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9/1/08 Books with werewolves and zombies, and YALSA's Books with Bite

2008-09-01T16:40:00.005-05:00

Bret Jordan reviews A.P. Fuchs' Axiom-Man: The Dead Land and The Monster Librarian reviews Bits of the Dead by Keith Gouveia and Xombie : Dead on Arrival by James Far in the adult Zombie Section

Michele Lee reviews The Beast Within edited by Matt Hults and The Monster Librarian also reviews Master of the Moore by Kealan Patrick Burke in the adult Werewolf Section. Bob Freeman reviews The Dead Will Inherit The Earth by Thom Olausson in the adult Horror Anthologies and Collected Works section. The Monster Librarian also reviews Steve Vernon's Gypsy Blood in the adult Horror Adventure.

For librarians, Francesca the Librarian and I have put together a guide for Books with Bite- Teen Reed Week, 2008 which is October 12th-18th. Books with Bite is the theme for this years Young Adult Library Services Association's Teen Read Week.

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8/19/08 New reviews, a new horror ficiton list, and a little remodeling

2008-08-19T10:06:00.002-05:00

In this update:
Bret Jordan reviews Simon Clark's Vampyrrhic and Vampyrrhic Rites in the adult Vampire section. Bret also reviews Whitney Lakin's Mutiny in Heaven in the adult Supernatural section. The Angry Princess reviews Charles Matthew Saur's Deus ex Machina Logos in the adult Supernatural section. Bob Freeman reviews Lydia Roberson's Fright House in the Anthologies and Collected Works section. The Horror Master reviews Scott Smith's The Ruins in the adult Killer Animal section.The Monster Librarian reviews A.M. Jenkins' Night Road in the young adult Vampire section.

We have added a Polar/Winter Horror Fiction List in our Horror Fiction Lists by Theme/Setting section which is found in our newly reformatted Book Ends section.

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8/1/08 New reviews, interviews, and more.

2008-08-01T21:14:00.003-05:00

In this update we send off Werewolf Month with two additional adult werewolf reviews. Bob Freeman reviews Nic Brown's Blood Curse / Werewolf for Hire Book One and Michele Lee reviews Nancy Collins' Wild Blood. The Monster Librarian reviews Neal Shusterman's Red Rider’s Hood in the young adult Werewolf section.

For our non-werewolf reviews Bret Jordan reviews Adele Hartley's Read by Dawn 3 and
M.F. Korn's Aliens, Minibikes and Other Staples of Suburbia , and David Agranoff reviews Dark Distortions edited by Molly Fesse and C.D. Allen in the Adult Horror Anthologies section. The Monster Librarian reviews Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece in the young adult Vampire and Graphic Novel sections. The Coming Horror Fiction Releases page has been updated for August and September. Rio Youers, author of Everdead is interviewed by Bret Jordan in our Author Interviews section.
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Werewolf Month continues!

2008-07-15T20:52:00.003-05:00

Michele Lee reviews Jim Butcher's Fool Moon and Laurell K. Hamilton's The Lunatic Café and
Blue Moon all in the adult Werewolf section. We are running a new contest: we are giving away a copy of Ray Garton's Ravenous. Our Links page has been update with more sites!
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More reviews for Werewolf Month

2008-07-04T21:59:00.003-05:00

We have added four more reviews for Werewolf Month. Bob Freeman reviews William D. Carl Bestial: Werewolf Apocalypse. The Monster Librarian reviews Ray Garton's Ravenous. Michele Lee reviews Rachel Vincent's Stray and Rogue. All in the adult Werewolf section.
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7/1/08 July is Werewolf Month! Interviews, reviews, and a story!

2008-07-01T20:30:00.005-05:00

We have all sorts of wonderful furry treats for you this month.

First, Bob Freeman interviews Steven E. Wedel author of the The Werewolf Saga. His latest werewolf title Ulrik has hit the stores now and we have a review for it.

We also have a first for Monster Librarian, a werewolf short story titled Seeing Red: A Twisted Fairy Tale by our own Bob Freeman

We are expanding our section of werewolf reviews and will have more posted throughout the month. We will be including other lycanthrope related books as well as titles that are werewolf related but not strictly horror.

Bob Freeman reviews Steven Wedel's Ulrik
Bret Jordan reviews J. F. Gonzalez's Shapeshifter
Michele Lee reviews Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth, Bob Freeman's Keepers of the Dead, and
Denise Vitola's Quantum Moon, Opalite Moon , and Manjinn Moon.

