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Cryptid Club

Cryptid Curious

Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

December 29, 2024 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Do you love illustrations or graphic novels? Do you also love cryptids? Then you should read Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen. It’s a collection of adorable comics about cryptids. I loved how most of the supposed monsters or aliens are sensitive types and often simply antisocial. We get little vignettes about aliens, Mothman, ghosts, sasquatch, Loch Ness, and more. Most of the characters look harmless and anxious. It felt like a collection of funny facts about cryptids. You can run through rather quickly. There isn’t much […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy Tagged With: cryptid club, cryptids, humor, Illustrated Books for Grown-ups, monsters, sarah andersen

teresaelectro's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy · Tags: cryptid club, cryptids, humor, Illustrated Books for Grown-ups, monsters, sarah andersen ·
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Getting more than goosebumps

You're Invited to a Creepover V01 Truth or Dare by P.J. Night

You're Invited to a Creepover V02 You Can't Come in Here! by P.J. Night

October 12, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I never read Goosebumps as a kid, but did read R. L. Stine’s Fear Street, and other authors like that. Funny thing was, I never liked horror. Mystery yes, and if it was a thriller I was okay, but not full out horror. The other funny thing was, I probably was reading horror as there were vampires, witches, ghosts, and occasionally the oddness of the supernatural. As an adult I realized there are levels of thriller/horror, and P. J. Nighty has done just that. Along […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: cryptids, friendship, ghosts, Glass House Graphics, P.J. Night, supernatural

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:746 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: cryptids, friendship, ghosts, Glass House Graphics, P.J. Night, supernatural ·
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“The further you get from home, the weirder things get.”

The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey

July 13, 2023 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Colin Dickey is a writer on the fringe. His books are about those who fear secret societies (Under the Eye of Power), an American history of ghosts (Ghostland), and monsters/aliens (The Unidentified). In The Unidentified, Dickey meets with and explores what it is that draws people to fringe beliefs. One of his theories is that these fringe beliefs, be they in cryptids or aliens, provide us belonging, comfort, and enchantment in a disenchanted world: “Much of what attracts people to these fringe beliefs is a […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Aliens, colin dickey, cryptids, pop sociology, sociology

Halbs's CBR15 Review No:29 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Aliens, colin dickey, cryptids, pop sociology, sociology ·
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My love for Seanan McGuire continues

Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire

Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire

December 29, 2022 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I’m slowly working my way through Seanan McGuire’s body of work. Her books are exactly the kind of urban fantasy I love. She has a way of writing witty heroines who put their lives on the line for others. I decided to put the InCryptid series into the rotation. I bought the first book on audiobook on sale ages ago. I also have been desperate to read novels I already own. It was a win-win. Discount Armageddon introduces us to Verity Price. She comes from a long […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, cryptids, cryptozoologist, Incryptid, incryptid series, new york, October Daye, paranormal romance, San Francisco, Seanan McGuire, Toby Daye, Urban Fantasy, verity price

teresaelectro's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, cryptids, cryptozoologist, Incryptid, incryptid series, new york, October Daye, paranormal romance, San Francisco, Seanan McGuire, Toby Daye, Urban Fantasy, verity price ·
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Give this little sapphic sasquatch book a shot!

Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

December 5, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

This was weird and I kind of loved it. After seeing this cover I absolutely needed to read it, and that just goes to show you that sometimes you CAN judge a book by its cover. But before I get to what I liked about the book, I do want to nitpick a little, mostly with the marketing. This book is being billed as a “horror comedy” and while it’s most definitely horror, I don’t think it’s comedy. Unless you count satire as a subgenre […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: bigfoot, cryptids, horror, LGBTQIA, narfna, Patricia Wants to Cuddle, queer horror, reality TV, samantha allen, sasquatch, Satire

narfna's CBR14 Review No:209 · Genres: Horror · Tags: bigfoot, cryptids, horror, LGBTQIA, narfna, Patricia Wants to Cuddle, queer horror, reality TV, samantha allen, sasquatch, Satire ·
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