Happy Sunday everybody! Have you decided on your Halloween costumes yet? Just a couple of news bits to share! YALL FEST – November 11-12 2011: YALL FEST 2011 – Charleston Young Adult Book Festival – will bring twenty top…
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Title: A Tale Dark and Grimm Author: Adam Gidwitz Genre: Horror, Fairy Tale Retellings, Middle Grade Publisher: Dutton Juvenile Publication Date: October 2010 Hardcover: 251 pages In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of…
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Halloween Week Guest Post: The Unbearable Lightness of MONSTER by Jonathan Case
Today’s guest post on The Unbearable Lightness of Monster is brought to you by writer and illustrator Jonathan Case. Monsters: they need love too. Ladies and gents, please give a warm welcome to Jonathan Case! I love monsters. With…
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Halloween Week Joint Review: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Title: Anna Dressed in Blood Author: Kendare Blake Genre: Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Teen Publication date: August 30th 2011 Hardcover: 316 pages Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before…
Chat With an Author Halloween Week
Halloween Week Guest Post: A Halloween Movie Guide By Kendare Blake
Today’s guest is Kendare Blake, newbie writer, whose debut Anna Dressed in Blood has been positively reviewed all over the place (our own review is to be posted later today). As part of our Halloween celebrations, we have invited…
Title: Z: Zombie Stories Anthology edited by J.M. Lassen Featuring stories by Jonathan Maberry, Kelly Link, Catherynne M. Valente, Christine Morgan, Scott Nicholson, Darrell Schweitzer, Marie Atkins, Nina Kirki Hoffman, David Barr Kirtley, Scott Edelman, Thomas S. Roche Genre:…
Halloween Week Inspirations and Influences
Halloween Week Guest Post: Rhiannon Frater on Inspirations & Influences
Today’s special guest is Rhiannon Frater, Horror novelist and successful self-published author whose As The World Dies trilogy has been picked up and re-released by Tor. We are pleased to have the author here today talking about Inspirations, Influences…
Halloween Week Inspirations and Influences
Halloween Week Guest Post: Joseph Nassise on Inspirations & Influences
Today’s guest is prolific Horror and Urban Fantasy writer, Joseph Nassise. His latest novel Eyes to See, the first in a new series featuring street exorcist Jeremiah Hunt, has been released recently and we have invited the author to…
Title: Bedbugs Author: Ben H. Winters Genre: Horror, Thriller Publisher: Quirk Publishing Publication Date: September 2011 Paperback: 256 pages FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks…
Halloween Week Inspirations and Influences
Halloween Week Guest Post: Marcus Sedgwick on Inspirations & Influences
Welcome all! We are happy to kick-start this year’s Halloween Week with a guest post by British author Marcus Sedgwick. His newest book is called Midwinterblood a story of love and sacrifice through the ages. We both loved the…
Happy Sunday, boys and ghouls! It is just about the last week of October, and that means at Smugglers International that it is… HALLOWEEN WEEK! Every year, the last week in October is synonymous with Halloween, and we celebrate…
As you know, Halloween is coming, and with it, our annual Halloween Week shenanigans. The first official event to kick off our yearly celebration starts TODAY, as we are proud to present you, dear readers, with our first contest…
Hi all, welcome to another edition of a Halloween Week tradition: the GIVEAWAY!!! We have two batches to giveaway, each to one lucky winner. Batch 1: Anthologies Batch 2: Horror Stories To enter, leave a comment telling us which…
Back in 2008, when we had our first Halloween Week, I had to be dragged – kicking and screaming -into taking part, because Halloween has always been a Thea thing and I was never into this Horror stuff. The…
Title: Monsters Directed and Written by Gareth Edwards; Starring Whitey Able and Scoot McNairy Release Date: October 29, 2010 (US) Official Website: www.monstersthemovie.com Available for Rental on iTunes USA Synopsis: Alien life forms have spread throughout Central America leading…
To help close out our Halloween Festivities, we have our very own Dude, Harry Markov, talking about Horror Art. Please give a warm welcome to Harry! Halloween is coming, though I don’t need you to remind you that. With…
7 Rated Books Book Reviews Halloween Week
Halloween Week – Book Review: Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Title: Dark Matter Author: Michelle Paver Genre: Horror Publisher: Orion Publication date: October 21, 2010 Hardcover: 256 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone ‘What is it? What does it want? Why is it angry with me?’ January 1937.…
7 Rated Books Book Reviews Halloween Week
Halloween Week – Book Review: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Title: Dark Harvest Author: Norman Partridge Genre: Horror, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications (original) / Tor (reprint) Publication Date: October 2006 (original) / September 2010 (reprint) Paperback: 208 pages Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or…
Today’s guest is none other than Rick Yancey, the author behind the brilliant Monstrumologist books (The Monstrumologist and The Curse of the Wendigo). The Monstrumologist books are amongst Thea’s current favorite series’ – so when we were given the…
8 Rated Books Book Reviews Halloween Week
Halloween Week – Book Review: The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey
Title: The Curse of the Wendigo Author: Rick Yancey Genre: Horror, Young Adult, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s (US & UK) Publication Date: October 2010 Hardcover: 448 Pages While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire,…
Happy Sunday, everyone! It is the last week of October, and that can only mean one thing at Smugglers’ Headquarters…. IT’S HALLOWEEN WEEK! Every year, we take the last week in October to celebrate all things Halloween-y, from reviews…
Oh my god, Halloween Week is drawing to a close! It’s been a crazy, fun celebration, and what better way to end it all than with a look at horror in 2009? Today, for our final list, we celebrate…
Today, for our last guest of the season, we have the incomparable Katie(babs) of Babbling About Books, And More!. Katie has decided to write a little bit about some of the scariest places to visit, in Travel Channel fashion!…
What better way to celebrate the end (or almost, we still have two more posts today!) of our Halloween Week than to have a Flash Giveaway? We have two batches to giveaway, each to one lucky winner. Batch 1:…
Part of the fun of the Halloween season is the movies that are on cable tv – and on Halloween itself, networks usually prepare some really good lineups. This year, AMC has been a little disappointing – but we’re…