Book and magazine reviews for March

Posted on March 10, 2013 by admin

While we are working on our Bram Stoker Award coverage we still had a few non-Stoker book reviews to offer with this update.

In our adult Horror Magazines and Serials section:

Aaron Fletcher reviews Absalom’s Wake part 1 by Nancy Collins.

Shelia Shedd reviews Splatterpunk Issue #2 edited by Jack Bantry.

In the adult Urban Fantasy and Horror Adventure section:

Patricia O Mathews reviews Dead Warmed Over by Kevin J Anderson and Dead Harvest by Chris F. Holm.

In the adult Vampires section:

Drake Morgan reviews Verland: The Transformation by B.E. Scully.

In the adult Cthulhu Mythos Fiction section:

Julie Adams reviews The Weird edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer.

Keep reading,

The Monster Librarian

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New reviews and it is Stoker time!

Posted on March 5, 2013 by admin

The finalists have been announced for the Bram Stoker awards in horror fiction.  We once again will be covering the Stoker awards with reviews of the finalists.  The Stokers present librarians with an excellent resource for collection development and an excuse to display horror titles.  Visit our Stoker page here to keep up with the nominees and our reviews which will be added during March.

We also have some additional reviews of some non-Stoker titles to share.

In our adult Werewolves section:

Aaron Fletcher reviews Wolf Hunter by J.L. Benet.

In our adult Zombies section:

Drake Morgan reviews Starers by Nathan Robinson.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Reviews of some frightening February reads

Posted on February 12, 2013 by admin

For our February update we have.

In our adult Horror Anthologies section:

W.E. Zazo-Phillips reviews Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane edited by Jonathan Oliver.

In our adult Supernatural Horror section:

Julie Adams reviews Carapace by Allan Watson.

In our adult Human Horror section:

Aaron Fletcher reviews Lamplighters by Frazer Lee.

In our adult Something Different section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Stumbling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow.

In our young adult Zombie section:

The Monster Librarian reviews Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry and David Agranoff reviews Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Monster Librarian mid January update with reviews aplenty!!

Posted on January 21, 2013 by admin

The shuffling dead have arrived in mass and we have a slew of reviews of zombie titles for you.

Colleen Wanglund reviews Dead Tropics by Sue Edge, The Awakening by Brett McBean, Amongst the Dead by David Bernstein and Dead Earth: Green Dawn by Mark Jusice and David Wilbanks.

Patricia O Mathews reviews The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga.

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Sadie Walker is Stranded by Madeleine Roux.

In the adult Supernatural Horror section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews The Dark Side of Heaven by Gord Rollo, Floaters by James Kinsak, Lost Girl of the Lake by Joe McKinney and Michael McCarthy, Dead of Winter by Brian Moreland and The Underdwelling by Tim Curran.

In our adult Thrillers and Crime Noir section:

Aaron Fletcher reviews Femme by Bill Pronzini.

In the adult Horror Anthologies section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Stories and Poems of a Twisted Kind by Shane C. Mess and A Big Book of Strange, Weird  and Wonderful Volume 2 edited by D.L. Russell and Sharon Black.

In the young adult Supernatural Horror section:

Patricia O Mathews reviews Unraveling Isobel by Eileen Cook.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Dave Simms reviews Red Rain by R.L. Stine

Posted on January 13, 2013 by admin

David Simms reviews R.L. Stein’s adult horror novel Red Rain.  Click on the title for the review.

Also, in case you missed it, there is a Facebook page for our beloved mascot Horatio P. Bunny. Check it out!

Read to survive!

The Monster Librarian

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Happy New Year! We offer up some new reviews!

Posted on January 4, 2013 by admin

I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year.  We have plenty of reviews for you and have more on the way.

Note: MonsterLibrarian.com is looking for reviewers.  We cover horror, thrillers, and related genres for adults, young adults, and even scary(and not so scary) books for kids.  If you are interested in reviewing please send an e-mail to MonsterLibrarian@MonsterLibrarian.com.

