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Unholy blood vol 2 by lina lim

8/21/2024

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Cover of Unholy blood volume 2. Detective Euntae is holding a gun straight at us and smirking slightly. He has brown hair and his ears are pierced. He's wearing a brown trench coat.
Hayan unleashes her pureblood power at the Red Bomb night club as she seeks vengeance for her destroyed home and family. Who else should respond to the scene than Detective Euntae, who actually lets Hayan escape. Later, the two secretly join forces to weed out corruption within the police department itself and to hunt down more Angels of Death and eliminate the vampire forces that have been steadily growing all over Korea. Their next target is at a peaceful and prestigious high school academy where a counselor has been amassing a vampire army at an alarming rate.


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Gannibal vol 1 by Masaaki Ninomiya

8/9/2024

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Cover of Gannibal Volume 1. an old may looks up as he's pushing a wheel barrow. The wheel barrow is full of decapitated pieces of a person with a foot sticking out and a police cap on top.
​A big city cop moves to a mysterious mountain town where the former resident police officer went missing, and the Goto family acts peculiar to everyone, especially outsiders. Rumors abound that residence are cannibals, and there are many peculiar traditions and rites of passage where Agawa struggles to prove he can be part of the culture. One day, Granny Goto is discovered dead in the woods, presumably eaten by a bear, and the villagers, particularly the Goto clan, spring into action to avenge her death. Officer Agawa has little time to reign in the situation and handle it as the town’s authority. Instead, he joins the family in the hunt and gets mixed deeper in the mystery that embroiled the former town policeman. 


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The summer hikaru died vol 1 by mokumokuren

6/9/2024

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Cover of The Summer Hikaru Died volume 1. Hikaru is wearing a white shirt and blue tie with black pants. He's holding up a peace sign and smiling. He's also wearing his black back pack. The rest of the cover behind him is sold light blue.
One summer, Hikaru went up into the mountain, but what returned might not be Hikaru. Yoshiki doesn’t want to believe his best friend is dead, but he has a suspicion that whatever this thing is, isn’t his friend Hikaru. This creature might have all of Hikaru’s mannerisms and memories, but it’s not his best friend. However, is being around this thing better than not having Hikaru at all? Yoshiki receives several warnings from the townsfolk that what he’s with is evil, that he shouldn’t get too close, but the conflict in him only grows.


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Gokurakugai vol 1 By Yuto Sano

6/1/2024

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Cover of Gokurakugai volume 1
Booklist review

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 10-12

Publisher: VIZ Media 
Publication Date: April 16, 2024
ISBN: 9781974743568 (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Action Adventure, Demons, Horror, VIZ Media

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Canary by scott snyder

3/31/2024

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Cover of Canary. Three golden six-shooter pistols are crossed on top of each other. Behind them are faces of people, including Mabel Holt, and a skull.
Illustrated by Dan Panosian, lettered by Richard Starkings

Set in Wild West of Utah, Sheriff Azrael William Holt is a legendary figure thanks to exploits that have been popularized in Dime novels, but the fictionalized accounts and horror stories may be closer to reality than the public may believe. In his latest case, Holt is assigned to protect Dr. Ed, a geologist, as he investigates a collapsed copper mine outside the town of Canary. Holt and Dr. Ed get some assistance from Mabel, the town’s saloon maiden and daughter of Canary’s founder. The town and mine have had a string of supernatural occurrences surrounding it, and Dr. Ed theorizes it may have something to do with Canary's water.


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blood blade vol 1 by Oma sei

2/14/2024

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Cover of Blood Blade volume 1. Vlad is holding her katana and glaring at us with one eye while her short hair obscures the other one. There are glowing flames behind her. She has a black cloak on.
In a hamlet in Europe, The Count, who is a young girl with a samurai sword, looks over the people and keeps them safe from monsters. One day, another girl stumbles into the forest around the village being chased by a monster-hunter. In saving her, the Count intends to study her or make her into her next meal, for the Count is actually a vampire! Clara awakens and tells Count Vlad of a group of monster hunters on their way to take them both out, and she pleads with her to come back to Monster Island where they can both be safe. Count Vlad tells Clara of her past - that she's actually the reincarnation of Vlad the Impaler, so she has nothing to fear from these monster hunters.


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The nightcrawlers vol 1 by Marco Lopez

1/23/2024

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Cover of The Nightcrawlers volume 1. The five young kids are sitting in a dark room and they all have flashlights. Behind them are two purple monsters that look like werewolves
Illustrated by Rachel Distler, colored by Francesco Montalbano

A group of young orphan adventure seekers put together an investigation force to figure out some of the strange happenings around their town. One of their first cases is for their friend whose parents seem to have been replaced by lookalikes who are werewolves, but their investigation  proves there is more than they first believed. Meanwhile, Mr. Jacob, who runs their orphanage, has a mysterious past that isn’t just connected to his history of making scary movies, and his daughter, Marysia, is recovering memories from her childhood that don’t add up. To complicate matters further, a hunter named Greta shows up in town to hunt the werewolves, and she also has some history with Mr. Jacob that isn’t all friendly.


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Soichi By Junji Ito

11/10/2023

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Cover of Soichi
Booklist review

Sara's Rating: 7/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12

Publisher: VIZ Media
Publication Date: July 25, 2023
ISBN: 9781974739028​ (Hardcover)

Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Horror, Story Collection, ​VIZ Media

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Specs by David M. Booher

7/11/2023

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Cover of Specs. Kenny is holding the specs down on his nose so that we can see his wide eye behind it. Reflected off the glass of the lens a skeleton with its mouth wide open. It has beady, red eyes.
Illustrated by Chris Shehan
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Best friends Kenny and Ted live in a small town in Ohio in the 1980s. Ted plays on the baseball team, and Kenny is trying to hide the fact that he's gay and has a crush on his best friend. One day, they find an advertisement for wish-granting glasses in the back of an old comicbook. They think nothing more of it until the specs arrive, un-summoned. When they decide to use a wish to make the town bully disappear, they start down a dark path of wishes as they try to fix their mistake, and as Kenny tries to make life better for himself and Ted. Rarely does any wish turn out without unintended consequences, so Kenny descends into an out-of-control spiral of wishes and ramifications.


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Choujin x vol 1 by sui ishida

3/13/2023

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Cover of Choujin X volume 1. We can see half of a person's face, and part of it has been morphed into a mask. There is one large, haunting eye socket, and the nose has elongated into a sort of beak.
In the skies above Japan, a passenger plane starts to free-fall. But, somehow, everyone on board makes it to the ground safely! In this uncertain time after major forces in the world have made their wars, super-human Choujin have made their marks as heroes and villains, wreaking havoc or saving everyone. As is the case with the passenger plane, a choujin saved everyone. But when high schoolers Tokio and Azuma are accosted on their way home and forcibly made into choujin, they now have to navigate their new powers and decide for themselves who they will be. 


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