Rotters on BCCB Blue Ribbon List and Booklist Editors’ Choice.
News
12/31/11
11/9/11
TWO NEW NOVELS: Trollhunters, co-authored by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth), and Scowler.
11/8/11
Winston-Salem Journal: “A nightmare-inducing, page-turning, gruesome, psychological read.”
9/1/11
ALL MONTH: DK’s films on TV!
8/17/11
Hellnotes: “Warped and twisted in humor, and ghoulishly frightening.”
8/11/11
School Library Journal examines ROTTERS at length.
8/2/11
Cuba TV by Simone Lueck (with an intro by DK) is out now.
7/18/11
Dreadful Tales: “The most important, dangerous, and incredibly entertaining YA novel you will ever read.”
7/10/11
Night of Living Podcast discusses Rotters!
7/1/11
School Library Journal: “A gripping and emotional tale.”
6/30/11
DK reading from Rotters (with musical accompaniment!) at Bucket o’ Blood Books, 7pm.
6/30/11
NewCity profiles DK!
6/28/11
Chicagoist: “Dark, macabre, and weird.”
6/15/11
Boing Boing: “As suspenseful and masterfully told as it is gruesome and terrifying.”
6/10/11
Cynsations: DK on writing dark fiction.
6/4/11
DK appearing at “Young &Restless” panel @ Printer’s Row, 10am. Read the Chicago Tribune interview.
6/1/11
VOYA: “The twists and turns will leave readers gasping.”
6/1/11
Rue Morgue Magazine: “For the horror genre, it may just be the coming-of-age novel of our young century.”
5/24/11
Forever YA: “”As if Flannery O’Conner took a bad LSD trip after watching Faces of Death.”
5/21/11
Austin American-Statesman: “A complex story about fathers, sons and the sobering pull of mortality.”
5/19/11
5/18/11
Chicagoist interviews DK.
5/16/11
Horror News: “I’ll be damned if Daniel Kraus doesn’t kick the door right off the hinges.”
5/13/11
The Millions: “One of the darkest, wildest, most unsettling adolescent novels I’ve ever come across.”
5/12/11
Innsmouth Free Press: “An interesting and daring book… you’ll love every shovelful.”
5/11/11
Hungry Garden Chronicles: “One of the best YA books I’ve read this year.”
5/11/11
Encore interviews DK about books, movies, etc.
5/7/11
Elliot Bay Book Company: “Extremely well-written, with a style and a substance that I haven’t seen in a YA book in awhile.”
5/5/11
Life, Words, &Rock n Roll interviews DK.
5/5/11
Worsmithsonia: “I’m not sure I’m capable of ever expressing how much I loved this macabre blend.”
5/1/11
STARRED REVIEW from The Bulletin: “Kraus gives the current crop of pretentiously serious supernatural YA novels a wild run for their money.”
5/1/11
Fangoria: “A NEW HORROR CLASSIC.”
4/29/11
Time Out Chicago talks to DK about pushing the envelope with ROTTERS.
4/28/11
Largehearted Boy presents DK’s black metal playlist!
4/26/11
See Ryan Nanni’s music video for “Greifland,” as seen in ROTTERS.
4/26/11
Kirkus–Bookshelves of Doom: “Give to those who read National Book Award winners… An exploration of humanity and mortality; of respect and revenge; of family and solitude, guilt and redemption.”
4/26/11
Bloody Disgusting: “A gleefully grisly coming-of-age story, a literary horror novel rooted in the real. This guy can seriously write.”
4/25/11
Diary of a Bookworm: “Truly the best horror novel I’ve read in a long time.”
4/23/11
Muggle-Born: “Unlike any other book I’ve read. Gritty, graphic, violent, gut-wrenching, and so, so addictive.”