Siren Queen by Nghi Vo Tor.com, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1250788832 Available: Hardcover, paperback, library binding, KIndle edition, audiobook Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com This is not so much a horror novel as it is an homage to classic monster movies and a critique of golden-age Hollywood. Readers looking for blood and gore will not find […]
Category: horror
BOOK REVIEW: LIE OR DIE BY A. J. CLACK
May 13, 2024**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Lie or Die by A.J. Clack Firefly Press, 2024 ISBN-13 : 978-1915444417 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition (pre-order) Buy: Amazon.com Kass broke the friend code by kissing her BFF Thea’s ex. To prove she’s trustworthy, Thea insists they audition together for a new, livestreaming reality show based on their […]
T.V. Review: Trese
May 9, 2024Trese is a Singaporean anime-style t.v. show on Netflix based on the Filipino graphic novel series by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo. Like the Castlevania series, it is much more adult themed than a lot of anime and deals with dark themes, so watcher beware. However this mix of dark urban legend, monsters, and found family is […]
ISBN: 9781643973579 BHC Press, 2023 Generation Annihilation is a bitter, dark YA horror book that starts with a murder, specifically main character Shaun Treadway killing his step father. More complicated than that, the killing comes after his stepfather has put his mother in the hospital again, and launches Shaun into a journey into adulthood […]
GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: FRAGMENTS OF HORROR BY JUNJI ITO
April 29, 2024**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2015 ISBN: 9781540050465 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com Junji Ito’s Fragments of Horror, consists of eight original manga horror stories published in Nemuki+ in 2014, created after a hiatus from horror. Tales have a wide range in terms of content and atmosphere. In “Futon,” new wife […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Del Rey, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0593355336 Available:: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com This reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau takes place on the Yucután peninsula in 1871 against the backdrop of the Yucután Caste War. A hacendero, Joseph Lizdale, hires the adventurer Montgomery […]
Anime Review: Castlevania: Nocturne
April 8, 2024A distant follow up to Netflix’s Castlevania series, Nocturne is set during the French Revolution and focuses on Trevor and Sypha’s descendant Richtor Belmont, his adopted sister and magician Maria Renard, Annette, a former slave with Orisha powers, and Edouard, Annette’s best friend and a opera singer. I started watching right after finishing the first […]
**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** Cereal: Sweet Darkness (Cereal #1) by Mark Russell, art by Peter Snejbjerg, Angelica Ingio, Ole Comoll, and Rob Steen Ahoy Comics, 2023 ISBN-13: 9781952090271 Available: Paperback Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com The Marquis de Cocoa, a newly turned vampire, insists on continuing a tradition for the villagers in his township in order […]
**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** The Glass Scientists, Volume 1 by S. H. Cotugno Razorbill, 2023 ISBN-13: 978593524442 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com The Glass Scientists is a webcomic created by S. H. Cotugno. Set in 19th Century London, Dr. Henry Jekyll founds The Society for Arcane Sciences, a place where mad scientists prove they […]
Anime Review: Castlevania
March 29, 2024Castlevania isn’t a true anime, as it’s produced by Netflix, and written by Warren Ellis (who is amazing), done in an anime-inspired style of artwork, however it presents itself as one (thanks to multiple anime alumni also being involved) so I’m reviewing it as one. Something it’s also not is aimed at teens, with sexual […]