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KAIJU BITES by Neil Riebe (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/06/m... #horrorreads #horrorbooks

The seeds of this website were sown way back in the early 2000s when the three-volumes of Daikaiju! were first published. Each anthology—Giant Monster Tales, Revenge of the Giant Monsters and Giant…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · 7d

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MONSTER MONDAY edited by Dawn Wilson (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/29/m... @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks

Monday Bloody Monday

Chickens genetically engineered into dinosaurs? That’s crazy! But that’s exactly what happens in “Cretaceous Carnivores,” a story written by Joel Austin in a new weekday-specific anthology called M…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · 20d

NIGHTMARE REEF by Deborah Sheldon (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/22/s... #creaturefeature #horrorreads #horrorbooks

Something Hungry This Way Comes

Nightmare Reef starts with a pod of plesiosaurs cruising the Pacific Ocean as if nothing had changed since the Cretaceous Period. Obeying instincts passed down for 215 million years; they were on t…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · 27d

MODERN MUMMIES: A HORROR ANTHOLOGY edited by A.C. Bauer (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/15/b... @cateyepress.bsky.social @acbauer.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks

Bound by Love

All the beloved tropes of the mummy genre are present in the stories included in Modern Mummies: A Horror Anthology. But I applaud editor A.C. Bauer’s desire to expand the scope of what mummy horro…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Sep 8

THE PENNSYLVANIAN by Kyle Brokenshire (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/08/t... @lordbrokenshire.bsky.social #vampire #pulp #horrorreads #horrorbooks

the Thirteen-Hundred-Year-Old Man

When vampires found themselves in a pinch and needed some help, they’d call Alexandru Dragoi. Born in 699, he was one of the oldest beings alive. As a vampire, 13 centuries of debauchery had grante…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Sep 1

KAIJU CHRYSALIS by Sam Phillips (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/01/k... #horrorreads #horrorbooks

Kaiju Sunrise

The sun and the Earth have always been inextricably linked. In literature and mythology, they’re symbolically connected through stories of life, death and rebirth. They are celestial giants that re…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Aug 25

UNHOLY BLOOD by Ian Gielen (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/25/t... #horrorbooks #horrorreads

The Bat Cave

Question: While reading a murder mystery (or any other type of novel), do you parse the clues, track the characters and second-guess the narrator in an attempt to figure out the resolution? Or do y…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Aug 18

FLESH-EATING TURTLES! by Nora B. Peevy (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/18/t... @theevilcookiepub.bsky.social @biteycat.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks

Turtlepocalypse

The Turtlepocalypse begins when giant flesh-eating turtles escape from a biotech laboratory in Milwaukee. Even though these abominations eventually reach a height of 20-30 feet, they aren’t exempla…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Aug 11

DUSK BUNNIES by Terry Miller (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/11/f... @theevilcookiepub.bsky.social #vampire #horrorreads #horrorbooks

From Dusk to Dust

Nineteen-year-old James Evans hadn’t blown his load in a week and was almost ready to break his no self-fiddling rule. “A guy like me shouldn’t have to jack off,” he said. With no other optio…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Aug 4

DROPSHIPPED by Stephanie Sanders-Jacob (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/04/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks

The Heroes’ Journey

Alex was a get-rich-quick motherfucker. He was a proud dropshipper who never once laid his hands on actual merchandise. His automated system took online orders and activated shipments from warehous…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jul 28

ATTACK OF THE COLOSSAL CREATURES FROM PLANET X edited by T.C. Phillips monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/28/w... #kaiju #horrorreads #horrorbooks

When Colossal Creatures Attack

Attack of the Colossal Creatures from Planet X asks one simple, yet unanswerable, question: What will it be like when giant monsters invade our planet? Will it be epochal? Apocalyptic? Biblical? I …

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jul 21

PRIMORDIAL SOUP: THE SECOND BATCH by Dustin Dreyling (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/21/a... #kaiju #horrorreads #horrorbooks

