Category: bookish

Monster Covers

Stumbled onto this Vamp poster on Twitter, which got me thinking of The Howling novel cover, and now I’m just wishing there were covers as good for any version of The Mummy. There’s wonderful amazing stuff in places like this or this or this, but, man, for me, it’s when the art and the title combine to ‘evoke’ the movie in a way you didn’t even realize was missing:

 

And, if there’s monsters and blood, all the better. Obviously.

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Best of 2018 — halfway through

Every year when I cobble together some best-of-the-year list from half-remembered this and that, I always end up remembering stuff from the last few months instead of the whole year, and feeling like that’s all unfair. So, in an effort to work around that, and trusting that I actually come back and LOOK at this in five months, but mostly because I’m just now thinking of it, here’s my favorites so far:

Comic Book:

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Best of 2018 so far—the July roundup

[ I keep forgetting to do these the day-of. So, at least this one’s the week-of . . . ]

The Qwillery BookCon 2018: Quirk Books SpotlightSpirit of Steamboat: A Walt Longmire Story Audiobook | Craig Johnson | Audible.com | Audible.co.uk Any Other Name Audiobook | Craig Johnson | Audible.comNew Solo Poster Strikes a Familiar Pose - IGN Wildling (2018) - Posters — The Movie Database (TMDb)Leigh Whannell's Upgrade Starring Logan Marshall-Green Gets Poster and NSFW Trailer - Dread Central    Amazon.com: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer ...Comic Book Review: Descender, Vol. 2 TP - Bounding Into Comics  Werewolves on the Moon: Versus Vampires #2 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics

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Fear Not

It’s Becky Spratford, star librarian, laying down all the horror:

https://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2018/06/best-of/best-genre/fear-not-genre-spotlight-horror/

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Back cover copy redux

Though, I’m not super sure that’s an exact-proper use of ‘redux.’ Anyway, if you click the pic, or the link below, you can then click a link in that cool post—it’s star librarian and horror champion Becky Spratford—and then click BACK to here. It’ll make sense once you see:

RA for All Contact Info

http://raforall.blogspot.com/2018/06/author-stephen-graham-jones-captures.html

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Best of 2018 so far—the June roundup

[ late with this one, oops—been in California since the end of May, and am evidently not thinking much . . . ]

Justified DVD Release Date A Series of Unfortunate Events – Season 2 | Aviously Jon Hamm in “Stinker Lets Loose!” – Movie Mom The Rider Movie Review & Film Summary (2018) | Roger Ebert QUICK ENDING! Stephen King's The Outsider Sweepstakes

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