Decibel Magazine: “This descent into insanity and violence will keep you glued to the page all night.”
News
12/15/13
11/25/13
Scowler appointed to the Texas Tayshas Reading List.
8/22/13
NEW BOOKS ANNOUNCED: Read the press release about The Death & Life of Zebulon Finch, Volumes 1 & 2.
7/31/13
Dreadful Tales: “Kraus is one of the last great storytellers of our time.”
7/21/13
7/2/13
The 1st (and only!) public reading of Scowler, 7:30pm, Chicago.
6/29/13
DK will be signing books 12-1pm at the ALA conference.
6/27/13
Download the Odyssey-winning Rotters audiobook FREE from June 27-July 3.
5/18/13
Guys Lit Wire: “A searing portrayal of evil. Highly recommended.”
5/8/13
DK answers 5 Qs for the International Reading Association.
4/29/13
PW: “A truly chilling, blood-drenched tale.”
4/22/13
DK joins author Barry Lyga for “Masters of the Macabre” discussion @ at New York Public Library.
4/19/13
USA Today: Scowler author on his favorite villians in lit.
4/14/13
School Library Journal: “Tense, dark, and creepy. A perfect choice for mature horror readers.”
4/12/13
SLJ’s Liz Burns: “Beautiful and horrible and terrible.”
4/11/13
Read the short story (written in 8th grade!) that inspired Scowler!
4/4/13
Random House Audio: Listen with the Lights On: Video &Sound from DK’s audio books!
4/3/13
Imaginary Reads: “Bloody, frightful, and shocking, filled with tension.”
4/2/13
Bibliosaurus Text: “Readers with the stomach for the darkest spaces of the human psyche will love Scowler. I can’t wait to see what nightmare Kraus dreams up next.”
3/27/13
The Bulletin: “Connoisseurs of the grotesque have come to the right place.”
3/20/13
Rue Morgue: “It’s dark, poetic, and challenging. It wields the heavy hand of choking dread and human-on-human horror.”
3/18/13
DK gets into the origins of Scowler with Dear Teen Me.
3/16/13
The Chicago Tribune talks to DK about Scowler.
3/15/13
Booklist interviews DK.
3/12/13
Boing Boing: “Kraus’s masterful raising-of-stakes makes this the sort of disaster you can’t possibly look away from.”
3/12/13
The Writing Life interviews DK.
3/12/13
Bookshelves of Doom: “Highly recommended. Like a trip into (and then out of) hell.”
3/12/13
Stacked: “This is one of the most memorable books I’ve read in a long time.”
3/7/13
Bloody Disgusting: “Scowler redefines YA horror…Kraus has virtually unlimited potential.”
2/21/13
Huffington Post article on Scowler and meteors in fiction.
1/22/13
Publishers Weekly on Scowler: “A memorably brutal assault on the senses, not for the fainthearted or delicate.”
1/21/13
TLT on Scowler: “A novel of terror in the very truest sense of the word.”
12/13/12
Scowler is a Junior Library Guild selection.
11/25/12
Random Buzzers reviews Scowler.
11/8/12
Ingram Reviews on Scowler: “Kraus has produced a story of fear, pain, vulnerability, and compassion.”
10/13/12
Comic-Con New York: Signing books 12:45pm-1:45pm Autograph tables 2-4; Horror Author Panel, 9pm-10pm.
8/14/12
YALSA on “Gruesomely Irresistable Books.”
8/8/12
Q&A w/ DK on Rotters &Scowler.
6/20/12
Lots of appearances at ALA Annual Conference.