Boo! Get Your Fear Fix Here

It's getting spooky here at the library! Katie, one of our fabulous new staff members, has put together an awesome scary book display for your perusing pleasure! You can also reserve creepy books and movies on the frighteningly thorough list below:

Books
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
Wastelands:  Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams
Blaze by Richard Bachman
Galilee by Clive Barker
The Six-Gun Tarot by R.S. Belcher
Cryonic by Travis Bradberry
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Darkest Part of the Woods by Ramsey Campbell
London Under Midnight by Simon Clark
Moon Underfoot by Bobby Cole
Vacation by Matthew Costello
House of Lost Souls by F. G. Cottam
Jinn by Mathew Delaney
Under the Skin by Michael Faber
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Snowblind by Christopher Golden
Parasite by Mira Grant
Furnace by Muriel Gray
Pandemonium by Darryl Gregory
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Nightbringer by James Byron Huggins
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Drowning Girl by Caitlyn Kiernan
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The Uncanny by Andrew Klavan
77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Year Zero by Jeff Long
The Shimmer by David Morrell
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Wolves of Midwinter by Anne Rice
Waiting by Frank M. Robinson
House of Reckoning by John Saul
The Zombie Autopsies by Steven Schlozman
Last Things by David Searcy
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff
The Ruins by Scott Smith
In the Night Room by Peter Straub
Ghostwriter by Travis Thrasher
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale by David Wellington
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson
Bedbugs by Ben Winters

Movies
Alien
Altered States
Baghead
The Bay
The Birds
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Don’t Look Now
Dracula
Duel 
Frankenstein
The Exorcism of Emily Rose 
Fright Night
The House on Haunted Hill
The Innocents
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Invisible Man
Island of Lost Souls
Kwaidan
The Last Winter
Mark of the Vampire
The Mummy
Psycho
Re-Cycle
Repulsion
Resident Evil
The Ring
Rosemary’s Baby
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
There Will Be Blood
Twenty Eight Days Later
Videodrome
The Yellow Wallpaper

Books for Growing Girls!

Amelia Bloomer

Like many professions, librarianship has its share of associations and their accompanying projects, roundtables, and committees.  I keep the close tabs on  the Amelia Bloomer Project of the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association. Phew! A mouthful. The Amelia Bloomer Project creates a list every year of books for girls from birth to 18 that meet certain criteria: one, significant feminist content; two, excellence in writing; three, appealing format; and four, age appropriateness. The Project’s website expounds upon the feminist content criterion by specifying that

Feminist books for young readers must move beyond merely ‘spunky’ and ‘feisty’ young women, beyond characters and people who fight to protect themselves without furthering rights for other women. Feminist books show women overcoming the obstacles of intersecting forces of race, gender, and class, actively shaping their destinies. They break bonds forced by society as they defy stereotypical expectations and show resilience in the face of societal strictures. 

All right—sounds good to me! So let’s get to it! The 2014 list was released just last week and contains some real winners. For the full list, click here. Below are two of my favorites: 

Imogen: The Mother of Modernism and Three Boys by Amy Novesky, illustrated by Lisa Congdon 

A lovely picture book about Imogen Cunningham, a photographer who strove to balance work and motherhood. In the author’s note at the end of the book, she is quoted as saying, “You can’t expect things to be smooth and easy and beautiful. You just have to work, find your way out, and do anything you can yourself.” 

Rookie Yearbook Two edited by Tavi Gevinson 

Rookie is an online magazine for teen girls edited by 17-year-old Tavi Gevinson. This yearbook, a collection of articles from June 2012 to May 2013, features pieces written by big names such as Judy Blume and Lena Dunham. It’s smart and doesn’t talk down.