***Cross posted from The Circulation Desk*** Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) by Alessandro Manzetti and Stefano Cardoselli, art by Stefano Cardoselli Independent Legions Publishing, 2020 ISBN-13: 9788831959827 Available: Paperback ( Bookshop.org ) Dr. Jamaica Foxy, a brilliant scientist, creates Franky, an eight-foot tall gentle giant. Dr. Foxy teaches Franky life lessons, essentially raising him. Franky even calls her […]
TV Review: WandaVision
April 24, 2021Or wherein your author gets emotional. My mom died when I was 9 and those (what feels like) eons ago, people weren’t as quick to get therapy, or talk about their emotions as much. Or maybe it was just my family. When my new life with my dad started so did one of the greatest […]
***Cross Posted from The Circulation Desk*** Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pains of the Real Vampira by Sandra Niemi Feral House, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781627311007 Available: Paperback, Kindle ( Bookshop.com | Amazon.com ) Glamour Ghoul is the biography of the woman who was Vampira, Maila Nurmi, written by her niece, Sandra Niemi. Pieced together from diaries, notes, family stories, and an unexpected […]
***Cross Posted from The Circulation Desk*** 1000 Women in Horror, 1895-2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas BearManor Media, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781629333861 Available: Hardcover, paperback ( Bookshop.org ) 1000 Women in Horror, 1895-2018 is a beautiful book that includes the stars and women behind the scenes who have molded the horror genre. Heller-Nicholas provides a global view of the “vast number of […]
***Cross Posted from The Circulation Desk*** The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence Skyhorse Publishing, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781510751743 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org) The Science of Women in Horror explores theories behind women’s roles in horror. The book is broken […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Melville House Publishing, 2019 ISBN-13 : 978-1612197920 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Sady Doyle has written a witty, chatty, insightful, and angry book on female monstrosity. Her premise is that women who claim ownership over their voices and bodies are constructed as monsters because they violate […]
***Cross posted from The Circulation Desk*** ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara Hanover Square Press, 2019 ISBN-13: 9781335937803 Available: Hardcover, paperback. Kindle, Audible audiobook When Mallory O’Meara discovered that one of her favorite movies, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, featured a […]
***Cross Posted from The Circulation Desk*** ( Amazon.com | Subterranean Press limited edition hardcover | Subterranean Press ebook edition ) Dying With Her Cheer Pants On: Stories of the Fighting Pumpkins by Seanan McGuire Subterranean Press, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1596069978 Available: Direct from Subterranean Press (limited edition hardcover, ebook edition), and Kindle edition Into every high school class a cheerleading squad […]
Book List: The Chosen One Least Likely to be Chosen
April 10, 2021***Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk*** We all know the “Chosen One” trope that is prevalent though all kinds of literature and media from King Arthur to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and its mutated dystopian form that divides families and communities, as in Veronica Roth’s Divergent and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale to produce its hero. But being the […]
The Strain is a novel series which helped relaunch the vampires in horror genre after die hard horror fans got tired of seeing vampire appear in more romantic forms elsewhere. Its wikipage is here. It has been adapted into a TV series and a graphic novel. -Michele The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck […]