**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 […]
Book Review: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
February 17, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Tor.com, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1250752079 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Night of the Mannequins is a short book, a rocket-fuel ride from beginning to end. It is narrated by teenage Sawyer, one of an offbeat, close-knit group of friends who have […]
Vault Review: Dawn of War (Blood War Trilogy) by Tim Marquitz
February 15, 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.** CreateSpace 2011 Available Kindle edition ISBN N/A On the planet Ahreele a devastating war […]
Essential Vampire Series: Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
February 12, 2021Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite is an anchor book for two reasons. First, in a world of Anne Rice vampires, super powered, inhuman creatures living adventures far outside the world as we see it, Brite’s vampires are a species outside of humanity. Brite embraces the spirit of the vampire, but not the trappings of […]
Vault Review: Abarat by Clive Barker
February 10, 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.** HarperCollins; Revised edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-0062094100 Available: New, Used, and digital Abarat is the first […]
Book Review: Horrid by Katrina Leno
February 8, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Horrid by Katrina Leno ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0316537247 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good, She was very, very, good, […]
**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.** Wizards of the Coast, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7869-5505-3 Available: New In this third book […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark edited by Jonathan Maberry HarperCollins, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0062877673 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Don’t Turn Out the Lights is an anthology of stories by a variety of diverse […]
Essential Vampires: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
January 29, 2021Interview with the Vampire is one of the most influential vampire novels ever published. First published in 1976 it has been in print consistently since then and was instrumental in launching the idea of vampires as sympathetic antiheroes. The first book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series it has been adapted into a movie and […]
Vault Review: The Shadowmask by R.A. and Geno Salvatore
January 27, 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.** Mirrorstone, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7869-5147-5 Available: New The Stone of Tymora story continues as Maimun, an […]