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Halloween Horrors! is here.

We here at MonsterLibrarian.com are pleased to announce the fifth annual “Halloween Horrors!” horror book review event. Starting on October 1, outstanding horror fiction review sites will come together to create a virtual guide to titles that will keep readers up at night.

“Halloween Horrors!” is an excellent way for librarians to get acquainted with horror genre titles both mainstream and small press.  The event provides a tool to help librarians with reader’s advisory and collection development as well as become familiar with online review resources for what can be a challenging genre.

Each participating review site will have a project page dedicated to reviews of horror genre books that links to the other participating sites’ review pages. We will also be including a list of book recommendations that can be paired with horror movies to promote reading horror.

Participating sites in this year’s project include MonsterLibrarian.com, Horrorworld, Hellnotes, Horror Fiction Review, and Spooky Reads. Each site will be updating their page and reviews throughout the month so remember to visit often.

Visit our Halloween Horrors! page.

To start off Halloween Horrors! we have

In our adult horror Anthologies section we have:

W.E. Zazo-Phillips reviewing Our Lady of the Shadows by Tony Richards. Wendy gets a chance to review Tony Richards here.

In the adult Thrillers section:

Mason Fann reviews Now You See Her by Joy Fielding and The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg.

In the adult Supernatural horror section:

Michele Lee reviews As I Embrace My Jagged Little Edges by Lee Thompson and Benjamin Franz reviews The Old One: A Pacific Northwest Horror Story by Todd Brabander.

In the young adult Vampires section:

Benjamin Franz reviews Destined by Morgan Rice.   Hannah Kate reviews Ghost Town by Rachel Caine.  Shelia Shedd reviews Teeth edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

In the young adult Zombies section;

Michele Lee reviews Zombies Don’t Cry: A Living Dead Love Story by Rusty Fischer.

In the young adult Human Horror section:

Kirsten Kowalewski reviews The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean.

Keep reading!

The MonsterLibrarian

 

Posted on October 1, 2011 by , Reply

Giveaway: unRequired Reading

Hyperion has been running one of the cooler summer reading promotions for teens I’ve seen from a publisher recently. It’s called unRequired Reading, which I like, because so many times kids are assigned books that they HAVE to read, even over the summer. In our last update, we reviewed one of the books from the unRequired Reading list, Mercy by Rebecca Lim. With the book they sent us, the folks from Hyperion also sent us an unRequired Reading water bottle, a nice thing to have if you’re going to be reading outdoors in the heat (and here we’ve broken a heat record made in 1936) or really, doing anything in the heat. Know a teen who’s been reading up a storm this summer? Been reading like crazy yourself? Leave a comment telling me what your favorite summer read has been, and win yourself a water bottle. I’ll pick a winner randomly and announce it on August 15, so you’ll have a chance to use it before the school year kicks in and the summer heat is gone. And check back with us- because if you’re a winner and we don’t have your address, we can’t mail it to you.

Posted on August 8, 2011 by , Reply

William Sleator Dies

Lois Duncan (Down a Dark Hall) and Mildred Ames (Anna to the Infinite Power) terrified me first but when I think of the first truly creepy, crawled-inside-my-head, book that I read, it’s always House of Stairs by William Sleator. The viciousness of what even children will do to each other in desperate situations, the trapped claustrophobia, the idea that adults would experiment on children so cruelly… it left a permanent mark. I’ve read many of his other books- Blackbriar, Fingers, Interstellar Pig, The Green Futures of Tycho, Singularity… I remember waiting anxiously for The Boy Who Reversed Himself. My middle school book discussion group read Fingers and wrote him a letter, and he wrote us back from Thailand. And as a teen I was lucky enough to take part in a one day writing workshop with him. He’s tagged as a science fiction writer a lot of the time, but the very human darkness and, sometimes even evil, that pervades so many of his books is what left its mark on me. Whatever genre you want to assign his books to, William Sleator was a brilliant writer. A quarter century after I first read House of Stairs (which was published originally in 1974) those books are still on my bookshelves. And I still read them.

This great author of YA fiction died Tuesday at age 66. I am glad he wrote so many books. I know he touched many lives with his writing. I hope his books will stay in print, and that libraries will stay in schools, so the teens of today and tomorrow will have the chance to discover them, just as I did, in my school library.

Posted on August 4, 2011 by , Reply
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