**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.** Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0316056106 Available: New Hardcopy, paperback, audiobook, […]
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Vault Review: Dark Talisman by Steven M. Booth
April 2, 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.** Azimuth Books, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-615-79725-0 Available: Pre-order, hardcover Steven Booth has delivered a […]
Vault Review: Darkwater by Catherine Fisher
March 31, 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.** Dial, 2012 ISBN: 9780803738188 Available: hardcover & multi format e-book Part “Beauty and the […]
Orb, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-7653-2082-7 Available: New The Vampire Tapestry is a very different kind of vampire novel. Charnas’ vampire, Edward Weyland, is not at all supernatural. In fact, he isn’t even likable. The first two sections of the book hammer this home. Over and over, readers are told what Edward Weyland is like through the […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** ( Bookshop.org ) Midnight Marquee Press, Inc., 2020 ISBN-13: 9781644300916 Available: Paperback In this book, critics Jim Nemeth and Bob Madison explore genre films and the written works that inspired their creation, Each is presented in its own section, chronologically, and the written works that inspired them. While this book primaritly […]
Book Review: Elvira Double Feature
March 24, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** ( Amazon.com ) Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, vol. 1: Timescream by David Avallone, art by Dave Acosta Dynamite, 2018-2019 ISBN-13: 9781524108533 (vol.1) Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology (for single and TPB digital issues) I grew up watching Elvira, Mistress of the Dark introducing wonderful and often terrible horror movies, and then starring […]
Vault Review: Ship of Souls by Zetta Elliot
March 22, 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.** Amazon Encore, 2012 ISBN: 9781612182681 Available: trade paperback and kindle Ship of Souls is a […]
( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) **Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Bold Type Books, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781568588797 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle While A for Anonymous doesn’t fall into the category of horror and dark fiction or horror-adjacent titles that Monster Librarian typically reviews, there are a number of real-world horrors that are addressed by author David Kushner and illustrator Koren Shadmi […]
Book Review: Fractured Tide by Leslie Lutz
March 17, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** ( Bookshop.com | Amazon.com ) Blink, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0310770107 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Seventeen-year-old Sia is essential in her mother’s business of chartering trips for tourists wanting to scuba dive. A newbie scuba diver she has been assigned to help navigate a shipwreck is lost, and in her search for him, […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** (Bookshop.com | Amazon.com ) DC Comics, 2020 Available: Hardcover, Kindle, comixology Set in 1886 New York, Daphne Byrne is still in mourning over the death of her father and has been affected greatly upon his passing. She’s tormented at school by the popular girls. She’s grappling with her mother who has […]