MY BROTHER EATS SPIDERS by Dustin Warburton. Illustrated by John Edward Bonaventure Federowicz. BareBones Publishing www.barebonespublishing.com., length 40 pages. Price $14.95. Available now.

Mom and Dad, you have complained that you have difficulty introducing your children to the world of monsters that you grew up loving. Horror writer Dustin Warburton has an answer for that with his new book MY BROTHER EATS SPIDERS. This delightful little tale is about a boy who loves to eat spiders. His older brother tries to understand why and the surprise is in seeing how far the older brother will go. The colorful illustrations are very well done and convey the narrators mood perfectly. This is not just a children's book. Adults will love it too!

GROWING UP WITH MONSTERS My Times at Universal Studios in Rhymes by Carla Laemmle and Daniel Kinske. Art by Jack Davis and Hermann Mejia. BearManor Media Publishing www.bearmanormedia.com., length 37 pages. Price $14.95. Available now.

At 99 Carla Laemmle decided it was time to tell her story. Carla, you may remember is the young lady who has the first lines in Universal Studios DRACULA starring Bela Lugosi. Her career as an actress is well established. Her career as a writer is just beginning. Carla has told her story as simply as she was able by putting it in verse. Her points are illustrated by artist Jack Davis and Hermann Mejia. The book is well thought out and is visually exciting. Photographs also accompany the text as well as illustrations. To condense ninety plus years into only a few pages is a remarkable feat especially for someone so active as Carla. The book is a treasure and long overdue. IT is rare to get a personal look at the early days of Universal Studios from someone who was actually there. Carla tells her story beautifully.

DEAD RECKONING by Tony Giangregorio. Living Dead Press www.livingdeadpress.com, length 250 pages. Price $19.99. Available now.

Good zombie stories are hard to come by, but one man who is a master at telling them is Tony Giangregorio. With more than a dozen books about zombies to his credit, this man is the master at telling zombie tales. DEAD RECKONING is no exception. For decades fans have waited for George Romero to follow up with the survivors of the original DAWN OF THE DEAD to no avail. Tony has taken the challenge and created an intense, action packed volume just as good if not better than the movie the story follows. Our survivors are in a helicopter that is low on fuel. They have very few options. Zombies are everywhere and hope seems to be a rare commodity, but Tony sees them through as they manage to join another band of survivors bent on ridding the world of the zombie menace. You won't be able to put this book down because the action keeps going and going like the Energizer Bunny.

DARK AND STORMY NIGHT a Larry Blamire film written and directed by Larry Blamire. Rated PG comedy/mystery starring Daniel Roebuck, Jennifer Blaire, & Brian Howe. Running time approx. 90 minutes. Produced by Bantam Street www.BantamStreet.com. Distribution pending.

Larry Blamire's (LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA) latest film DARK AND STORMY NIGHT is a tense yet hilarious homage to the old dark house movies of the 1930s. Remember Boris Karloff in OLD DARK HOUSE? How about Bela Lugosi in YOU'LL FIND OUT? Remember the Agatha Christie classic TEN LITTLE INDIANS? In the classics a group of people come together in an old house either because they are stranded due to the weather or they are attending the reading of a will. Suddenly the guests are killed one by one until the murderer is revealed. Keeping true to form the movie is filmed in glorious black and white. In this tense and hilarious movie Larry Blamire stacks the deck for fun and laughter as guests come together for the reading of a will on a dark and stormy night with a gorilla on the loose, an insane escapee from a mental hospital in the area, a masked phantom roaming the halls and secret passages, an insane person locked in the attic, a medium that's really psychic or is it psycho? Danny Roebuck is fearless reporter 8 O'clock Faraday who stumbles across the clues that will solve the mystery. Mark Redfield as the diabolical attorney is simply put very well done. Larry Blamire makes an appearance in this film as well and steals every scene he is in. This film is brand spanking new and has yet to find a distributor, but be on the look out for it. It is a rollicking good time! You will NOT be disappointed.