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Help a Reader Out: Underwater Vampires in the Bermuda Triangle

Oh my. That’s all I have to say about this request for a half-forgotten YA anthology.  Jay writes:

 

hi.. i have been looking for a book that has a collection of horror stories for the pre-teen.. i cant think of the name and only have memory of a few of the stories….. for instance……… one of the stories dealt with a girl who hears an old indian folk lore about a necklace and an indian girl. and she goes in search of this indian girl finds her rips the necklace off her puts the necklace on herself and then suddenly turns into a tree….. also there is a story that deals with a boy swimming in the ocean where the bermuda triangle is… he is swimming under water and notices a door.. goes in and discovers all the lost ships and planes but discovers it is inhabited by vampires of sorts… if you could help me find this collection of stories i would be most grateful.

It seems like this would be a hard one to forget, if you had ever encountered it. Can anyone help Jay out?

Posted on October 13, 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

Giveaway: unRequired Reading

Hyperion has been running one of the cooler summer reading promotions for teens I’ve seen from a publisher recently. It’s called unRequired Reading, which I like, because so many times kids are assigned books that they HAVE to read, even over the summer. In our last update, we reviewed one of the books from the unRequired Reading list, Mercy by Rebecca Lim. With the book they sent us, the folks from Hyperion also sent us an unRequired Reading water bottle, a nice thing to have if you’re going to be reading outdoors in the heat (and here we’ve broken a heat record made in 1936) or really, doing anything in the heat. Know a teen who’s been reading up a storm this summer? Been reading like crazy yourself? Leave a comment telling me what your favorite summer read has been, and win yourself a water bottle. I’ll pick a winner randomly and announce it on August 15, so you’ll have a chance to use it before the school year kicks in and the summer heat is gone. And check back with us- because if you’re a winner and we don’t have your address, we can’t mail it to you.

Posted on August 8, 2011 by , Reply
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