IDW Publishing, 2004 ISBN 0971977550 Available: New and Used Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost inhabited town in North America. The sun doesn’t set from May to August, and it doesn’t rise from November to December. It is this November to December time when the town is in total darkness that our story takes place. […]
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Book Review: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
January 20, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Berkley, 2021 ISBN-13: 9780593201237 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, Audible audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) The Final Girl is the lone survivor of horror movies. She fought valiantly, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends who were each gruesomely dispatched by the killer. But after the truck drives away, the sirens fade, and the […]
**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Dark Horse Books, 2004 ISBN: 1569719357 Available: New and Used Criminal Macabre introduces us to Cal McDonald, a hard-drinking, drug-using detective with a ghoul sidekick by the name of Mo’lock. McDonald has to uncover who is behind a plot to turn the usual Vampires and Werewolves of Los Angles into super […]
Book Review: Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
January 13, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Quirk Books, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781683692157 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Audible audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Whisper Down the Lane, a true-crime based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the 1980s, is the second book by Clay McLeod Chapman I have read and it just makes it […]
**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Dark Horse Books, 2005 ISBN: 1593071078 Available: New and Used Cal McDonald thought he would get a chance to recover from a tussle with an angry mummy- instead, a possessed teen and a couple of demons stop by for a visit. Cal and Mo’lock then have to go and […]
Graphic Novel Review: Punderworld v1 by Linda Sejic
January 8, 2022Punderworld started as an art project by artist Linda Sejic, then became a Webtoon, now it’s out as a collected graphic novel. It’s a new take on the Hades and Persephone tale, framing it not as as a forced romance, but as a less toxic Romeo and Juliet tale. Anyone on social media has likely […]
Book Review: Ember of Night by Molly E. Lee
January 6, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk. ** Entangled Teen, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1649370310 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Harley is just about to turn eighteen and escape her abusive father with her younger sister Ray when Draven comes into her life. There’s a chemistry between them she can’t deny, but her life is […]
**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 […]
Book Review: House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
October 29, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Delacorte, 2019 ISBN-13 : 978-1984831927 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) House of Salt and Sorrows is the strangest version of the fairytale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” I have come across to date. The Duke of Salten had twelve daughters. His wife died in childbirth with […]
Book Review: Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
October 26, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** HarperTeen, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0062894229 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Shady Grove grew up in a haunted house, and her father owned a violin that could raise ghosts, but it disappeared when he died in a car accident when she was twelve. Like him, Shady is a […]