Review of A Dark Matter and Interview with Peter Straub

A brief update:
In the adult Supernatural section:
Jennifer Lawrence reviews A Dark Matter and interviews the author Peter Straub.

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2/1/10 Winter Chills book review project 2010!

"Winter Chills" is a collaborative effort to give readers of horror fiction a virtual guide to horror titles for your winter reading.

For librarians, “Winter Chills” is an opportunity to get reviews and information you need to recommend appropriate titles for readers and make informed decisions about collection development. In addition to providing reviews of horror titles you might be interested in adding to your collection, “Winter Chills” highlights participating horror fiction review sites that cover both small press and mainstream horror. This year participating sites include Hellnotes, Horrorworld, and Horror Fiction Review. Come visit our Winter Chill's home page!

As part of Winter Chills we are reviewing:

In the adult Zombie section:
Erik Smith reviews Dead Tide by Stephen A North
Rhonda Wilson reviews Zombie Bastard by Jerrod Balzer.

Michele Lee interviews zombie author Eric S Brown.

In the adult Killer Animals section:
Jim Cobb reviews Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez and Mark Williams

In the adult Human Horror section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews The One-Percenters by John Podgursky

In the adult Supernatural and Occult horror section
Rhonda Wilson reviews Gord Rollo's Strange Magic,
Michele Lee reviews The Haunting of Sam Cabot by Mark Edward Hall,
Erik Smith reviews Stronger than Death by Steven L. Shrewsbury.

Jennifer Lawrence reviews Blind Panic by Graham Masterson.

In the adult Horror Anthologies section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews Thomas Ligotti's Teatro Grottesco

In the adult Graphic Novel section:
The Monster Librarian reviews Blackest Night by Geoff Johns

In the adult Bizarro section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Gina Ranalli's Swarm of Flying Eyeballs, Rotten Little Animals by Kevin Shamel, and Piecemeal June by Jordan Krall.

In the young adult Vampires section:
Stacey L. Wilson reviews The Vampire Kitty-Car Chronicles by Ray Rhamey

In the young adult Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy section

Jennifer Lawrence reviews Intertwined by Gena Showalter
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Michele Lee reviews Elphame's Choice by P.C. Cast

We are also hosting a giveaway contest for HarlequinTeen's latest release The Iron King in our Contest page

In the Scary Books for Kids section:
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Fear this Book: Your Guide to Fright, Horror, and Things that Go Bump in the Night by Jeff Szpirgla

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Our first update of the new year with new reviews and an interview

For our first update of 2010 we have:

For adult Horror Anthologies and Collected Works section:
Erik Smith reviews The Death Panel: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness edited by Cheryl Mullenax, David Agranoff reviews Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars by Cody Goodfellow, and The Monster Librarian reviews Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror edited by Cheryl Mullenax.

For the adult Zombies section:
KDP reviews Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection by Don Roff.

For the adult Killer Animal section:
The Monster Librarian reviews Fragment: A Novel by Warren Fahy.

For the adult Supernatural Horror section:
Colleen Wanglund reviews The Revelation by Bentley Little, Bob Freeman reviews Little Graveyard on the Prairie by Steven E Wedel, KDP reviews Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett, and Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Drowned Sorrows by Vanessa Morgan.

For the adult Horror Non-Fiction section:
Bob Freeman reviews Shadows Over Florida by Scott Goudsward and David Goudsward

For the adult Werewolf section:
Michele Lee does a take two review of Lorne Dixon's Snarl

For the adult Graphic Novel section:
Bob Freeman reviews The Saga of the Swamp Thing #2 by Alan Moore and North 40 issues 4-6 by Aaron Williams. The Monster Librarian reviews The Chill by Jason Starr.

For the young adult Vampire section:
Michele Lee reviews Marked, Chosen, Betrayed, and Untamed of the House of Night Series by P.C. and Kristen Cast.

For the young adult Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy section:
Kakari does a take two review of Rachel Vincent's My Soul to Take.