In our Books Based on Video Games section:

David Agranoff reviews Borderlands 2: Unconquered by John Shirley.

In our adult Human Horror and Psychological Terror section:

David Simms reviews Live by Night by Dennis Lehane and Life Rage by L.L. Soares.

In our young adult Killer Animals, Kaiju, and Creatures of Legend section:

Aaron Fletcher reviews Planet of Dinosaurs: The Sasha Strange Chronicles, Valley of Dragons: The Sasha Strange Chronicles, and Sea of Serpents: The Sasha Strange Chronicles by Karen Koehler.

In our young adult Fantasy section we have:

Michele Lee reviews Darkwater  by Catherine Fisher and Ship of Souls by Zetta Elliot.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Horror fiction reviews for December.

Posted on December 3, 2012 by admin

I can’t believe it is already December.  Time seems to fly when you are reading a good book!

In this update we have:

In our horror Graphic Novel section:
Bob Freeman reviews The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Volume One by Denise Mina, illustrated by Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti and Ghosts #1 by et al.

In our Horror Anthologies section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews Corrupts Absolutely? Dark Metahuman Fiction edited by Lincoln Crisler and Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous edited by Tim Marquitz.

Michele Lee reviews Dueling Minds by Brian James Freeman.

In our adult Supernatural Horror section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews Homestead by James A Moore and Bottled Abyss by Benjamin Kane Ethridge.

Aaron Fletcher reviews The Dreadful Doctor Faust by K. H. Koehler.

In our adult Human Horror section:
Michele Lee reviews

Colleen Wanglund reviews Blood Related by William Cook.by Eric S. Brown and Jennifer Minar-Jaynes

In our adult Killer Animals section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews Boggy Creek: The Legend Is True by Eric S. Brown and Jennifer Minar-Jaynes.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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New reviews posted

Posted on November 14, 2012 by admin

In this updated we have reviews of:

In the young adult Zombies section:

The Monster Librarian reviews Zom-B by Daren Shan.

In the adult Graphic Novels section:

Bob Freeman reviews Frankenstein – Agent of S.H.A.D.E. / Volume 1: War of the Monsters and

Animal Man #0 by Jeff Lemire

Swamp Thing #0 by Scott Snyder.

In the Scary Books for Kids section:

The Monster Librarian reviews by Charles Gilman.

Keep reading,

The Monster Librarian

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Our final Halloween Horrors! update.

Posted on October 30, 2012 by admin

Halloween is just a day away and we are posting our final Halloween Horrors! update.
In our adult Horror Anthology and Collected Works section:

Rhonda Wilson reviews A Succubus for Halloween by M.E. Hydra

In our adult Supernatural Horror section:

Rhonda Wilson reviews Hell Manor by Lisa Morton.

In our young adult Supernatural Horror section:

Rhonda Wilson reviews The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief by Charles Day.

In our Scary Books for Kids section:

Rhonda Wilson reviews Scary School #2: Monsters on the March by Derek the Ghost.

For a special Halloween treat Lisa Morton wrote a guest post in our Musings of the Monster Librarian blog on the Ten Classic of Halloween Fiction.

For teachers and librarians, Kirsten Kowalewski has put together a reading list of Halloween titles that you can print here.

Keep reading and have a fun and safe Halloween!

The Monster Librarian

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More on Teen Read Week

Posted on October 19, 2012 by admin

In case you have missed it MonsterLibrarian.com is celebrating Teen Read Week this year. Stop on by here to read some reviews of the latest horror and paranormal book out.

We have also had some great guest blog posts as part of the event.  The post are:

Teen Read Week: It Came From The (Classroom) Library! Teen Nicholas Clark on the Unwind Trilogy

Teen Read Week: It Came From The Library! Kenneth Oppel on Frankenstein

It Came From the Library: Haunting the Library

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Teen Read Week posts and more Halloween Horrors! reviews

Posted on October 15, 2012 by admin

We are happy to host a page for this years Teen Read Week.  This year we have some reviews of the latest teen horror fiction.

