Klaus: How Santa Claus Began by Grant Morrison, illustrated by Dan Mora BOOM! Studios, 2019 ISBN-13: 9781684153930 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Klaus arrives in the town of Grimsvig during Yuletide to trade furs, and finds it a sad shell of what it once was. Grimsvig is under the control of Baron Magnus, a harsh man […]
Category: horror
BOOK REVIEW: THE HONEYS BY RYAN LA SALA
March 21, 2023The Honeys by Ryan La Sala PUSH, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1338745313 Available: Hardcover, paperback, KIndle edition, audiobook. ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) When genderfluid teen Mars Matthias’ twin sister Carikube dies violently in front of them after running away from summer camp, Mars insists on attending the camp for the rest of the summer. They agree […]
BOOK REVIEW: ANGEL FALLS BY JULIA RUST AND DAVID SURFACE
March 9, 2023Angel Falls by Julia Rust and David Surface YAP Books, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1949140330 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition. ( Bookshop.org |Amazon.com ) In the 1600s, a large group of women and children colonists of Beauport, Massachusetts disappeared, killed by the Indians they displaced. A year later, they started to return. Those who believed […]
Tales from Harrow County, Volume 1: Death’s Choir by Cullen Bunn, art by Naomi Franquiz Dark Horse, 2020 ISBN-13: 97815067168 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Award-winning, Eisner-nominated Southern Gothic horror returns in Tales from Harrow County, Volume 1: Death’s Choir. The story focuses on Bernice Anderson as she has taken on the mantle of steward of […]
Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible Volume 1 by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Scott Allie, art by Sebastián Fiumara and Max Fiumara Dark Horse Comics, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781506733784 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Comixology. ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Abe, a humanoid amphibious man and member of the B.P.R.D, after awakening from a coma and mutated, leaves the B.P.R.D. to […]
BOOK REVIEW: HOUSE OF HOLLOW BY KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND
January 26, 2023**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk** House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0593110348 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) House of Hollow was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Young Adult Fiction this year. Ten years ago, Grey, […]
Book Musings: The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
September 13, 2022The Witching Hour by Anne Rice is not a book for teens. It really isn’t. And yet, as I’m watching book banning cases pop up, like this one in Virginia, I’m seeing in the comments, over and over “But I read Anne Rice when I was 13.” And…well I did. I first read Anne Rice […]
BOOK REVIEW: I AM MARGARET MOORE BY HANNAH CAPIN
July 19, 2022**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin Wednesday Books, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781250239570 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org ) In comparison to the other two books I’ve read by Capin (Foul is Fair, retitled Golden Boys Beware, and The Dead Queens Club) I Am Margaret Moore is more experimental, slower- moving, and more pessimistic. Margaret […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Dark Horse Comics, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781506724768 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org ) Monster hunters extraordinaire Professor Meinhardt, Mr. Knox, and Ms. Van Sloan have investigated and hunted the uncanny before, but now they come together to answer the question that’s haunted them for years: what happened to their […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Sloth Comics, 2015 ISBN-13: 9781908830074 Available: Paperback ( Amazon.com ) Kadath, or the Dream Quest of Randolph Carter, is based on H. P. Lovecraft’s 1943 novella, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Cutting does not offer a straightforward retelling in his Kadath, but rather a more entertaining and colourful version. Randolph Carter dreams of a mysterious […]