**Reposted from the Circulation Desk.** ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Reaktion Books, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-78914-196-2 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition The scariest of Halloween costumes usually involve blood spattered on clothing, dripping down faces, or leaking out of fatal wounds. Likewise, detailed written descriptions of bloody murders that really took place or seeing that blood flow in a horror […]
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**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 […]
Book Review: Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba
August 17, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba Reaktion Books Ltd, 2019 ISBN-13: 978 -1789140798 Available: Hardcover Do you know the origin of the word berserk? Have you heard about a community of vampires in Buffalo, New York? Do you think of Jesus as a shapeshifter? These are some examples […]
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1472933737 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD The primary takeaway I got from Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is that Frankenstein really truly is science fiction. There are things implied in the book that science today […]
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson Pegasus Books, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1681777528 Available: Hardcover, used paperback, Kindle edition, We know Mary Shelley as the daughter of revolutionary writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and muse and wife to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who as a teenage girl who […]
Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre (Dream Weaver #1) edited by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson Crystal Lake Publishing. 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1640074682 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition With a few exceptions, books on writing usually bring on the snoozes, but Where Nightmares Come From is constructed in a manner that sidesteps the […]