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

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!

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

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!

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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"Spring into Terror" horror review project!

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

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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New Year, New Reviews

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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5/10/07 New reviews for adults and young adults and links

Kate-Lynn Williams reviews Cate Tiernan's Book of Shadows and Coven the first two books in the Sweeps series in the young adult supernatural section. Patricia reviews Zoe Stead's The Amulet of Vichalace in the adult vampire section. For those who enjoy killer animal books there is a review of Brian Keene and J.F. Gonzalez's Clickers 2: The Next Wave. There is also a review of the chapbook Screams from a Dying World by David Arganoff in the adult something different section. There was an addition to the list of World War I and II horror related books and link to book reviews have been added. New links to small presses have been added to the Links page. There have been new sightings of MonsterLibrarian.com on the web which has been added to the Monstrous Sightings page. MonsterLibrarian.com even appeared in American Libraries Direct, a newsletter for librarians. A reminder that there are five days left in our Vampire Dawn contest found on the Contests page. For those you visit MySpace there is a MonsterLibrarian Myspace Page stop by for a visit.

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New reviews for adults, young adults, and kids

Bret Jordan reviews The Prison by Patrick Gates in the adult supernatural section. In addition, the horror/humor chapbook Right House on the Left by Steve Vernon, Mark McLaughlin, and L.L. Soares is reviewed in the something different section for adults. Christopher Pike's Slumber Party is reviewed for young adults human horror section. Finally, My Monster Mama Loves Me So by Laura Leuck is reviewed for kids.

Celebrate School Library Media Month !!!!

April is School Library Media Month which is sharing the same there as National Library Week.
Here are resources from The American Association of School Librarians(AASL):

This year's theme is Change your world @ your library(r)Get National Library Week resources athttp://www.ala.org/ala/pio/natlibraryweek/nlw.htm

Learn more about School Library Media Month at http://www.ala.org/aasl/slmmonth.html

Access all of AASL's advocacy resources fromhttp://www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Section=aasladvocacy

Read about School Library Media Campaign @ your library athttp://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/schoollibrary/schoollibrary.htm

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3/30/07 Reviews of Noir, Zombies, and Dracula vs. Grampa

This week Bret Jordan reviews Richard Matheson's Noir: Three Novels of Suspense. In addition, there are reviews for Permuted Press's latest zombie book Dying To Live by Kim Paffenroth. For those looking for a quick read the Monster Librarian reviews Angela Albee's Wedding Bells, Tortured Souls . A new scary book for kids review for Dracula vs. Grampa at the Monster Truck Spectacular authored and illustrated by Kirk Scroggs. There has been a small update on the Coming Horror Fiction Releases page and a small update for Monstrous Music in the Book Ends section.

In case you missed it The Road by Cormac McCarthy is one Oprah's latest reading picks. Click on the title to read Bret Jordan's take on the book

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2/27/07 Reviews of horror fiction for adults, teen, and children.

Bret Jordan reviews John Saul's Creature and the Butcher Shop Quartet a collection of four tales of terror edited by Frank J. Hutton. Finally, Bret takes a look at Cthulhu Sex Magazine. Guest reviewer Havoc returns with a review of Something from the Nightside a horror themed adventure book by Simon R. Green. For those who like zombie fiction we take a look at Robert McCammon's The Night Boat. There is also a review of Christopher Golden's The Shell Collector. For teens there is a review of The Hand of the Devil by Dean Vincent Carter. Finally,for the 9-12 crowd there is a review of Horror at the Haunted House by Peg Kehret. Keep reading!
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2/16/07 Reviews for adults, youngs adults, and kids. Music, Monstrous Sightings, and a store!

New reviews have been posted. First for the adults there is Bowie Ibarra's zombie title Down the Road: On the Last Day. For the young adults in the human horror section Fracesca the Librarian reviews Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg. Children will be interested in Monster Museum by Marilyn Singer and illustrated by Gris Grimly.


