By Kerry Skemp at the Bostonist

An Evening with Seth Grahame-Smith
Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
Monday, March 8
6 to 8 pm
$5 tickets from the Harvard Coop

Much as Somerville is the birthplace of the Monster Mash, Seth Grahame-Smith is the pioneer of the Monster Movement in literature. Though the idea of blending monsters and literary classics was first conceived by Jason Rekulak of Quirk Books, Rekulak chose Grahame-Smith to pen the wildly popular Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Zombie revolution aside, Grahame-Smith is actually at the Brattle to talk about his latest book: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. This psudeobiography paints Lincoln as a battler of the undead in addition to slavery. Not surprisingly, a movie version (by Tim Burton) is already in the works. Horror films inspiring books inspiring books inspiring films: what a delightfully disturbing progression.

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Will you be going to see him talk? Are you looking forward to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?

ARCANA COMICS DARK HORRORS ANTHOLOGY REVIEW

Brought to you by OBS Staff Member Rose

Arcana Comics founded by Sean O’Reilly, began as a studio in 2004, and has since become Canada’s largest comic book publisher and an innovative leader in developing content in various mediums. Working in websites, comics and graphic novels, video games, short-form animation and live action shorts, toys and merchandise, as well as feature length films.

In 2006, Arcana held a talent search for contributions, that was open to writers, pencillers, inkers, letterers, and colorists/greyscalers, to create macabre stories of psychological horror. In October of the same year Arcana debuted their Dark Horrors Anthology, which consisted of not only Arcana talent, but also the lucky winners of the talent search who submitted stories online at Arcana’s forum.

Dark Horrors Anthology is described as a psychological horror at the forefront with nods to the Twilight Zone and the horror magazines from days past with zombies, gothic tales and supernatural evils.

Story titles for Dark Horrors Anthology include:
Hog Wild
Tell Tale Heart
“The Wall”
Drawing on the Dead
In Season
(Mask of) Fright
Remember Me
Me and My Shadow
The Exchange
Siren Song
The In Between Space
I Married a Ghost Girl
Safe At Home
La Famiglia
Wishbone
Believe
Bones
The Gargoyle
Hinnom

As you can see, it is an extensive list, filling 140 pages.

It’s a delight to have so many rich and interesting stories combined into one comic book. Even though the horror tales are short, they invite you in and hook you, making you wish they would continue on. And you’re in luck with that and you’ll read why. The stories are reminiscent of Tales of The Crypt, Twilight Zone and Creepshow.  Especially ‘Siren Song’ written by David Hopkins, which brought to mind Creepshow’s ‘Something To Tide You Over’ probably because of the beach theme’, but the two stories couldn’t be any different.  ‘Siren Song’ depicts a father who has lost his daughter on the beach. In a frantic rush to find her, he hears his name being called out, from far away in the ocean. Thinking it is his daughter crying or help, he swims out, only to meet his death at the hands of the evil Siren. David Hopkins other work includes Astronaut Dad, Emily Edison and Karma Incorporated.

‘The Mask of Fright’ written by Ron Fortier, I can see being made into a movie. It has all the elements needed. Suspense, a mysterious mask, a science professor and his too inquisitive protégé who reeks havoc when he doesn’t listen to his mentor and places the mask over his face.  Ron Fortier’s  has also worked on “Cavewoman: Odyssey’” and ‘Daughter of Dracula’ to name a few.

The illustrations are eye candy for those who appreciate comic book and graphic novel art, regardless of the fact the entire book is void of color. With every new story comes a fresh design (of course) and being shown back to back in the collection, it makes you appreciate all the different drawing styles the artists have to offer.

One of my favorite is “La Famiglia” written by Dwight L. MacPherson, with art by Declan Shalvey. It’s the Mafia Meets the Zombies.  The art work is done in a film noir style and very dark and sinister. Two mobsters track down a hit at 3am and after shooting him down in a back alley, take his body and drive into the woods to bury him. One becomes food for the undead in the forest and one realizes just what kind of ‘family’ he’s married to. Wicked fun with a nice little twist at the end.

Here is a nice screenshot:

If you love horror and comics you will surely enjoy Dark Horrors Anthology which encapsulates the genre perfectly. Remember when I mentioned the stories draw you in and you wish for more…well a hand full of them continue on in their own graphic novel or comic book series, like Koni Waves, so the fun doesn’t end.

