November 02, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join staff members, Fahra and Jasmin as they discuss their favorite horror reads and how those novels and influenced pop culture. Find out what they have been reading, watching, and listening to for this week. 
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes
by Rick Riordan

Featuring contributions from some of the best middle grade authors today, this collection of 10 new stories represents many cultures while detailing the challenges faced by young heroes.
 
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
by Ryan Douglass

When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
Fear Street Part One 1994
Netflix
 
After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries. Welcome to Shadyside.
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
Air Awakens
by Elise Kova

A library apprentice unknowingly saves the life of a member of the magic secret society "Tower of Sorcerers" and discovers her own magical powers. Now, Vhalla Yarl must choose to stay in her quiet, reclusive life of books or join the forces of the sorcery elite.
 
Fire Falling
by Elise Kova

Soldier… Sorcerer… Savior… Who is Vhalla Yarl?

Vhalla Yarl marches to war as property of the Solaris Empire. The Emperor counts on her to bring victory, the Senate counts on her death, and the only thing Vhalla can count on is the fight of her life.

As she grapples with the ghosts of her past, new challenges in the present threaten to shatter the remnants of her fragile sanity. Will she maintain her humanity? Or will she truly become the Empire’s monster?
 

Jasmin suggests watching...
Interview with the Vampire

The selfishly evil vampire Lestat seduces Louis into a life of immortality, where he is troubled by the need to kill to maintain his own life.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Carrie by Stephen King
    Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure
    Earth's End by Elise Kova
    Frankenstein : the 1818 text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
    Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
    The Lost Girl: A Fear Street Novel by R. L Stine
    Misery: A Novel by Stephen King
    Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
    The Trespassers by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
    Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism by Michael Cart
     
    Movies 
    Annabelle Rathore 
    Bhoot Police 
    Carrie
    Carrie: You Will Know Her Name 
    Coraline 
    The Empire 
    Frankenstein
    Halloweentown
    Halloweentown II
    I am Legend
    I, Frankenstein
    Queen of the Damned  
    The Rage (Carrie 2)
    Victor Frankenstein