A special thanks to Bob Freeman, Michele Lee, and Bret Jordan for their help with art, reviews, and for the story this month.

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6/23/08 Reviews of a Killer Animal title, a Young Adult Vampire Book, and Horror Non-Fiction

2008-06-23T22:41:00.006-05:00

In this update Bret Jordan reviews Through A Glass, Darkly by Bill Hussey in the adult Supernatural Section and The Chronicles of the Planeswalkers Part I by B.T. Robertson in the adult Horror Adventure/Fantasy section. Francesca the Librarian reviews Matthew Warner's
Horror Isn't A 4-Letter Word in the Horror Non-Fiction section. The Monster Librarian reviews Nancy Kress's Dogs in the adult Killer Animal section and the young adult vampire book
Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley in our Y/A Vampire section.
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6/4/08 Reviews, Lovecraft Collection Development Guide, and an Author Interview

2008-06-04T21:26:00.004-05:00

In this update Bret Jordan reviews Joseph D'Lacey's Meat in the Human Horror section. David Agranoff reviews The Haunted Forest Tour by James A. Moore and Jeff Strand in the adult Supernatural section. Bob Freeman reviews Shadows Over New England by Scott T. Goudsward and David Goudsward in the new adult horror Non-Fiction section. The Monster Librarian reviews The Morningstar Strain: Thunder and Ashes by Z.A. Recht in the adult Zombie section. There is a review of James Burr's Ugly Stories for Beautiful People in the adult horror Anthology section. In the Scary Stories for Kids section there is a review of The Lima Bean Monster by Dan Yaccarino by Francesca the Librarian and the Monster Librarian reviews My Sister The Vampire by Sienna Mercer. There is an interview with Generation Dead author Daniel Waters in the Author Interviews section. Also we are still running our Generation Dead T-Shirt giveaway contest in the Contests section. Finally, Jamie Blackman has developed a fantastic H.P. Lovecraft Collection Development Guide.
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5/15/08 Books with undead teens, vampires, and ancient demons

2008-05-15T21:07:00.005-05:00

In this update Larry Oathout reviews both Nate Kenyon's Bloodstone in the adult Supernatural section and James A. Moore's Blood Red in the adult Vampire section. Michele Lee reviews
Thomas F. Monteleone 's Serpentine in the adult Supernatural section. The Monster Librarian reviews Generation Dead by Daniel Waters in the newly minted young adult Zombie section. Michele Lee interviews with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro in the Book Ends section. In our Contests section there is a large Generation Dead T-Shirt that we are giving away.

Finally, the staff reviewers of Monster Librarian are a talented group of authors/reviewers/artist. Here is an update of some of the projects they are working on outside of the site:

An update on the comings and goings of the Monster Librarian staff:

Bob Freeman – Bob has two exciting project coming out this year Cairnwood Manor II: Keepers of the Dead by Black Death Books and has contributed to Dark Harvest an anthology produced by the Indiana Horror Writers Association

David Agranoff – David co-edited The Vault of Punk Horror with Gabriel LLanas it can be found at http://punkhorror.com/

Bret Jordan - Bret has an online novel Plague at http://plague.gravesidetales.com/

Michele Lee - On top of reviewing for both Monster Librarian and her own Book Love review site at http://micheleleesbooklove.wordpress.com/. In addition, Michele has various other exciting projects that she is working...stay tuned.

The Angry Princess - Our Angry Princess reviews not just for our site but also for other horror related sites including: www.thisisomescene.com www.bumscorner.com www.horrorsociety.com www.horror-fanatics.com www.thezombiereview.com www.roguecinema.com www.pretty-scary.net www.uhmn.com

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5/7/08 Reviews of Vampire, Werewolf, and Zombie titles.

2008-05-07T20:24:00.006-05:00

David Agranoff reviews Paul Cave's Cold Light of Day in the adult Vampire section. Michele Lee reviews Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Lost Prince in the adult Werewolf section. Bret Jordan reviews Andrzej Sapkowski's The Last Wish in the adult Horror Adventure section. The Monster Librarian reviews David Dunwoody's Empire in the adult zombie section. Finally, there is a review of Walter G. Klimczak's The Oak Hotel: The Chronicles of Burnam Tau’roh: Book One in the young adult dark fantasy section. We have updated the Coming Horror Fiction Releases page for June and July.
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4/16/08 Demon Queen, Vampires, and Zombies

2008-04-16T21:55:00.004-05:00

In this update: Bob Freeman reviews Ramsey Campbell's The Grin of the Dark in the adult Supernatural section. The Horror Master reviews John S. Hornsby's zombie novel Every Sigh, The End in the adult Zombie section. The Monster Librarian reviews Demon Queen by Richard Lewis in the young adult Supernatural section and London, 1850 (Vampire Plagues I) by Sebastian Rooke in the young adult Vampire section.