Check your local comic bookstore for order details or contact Arcana Comics. 
Dark Horrors Anthology ISBN: 0976309564

Arcana Comics has also released a Dark Horrors Anthology 2.

OBS 3-PANEL HORROR COMIC CONTEST

In honor of our Comic Book Review on Arcana Comic’s ‘Dark Horrors Anthology’, OpenBookSociety is holding a 3-Panel Horror Comic Contest starting February 25 through March 25, 2010. Deadline for submissions is March 25th and the winners will be announced on April 1, 2010. Details to be announced.

This won’t be our first Comic/GN review or contest. In March we will be reviewing another Arcana Comics release titled ‘Corrective Measures‘ by Grant Chastain, who says about his graphic novel story: “I knew it was an underdeveloped idea, the concept of an ongoing book exploring the prison culture as it would have to be adopted in a world of superpowered criminals. And more so than that, I found the idea of working at a place like that utterly fascinating. It’s sort of like the old adage, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Well, what happens when a regular guy gets put into a position of power over people with nearly limitless, unfathomably corrupted superpowers?”

So stay tuned.

Within the fantasy and fiction we can find a numberless list of creatures or beings that have lived throughout history and its myths. Some say they are real and believe to have seen them; others are just not that into them. So, this time around the OBS Staff brings you a list of some of the most recognizable “Mythical Creatures” for our A to Z edition. Enjoy!

Mythical Creatures

A: Angels
(A supernatural being found in many religions, whose duties are to assist and serve God. They typically act as messengers, as believed in the main three monotheistic religions.)

Afanc
(A lake monster from Welsh mythology. Its exact description varies; it is described alternately as resembling a crocodile, beaver or dwarf-like creature, and is sometimes said to be a demon.)

B: Bigfoot
(An alleged ape-like creature purportedly inhabiting forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid.)

Banshee
(A female spirit, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.)

C: Cyclops
(A giant, with one single eye in the middle of his forehead.)

Centaur
(Has the head, arms, and chest of the centaur are human while the rest of its body, including four legs, hindquarters, and a tail is like that of a horse.)

Cherubs or Cherubim
(In Modern English they are strictly known as baby or toddler angels. Originally they are described as winged beings, a tetrad of living creatures, each having four faces: of a lion, an ox, an eagle, and a man. They are said to have the stature and hands of a man, the feet of a calf, and four wings.)

Chimaera
(A monstrous beast which is part lion, goat and snake.)

D: Dragons
(A legendary winged creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits.)

Demons
(Powerful supernatural beings without the dignity of gods. Ancient demons could be good or bad. Traditionally demons have been said to reign on some other planet, usually some form of hell, and are creatures of fire.)

Dwarves
(Described as shorter and stockier than Elves and Men, able to withstand both heat and cold. Though they are mortal, Dwarves have an average lifespan of 250 years.)

E: Elf
(Originally thought of as a race of divine or semi-divine beings endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind. In pre-Christian mythology, they appear to have been divided into light elves and dark elves. In early modern and modern folklore, they were known to live underground in hills or rocks, or in wells and springs.)

Erinyes
(They are crones with snakes for hair, dogs’ heads, coal-black bodies, bats’ wings, and bloodshot eyes. In their hands they carry brass-studded scourges.)

F: Fairies
(Generally described as human in appearance and having magical powers, in modern culture they are often depicted as young, sometimes winged, humanoids of small stature, they originally were depicted much differently: tall, radiant, angelic beings or short, wizened trolls.)

Fae
(Able to see the future, or touched in the head. In popular culture the fey, if recognized at all, have been reduced to small, winged, humanoid, female creatures that are frequently portrayed in the nude.)

G: Gargoyle
(In contemporary fiction, gargoyles are typically depicted as a winged humanoid creature with demonic features.)

Goblins
(A legendary evil or mischievous creature, described as a grotesquely evil or evil -like phantom, have been classified as constantly annoying little creatures, can come in any color but are mainly depicted as green or brown, and are very crabby.)

Griffins
(A legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle was the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. Griffins are normally known for guarding treasure.)

H: Hydra
(A many headed monster which terrorized visitors near the lake of Lerna in Greece. Killing the Hydraproved to be quite a challenge, as two heads would grow back whenever one was cut off.)

Harpy
(Mainly winged death-spirits, best known for constantly stealing all food from Phineas, they could also bring life.)

Hobbits
(Are between two and four feet tall, the average height being three feet six inches. They dress in bright colours, favoring yellow and green. Nowadays, they are usually very shy creatures, but are nevertheless capable of great courage and amazing feats under the proper circumstances.)

