From the monthly archives: October 2008

Halloween Week – Movies: The Slasher

By On October 31, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Halloween Week

So, for our last day of Halloween Week, we decided to save the most popular horror invocation–The Slasher.

When you ask someone about a Halloween horror movie, chances are high that you’ll get a Jason Voorhees, Mike Myers, or Freddy Krueger mention in there. And why not? The slasher is an integral part of the [...]

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Halloween Week: Would You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?

By On October 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Halloween Week

I was just checking out Graeme’s blog (which is awesome, by the way), where he had a link to this:

The Outbreak

It’s a Choose Your Own Adventure, but for the Zombie Apocalypse. AWESOMENESS. The trailer is below…

Do you think you’re ready? Think YOU can outsmart the walking dead? I survived [...]

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Halloween Week – It: The Book Smugglers’ Interview Review

By On October 31, 2008 · 13 Comments · In 1 Rated Books, 10 Rated Books, Halloween Week

Thea: So, now you’ve read one of my Desert Island Keepers! What was your first impression of the novel?

Ana:

Astonishment.

I started reading it with not a small amount of trepidation. Not only this was my first full length Stephen King novel (not counting The Gunslinger which is so short – I loved [...]

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Halloween Week – From the Page to the Screen: It

By On October 30, 2008 · 7 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Book to Movie, Halloween Week

Title: It

Novel by Stephen King

TV Movie directed by Tommy Lee Wallace; teleplay by Lawrence D. Cohen & Tommy Lee Wallace; Starring Tim Curry, Richard Thomas, John Ritter, Annette O’Toole, Jonathan Brandis, Brandon Crane, and Seth Green.

It is one of my all time favorite novels, [...]

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Halloween Week: Ana’s Evil Dead Marathon

By On October 30, 2008 · 11 Comments · In Halloween Week

So, The Evil Dead movies . I am so ignorant in terms of horror that I hadn’t even heard of these until I met Thea and she started her campaign for me to watch them. When time came for Halloween Week, it was item number one on her infamous list of essentials and I decided [...]

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Halloween Week – Review of Marvel Zombies

By On October 30, 2008 · 2 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Halloween Week

Title: Marvel Zombies

Author: Robert Kirkman, Sean Phillips

Genre: Graphic Novel, Horror

Stand alone or series: First Graphic novel in what is now a collection of 3 Marvel Zombie specials

Summary: (From amazon.com)
Torn from the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four! On an Earth shockingly similar to the Marvel Universe’s, an [...]

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Halloween Week – ZOMBIES! The Essentials List

By On October 29, 2008 · 11 Comments · In Halloween Week

As I believe I have mentioned before, I am a zombie enthusiast. Really. Peruse my dvd collection, and this quickly becomes apparent. On the regular, I have zombie dreams. I even have a mock-zombie escape route from work and my apartment, should the apocalypse ever strike. (No I don’t really believe in an impending zombie [...]

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Halloween Week – Joint Review: The Beast Within

By On October 29, 2008 · 3 Comments · In 6 Rated Books, 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Halloween Week, Joint Review

Title: The Beast Within

Author: Anthology, edited by Matt Hults

Genre: Horror, Short Fiction

Stand Alone or Series: Stand alone anthology, a collection of stories dealing with shapeshifters of all kinds

Why did we read this book: One of the first books we reviewed on The Book Smugglers was the [...]

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Halloween Week – Movies: Werewolves and Shifters

By On October 28, 2008 · 6 Comments · In Halloween Week

We proudly present you with the other popular screen icon monster, with Werewolves, Lycanthropes, and other assorted Shifters Day!

Lycanthropy (or the supernatural ability to transform from human to wolf) and Therianthropy (human shapeshifting to other animal creatures) have been popular themes in folklore around the globe–from the werewolves of [...]

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Halloween Week – Book Review: Demon Night

By On October 28, 2008 · 4 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Halloween Week

Title: Demon Night

Author: Meljean Brook

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Stand Alone or Series: Book 5 of the Guardians series, but the third full-length novel in the series. The books are written such that one could theoretically read them as stand alone novels, but I would highly recommend reading at least the [...]

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