The Boy Who Killed Demons Mysterious Book Report No. 215 by John Dwaine McKenna Our Halloween Freak-fest continues this week with a YA (Young Adult) novel whose title says it all. His name is Henry Dudlow. He’s “fifteen and a half and cursed. Or damned. Take your pick.” The reason? “I see demons,” in Henry’s own words. And so begins, The Boy Who Killed Demons, (Overlook Press, Peter Mayer
A Killer’s Essence by Dave Zeltserman Overlook, $23.95, 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-59020-321-7 This week’s MBR is a noir-police-procedural-serial-killer-mystery with a supernatural twist. (And no, I haven’t been duct-taped to a chair in a windowless room listening to Weird Al Yankovitch all week.) All joking aside, it’s a nifty piece of writing by an up- and-comer named Dave Zeltserman. The novel is A Killer’s Essence. (Overlook, $23.95, 240 pages, ISBN