Not all monsters are visible! The subject of this book is most certainly a monster – a killer of unimaginable power. It cannot be stopped. It cannot be effectively battled. If this monster selects you, then death is inevitable. The monster I’m talking about is Huntingdon’s Disease. To my shame, I admit I’d never heard [...]
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Turning Japanese
素晴らしいニュース！ Scream Street launches in Japan next week – with these incredible covers!
Revolver – Marcus Sedgwick
Wow! What a great book this is! I read My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick some years ago and loved it, but for some reason I never got round to reading anything else by this remarkably talented author until now. For those young readers who are put off by weighty tomes, Revolver is perfect [...]
QuickSilver – Sam Osman
Having met Sam Osman at Broxbourne during the North London Regional Final of the Kid’s Lit Quiz, I learned enough about her new series to be intrigued. I always enjoy reading fantasy and this book was no exception. QuickSilver is not your typical fantasy, though: no big battles to speak of, no particularly memorable madcap [...]
Dug For You
Another year has passed since I last made some music recommendations. So here goes… That people are out there tracking down strange, amazing, otherwise-impossible-to-find things and showing them to the world is probably what I love most about living in the internet age. But what was new in 2011 for me was that much of [...]
Spider
Given the title and that this blog is inundated with monsters, it would be easy to misconstrue what this book by Linda Strachan is about. Spider is not like many of the books we talk about here. It’s not a tale about a gigantic Shelob-like creature creating havoc in Scotland! It’s an urban thriller about [...]
Time Riders
Time travel stories always give me a headache. I normally end up pondering over the paradoxical nature of what would happen if… Time Riders by Alex Scarrow was no exception. However, the headache was worth it! The first book in this series gripped me quickly with its lightning fast chapters and its rapidly evolving story [...]
Funk Death!
It’s a big week in France… Scream Street begins publishing in French. Scream Street – or Trouille-la-Mort as the series will be known (which, according to Google, translates as Funk Death) – has been translated by Anouk Journo-Durey, and gets exciting new covers. Check out the new look Luke, Resus and Cleo get for Fang [...]
I am Boj
Hello! Guest Blogger Laura here, bringing you another snippet of Monsterliciousness! My partner in crime Christian recently found this poetry book from his childhood: Apparently it used to completely horrify him. Quite right too! Honestly, it’s scaring me a little even now. This is down to terrifically terrifying writing from poets such as Ted Hughes, [...]
Warrior Number One by Andy Briggs
Warrior Number One is the third book I’ve read in Franklin Watts‘ fast and fun Edge series – and, to my mind, it’s the funniest thing Andy Briggs has written. Meet Carl – small, thin, geeky and obsessed with a computer game called Barbarianz. Carl is battling his way through the various levels to try [...]
