adult horror Anthologies section we have:

W.E. Zazo-Phillips reviewing Our Lady of the Shadows by Tony Richards. Wendy gets a chance to review Tony Richards here.

In the adult Thrillers section:

Mason Fann reviews Now You See Her by Joy Fielding and The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg.

In the adult Supernatural horror section:

Michele Lee reviews As I Embrace My Jagged Little Edges by Lee Thompson and Benjamin Franz reviews The Old One: A Pacific Northwest Horror Story by Todd Brabander.

In the young adult Vampires section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Destined by Morgan Rice.   Hannah Kate reviews Ghost Town by Rachel Caine.  Shelia Shedd reviews Teeth edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

In the young adult Zombies section;

Michele Lee reviews Zombies Don’t Cry: A Living Dead Love Story by Rusty Fischer.

In the young adult Human Horror section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean.

Keep reading!

The MonsterLibrarian

 

Posted on October 1, 2011 by , Reply

Baby Got Books- Horror Remix

I have to thank Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books for pointing me in the direction of this link: fantasy author JIm C. Hines’ “Baby Got Books”, a great riff on the Sir Mix-a-Lot song. And now, thanks to our very talented reviewer and zombie editor, MonsterLibrarian.com presents our very own genre-specific version: “Baby Got Books- Horror Remix”. Warning- not for the faint of heart.

Baby Got Books: Horror Remix

[Intro]
Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her book.
It is so big. *scoff* It looks like,
one of those Stephen King books.
But, you know, who understands Stephen King? *scoff*
They only read it, because of,
like, alien butt parasites, ‘kay?
I mean, her book, is just so big.
I can’t believe it’s just so thick, it’s like,
out there, I mean – gross. Look!
It’s just so … creepy!

[Sir Mix-a-Lot]
I like big books and I can not lie
You other readers can’t deny
That when the cover comes by with a big-ass mace
And a bloody psycho face
You get sprung, wanna pull out your eyes
‘Cause you gotta know who dies
Deep in the pages you’re reading
You’re hooked and people keep on bleeding
Oh baby, I wanna go post-apoc
Or maybe deep special ops
My parents tried to warn me
But every time I fall for the dark and gory
Ooh, cover-embossin’
You got vampires need crossin’?
Well, tease me, bleed me
‘Cause you ain’t all sparkly
I’ve seen them hatin’
To hell with literary fakin’
It’s lean, mean,
Got it goin’ like Brian Keene
I’m tired of happy endings
All the conflict getting mendings
Take your love stories and shove that
Gotta have something to hack

So, readers! (Yeah!) Readers! (Yeah!)
Got your Joe Hill book? (Hell yeah!)
Then read it! (Read it!) Read it! (Read it!)
Read that horror book!
Baby got books!

(Ligotti and Garton)
Baby got books!

Posted on August 26, 2011 by , Reply
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