Stop by your local library and help celebrate National Library Week which is April 13-19, 2008 and check out a book.

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4/1/08 New reviews, site updates, and more

2008-04-01T19:56:00.004-05:00

In this update, Bob Freeman reviews A Whisper of Southern Lights by Tim Lebbon and new reviewer Horror Master reviews Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher in the adult Horror Adventure section. Bob also reviews Paul Cave's Something of the Night and Michele Lee reviews Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain: Memoirs in the adult Vampire section. The Monster Librarian reviews Conrad Williams's The Unblemished which can be found in the adult Zombie section.

In the attempt to make the growing amount of content accessible to our visitors we have added a search box to the main page, if you can't find what you are looking for on the site give it a try. We have also added a page for Horror Fiction News which is found on the main page, which will contain press releases and news items we get from various authors and publishers. Finally, we have set up a page for the Stoker Awards, 2007 in the Book Ends section. If you are a librarian who is looking for some noteworthy horror titles take a look.

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3/17/08 A new look, new reviews, and more lists

2008-03-17T16:17:00.004-05:00

MonsterLibrarian.com has a new look to make it easier to read and navigate the site. In addition to the changes to the site, we have new reviews with Bob Freeman reviewing Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths edited by Colleen Morris and Joel A. Sutherland in the adult horror Anthologies section. The Angry Princess reviews The Possessed by Ronald Dondeigo in the adult Supernatural section. We have revisited our review of Pod of Horror since its move to Horrorworld.org In the Scary Books for Kids section Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, ill. Christopher Myers.

We have put together lists of graphic novels focusing on Zombies and Vampires. We have updated Coming Horror Fiction Releases for April and May. Finally, we have gotten the updated link for Dark Scribe Magazine reviewing Alexandra Sokoloff's The Price which is part of the Spring into Terror horror review project If you have any thoughts, suggestions, or feedback on the new format for our site please let us know by sending an e-mail to MonsterLibrarian@MonsterLibrarian.com

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"Spring into Terror" horror review project!

2008-03-01T21:38:00.003-05:00

We are excited to announce the Spring into Terror horror book review project. Spring into Terror is a collaborative effort presenting reviews of horror fiction that will be available for your reading pleasure this Spring. In addition to providing reviews of horror titles you might be interested in adding to your collection, “Spring into Terror” will highlight participating horror fiction review sites that cover both small press and mainstream horror. Collaborating review sites include: Horrorworld.org, Horror-Web.com, Hellnotes.com, DreadCentral.com, Fearzone.com, HorrorDrive-in.com, MonsterLibrarian.com, and Dark Scribe Magazine. Visit the Spring into Terror to see a list of the titles reviewed at participating sites.

MonsterLibrarian.com has reviews of The Unwanted by Diablo, Mark Michaels, Juan Romera, and Jason Arthur in our adult Graphic Novel section. Bob Freeman reviews Horrors Beyond 2: Stories of Strange Creations ed. by William Jones in the Cthulhu Mythos section and The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff in the adult Something Different section. Michele Lee reviews The Man on the Ceiling by Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem in the Something Different section. All these reviews are part of the "Spring into Terror" project.

Michele Lee also reviews J.W. Coffy's A Wager of Blood in the adult Supernatural section. The Monster Librarian reviews Peadar O Guilin's The Inferior in the young adult Dark Fantasy section. Finally, for the kids there is a review of Damien Graves's The Midnight Library: The Cat Lady in the Scary Books for Kids section.
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2/15/08 Young Adult Horror Reviews

2008-02-15T23:11:00.003-05:00

It is the great young adult update! Teen vampire book Uninvited by Amanda Marrone is reviewed in the young adult Vampire section. Weregirls: Birth of the Pack by Petru Popescu is reviewed in the young adult Supernatural Section. Raptor by Paul Zindel is reviewed by Robert Kent in our new young adult Killer Animal section. Finally, in our Scary Book for Kids section has a review of Everything I Know about Monsters by Tom Lichtenheld.
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2/1/08 Reviews of Flesh Feast, History is Dead, and Dark Hollow

