For today’s guest, we are very lucky to have young adult authors Diana Peterfreund (of Rampant fame) and Carrie Ryan (genius behind YA zombie novel, The Forest of Hands and Teeth) over to guest blog. For their topic, they’ve…
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For today’s stop on Halloween Week, we examine a very, very important group of folks. We take a look at women in horror films who KICK SERIOUS ASS. We’re not talking about the catatonic blondes who can do nothing…
Title: Fifty-Two Stitches Author: Anthology, edited by Aaron Polson Genre: Horror, Anthology, Flash Fiction Publisher: Strange Publications Publication Date: September 2009 Paperback: 162 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone anthology How did I get this book: ARC from…
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Halloween Week Guest Post: Kristen Reviews Whisper of Death
Greetings, friends! Our next guest for Halloween Week is the lovely Kristen of Fantasy Cafe. Kristen isn’t much of a horror reader, but when we invited her over for the week, she was eager to give one of Thea’s…
Last year, we covered Vampires, Shapeshifters, Ghosts and Slashers…and we ran out of time before we could get to an important list – I’m talking about International Horror Films. American cinema is all fine and dandy, but European, Asian,…
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Halloween Week Anthology Review: Malpractice: An Anthology of Bedside Terror
Title: Malpractice: An Anthology of Bedside Terror Author: Anthology, edited by Nathaniel Lambert Genre: Horror, Anthology, Short Fiction, Flash Fiction Publisher: Necrotic Tissue Publication Date: March 2009 Paperback: 240 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone anthology How did…
For our next stop on Halloween Week, we have the fabulous paranormal romance/urban fantasy author Meljean Brook over for a guest post! We are unabashed Meljean fangirls – so when we were inviting folks over for Halloween, she was…
Last year, we covered Vampires, Shapeshifters, Ghosts and Slashers…and we ran out of time before we could cover one of our very favorite subgenres in the Horror-verse: we’re talking about Science Fiction Horror. What could be better than a…
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Halloween Book Review: Dying to Live: Life Sentence by Kim Paffenroth
Title: Dying to Live: Life Sentence Author: Kim Paffenroth Genre: Horror, Zombies, Post-Apocalyptic Ficiton Publisher: Permuted Press Publication Date: October 2008 Paperback: 232 pages Stand alone or series: Sequel to Dying to Live, but can be read as a…
Yesterday, the wonderful Harry Markov of Temple Library Reviews – or Harrymonster, as we like to call him – had us Book Smugglers over at his blog for a Halloween interview. Today, we return the favor! See, Harry, Ana…
Today, we bring you all things zombie and zombie inspired. It’s the Zombie Day stop on our Book Smuggler tour of Hallowee–wait, what’s that? OH GOD! NO! NOOooooooo — *slurp gurgle slurp* *nom* *nom* *nom* BRAAAAAAAAAAAAINS! ******************** Title: Hater…
I was looking through my horror dvds the other day, and came to a “d’oh” realization – I have a LOT of John Carpenter. I’m talking, nearly a shelf solely devoted to his films. And there’s a perfectly good…
For Halloween Week 2009, we will be bringing you a different guest blogger each day, sharing their own Halloween Words of Wisdom and Ponderings. Today, we give you the uber-talented and supercool Graeme, of Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review. A…
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Halloween Week Book Review: The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff
Title: The Harrowing Author: Alexandra Sokoloff Genre: Horror (Supernatural Horror) Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (US) / Little Brown (UK) Publication Date: August 2006 (US) / October 2009 (UK) Hardcover: 256 pages (US) Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel…
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Halloween Week Book Review & Giveaway: The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Title: The Monstrumologist Author: Rick Yancey Genre: Young Adult, Horror Publisher: Simon & Schuster (US & UK) Publication Date: September 2009 (US)/October 2009 (UK) Hardcover: 448 pages (US) Stand alone or series: First novel in what appears to be…
There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We interrupt this transmission of Halloween related material to bring you some very important announcements… We have some giveaway news! Our three running contests have…
Welcome, dearies! It has been a whole year since Cryptkeeper!Thea has taken over the blog, but she’s back now for… HALLOWEEN WEEK 2009! Last year, we celebrated Halloween by taking a day by day look at different monsters and…
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What She Said: Heir to Sevenwaters & The Name of the Wind
Today we bring you the latest installment in our new feature, “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has already read and reviewed. The idea arose because of the dilemma that if one of…
Title: Heart’s Blood Author: Juliet Marillier Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Roc (US) / Tor (UK) Publication Date: November 2009 (US) / October 2009 (UK) Hardcover: 416 pages (US) / 560 pages (UK) How did I get this book: Review Copy…
Title: Firethorn Author: Sarah Micklem Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult (US Hardcover) / Spectra (US Mass Market) / Voyager (UK) Publication Date: June 2004 (US Hardcover) / April 2009 (US Mass Market) / March 2006 (UK) Mass…
Happy Sunday, all! Hope it’s a good one. Time to get down to business… Giveaway Winners: First we have TWO lucky winners of our giveaway of Patricia A. McKillip’s The Bell at Sealey Head. The two winners are: Leslee…
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Joint Review: Worldweavers – Gift of the Unmage by Alma Alexander
Title Gift of the Unmage – Worldweavers Book 1 Author: Alma Alexander Genre: YA (Fantasy) Publisher: Harper Teen Publishing Date: March 2007 Hardcover: 400 Pages How did we get this book: Ana bought her copy. Thea received a review…
It’s Austenmania! Today we do a little homage to the queen of Historical Romance herself, the indomitable Jane Austen. With a twist – both books we are reviewing take Jane Austen in the modern era, either in spirit (literally),…
Title: Prospero Lost Author: L. Jagi Lamplighter Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: August 2009 Hardcover: 352 pages Why did we read this book: We had seen glowing reviews for Ms. Lamplighter’s debut effort all over the blogosphere…
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Book Review & Giveaway: The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip
Title: The Bell at Sealey Head Author: Patricia A. McKillip Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ace Publication Date: September 2008 Trade Paperback: 288 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel. How did I get this book: Review copy (from publisher)…