More Stoker Nominees Reviewed

Posted on March 17, 2012 by admin

We have added additional reviews of Bram Stoker Finalists.
We have the following:

In the Superior Achievement in a Novel category:

Reviews of Not Fade Away by Gene O’Neill and Cosmic Forces by Greg Lamberson

In the Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel category:

Reviews of The Screaming Season by Nancy Holder, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, and This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel.

In the Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel category:

Reviews of Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine by Jonathan Maberry, Baltimore Volume I: The Plague Ships by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden and Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol.

In the Superior Achievement in the Short Fiction category:

Reviews of “Home” by George Saunders (The New Yorker Magazine, June 13, 2011).

In the Superior Achievement in the Fiction Collection category:

Reviews of Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton.

In the Superior Achievement in an Anthology  (Editing) category:

Reviews of Ghosts By Gaslight edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers, Tattered Souls 2 edited by Frank J. Hutton, and Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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MonsterLibrarian is covering the Bram Stoker Awards

Posted on March 16, 2012 by admin

Horror Writers Association inaugurated the Bram Stoker Awards in 1987 to recognize superior achievement in horror writing.  This year the staff of MonsterLibrarian.com is going to work on reviewing many of the Bram Stoker Final Nominees.  For background on the awards, list of nominees, and review of some of the nominated titles go to our Stoker page here.  We will be updating the page with additional reviews as they come in.

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March update part 2

Posted on March 6, 2012 by admin

We present part two of our March update.

In our adult Horror Anthologies section:

Rhonda Wilson reviews Cut Corners Volume 1 from Sinister Grin Press and Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror edited by Peter Giglio.

Wendy Zazo-Philips reviews Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes edited by J.R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec.

In the adult Vampires section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Feast by R Scott McCoy.

Dawn Stahura reviews Vampire Fun & Games:  Trivia, puzzles, and games that don’t suck by H.W. Kondras.

In the adult Zombies section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Carnage Road by Gregory Lamberson and Hissers by Ryan C Thomas.

In the adult Bizarro section:

David Agranoff reviews By The Time We Leave Here We’ll be Friends by J. David Osborne.

In the young adult Supernatural Horror section:

Jennifer Lawrence reviews Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake.

Michele Lee reviews Katana by Cole Gibson.

W.E. Zazo-Phillips reviews Dead Spell by Belinda Frisch.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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The first part of our March update

Posted on March 2, 2012 by admin

In the first part of our March update we have:

In the Horror Anthologies section:

David Agranoff reviews The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers and The Devil’s Coattails both edited by Jason V. Brock and William F. Nolan.

Bob Freeman reviews Gathered Dust and Others edited by W.M. Pugmire.

In the adult Something Different section:

Michele Lee reviews An Occupation of Angels by Lave Tidhar.

In the young adult Zombies section:

Michele Lee reviews Dead Girl’s Blog by Donna Burgess.
We have more reviews to be added soon!

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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New reviews and an interview with Lisa Morton.

Posted on February 26, 2012 by admin

For this update Rhonda Wilson reviews of Monsters of L.A. and Wild Girls by Lisa Morton and interviews Lisa.

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More reviews for your reading pleasure

Posted on February 11, 2012 by admin

In our adult Something Different section:

Patricia O Mathews reviews Repeaters by Erica Ferencik.

Colleen Wanglund reviews Scarla by B.C. Furtney.

In our Apocalyptic section:

Dave Simms reviews Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles.

In our Horror Adventures section:

Patricia O Mathews reviews Dead Mann Walking by Stefan Petrucha.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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February Update #2 more reviews

Posted on February 6, 2012 by admin

Here are more reviews for your reading pleasure:

In the adult Zombies section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Revive by Thomas James Brown and Dead Hunger by Eric A. Shelman.

The Monster Librarian reviews Dead of Night by Jonathan Maberry

In the adult Horror Anthologies section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews D.O.A.:Extreme Horror Anthology edited by David C. Hayes and Jack Burton as well as First Cut: An Anthology of Fast-paced Fiction edited by Heather Wildman.

In our Scary Books for Kids section:

Dawn Stahura reviews Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Strikingly True by Geoff Tibbals.

If you get a chance visit our Musings of the Monster Librarian blog.

If you have a news item for our Horror Fiction News blog please let us know.

We also have started our The MonsterLibrarian’s Den blog which seeks to connect movies, TV, and video games to reading.

Keep reading,
The Monster Librarian

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Mini February update: More reviews

Posted on February 5, 2012 by admin

We have the first part of our February update.