2008-02-01T23:41:00.000-05:00

Bob Freeman reviews Brian Keene's latest D ark Hollow in the adult Supernatural section. Zombie anthologies The Undead Vol 3: Flesh Feast edited by D.L. Snell and Travis Adkins and History is Dead edited by Kim Paffenroth are reviewed in the adult Zombie section. The Coming Horror Fiction Releases pages has been updated for February and March.
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1/15/08 New reviews of titles for adults, teens, and kids

2008-01-15T21:14:00.000-05:00

In this update Bob Freeman reviews Richard Dansky's Firefly Rain in the adult Supernatural section. Michele Lee reviews John Paul Allen's Monkey Love in the adult Supernatural section. David Agranoff reviews Die Earthman Die by MF Korn, DF Lewis, Mike Philbin and David Matthew in the adult Bizarro section. There is a review of Mike Dubisch's graphic novel Weirdling in the adult graphic novel section. Francesca the Librarian reviews Stories for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe edited by Andrew Delbanco and Michael Morpurgo's Beowulf in the young adult Supernatural section. Francesca also reviews Dav Pilkey's Dogzilla in the Scary Stories for Kids section. Willow May Goes to the Midnight Carnival by Icats Nitram in the Scary Stories for Kids section.
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New Year, New Reviews

2008-01-06T18:28:00.001-05:00

Happy New Year from all of us at MonsterLibrarian.com! To kick off the New Year, Bret Jordan reviews Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott in the Something Different Section for adults. There is a review of City Slab magazine in the Horror Periodicals section. Dennis Latham's Michael In Hell is reviewed in the adult Human Horror section. Finally, for the fans of young adult vampire titles there is a review of Marked: House of Night by P.C. and Kristen Cast in the young adult vampire section. The Coming Horror Fiction Releases has been started for 2008 and will be updated as new releases are announced. We are pleased to offer an introduction to Splatterpunk by John Skipp in the Splatterpunk 101 page found in the Book Ends section. We have selected MonsterLibrarian.com's Top Picks for 2007 for adult, young adults, and children's titles.
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12/16/07 reviews of tales of Vampires, Zombies, and Deep Ones.

2007-12-16T23:43:00.000-05:00

In this update I take a look at James A. Moore's Deeper from Necessary Evil Press in the Cthulhu Mythos section. J.L. Bourne 's re-edited/re-packaged Day by Day Armageddon from Permuted Press is reviewed in the adult Zombie section. Scott T. Goudsward's Trailer Trash from Dark Hart Press is reviewed in the adult Vampire section. Francesca the Librarian reviews Paul Bibeau's Sundays with Vlad from Three Rivers Press, also in the adult Vampire section. Finally, Michele Lee reviews Horror Classics: Graphic Classics edited by Tom Pomplun from Eureka Productions in the young adult Graphic Novels section.
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12/1/07 Zombies, Cthulhu, and a Supernatural Rubber Chicken

2007-12-01T16:56:00.000-05:00

In this update The Monster Librarian reviews zombie anthology The Undead Vol 2: Skin and Bones edited by D.L. Snell and Travis Adkins and Mark Justice's zombie comedy Deadneck Hootenanny in the adult zombie section. For fans of Cthulhu fiction Bob Freeman reviews
Horror Between the Sheets edited by Michael Amorel, Oliver Baer, and Benjamin X. Wretlind and The Monster Librarian reviews C.J. Henderson's Things That Are Not There. In the adult Human Horror section Michele Lee review Jeff Strand's Disposal and The Angry Princess reviews Zoe Whitten's Trail Of Madness . For the kids there is a review of upcoming Mirrorstone release Supernatural Rubber Chicken by D.L. Garfinkle. The Monster Librarian posts our first DVD review of slasher flick Plasterhead which can be found in our Monstrous M edia section. Finally, you will notice we have be working on a redesign of our site, we always appreciate any feedback so please drop us a line at MonsterLibrarian@MonsterLibrarian.com and let us know what you think.
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11/16/07 New reviews of The Desert, Mister B Gone, and The Blackburn & Scarletti Mysteries, Vol II

2007-11-16T23:21:00.000-05:00

I am happy to report that we presented a session at the Indiana Library Federation Annual Conference titled Letting the Monsters Out to Play: Collection Development and Readers Advisory in Horror Fiction. If anyone was looking for the handouts from the conference they are available at the The ILF Presentation page. We had a great crowd and had lots of fun.

