**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Extasia by Claire Legrand Katherine Tegen Books, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0062696632 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Extasia is a fiercely feminist dark novel of a post-apocalyptic community drenched in patriarchy and cult-like violent misogyny straight from The Crucible and Year of the Witching. The dogma is that women were responsible for […]
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**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** BOOM! Studios, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781684156979 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comixology (Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Ruthie and Ezra Dillon’s father Matthew and uncle Frankie have purchased the old Hollywood movie studio, Monstrosity, known for the best horror flicks of the 1950s. Matthew’s dream is to resurrect the defunct studio and produce […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Dark Horse Comics, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781506721200 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org ) Dark Horse’s reprints of EC Comics’ The Haunt of Fear allows readers who have never been exposed to these great comics experience horror comics from the 1950s which were originally published between May 1950 and April 1951. Volume one collects The […]
Book Review: Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
March 22, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Wednesday Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1250787101 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Within These Wicked Walls takes its inspiration from the classic gothic romance Jane Eyre. Set in England, Jane is an orphan who arrives to work as a governess in Thornfield Hall, home to the wealthy Edward […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Hear Us Scream, 2021 ISBN: 9780645235500 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Vivid and intimate, these nonfiction reflections examine how and why folks find homes in the horror genre. The women and nonbinary contributors’ offer personal horror journeys that blend and balance scholarly insights with intensely personal […]
**Reposted from the ML Archives** While Marvel Comics was the first to take advantage of zombies’ growing popularity by zombifying some of their most beloved heroes in Marvel Zombies, DC has now joined the fetid flesh party with Blackest Night. Unlike Marvel Zombies, in which Marvel lets the action take place outside the normal settings of the Marvel universe, […]
Graphic Novel Review: Dusk Vol. 1 by David Doub
March 3, 2022**Cross posted from the ML Archives** David Doub, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-578-01436-4 Available: New Dusk is David Doub’s first graphic novel. The book has four chapters. The first chapter jumps into the story without providing much background, but the reader easily picks up that Eve is the willing servant to Vampire Lord Ash, and that the two […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062652638 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales, Soman Chainani brings us tales so sharp they cut, with teen protagonists who seize their agency, and subversive, unexpected re-visionings of 12 familiar stories. The standout story in this collection […]
Book Review: All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
February 24, 2022**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Quill Tree Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062977168 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In All These Bodies, Kendare Blake imagines a murder spree throughout the Midwest in the summer of 1958, known as the “Bloodless Murders” or “Dracula Murders” because the victims have all been drained of blood. On September […]
**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Zuda Comics, 2009 ISBN: 9781401224622 Available: New High Moon presents an intriguing mix of horror and western. High Noon started out as a webcomic at the Zuda Comics site and won a competition where the viewers of the site voted for their favorite comic. The premise is fairly straightforward. Cole, a criminal who […]