In the young adult Zombies section:

Shelia Shedd reviews Zombie Youth: Book 1: Playground Politics by H.D. Goodhue

In the young adult Human Horror section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews by Kenneth Oppel and by

In the young adult Supernatural horror section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Leigh.

In our young adult Vampires section:

Shelia Shedd reviews Vampire by Amy Mah.

As part of our ongoing Halloween Horrors! program we have:

In our adult Supernatural Horror section:

Julie Adams reviewing The Bone Tree by Christopher Fulbright.

In our adult Human Horror section:

Julie Adams reviews Shady Palms by Allen Dusk.

In our Scary Books for Kids section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Horrible Hauntings by by Shirin Yim Bridges, illustrated by William Maughan and Witches Handbook by Monica Carretero.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian


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More Halloween reviews!

Posted on October 10, 2012 by admin

In our young adult graphic novels section:

Bob Freeman reviews Graphic Classics Volume 23: Halloween Classics edited byTom Pomplun.

In the adult Graphic Novels section:

Bob Freeman reviews Criminal Macabre: The Iron Spirit by Steve Niles and illustrated by Scott Morse.

In the adult Zombies section:

Michele Lee reviews Zee Bee & Bee (a.k.a. Propeller Hats For The Dead) By David James Keaton.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Reviews of some horrifying Halloween reads

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

It is really starting to feel like fall, the leaves are turning and gobs of Halloween candy are now being displayed at the local grocery store.   It is time once again for our Halloween Horrors! book review project where we will team up with Horror World, Horror Fiction Review, and Spooky Reads will be reviewing some Halloween reading material.  Stop by our Halloween Horrors! page here.

For the first part of our Halloween Horrors! reviews we have:

In our adult Thrillers section:

Rhonda Wilson reviews Freak by Jennifer Hillier.

In our adult Horror Anthologies section:

Dave Simms reviews Sick Chick Flicks by John Skipp,

A Book of Horrors edited by Stephen Jones, and

The Circle by Bentley Little.

In the adult Zombies section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Dead Things by Matt Darst.

In the adult Urban Fantasy-Horror Adventure section

Patricia O. Mathews reviews The Sleeping and the Dead by Jeff Crook and

Last Regress

In our adult Supernatural Horror section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Heart of Glass

and

The Caretakers

In the adult Killer Animal section and part of our Banned Books Week coverage we have Benjamin Franz reviewing Stephen King’s Cujo.

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New reviews for September

Posted on September 16, 2012 by admin

There are many exciting events this fall that we wanted to make you aware of.  Banned Books Week is September 30th through October 6th and we have set up a dedicated page for it here. Teen Read Week is October 14th through the 20th, check our page out here.  Finally, we have our annual Halloween Horrors! book review event which we will be launch the event page for that shortly.

Interested in reading horror and like to share your thoughts and opinions on books?   We are looking for book reviewers for adult, young adult, and scary books for children. If you are interested send us an e-mail at monsterlibrarian@monsterlibrarian.com .

Now for our September reviews:

In the adult Thrillers section:
Bob Freeman reviews Sherlock Holmes: Revenant by William Meikle.

In the adult Horror Anthologies section:
Bob Freeman reviews The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners edited by Joe Lansdale.

Judiann Rakes reviews Urn & Willow by Scott Thomas.

In the young adult Human Horror section:
W.E. Zazo-Phillips reviews Rebel Fire
In the Scary Books for Kids section:
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews I Spy A SkeletonI Spy A Scary MonsterI Spy A Pumpkin by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick.

Keep reading!
The Monster Librarian

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Review of Wuftoom by Mary G. Thompson

Posted on August 31, 2012 by admin

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Wuftoon by Mary G. Thompson in our young adult Something Different section.

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