A New Recipe for Disaster

There’s a specific moment in life when pop culture gets imprinted on your brain forever. It’s a period when movies, books, music (and everything else) sticks to you like bubblegum on the bottom of …

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jul 14

TICK TOWN by Christopher A. Micklos monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/14/g... @horrorwriterchris.bsky.social #creaturefeature #horrorreads #horrorbooks

GiganTick

Right from the beginning of Tick Town, a fun new creature feature from author Christopher A. Micklos, I knew I would fall in love with the character of Emmaline Blackdeer. As a cub reporter for the…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jul 7

THE SLEEPOVER MUMMY MASSACRE by Kristopher Rufty (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/07/t... @kristopherrufty.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks

The Moanin’ Mummy

Bioarchaeologists have to be careful when excavating mummies—mostly because the burial shroud, the body and everything else in the sarcophagus might turn to dust if mishandled. There were other rea…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jun 30

Yes, I read Dog Fight in part because of the cover. I was hoping to get something crazy and slightly disreputable.

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jun 30

DOG FIGHT by Lucas Pederson (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/30/d... #horrorreads #horrorbooks #werewolf

Dog Eat Dog

Author Lucas Pederson calls the werewolf in his latest novel a dog. Even though dogs and wolves share the same DNA, I’m not 100 percent sure why Pederson conflates the two. My best guess is that he…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jun 16

CRETACEOUS CURSE by Cassian Eldreth (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/16/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks

The Cretaceous Flop

According to author Cassian Eldreth, “Isla Necrosa exhaled an aura of primordial menace, a raw untamed power that whispered of impending doom.” The island was not merely a place of volcanic activit…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jun 9

MONSTER BONES edited by Stephanie Ellis & Noel Osualdini (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/09/l... #horrorreads #horrorbooks

Lovely Bones

Since time immemorial, bones have been the connection between life and death. In every culture throughout history, they’ve been the symbols of mortality and permanence. In Monster Bones, a ne…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Jun 2

VAMPIRE RITES by D.A. Holmes (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/02/w... #horrorreads #horrorbooks

monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · May 19

YEAR OF THE FIRE RABBIT: A GIANT MONSTER ANTHOLOGY by Daniel Lee Gray (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/05/19/k... @ultrakong87.bsky.social #kaiju

Kaiju Unleashed

Year of the Fire Rabbit is a slim, 105-page kaiju anthology. There’s only four stories in the collection, but it contains a wild assortment of creatures, madmen, inter-dimensional shenanigans, Bibl…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · May 12

MEGA FREAK: BLOODY PARADISE by Mike MacLean (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/05/12/m... #horrorreads #horrorbooks

Mega Centipedes

Since leaving the U.S. Marine Corps, Maxwell McTavish bounced around from one dead-end job to the next. Currently, he was employed as a security guard at a bar in Arizona. But he never forgot…

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · May 5

SUPER BEAST '96 by T.D. Lawler (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/05/05/l... @tdlawler.bsky.social #werewolf #horrorreads #horrorbooks

Lonely Is the Night

Do you remember all the fuss surrounding Y2K? Back in 1999, some people thought computer networks would shut down on January 1, 2000, and widespread chaos would ensue. Personally, I knew a married …

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Apr 28

RETURN OF THE SCREAM QUEEN by Michael McCarty, Linnea Quigley & Stan Swanson (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/04/28/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks

The Scream Queen vs. the Aztec Queen

With over 50 horror films under her belt, Desiree Starr had earned her status as a scream queen. Twenty years ago, she appeared in He Knows When You Are Naked and she’s still, for better or worse, …

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monsterbookclub.bsky.social @monsterbookclub.bsky.social · Apr 21

JANITORS VS. THE LIVING DEAD by Melissa Lason and Michelle Garza (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/04/21/t... @deadskypub.bsky.social #zombie #horrorreads #horrorbooks

The Walking Shitbags

What do the grapes of wrath taste like? What exactly does the sound and the fury signify? Why is the lightness of being so unbearable? And does water have a particular shape?? Sheesh! Why do writer…

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