The Horror Review Collective Presents
 

 

Halloween Horrors! 2011

 

 

 

Greetings boys and ghouls, the Monster Librarian here to help you ring in a frightfully fun Halloween. 

 

 

Halloween Horrors!

 

We here at MonsterLibrarian.com are pleased to announce the fourth annual “Halloween Horrors!” horror book review event. Starting on October 1, 2012, outstanding horror fiction review sites will come together to create a virtual guide to titles that will keep readers up at night.    

 

“Halloween Horrors!” is an excellent way for librarians to get acquainted with horror genre titles both mainstream and small press.  The event provides a tool to help librarians with reader’s advisory and collection development as well as become familiar with online review resources for what can be a challenging genre.  

 

Each participating review site will have a project page dedicated to reviews of horror genre books that links to the other participating sites’ review pages. We will also be including a list of book recommendations that can be paired with horror movies to promote reading horror.

 

Participating sites in this year’s project include MonsterLibrarian.com, Horrorworld, Hellnotes, Horror Fiction Review, Dark Scribe Magazine, and Fatally-Yours. Each site will be updating their page and reviews throughout the month so remember to visit often

 

The Horror Fiction Review's Halloween Horrors! page.

 

Dark Scribe Magazine's Halloween Horrors! page.

 

Hellnotes's Halloween Horrors! page.

 

Horrorworld's Review page for Halloween Horrors!

 

Fatally-Yours Halloween Horrors! page.

 

Reviews at MonsterLibrarian.com for Halloween Horrors! will be listed below.   First reviews will be posted October 1st.

 

 

 

 

As part of Halloween this year we are again encouraging everyone to Share a Scare this Halloween!

 

 

This message is brought to you by the wonderful folks at Spook House Dave! .and MonsterLibrarian.com.

For those looking for ways to share a scare might we suggest:

 

Share a horror anthology with some friends, with each person reading a story and sharing it with the others.  Stop by our Horror Anthologies page for some titles you might enjoy.


Read a scary story to a child, check our Halloween list for kids for some ideas

 

Tell some stories around the campfire or see if your local storytelling organization is holding an event.

 

Check out your local library to find a scary storyhour.

 

Listen to a podcast or CD with your family or students.

 

Try a book discussion. If you're feeling brave, try discussing it with your mom.

 

Go to a nursing home or assisted living facility and share a scary story with some of the residents- they may have a few tales to tell you, too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

For our part of the Halloween Horrors! project we offer the following reviews.

 

 

Horror movies can lead to great horror reads...

Watching a few scary movies, it is a tradition for many at Halloween, when the various TV shows are running marathons of movies that make us go eek!   This Halloween we encourage you to check out a book or two after you watch your favorite movie and share it with a friend.

If you liked the zombie movie Night of the Living Dead

   then try reading  World War Z by Max Brooks,   Dead Sea by Brian Keene,

  The Plague of the Dead by Z A Recht , or Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne

Click here for more horror book recommendations based on horror movies.

Halloween titles for children

We have been collecting a growing list of Halloween themed books for kids, take a look here

 

 

Five website dedicated to reviewing horror fiction gather together four times a year in a collaborative effort to give readers of horror fiction insight into titles that are available for reading.

 

 For librarians, this 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 librarians might be interested in adding to their collection, highlights participating horror fiction review sites that cover both small press and mainstream horror.  For readers

 

                Collaborating review sites include: Horrorworld.org, Horror-Web.com, Hellnotes.com,  MonsterLibrarian.com, and Spooky Reads. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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