In this update Bob Freeman reviews Byron Morrigan's military horror story The Desert and the Monster Librarian reviews Karen Koehler's The Blackburn & Scarletti Mysteries, Vol II both in the Horror Adventure section. Bret Jordan reviews Clive Barker's Mister B Gone in the adult Supernatural section. .

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Halloween update! New reviews

2007-10-31T21:05:00.000-05:00

Happy Halloween from all of us at MonsterLibrarian.com. I hope everyone has a happy, safe, and scary Halloween. In this update, new reviewer William Simmons reviews Stephen King's
Salem's Lot in the adult vampire section and The Shining in the adult supernatural section. Michele Lee reviews Rob Rogers' upcoming dark superhero thriller Devil’s Cape. The Monster Librarian reviews Elizabeth Massie's Brazen Bull in the human horror section,
Michael McBride's Chronicles of the Apocalypse: Species in the adult zombie section, and Steven Niles' 28 Days Later: The Aftermath in the adult graphic novel section. The Coming Horror Fiction Releases has been updated for November and December. MonsterLibrarian.com was mentioned in the article "Boo! Focus on Scary Stories" by John Peters in the October issue of School Library Journal as a professional resource for librarians in helping with horror readers' advisory for kids and young adults! Thanks, John! I also wanted to thank the good folks at Horrorworld, Horror-Web, Hellnotes, and Dread Central for participating in our first Halloween Horror Fiction Book Review project. Check out the reviews on our Halloween Page.
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10/15/07 New reviews and Teen Read Week

2007-10-15T20:49:00.001-05:00

This week is American Library Association's Teen Read Week sponsored by Mirrorstone Books. The Teen Read Week logo on both the Main Page and on the young adult page will take you to the Teen Read Week page.

This week Bret Jordan reviews Yasuyuki Kasai's WWII killer animal book Dragon of the Mangroves. Bob Freeman reviews Anne Frasier's vampire novel Pale Immortal and the sequel Garden of Darkness and the Monster Librarian reviews Philip Henry's Vampire Twilight in the adult vampire section. David Agranoff reviews M. F. Korn's Confessions of a Ghoul and other stories, Bradley Sands's It Came from Below the Belt, and John Edward Lawson's The Troublesome Amputee: Collected Poetry in the adult Bizzaro section. There is a review of upcoming children's fantasy novel Red Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham in the Scary Books for Kids section. We are extending our Contests deadline until October 31st, so stop on by and check out the latest contests.
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10/1/07 Halloween horror reviews and more

2007-10-01T20:14:00.001-05:00

We are excited to announce that MonsterLibrarian.com has teamed up with horror sites Horrorworld, Horror-Web, Hellnotes, and Dread Central to review Halloween themed horror books. Visit the new Monster Librarian Halloween Page to check out the reviews. Also be sure to stop by Horror-Web's 31 Days of Hallow-theme page and Horrorworld's Halloween Page. A special thanks to Bret Jordan for our pumpkin images for the Halloween page.

Bret Jordan reviews Tim Waggoner's Like Death in the adult Human Horror section. Bob Freeman reviews Graphic Classics: Edgar Allen Poe edit by Tom Pomplun in the Young Adult Graphic Novels section. Francesa the Librarian reviews Hallowmere: In the Serpent’s Coils by Tiffany Trent in the new Young Adult Dark Fantasy section. The Monster Librarian reviews Gary L. Holleman's werewolf Halloween title Howl-o-ween in the adult werewolf section. The Links page and the Coming Horror Fiction Releases have been updated. Finally, a reminder that we have some great Contests going on.
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9/19/07 New reviews of a zombie book, a new Cthulhu title, and y/a vampire titles

2007-09-19T16:46:00.000-05:00

In this update, Bret Jordan reviews Gregory Solis's zombie tale Rise and Walk in the adult Zombie section. Bob Freeman reviews Fireworks by James A. Moore in the adult Human Horror section. David Agranoff reviews Chemical Gardens by Gina Ranalli in the new adult Bizarro fiction section. The Monster Librarian reviews High Seas Cthulhu edited by William Jones in the adult Cthulhu Mythos section. A review was sent in for The Grandmaster by Peter A Balaskas from Stella in the Human Horror section. Havoc reviews by Rags and Old Iron by Lorelie Shannon in the Human Horror section. Havoc also reviews two young adult vampire books Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine and Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer. The Coming Horror Fiction Releases page has been updated for September and October. Remember to check out our Contests page for the latest contests.
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