Laurie Tynan, writing for Emergency Librarian, compared Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters to "stories told around the summer campfire", calling them "just spooky enough to be good fun without triggering nightmares".

[1] Peggy Latkovich reviewed the audiobook in School Library Journal; she wrote, "The differences in styles and approaches to horror will keep even the most jaded listeners enthralled".

She specifically highlighted "Coville's 'My Little Brother Is a Monster,' a complex story with an emotional depth rare in modern children's horror, and 'Kokolimalayas, the Bone Man,' the only folktale in the collection".

She further noted that Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald's "Uncle Joshua and the Googlemen" was a "horrifying" story, but that "the reading is too fast and the accent is too vague to evoke a true sense of place".

[2] Bruce Coville followed-up his popular first book with a line of other supernatural or sci-fi subject matters for several follow-ups.