In our adult Thrillers section:

Rhonda Wilson reviews Creep by Jennifer Hillier.

Bejamin Franz reviews Burned by Thomas Enger.

In our adult Something Different section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Antiquitas Lost: The Last of the Shamalans by Robert Louis Smith.

In our young adult Zombies section:

Shelia Shedd reviews The Pretty Dead by David Martin Stack.

Benjamin Franz reviews The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses by Ty Drago.

We will have another update soon!

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Our mid month Winter Chills update!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by admin

In this update we have:

In the adult Zombie section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Holiday of the Dead: A Zombie Anthology from Wild Wolf Publishing, Undead Nocturne: Even Dead Men Die by William Todd Rose, Dying Days by Armand Rosamilia.

Michele Lee reviews Breathers by S.G. Browne.

In our adult Supernatural Horror section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Lullaby for the Rain Girl by Christopher Conlon.

Dave Simms reviews Dead of Winter by Brian Moreland.

Colleen Wanglund reviews Little Boy Lost by T.M. Wright and The Cranston Gibberer by Martin Mundt.

Michele Lee reviews House of the Fallen Tree by Gina Ranalli

Bob Freeman reviews Samson and Denial by Robert Ford

In our adult Anthologies and Collected Works section:

W.E. Zazi-Phillips reviews Let’s Play White by Chesya Burke.

In our Human Horror section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Beyond the Door by Jeffery Thomas.

In our Books Based on Video Games section

Stephen Lerch reviews World Of WarCraft: Wolfheart by Richard A Knaak.

In our adult Horror Adventure section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Cosmic Forces by Gregory Lamberson.

Kelly Fann reviews The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

In our adult Werewolves section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews A Pack of Wolves by Eric S. Brown.

In our young adult Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy section:

Hannah Kate reviews Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

In our new Young Adult Steampunk and Science Fiction section:

Lucy Lockely reviews Cinder by Marissa Meyer.

In our Scary Books for Kids section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews My Monster Burrufu by Alberto Corral.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Winter Chills is here with new reviews!

Posted on January 1, 2012 by admin

Welcome to our third annual winter horror book review project “Winter Chills”  Where we are partnering with Hellnotes, Horror World, Spooky Reads, and Horror Fiction Review to review books that will give you the chills.

Our Winter Chills page is here.

For our contribution to Winter Chills we have:

In the adult Thrillers section:

Mason Fann reviews  The Summoner by Layton Green, Red Wolf by Liza Markland, and Northwest Angel by Willian Ken Krueger.

Kelly Fann reviews The Burning Soul by John Connolly.

In the adult Zombies section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews The Fields by Ty Schwamberger and Dead Tide Rising by Stephen A North.

Kelly Fan reviews Zone One by Colson Whitehead.

In our adult Vampires section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Absolom Rex by K.L. Coons

In our adult Horror Podcasts section:

W.E. Zazo-Phillips reviews Diablolique Radio Show.

In our adult Paranormal Romance section:

Kelly Fann reviews Silencing Sam by Julie Kenner.

In our adult Human Horror section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Apocalyptic Organ Grinder by William Todd Rose

In the adult Non-Fiction Horror section:

Kelly Fann reviews The Painter, The Creature, and The Father of Lies: 25 years of Non-Fiction Writing by Clive Barker.

In the adult Supernatural Horror section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews  The Rising by Shawn-a-lee McCutcheon-Bell and Cinema of Shadows by Michael West.

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian.

In our young adult Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy section:\

Hannah Kate reviews Radiant Shadows, Fragile Eternity, and Darkest Mercy all by Melissa Marr.

Colleen Wanglund reviews Any Witch Way by Annastaysia Savage.

In the young adult Werewolves section:

Hannah Kate reviews The Lost Saint by Bree DeSpain.

In the young adult Dark Fantasy section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Abarat, Abarat: Days of Magic Nights of War, and Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker.

Colleen Wanglund reviews Dawn of War by Tim Marquitz.

In our young adult Something Different section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Across the Universe by Beth Revis.

In our young adult Human Horror section:

Kelly Fann reviews 20 Years Later by E.J. Newman

Keep Reading!

