*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Burning by Laura Bates Sourcebooks Fire, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1728206738 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Reading Laura Bates’ The Burning was like a dizzying fall down a rabbit hole to hell. Anna, the main character, has moved to a new town and a new school to escape a scandal at her old […]
Category: horror
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Bone Parish, Volume 2 by Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Jonas Scharf BOOM! Studios, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1684154258 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Bone Parish, Volume 2 follows the Winters family, a New Orleans crime family that created a hallucinogenic drug made from the ashes of the dead. Anyone who takes the drug, […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Dead Beats: A Musical Horror Anthology edited by Joe Corallo and Eric Palicki A Wave Blue World, 2019 ISBN-13: 9781949518030 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Dead Beats contains 24 tales of music and horror introduced by a sort of horror host, The Shoppe Keeper. As she leads the reader through her record shop, […]
Book Review: Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
August 10, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall Viking Books for Young Readers, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1984837011 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition The legend of Lucy Gallows says that 12 year old Lucy Callow ran into the woods after an argument with her mother, and when her brother went after […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Mississippi Zombie: A Horror Anthology by Bradley Golden, Alex Barranco, Joe Wight, Marcus H. Roberts, et al. Caliber Comics, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781643377131 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Caliber Comics brings us Mississippi Zombie: A Horror Anthology, a series of walking dead tales set in rural Mississippi. In “Mississippi Crossing Part 1”, Private […]
Book Review: Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner
July 22, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner Vesuvian Books, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1944109363 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Speak No Evil is an unusual book in that while it has some mild supernatural elements, is really about the often unspeakable horror of what humans do to each other. Melody is a selectively […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen by Helen Mullane, art by Dom Reardon, layout art and title page illustration by Matthew Dow Smith Humanoids, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781643377131 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Nicnevin “Nissy” Oswald and her younger brother Gowan are sent to spend the summer with their mother in Northumberland, something […]
Vault Review: The Inferior by Peadar O Guilin
July 14, 2020**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.** The Inferior by Peadar O Guilin David Fickling Books, 2008 ISBN: 0385751451 Available: New […]
Book Review: Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich
July 12, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0316478472 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Teeth in the Mist tells the stories of three young women, each from a different time period, navigating the terrors of Mill House, a large house located […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, directed by Xavier Burgen, written and produced by Ashlee Blackwell and Danielle Burrows, based on the book Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films From the 1890s to the Present by Robin R. Means Coleman Stage 3 Productions, 2019 Not Rated Run time: […]