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The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or... (more)

The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

Though Bram Stoker coined the term, the undead have stalked the human imagination for eons, appearing in the myths and legends of nearly all cultures. The concept of people, or unpeople, interacting with others while devoid of humanity provides a wealth of material for philosophical speculation. Encompassing George Romero’s radiation-spawned Living Dead, the “infected” of 28 Days Later, as well as more... (more)

House Of Blood

by Bryan Smith

"A feast of good old-fashioned horror. Don't pass this one up! -- Brian Keene, author of The Rising "House Of Blood is a page-turning thrill-ride of terror!" -- Douglas Clegg, author of Priest Of Blood "Smith has made an impressive first novel debut." -- Cemetery Dance Weekly

Peculia

by Richard Sala

A great book to leave out on the coffee table for all your non-comics-readings friends to discover. Grade: A. -- Phil Mateer, Comics Buyer's Guide #1490 , 7 June 2002 My favorite genre comic of the year. -- LOCUS Online , 13 January 2003, Claude Lalumiere Sexy and spooky, a hallucinatory and overheated mishmash of shudder pulps and Fleisher Brothers cartoons. Grade: A. -- S. A. Bennett, Comics Buyer's... (more)

History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology

by David Dunwoody, James Roy Daley, Kim Paffenroth, Scott A. Johnson

Our team of crack historians has uncovered the truth you never learned in school: the living dead have walked among us since the dawn of time. In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns. They emerge from foggy cemeteries, frozen barrows, loamy bogs, cursed mines, and... (more)

Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide

by Glenn Kay

Zombie Movies is an essential purchase for all those who love (or fear) horror cinema’s most popular and terrifying creation. This thorough and authoritative yet uproarious guide reviews and rates nearly 300 zombie films—from Bela Lugosi’s White Zombie (1932) to George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (2008) traces the evolution of the zombie over the decades, from voodoo slave to brain-eating undead to... (more)

The Vampire Chronicles: Book 2

The Vampire Lestat

by Anne Rice

After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints . But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview , finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat . As with the first book in the... (more)

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