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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Eli Frankel and his latest book, Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, The Prairie Heiress, and The Hunter

    Interview With an Author: Eli Frankel

    Eli Frankel has served as a television and documentary production company owner, Emmy-nominated executive producer, network executive, showrunner, editor, camera operator, writer, and director of…

  • Author Kathleen Kaufman and her latest novel, Of Monsters and Mainframes

    Interview With an Author: Barbara Truelove

    Barbara Truelove is an Australian author and game designer who writes about werewolves, monsters, space, and sometimes other things. Her interactive novel, Blood Moon, was released in 2023. When she’s…

  • Author Eric J. Guignard and his book, Scaring and Daring: Terrifying Takes on 15 Classic Tales: A Horror Writers Association Anthology

    Interview With an Author: Eric J. Guignard

    Eric J. Guignard is an author and anthologist of dark and speculative fiction, operating from the shadowy outskirts of Los Angeles, where he also runs the small press Dark Moon Books. He's twice won…

  • Author Lindy Ryanand her two novel, Bless Your Heart and Another Fine Mess

    Interview With an Author: Lindy Ryan

    Lindy Ryan is an award-winning author, anthologist, and short-film director whose books and anthologies have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Several of…

  • Author Kathleen Kaufman and her latest novel, Fiend

    Interview With an Author: Alma Katsu

    Alma Katsu is the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of eight novels. Her books have been nominated and won multiple prestigious awards. She has written two spy novels (Red Widow and Red…

  • Author Giano Cromley and his latest novel, American Mythology

    Interview With an Author: Giano Cromley

    Born and raised in Montana, Giano Cromley is the author of two young adult novels and a collection of short stories. He is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and was a…

  • Photographer Robert Landau and his visual book, Art Deco: Los Angeles

    Interview With an Author: Robert Landau

    Robert Landau is a photographer and author of several visual books, including the internationally acclaimed Rock 'N' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip. His photographs have been shown all over the…

  • Author Arvind Ethan David and his graphic novel, Trouble is My Business

    Interview With an Author: Arvind Ethan David

    Arvind Ethan David is a Stoker Award-nominated graphic novelist who has also written chart-topping Audiodramas, television, and plays. Arvind is also a producer of film and theater, including the Emmy…

  • Gareth Brown and the cover of his book The Society of Unknowable Objects

    Interview With an Author: Gareth Brown

    Gareth Brown is the author of the international bestseller The Book of Doors. He wanted to be a writer from a very young age, and he completed his first novel as a teenager. For the last twenty years…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Lost Story

    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    پانزده سال پیش، جرمی و رالف در پایان سال تحصیلی در اردوی تفریحی به جنگل ایالتی رد کرو در ویرجینیای غربی ناپدید شدند. یک لحظه، آنها آنجا بودند و سپس ناپدید شدند. جنگل بارها و بارها جستجو شد، اما هیچ نشانه‌ای از پسرها پیدا نشد. و...
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    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    آرتور ادواردز تمام عمرش را در شهر کوچک نورث‌بریج در شمال انگلستان گذرانده است. او در آنجا بزرگ شد. و با همسرش، مادلین، در نورث‌بریج آشنا شد و ازدواج کرد. نورث‌بریج جایی است که مادلین و او دو فرزندشان، الیزابت و پاتریک، را بزرگ کردند. مانند اکثر شهرهای کوچک، صرف نظر از...
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    Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    • By: Hughes, Emily C.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    وحشت. بعضی‌ها عاشقش هستند! بعضی‌ها نه! و به طور کلی، مردم تمایل دارند احساسات قوی نسبت به این ژانر داشته باشند و در یکی از این دو دسته قرار بگیرند. از قضا، افرادی هستند که از ژانر وحشت به عنوان یک ژانر «می‌ترسند». بله، آنها از خود ژانر می‌ترسند...
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    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    وقتی خوانندگان در پایان نسخه نهایی مارجوری مک‌کاون، جوی جساپ را ترک کردند، او هویت قاتلی را که دستیار کارگردان کورتنی لیسل را سر صحنه یک فیلم ابرقهرمانی پرهزینه کشته بود، کشف کرده بود. او از سوءقصدی به جان خودش جان سالم به در برده بود، زمانی که قاتل...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    ایوِن یک قاتل حرفه‌ای است. تأکید روی این جمله باید روی کلمه «حرفه‌ای» باشد. او یک قاتل احیا شده است که خاطراتش پاک شده و در خدمت سرپرست آدمکش‌ها است که شانس دوباره‌ای برای «زندگی» به او داده است. او کارآمد، محتاط و آماده برای کشتن است (اصطلاح...)
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
  • Cover image for How to Solve Your Own Murder

    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...