The week under the Book Ends section we have added:
Monstrous Sightings a page where you can see what has been mentioned about MonsterLibrarian.com in horror genre/librarian blogs and sites

Monstrous Music a page dedicated to music that we have come across that is either horror or reading related

Also, Monster Librarian is now on MySpace, stop by for a visit
Finally, there is now a Monster Librarian's Store through Cafe Press. So now you can buy Monster Librarian related merchandise for your favorite reader or librarian as support the MonsterLibrarian.com project at the same time.

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2/9/07 Reviews for zombie title The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth , young adult vampires in Thicker than Water, and Darkness Wakes by Tim Waggoner

This week Bret Jordan reviews zombie book The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth by Vince Churchill. Review of young adult vampire book Thicker than Water by Carla Jablonski has been posted as well as one for Tim Waggoner's Darkness Wakes. Keep reading! ML
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2/2/07 Two Scary Books for Kids reviews, a review for The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff and Hater by David Moody

Francesca the Librarian reviews Scared Witless: Thirteen Eerie Tales to Tell by by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss and The Boy of A Thousand Faces by Brian Selznick. Hater by David Moody is reviewed by Bret Jordan. Finally, a review for Alexandra Sokoloff's The Harrowing is also included in this weeks update. Keep reading! ML
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1/16/07 Vampire books for Young Adults, Zombie Books for the Adults, and The Last Stand of the Great Texas Packrat

First off I want to officially welcome Bret Jordan on the staff as a regular reviewer. Bret has been busy reading zombie related titles and has reviews for One Rainy Night by Richard Laymon and The Undead edited by D. L. Snell and Elija Hall. For young adult vampire lovers we have The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld and The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce. In addition there is a review of The Last Stand of the Great Texas Packrat Steve Vernon and Illustrations by Keith Minnion. Additional titles have been added to the Coming Horror Fiction Releases page for February. Keep Reading! ML
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12/27/06 New reviews posted: zombies, vampires, ghosts, and pop up books

In the end of year reviewfest we have reviews for Z A Recht's The Morningstar Strain: Plague of the Dead from Permuted Press in the adult zombie section. A Cemetery Dance Novella by Tom Piccirilli and Edward Gorman titled Cast in Dark Waters is reviewed in the adult vampire section. Harry Shannon's The Pressure of Darkness is reviewed in the adult Horror Adventure section. For the Young Adults there is a review in the Supernatural section for E. E. Richardson's The Intruders. For the 12 and younger crowd the fantastic pop up book Mommy?with art by Maurice Sendak, the scenario by Arthur Yorinks, and the paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart. Finally, Cemetery Dance magazine is reviewed in the horror periodical section. Keep reading! ML

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12/7/06 Reviews, Links, and a Horror Survival Guide

This week there are three new reviews and a few other additions. The first is for John Skipp's The Long Last Call published by Cemetery Dance Publications in the adult Supernatural section. The second is Alabaster by Caitlin Kiernan in the Horror Adventure section for adults. Young Adults have a review for The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick in the young adult teen section. There ahve been additional links for librarian resources added to the Links page. Finally, the Shockline's Horror Survival Guide has been added to the Odds and Ends page, it was created sometime back from various authors it is a fun little read for fans of the horror genre. Sections of the site are undergoing a slight facelift which we hope to have compelted within the next week.

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12/01 New Reviews added

There is a review for The Wolving Time by Patrick Jennings by Francesca the Librarian posted in the Young Adult Werewolves section. Another young adult review has been posted for Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Gris Grimly. Finally, for the adults there is a review of Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest in the adult supernatural section. Additional links have been added for librarian resources.

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New Chapter for MonsterLibrarian.com

Updates for MonsterLibrarian.com will now appear in blog format. This will allow an RSS feed so that you can subscribe and see what is new at MonsterLibrarian.com. The old update page can still be found here. I would like to thank Jessamyn West from Librarian.net for the suggestion for using the blog. Bill Barnes from the Unshelved comic gave the ok to link to his Book Club strips. So, there is now a link of a Book Club strip to the review of Scott Westerfield's Peeps an excellent young adult vampire book. More reviews will be posted in the next few days. Please send and constructive comments or suggestions about the new update format to monsterlibrarian@monsterlibrarian.com

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