The Monster Librarian

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Presenting the MonsterLibrarian’sDen

Posted on December 18, 2011 by admin

One of the goals of MonsterLibrarian is to encourage leisure reading by helping librarian’s with horror and paranormal genre reader’s advisory and collection development and offering book lists and reviews to help readers find another good book to read.    One of the fascinating things about the horror and paranormal genres is that they are found across so many different medias from TV shows, Movies, Video Games and Music.   We are launching the blog The MonsterLibrarian’s Den to not only review the TV shows, Movies and Video Games but to also offer up book recommendations that would be of interest.     We will also be using this blog to review books that are based on popular genre media ( for example books based on the World of Warcraft game).   It is our hope that this blog will help make the connection between the different genre media and books to help librarians promote their genre collection and visitors to find a new book to read.    Visit the MonsterLibrarian’s Den here.

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The Monster Librarian

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November update

Posted on November 18, 2011 by admin

In our mid-November update we have:

In the adult Horror Anthologies section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Decayed Etchings by Brandon Ford.

In the adult Supernatural Horror section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs and Cuckoo by Richard Wright.

Colleen Wanglund reviews Carnival of Fear by J.G. Faherty and The White Faced Bear by R. Scott McCoy.

In the Horror Adventure/Urban Fantasy section:

Sarah Renish-Ratelis reviews a book from the TV show Supernatural,  Bobby Singers Guide To Hunting by David Reed.

Lucy Lockley reviews Ghost Story:A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.

In the adult Thrillers section:

David Simms reviews Half Past Dawn by Richard Doetsch.

Benjamin Franz reviews The Paradise Prophecy by Robert Browne

In the Books Based on Video Games section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects by Christie Golden.

In the adult Cthulhu Mythos section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews That What Should Not Be by Bret J. Talley.

The MonsterLibrarian reviews The Creeping Kelp by William Meikle

In the young adult Vampires section:

Shelia Shedd reviews Lost in Time: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa de la Cruz.

In the young adult Werewolf section

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Red by Kait Nolan.

In the Scary Books for Kids section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Island of the Skog by Steven Kellogg.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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The last major Halloween Horrors! update.

Posted on October 29, 2011 by admin

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

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A Halloween Horrors! update

Posted on October 17, 2011 by admin

We have plenty of new reviews as part of this Halloween Horrors! update.

In the adult Horror anthologies section:

Benjamin Franz reviews The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer.

Michele Lee reviews Jack O Spec:Tales of Halloween and Fantasy edited by Karen A. Romanko and Fifty-Two Stitches edited by Aaron Polson.

David Agranoff reviews The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers.

In the adult Zombies section:

Michele Lee reviews The Loving Dead by Amelia Beamer.

Colleen Wanglund reviews Shelter from the Dead by Keith Adam Luethke

In the adult Supernatural horror section:

Michele Lee reviews This is My Blood by David Niall Wilson.

In the adult Killer Animals section:

Michele Lee reviews Doppelganger by Byron Starr.

In the adult Vampire section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Dominion: The Vampire Hunters Book 3 by Scott Baker.

In the adult Human Horror section:

Colleen Wanglund reviews Grundish and Askew by Lance Carbuncle.

Michele Lee reviews Jasmine and Garlic by Monica J. O’Rourke.

In the Horror Adventure and Urban Fantasy section

David Agranoff reviews The Blood Bond by Bey Logan and The Urban Fantasy Anthology edited by Peter S. Beagle and Joe R. Lansdale.

Patricia O. Mathews reviews Retribution by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Sympathy for the Devil by Justin Gustainis.

In the adult Werewolves section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Grave Expectations: The Classic Tale of Love, Ambition, and Howling at the Moon by Charles Dickens and Sherri Browning Erwin.

Bob Freeman reviews Werewolves: Myth, Mystery and Magick by Katie Boyd.

In the Scary Books for Kids section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews The Girl’s Guide to Vampires: Everything Enchanting about These Immortal Creatures by Jen Jones.

Michele Lee reviews Monster Moon#2: The Decret of the Haunted Bog by BBH McChiller.

Rhonda Wilson gives a second look review to Crooked Hills: Book One by Cullen Bunn

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

Remember to stop by our Halloween Horrors! page and visit the participating sites of the Halloween Horrors! book review project.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

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The Walking Dead update

Posted on October 13, 2011 by admin

A quick update.  We have set up a dedicated page for The Walking Dead series, come take a look here.  Initially starting off as a graphic novel about a small band of survivors trying to stay alive during a zombie apocalypse, it is now a popular TV show as well as a board game, and a spin off novel that the Monster Librarian has reviewed,  The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor .  Season 2 of the Walking Dead TV show starts Sunday October 16th on AMC.

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