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Reviewer Lucy Lockley Interviewed in Booklist

Well, that sort of says it all. In her secret life as a librarian, one of our new reviewers, Lucy Lockley, is a collection development manager who puts a lot of energy into readers advisory, and I have just discovered that she was interviewed in Booklist this month! Congratulations, Lucy! We’re glad to have you on board!

Posted on December 13, 2011 by , Reply

Bag of Bones Read-Alikes

Are you having a rush on Stephen King at the library this week? It could be because of the A&E miniseries based on his book Bag of Bones. However, Bag of Bones is unlike much of King’s other work, so if you don’t have enough copies to satisfy your patrons, and they’re looking for read-alikes rather than books by the same author (and King’s works run the gamut- not all of his work is going to appeal to everyone) here are some stories of ghosts and the supernatural that might appeal.

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert
So Cold the River by Michael Kortya
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff

You may also want to check out our Haunted House Horror Fiction List or our reviews on the Supernatural and Occult section of the site

Happy haunting, and enjoy the show!

Posted on December 13, 2011 by , Reply

The MonsterLibrarian’s Den

One of the goals of MonsterLibrarian is to encourage leisure reading by helping librarian’s with horror and paranormal genre reader’s advisory and collection development and offering book lists and reviews to help readers find another good book to read.    One of the fascinating things about the horror and paranormal genres is that they are found across so many different medias from TV shows, Movies, Video Games and Music.   We are launching the blog The MonsterLibrarian’s Den to not only review the TV shows, Movies and Video Games but to also offer up book recommendations that would be of interest.     We will also be using this blog to review books that are based on popular genre media ( for example books based on the World of Warcraft game).   It is our hope that this blog will help make the connection between the different genre media and books to help librarians promote their genre collection and visitors to find a new book to read.    Visit the MonsterLibrarian’s Den here.

Keep reading!

The Monster Librarian

Posted on December 9, 2011 by , Reply
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