I: Itcuintlipotzotli
(Better known as the Chupacabra – strange Mexican creature the size of a small dog. It has hairless skin, a wolfish head, no neck, a short tail, and a large hump down the length of its back.)

J: Jack Frost
(Is an elfish creature who personifies crisp, cold weather. Jack is said to leave patterns in the autumn leaves and the patterns in the frost that are left on windows.)

K: Kraken
(Is an enormous sea monster in Norwegian sea folklore, which would sometimes attack ships and feed upon the sailors. It was said to be capable of dragging down the largest ships and when submerging could suck down a vessel by the whirlpool it created. It is described as part octopus and part crab, occasionally as a giant squid or cuttlefish.)

Kampe
(A monstrous centaurine creature who, from the waist up, had the body of a serpentine-haired woman. Below she had the body of a scaly dragon with a thousand vipers for feet and sprouting from her waist the heads of fifty fearsome beasts–lions, boars and other wild animals. Dark wings rose from her shoulders and above her head she lifted a furious scorpion’s tail.)

L: Loch Ness
(A cryptic that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The most frequent speculation is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs.)

Lamia
(Lamia was once the beautiful Queen of Lybia and was seduced by the great king of the Greek gods himself – Zeus. His jealous wife, Hera, reacted by killing Lamia’s children and turning her into a hateful monster – a woman above the waist and a serpent below.)

M: Medusa
(Was a monstrous chthonic female character, essentially an extension of an apotropaic mask, whose gaze could turn onlookers to stone. In other versions she was a human with blonde hair and she had no sisters. She slept with Poseidon in Athena’s temple, so Athena punished Medusa by turning her into a monster with hair made of snakes.)

Minotaur
(Was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man.)

N: Nymph
(Is any member of a large class of female nature entities, either bound to a particular location or landform or joining the retinue of a god or goddess.)

O: Orcs
(Portrayed as physically stronger or weaker than humans, but always high in numbers. They often ride wolves or wargs. They are also often depicted with pig-like faces.)

Ouroboros
(A self-eating, circular being as the first living thing in the universe—an immortal, perfectly constructed animal. The living being had no need of eyes when there was nothing remaining outside him to be seen; nor of ears when there was nothing to be heard; and there was no surrounding atmosphere to be breathed.)

P: Pegasus
(It is said Pegasus sprang from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa after Perseus beheaded her. Pegasus is described as a winged white horse. They live in the forest and live in small herds. Very rarely one pegasus will befriend a human, or elf and become his/her companion.)

Phoenix
(Is a mythical bird and associated with the Egyptian sun-god Re and the Greek Phoibos)

Pixie
(Are usually depicted as wingless, with pointed ears, and often wearing a green outfit and pointed hat. Sometimes their eyes are described as being pointed upwards at the temple ends.)

Q: Quanlier
(In Cherokee legend, a Quanlier has the head of a wolf, the torso of a man, the arms of a dog and the legs of a jackal. It feeds on human flesh and most small animals. Living in a small area there are very few, in fact there may be only one. It’s a close relation to a werewolf, only it can’t change into a human and when it’s killed it doesn’t turn into a human. It can run at speeds of up to 300 MPH.)

R: Roc
(A legendary gigantic bird from Arabian legends. These birds were so big that they could carry off elephants for food. The Roc is featured in various stories of the “Thousand and One Nights” and they have also featured in historical texts of Marco Polo on his travels.)

S: Sprite
(A broad term referring to a number of monstrous creatures. The term is generally used in reference to fairies, like the elf or dwarf, and the likes of it; but can also signify various monstrous beings, including ghosts.)

Sphinx
(Was the riddler who was part woman part lion. She killed anyone who couldn’t answer her riddles, but wouldn’t let anyone through the gates she stood in front of unless they could.)

Succubus
(Is a demon who takes the form of a woman to seduce men in dreams to have sexual intercourse.)

Selkie
(Are able to transform to human form by shedding their seal skins and can revert to seal form by putting their selkie skin back on. When in human form, both sex are described as handsome and seductive. Male selkies typically seek those who are dissatisfied with their romantic life. This includes married women waiting for their fishermen husbands.)

Satyr
(Are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus.)