Finally, for our Scary Books for Kids section:
KDP reviews Silver Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham.

Michele Lee interviews David Dunwoody author of zombie novel Empire.

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Happy Holidays from MonsterLibrarian.com

From all of us at MonsterLibrarian.com we wish you a very happy holidays. We have a special Holiday Horrors! page with holiday related horror reads.

Rhonda Wilson reviews Santa Steps Out and Santa Conquers the Homophobes by Robert Deveraux as well as gets a chance to interview the author.

Rhonda also reviews Sausagey Santa by Carlton Mellick III and for teens she reviews R. L. Stine's Silent Night.

Michele Lee reviews a zombie take on Christmas carols in Michael P. Spradlin's It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies!

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Mid December update new reviews for adults, teens, and children

In this update we have:

In the adult Horror Anthologies section:
Erik Smith reviews Harlan County Horrors edited by Mari Adkins

In the adult Werewolves section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Lorne Dixon's Snarl

In the adult Human Horror section:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Bryan Smith's Depraved and gets a chance to interview Bryan Smith about his latest projects.

In the adult Supernatural horror section:
Both Erik Smith and Rhonda Wilson review Wrath James White's The Resurrectionist. In addition Erik Smith interviews Wrath James White about the book.

We are launching our new Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy page for teens with Rhonda Wilson reviewing Rachel Vincent's My Soul to Take and My Soul to Lose. We are also having a My Soul to Take t-shirt contest . In addition, Rhonda gets a chance to interview Rachel Vincent about her new series.

In our Scary Books for Kids section:
KDP reviews John Connolly's The Gates.

We would also like to congratulate Michele Lee who has taken on our position of Zombie Review Editor. With the explosion of zombie titles that have recently come out for both adult and young adults, we felt it was it time for someone to wrangle up these undead titles. For any zombie title review requests or inquiries she can be reached at zombiemichele at gmail dot com.

Happy Holidays from the Monster Librarian staff!!!
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12/6/2009 New reviews of horror fiction for adults and teens.

We hope that all our visitors are having a happy holidays. In this update we have:

In the Vampire section for adults:
David Agranoff reviews Once a Samurai...by D.C. Rhind.

In the Cthulhu Mythos section for adults:
David Agranoff reviews Queen of K'n-Yan by Asamatsu Ken

In the Horror Anthologies section for adults:
Erik Smith reviews Smells like Fish by Trever Palmer

In the Human Horror section for adults:
Rhonda Wilson reviews The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton

In the Supernatural Horror section for adults
Colleen Wanglund reviews Found You by Mary SanGiovanni

In the Graphic Novels section for adults:
The Monster Librarian reviews Victorian Undead by Ian Edginton

In the Supernatural Horror section for young adults
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

In the Dark Fantasy section for young adults:
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby
Bret Jordan reviews The Shadowmask by R.A. and Geno Salvatore

We have updated the Coming Horror Fiction Releases page for December.

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New reviews of books with zombies, werewolves, and vampires

In this update we have:

In the adult zombie section:
Kelly Fann reviews Edward M. Erdelac's Dubaku
Erik Smirh reviews Hungry for Your Love: An Anthology of Zombie Romance edited by Lori Perkins.
The Monster Librarian reviews The World is Dead edited by Kim Paffenroth and The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks

In the adult Werewolf section:
Kelly Fann reviews C. Fern Cook's Wild Evolution.

In our Apocalyptic Horror section
Erik Smith reviews William Ollies' The Damned

In our young adult Vampires section in preparation for the latest Twilight movie New Moon Rhonda Wilson reviews Stephenie Meyers's New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.
Bret Jordan reviews Hybrid by Angie L Reed

In the young adult fantasy section:
Michele Lee reviews The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe.

Finally, in the Monstrous Media section Kirsten Kowalewski reviews the creepy musical CD for kids The Chills produced by Ira Marlowe.

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