Final Halloween update more reviews and more author interviews

In this our final Halloween update we have:

Rhonda Wilson reviewing Wolf's Trap and Wolf's Gambit by W.D. Gagliani for our adult werewolf section. Rhonda also had a chance to interview W.D. Gagliani.

Bret Jordan reviews R.I.P by Terry Lamsley for the adult supernatural section.

In our adult horror anthologies and collected works section, Rhonda Wilson reviews Dark Jesters edited by Nick Cato and L.L. Soares and Magick & Misery by Lincoln Crisler. Erik Smith reviews Creeping Shadows by Alan Draven, Brandon Ford, and Jessica Lynne Gardner.

In our Chick Lit with Fangs section Rhonda Wilson reviews Undead and Unwelcome and Fish out of Water by MaryJanice Davidson and interviews the author!

For fans of Bizarro fiction, Rhonda reviews Cannibals of Candyland by Carlton Mellick III.

A reminder that our good friends over at Spook House Dave! are having a Halloween Special which I am told is humbly considered to be the best online Halloween special for kids and cool parents to come along since somebody uploaded "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" to the Internets.

I would also like to remind everyone to check out our partner sites who are part of Halloween Horrors! book review project. Go to the Monster Librarian's Halloween Page to check it out.

Happy Halloween!
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Our Halloween update: New reviews, author interviews, and a contest

Happy Halloween everyone!

Just a reminder that our Halloween Horrors! book review project is still going on with some of the best horror review sites on the web collaborating to bring you reviews of horror books for this Halloween. Visit our Halloween page to learn more.

In this update:

For adults:
For those librarians who might be looking for a zombie book to take advantage of the popularity of the movie Zombieland that is in theaters now, The Monster Librarian reviews Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead edited by John Skipp and Season of Rot by Eric S. Brown.

KDP reviews Brian Keene's Urban Gothic.

For young adults/teens:
Rhonda Wilson reviews Mari Mancusi's young adult vampire titles, Boys that Bite, Stake That!, and Girls that Growl. Rhonda also interviews Mari here.

Also for those that enjoy young adult vampire titles Kirsten Kowalewski interviews Kimberly Pauley author of Sucks to be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire(maybe) and we are running a giveaway contest for her book. Also The Monster Librarian reviews the latest in Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Bloods series The Van Alen Legacy.

For kids:

KDP reviews David Siden's Bang goes a Troll. Also in case you missed in Where the Wild Things Are is coming out as a live action movie and Kirsten Kowalewski takes a look at the book by Maurice Sendak.

In case you have missed it, the folks over at Spook House Dave! show are running a 31 days of Halloween with a new show each day this month. Stop on over and take a look!

Keep reading and share a scare this Halloween!
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Halloween page launch, reviews, and interviews!

We have launched our Halloween Page tonight with items for both children and adults

We have launch our "Share a Scare" reading initiative with a promotional video thanks to the wonderful folks at the Spook House Dave! show. We have included in our Halloween page some suggestions on how you can share a scare with a friend or family member.



We have updated our Halloween book list for children.

We have started a new feature where we will suggest titles of horror books that go along with well known horror movies.

In addition, we here at MonsterLibrarian.com are pleased to announce the third annual “Halloween Horrors!” horror book review event.

“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.

Participating sites in this year’s project include MonsterLibrarian.com, Horrorworld, Hellnotes, Fearzone, Horror Fiction Review, Dark Scribe Magazine, Dread Central, and The Black Glove.

Head on over to our Halloween page to get started.

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

In the adult Human Horror/Slasher section
Rhonda Wilson and Erik Smith both review The 13th by John Everson
Erik Smith reviews Hacks by Brian Knight
Rhonda Wilson adds her take on Personal Demons by Gregory Lamberson

In the adult Zombie section
Rhonda Wilson reviews Don of the Dead by Nick Cato

In the adult Horror Adventure/Urban Fantasy section
Rhonda Wilson reviews Charlaine Harris' Dead and Gone
David Agranoff reviews John Shirley's Bleak History

In the adult Horror Graphic Novel section
The Monster Librarian reviews High Moon by David Gallaher and Trick'r Treat by Marc Andreyko.
Bob Freeman reviews North 40 by Aaron Williams

In the adult Horror Anthologies section
The Monster Librarian reviews Hellbound Hearts edited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan
Rhonda Wilson takes a second look at Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill

In the young adult Supernatural section
Kirsten Kowalewski reviews Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson.

In the young adult Werewolf section
Kakari reviews Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

In our Scary Books for Kids section Kirsten Kowalewski reviews
A Practical Guide to Vampires by Treval Vorgard
Dhegdeer: A Scary Somali Folktale retold by Marian A. Hassan
Halloween Night by Marjorie Dennis Murray
Halloween Day by Anne Rockwell
Sarah’s Little Ghosts by Thierry Robberecht

Finally, Rhonda Wilson interviews both Don of the Dead author Nick Cato and Personal Demons author Gregory Lamberson.

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Halloween Horrors! Update

The Halloween Horror Book Review Project has a new name "Halloween Horrors!" . Dark Scribe Magazine's review of Covenant by John Everson as part of Halloween Horrors! while Horrorworld reviews Masks by Ray Bradbury . In addition, Horror-Web reviews Meat by Joseph D'Lacey as part of the Halloween Horrors! project.

We also have additional reviews and a book list up at our MonsterLibrarian.com's Halloween Book List for Kids .

In addition, The Angry Princess reviews Sudden Victims by Dennis Latham and Bob Freeman reviews The White Hands and Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels and Strange Tales edited by Rosalie Parker in the adult Horror Anthologies section. The Monster Librarian reviews Tales From The Crypt #1: Ghouls Gone Wild by Don McGregor and Mark Bilgrey in the young adult graphic novel section and Jesus Hates Zombies created by Stephen Lindsey and Zombies Calling! by Faith Erin Hicks in the adult Graphic Novel section. Kirsten Kowalewski adds a review of They’re Coming For You: Scary Stories that Scream to be Read by O Penn-Coughin in the Scary Books for Kids section.

10/1/08 Halloween Horror Book Review Project Launch

Tonight we launch the 2008 Halloween Horror Book Review Project. This year MonsterLibrarian.com, Horrorworld, Horror-Web, Hellnotes, FearZone, Horror Drive-In, and Dark Scribe Magazine will be offering up reviews of horror titles, many set on or around Halloween. Reviews will be posted throughout the month, so please check back here for the latest Halloween fun. The Monster Librarian reviewed Ghost Walk by Brian Keene in the adult Supernatural page and Bound for Evil edited by Tom English in the adult horror anthologies page. Horror Drive-in has contributed a review of Miranda by John Little in the adult Something Different section. Hellnotes already has posted their review of Night Country by Stewart O"Nan. We will have additional reviews and goodies all through October.

We have also started the final update of the 2008 Coming Horror Fiction Releases page for October, November, and December and will have part 2 of the update next week

For teens and to help with YALSA's Books with Bite program we have put together the latest list of young adult vampire fiction.


For the 12 and under readers we have started our own Halloween Book List for Kids page

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Halloween update! New reviews

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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10/1/07 Halloween horror reviews and more

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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