**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Coach House Books, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1552453957 Available: Paperback, audiobook, Kindle edition Although Disfigured focuses on the relationship between fairy tales and disability, there is a lot here that should provide food for thought in the horror genre, where […]
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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 […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Hopeless, Maine (vol. 1) by Tom and Nimue Brown ( Amazon.com ) Sloth Comics, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781908830128 Available: Paperback Hopeless, Maine tells the story of Salamandra, an orphan girl who is taken in to a home for orphans; strangely not many adults are around. Sal discovers the strange and sometimes nightmarish creatures […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Supernatural: Bobby Singer’s Guide to Hunting by David Reed ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It Books; Original edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-0062103376 Available: Paperback and digital Editor’s note: This review was previously published in 2012 on a now-defunct version of our site. I read a lot of serious, professional, technical books and articles for work, so […]
Book Review: Mayhem by Estelle Laure
January 6, 2021*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Mayhem by Estelle Laure ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Wednesday Books, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781250297938 Available: Hardcover, ebook, audiobook Mayhem Brayburn’s mother fled her home in Santa Maria, California, after her husband Lucas died, cutting all ties and marrying again to another man in a small town in Texas. The tradeoff she’s made is […]
Book List: A Year of Witchy Reads
January 1, 2021My library informed me that this year was the Return of the YA Vampire, and indeed we did see a number of YA vampire novels this year, not least of which was Stephenie Meyer’s latest addition to the Twilight saga, Midnight Sun. For myself, I discovered I had read a number of very good books focused on witches […]
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 […]
Book Review: Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland
September 24, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland Balzer + Bray, 2020 ISBN-13: 9780062570635 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD Deathless Divide is the sequel to Dread Nation (reviewed here). The story is told through both Jane and Katherine’s points of view. After the fall of the Survivalists’ community of […]
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 […]