Skin Walker
(In some Native American legends, a skin-walker is a person with the supernatural ability to turn into any animal he or she desires)

T: Troll
(Is a fearsome member of a mythical anthropomorph race from Scandinavia. Their role ranges from fiendish giants – similar to the ogres of England – to a devious, dwarf-like folk of the wilderness, living underground in hills, caves or mounds.

U: Unicorn
(A legendary creature usually depicted with the body of a horse, but with a single – usually spiral – horn growing out of its forehead. The unicorn’s blood and horn supposedly have mystical healing properties. A unicorn’s horn also is known as the “bane of evil” in that it has the ability to dispel anything malignant in water and can also kill most truly evil creatures it comes in to contact with.)

V: Vampires
(A preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night. Or according to Eastern European folklore, a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or demon, that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living, until it is exhumed and impaled or burned. Or  alternatively a person who has made a pact with the devil, selling his soul to him in exchange for nearly eternal life as long as the person sucks the blood from other people.)

W: Werewolves
(Love to eat babies and corpses. Only silver bullets or arrows can kill a werewolf. After death, a werewolf resumes his human identity.)

X: Xelhua
(Always female, she is a fairy nymph of extraordinary beauty believed to live in fountains, rivers, waterfalls or forested regions with pure water.)

Xing Tian
(Meaning “punished one” or “he who was punished by heaven” is a Pre-Qin Dynasty mythological headless giant.)

Y: Yale
(The Yale is a four legged beast from Ethiopia and India, its colour is a tawny brown or black. It is about the size of a horse; it looks much like a deer but has the lower jaws of a boar with its tusks. The Yale has movable horns that it can control.)

Yeti
(A hybrid of man and ape, standing well over two meters tall and having a fur of a dark brown to black color. Or to some they’re described as smaller than an average man with a reddish-brown pelt.)

Z: Zombies
(The living dead – reanimated corpses brought back to serve a sorcerer. Once given salt, they realize what’s happening, and return to their grave. Once the touch they dirt of their grave, they go back to being dead.)

Join us on the Forum and give us your opinions on our A-Z list of today and be sure to check back next month for more OBS A to Z editions!

By Annalee Newitz at io9: Proof That Science Fiction Writers Get Better With Age

Number-loving blogger John Redford had a simple question: Do SF writers get better as they age? To find out, he studied the average age that authors won prestigious Hugo Awards, and created this chart.

He also looked at the typical amount of time between when an author started publishing, versus when she or he won a Hugo. Redford writes:

The youngest winner was Roger Zelazny at age 29 for “This Immortal”, the oldest were Vinge, Clarke, and Asimov at 63, and the average age is 45. The shortest interval from first-published-work to award was again Zelazny at 4 years, while the longest was Asimov at 44 for “Foundation’s Edge”. No surprise there – Zelazny burst on the scene like a nova, and Asimov was a star for generations. The average time from start to award was 17 years. Quite a few people had late starts – having first published in their mid-30s – and still won. I would say that the author who changed the most from his early work to his winning novel was Frederick Pohl, whose 1978 “Gateway”, written when he was 61, is quite different from his famous 50s satires like “The Space Merchants”.

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By Hillel Italie at the Associated Press: Vampire author Anne Rice set to release video book

The author of “Interview With a Vampire,” “The Vampire Lestat” and many other favorites has agreed to terms with the video book company Vook on a multimedia edition of “The Master of Rampling Gate,” a vampire story published in Redbook magazine in 1984 and set in an England mansion in the 19th century.

“Vook represents a very exciting combination of new technological elements, that I think is long overdo in publishing,” Rice said in a statement released Wednesday by Vook. “I’m excited that `The Master of Rampling Gate’ is going to have new life in this form, and cannot wait to see the finished product. I’m not sure that my mind can conceive of all the possibilities of this new form. I’m learning. And it feels good.”

Opinions are still mixed among publishers and authors about video books, or vooks, with some calling them a gimmick and others saying new formats are needed for the Internet age. The product integrates text, video and social networking.

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By Justin Howe at TOR: Vampire City by Paul Féval

“There is a little-known place which is undoubtedly the strangest in the world. The people who inhabit the barbarous lands around Belgrade sometimes call it Selene, sometimes Vampire City, but the vampires refer to it among themselves by the names of the Sepulcher and the College.”

Paul Féval’s Vampire City is one of those terrible books that unfolds like a train wreck, but you can’t put it down because it’s extremely entertaining and more than a little bit insane. When Féval pulls the lid off his id he concocts some of the most wild and vividly imagined pieces of “weird” pulp fiction you’re likely to encounter.

