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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

All Hallows’ Read- Join the Party!

Here’s a new tradition I can get behind- All Hallow’s Read, first proposed here by Neil Gaiman. What do you do to participate? Give someone a scary book this Halloween, or at least the week of Halloween. October 25 was the All Hallow’s Read Book Drop, a day to leave a scary book in a random location for the next person who sees it. Of course, you could do this any day, so don’t let the fact that the date has passed stop you. Even if you don’t feel like leaving a book for a random stranger, you can always send one to a friend, or a kid, assuming that you like them, pick something appropriate, and end up encouraging them to read more. Or you could even do a round robin. Hey, however you want to do it is great! Post below and tell me what book you gave or how you celebrated All Hallow’s Read, and I’ll randomly pick a winner for a signed copy of The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian, who I just met yesterday, and whose book, so far, is very cool. Give a book this Halloween, or in the words of Spook House Dave, share a scare!

Posted on October 28, 2011 by , Reply

Thank You, Will Manley!

Will, a longtime columnist for American Libraries and well known humorist (at least in the library world) poses an excellent question here: Exactly why is it that children’s librarians aren’t running the world?

Well, what are you waiting for? Go find out!

Posted on October 27, 2011 by , Reply
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