Dread is an indie horror table top RPG which is perfect for one shots or introductory games. Designed for three to six players, Dread eschews the standard dice and instead uses a Jenga tower for risk taking and tension building. There is no set system, instead Dread can be used with any horror/thriller/tension-based setting, from […]
Category: horror
Book Review: Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin
October 22, 2019**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk** Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin Wednesday Books, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1250239549 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Sixteen year old Elle and her friends Jenny, Summer, and Mads, are glamorous, vicious, daughters of the ultra-rich whose parents have given them a lot of freedom, When the […]
**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk.** Slasher Girls & Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke Speak, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-014751408 Available: Slasher Girls & Monster Boys is an anthology of stories by YA authors, including Kendare Blake, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Ryan, Leigh Bardugo, and Marie Lu. Each story is based on a horror movie, television […]
Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer HMH Books for Young Readers, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1328863546 Available: Hardcover, paperback, and Kindle edition If you are planning to start this book, make sure you have plenty of time to finish it, because if you put it down, unless you have a very strong stomach, you may find it […]
Happy Death Day & Happy Death Day 2U by Aaron Hartzler Blumhouse Books/Anchor Books, 2019 ISBN: 978-1-9848-9772-5 Available: paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Remember the good old days when movie tie-ins were available for almost every film out there, and good authors wrote them? Lest we forget, Alan Dean Foster, Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, and Orson […]
Harrow County Library Edition Volume 1: by Cullen Bunn, art by Tyler Crook Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN: 9781506710648 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, comiXology edition Hester Beck is hung and burned for being a witch on the strange, crooked oak tree that stands on the Crawford farm. Emmy experiences recurring dreams about things under the earth. Emmy […]
Jenny Finn by Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey, art by Troy Nixey and Farel Dalrymple Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN: 9781427606754 Available: hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology edition A mysterious girl, Jenny Finn, arrives in Victorian England and leaves death, destruction, and a strange curse in her wake. There is a plague causing gruesome lesions in the crooked […]
Review: Crank by Ellen Hopkins
March 7, 2019McElderry; Original edition, 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0689865190 Available: New and Used Crank is Ellen Hopkins’ controversial, and sorely needed, verse novel. Kristina Snow’s life changes forever when her father and the boy she’s crushing introduce her to meth. Unlike Impulse, which is raw and shredding in its emotion, Crank is almost cold at times, brutally showing a girl on […]
Blast From the Past Review: Slumber Party by Christopher Pike
February 21, 2019Scholastic Paperbacks, Reissue edition, 2004 ISBN: 0590430149 Available: New and Used Years after a slumber party that left one of their group or friends dead and one disfigured, Lara, Nell, Rachael, Mindy, Dana, and a new friend Celeste come together for a fun ski trip to get together and catch up. Disturbing events make […]
Book Review: The Hand of the Devil by Dean Vincent Carter
February 14, 2019Delacorte Books for Young Readers, October, 2006 ISBN: 0385733712 Available: New and used Ashley Reeves is a reporter for “Missing Link”, a magazine devoted to natural oddities. One day Ashley receives a letter from Reginald Mather, requesting him to come to his house on Aries Island in the middle of Lake Languor to see […]