**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Tor.com, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1250752079 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Night of the Mannequins is a short book, a rocket-fuel ride from beginning to end. It is narrated by teenage Sawyer, one of an offbeat, close-knit group of friends who have […]
Category: horror
Essential Vampire Series: Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
February 12, 2021Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite is an anchor book for two reasons. First, in a world of Anne Rice vampires, super powered, inhuman creatures living adventures far outside the world as we see it, Brite’s vampires are a species outside of humanity. Brite embraces the spirit of the vampire, but not the trappings of […]
Vault Review: Abarat by Clive Barker
February 10, 2021**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.** HarperCollins; Revised edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-0062094100 Available: New, Used, and digital Abarat is the first […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark edited by Jonathan Maberry HarperCollins, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0062877673 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Don’t Turn Out the Lights is an anthology of stories by a variety of diverse […]
Book Review: I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
January 11, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Little, Brown, Books for Young Readers, 2013 ISBN-13: 9780316125833 Available: Hardcover, paperback, mass market paperback, Kindle edition, audio CD Jasper is the 17 year old son of notorious serial killer Billy Dent. The trauma of being raised by Billy teaching him […]
Book Review: Killing November by Adriana Mather
October 8, 2020**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Killing November by Adriana Mather ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Ember, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0525579113 Available: Library binding, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook. November Adley was told she was being sent to boarding school for her own safety, but on her arrival, she discovers it is full of intrigues she knows nothing about but […]
Book Review: Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff
October 1, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Entangled Teen, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1640638952 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Grace’s parents died in a car accident, leaving her no choice but to leave her home in California and unenthusiastically move to Alaska, where her uncle, now her guardian, is headmaster at […]
Graphic Novel Review: Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
September 28, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2018 ISBN-13: 9781974703760 Available: Hardcover, Kindle, comiXology Junji Ito, the master of horror manga, adapts Mary Shelley’s classic, Frankenstein in this graphic collection. Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with creating life from death. He stops at nothing to create his giant, only to […]
Book Review: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
September 21, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Gallery/Saga Press ISBN-13: 978-1982136451 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD The past year, for me, has been the year of menacing deer. After encountering the demonically controlled deer that trap unwitting victims in the Pennsylvania woods in Imaginary Friend and the unsettling antelope […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Betty Bites Back: Stories to Scare the Patriarchy edited by Mindy McGinnis, Demitria Lunetta, and Kate Karyus Quinn Demitria Lunetta, 2019 ISBN-13: 9781733666749 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Betty Bites Back contains sixteen short stories and poems about girls and women who are done being held down, stepped on, and demeaned […]