Graphic Novel Review: Hack/Slash: The First Cut by Tim Seeley, Stefano Caselli, and Federica Manfredi

**Reposted from our archives** Devil’s Due Publishing, October 31, 2005 ISBN:   1932796428 Available: New and Used     A collection  of the first few Hack/Slash stories put out by Devil’s Due. Hack and Slash follow the adventures of Cassie Hack the daughter of a Slasher (think Michael Meyer) who has dedicated her life to track down […]

Graphic Novel Review: Road of Bones by Rich Douek, art by Alex Cormack

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** IDW, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684055982 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology  ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It’s 1953. Roman Ivanovich Morozov is a prisoner in the Siberian gulag of Kolyma for slandering Stalin, given 25 years of hard labor as punishment. He and his fellow prisoners are forced to work in harsh conditions. If the frozen […]

Graphic Novel Review: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

**Reposted from the Circulation Desk.** Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781946335319 Available: Paperback  ( Bookshop.org ) Prince Prospero, trying to avoid a deadly plague, the Red Death, ravaging the land, walls himself up inside his abbey along with a number of other wealthy nobles. To combat the boredom, the prince hosts a masquerade ball within seven rooms […]

Book Review: Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) by Alessandro Manzetti and Stefano Cardoselli, art by Stefano Cardoselli

***Cross posted from The Circulation Desk*** Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) by Alessandro Manzetti and Stefano Cardoselli, art by Stefano Cardoselli Independent Legions Publishing, 2020 ISBN-13: 9788831959827 Available: Paperback  ( Bookshop.org ) Dr. Jamaica Foxy, a brilliant scientist, creates Franky, an eight-foot tall gentle giant. Dr. Foxy teaches Franky life lessons, essentially raising him. Franky even calls her […]

Vault Review: Darkwater by Catherine Fisher

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** Dial, 2012 ISBN: 9780803738188 Available: hardcover & multi format e-book Part “Beauty and the […]

Vault Review: Ship of Souls by Zetta Elliot

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.**  Amazon Encore, 2012 ISBN: 9781612182681 Available: trade paperback and kindle Ship of Souls is a […]

Book Review: Fractured Tide by Leslie Lutz

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** ( Bookshop.com | Amazon.com ) Blink, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0310770107 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Seventeen-year-old Sia is essential in her mother’s business of chartering trips for tourists wanting to scuba dive. A newbie scuba diver she has been assigned to help navigate a shipwreck is lost, and in her search for him, […]

Book Review: Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** HarperTeen, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0062854599 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Clown in a Cornfield has the cover art, title, and pacing I’d expect from a pulp paperback from the 1970s-1980s, but a very contemporary feel. It takes place in a small, rural town in Missouri. Quinn Maybrook has just moved […]

Vault Review: Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** 2011(revised edition) HarperCollins ISBN: 9780062094117 Available: Paperback, Kindle, Audiocassette, Hardcover Abarat: Days of Magic, […]

Vault Review: Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** 2011, HarperCollins ISBN: 978-0060291716 Available: New and digital.          Abarat: Absolute Midnight is the third […]