As part of our Winter Chills! program we are having a giveaway contest for three zombie anthologies (The Undead: Zombie Anthology, The Undead Vol 3:Flesh Feast, and History is Dead). To enter just leave a comment below and share with us your favorite zombie moment whether it is from book, movie, or videogame. Note: Contest is open to North American residents only.
The Walking Dead and Your Zombie Collection
In case you might have missed it, zombies have been the monster du jour for the past several years. They have been shambling their way through horror movies, video games, books, and graphic novels. They have even can be found in other genres such as paranormal romance (who knew!). The TV station American Movie Classics (AMC) has brought the graphic novel The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman to the little screen. With high production values, the show has become popular. What does this mean for libraries? We here at Monster Librarian feel that the different media that horror that the genre is found in provides an excellent opportunity to promote leisure reading by tying books to other media, like tv shows, movies, and video games, being promoted in mass media. There have been a plethora of zombie titles that have come out in the past few years, and this is a great time to put some on display!
Some notable titles we suggest for library collections:
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead edited by John Skipp
Dying to Live and Dying to Live: Life Sentence by Kim Paffenroth
Dead Sea by Brian Keene
Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
World War Z; An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brook
Bits of the Dead by Keith Gouveia
History is Dead by Kim Paffenroth
The World is Dead edited by Kim Paffernoth
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Happy reading!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Today is Thanksgiving, at least here in the United States, and we at MonsterLibrarian want you to know how thankful we are for you. Thank you to all the readers who come here to find a good book, the educators who visit us to find resources, the school library media centers and public libraries who told their patrons about us, the librarians who use us for readers advisory and collection development, and all the members of the horror community who have contributed to the success of the site and our projects. We do it for you, and we couldn’t do it without you. And, of course, we are deeply grateful for all the contributions of our reviewers and editors, who have put phenomenal effort into making everything come together.
We’re thankful that we live in a time and a place where we can read what we want, write what we want about it, and share it with all of you. We are thankful that our local public and school libraries survived this year- other communities in our area haven’t been so lucky. It’s a hard time for libraries and librarians, and they make such a difference in our lives and in our access to books. This year has been filled with great books, and I am certainly glad for the ones that have come my way! What books have you read this year that you’re thankful for?
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