The plot has Ann Radcliffe (yes, that one) trying to save her friend Cornelia from the attentions of the vampire Otto Goetzi. Assisted by her manservant Grey Jack, her friend Ned (Cornelia’s fiance), his manservant Merry Bones (an Irish “nailhead”), and a captured transgender vampire named Polly (who is chained to an iron coffin she carries on her shoulder), Ann sets off for Selene, the Vampire City, like a proto-Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Devi Pillai at Orbit: A Romantic Comedy…. with BRAAAAINS!

I have the distinct pleasure of introducing a brand new author to the list, Jesse Petersen.  Orbit US has bought three books — the first of which, MARRIED WITH ZOMBIES, we will be publishing in mass market in September 2010.

The book is about two unlikely heroes — a couple on the verge of divorce.  On their way to marriage counseling, they notice a few odd things: a missing guard, a lack of cars on the freeway, and their counselor ripping out the throat of her previous client.

Now it’s up to David and Sarah to work together, save their marriage — and survive in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

The book is chock-full of valuable post-apocalyptic marriage advice, including:

• Balance the workload in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing all the zombies.
• Put the small stuff into perspective. It’s better to be wrong and alive than right but eating brains.

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By Charlie Jane Anders at io9: An Alternate History Of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine

When H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine first appeared in the U.S., it had a drastically different text than the British edition. Was this a hatchet job, or did the U.S. publisher get an earlier Wells draft? We may soon know.

The library at University of California, Riverside, just scored a rare U.S. 1895 first edition of The Time Machine, allowing scholars to study the text — and maybe unravel, once and for all, the mystery of the two text versions. It took a $10,000 grant for the University to score a copy and become one of only 25 places known to hold a copy. The British first edition, which was the source of all subsequent printings, is much easier to come by.

The American edition, published by Holt, misspells Wells’ name as H.S. Wells, Americanizes the book’s language, and omits or adds some passages.

See the changes here

It’s really interesting to see the changes made to The Time Machine. They’re almost different books. And I’m not sure how I feel about video books; you might get more out of the book, but I prefer to hold my books.

What do you think of Video books? Did any of the other books catch your eye? Did you notice if any of your favorite authors books got better as they aged?

from the House of Night Series site: Burned cover art and release date

The 7th book in the House of Night Series now has cover art and a release date: April 27th. Here’s the book summary:

“Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird’s soul has shattered. With everything she’s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey’s fading fast. It’s seeming more and more doubtful that she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.  But how?  He will have to die to do so, the Vampire High Council stipulates.  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days left…

Enter  BFF Stevie Rae.  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.”

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By Hannah Huber at the Tennessee Journalist: Stephenie Meyer’s new novel eclipsed by “Twilight” series

The Twilight series has been an astonishing hit among teens and young adults, resulting in two hit films and described by the Wall Street Journal as the successor to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Stephenie Meyer’s other novel, The Host, is aimed at a more adult audience and seems to be overlooked by her large Twilight fan base.

On her official Web site, Meyer describes her novel as “science fiction for people who don’t like science fiction.” In an exclusive interview with Meyer, sponsored by Barnes and Noble, Meyer explains why her novel should not be considered a typical “sci-fi” book and tells her viewers why it can still entice the fans of the Twilight series.

“[The Host] gives a similar experience to the Twilight saga… it’s still a story based on the characters. It’s about the love story, and about what it means to be human, rather than being a science fiction novel about ray guns and space ships.”

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By Alan Cheuse at wburg.org: Sci-Fi Novels To Keep You Awake At Night

I started out as an adolescent reader feasting on science fiction, and even as I studied modern literature — and decades after that, began writing stories and novels of my own — I have kept up my habit of turning to science fiction, as I do also to thrillers, to clear my palate between books I think of as more serious. Or, as I like to think of it, sometimes you want filet mignon, sometimes you crave a Big Mac.

So I couldn’t have been happier to dig into these two new novels, each in its own way a fast track to narrative satiety. Charlie Huston’s new novel, Sleepless, posits an insomnia plague spreading across Southern California (and the rest of the country). After such popular works as Stephen King’s The Stand and Guillermo del Toro’s recent zombie treat The Strain, (or terrific movies like 28 Days Later), we know pretty much how this works — with a disease that spreads rapidly across towns and cities by airborne transmission or from biter to bitee, one chomp at a time.

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By Annalee Newitz at io9: Time Travel Back To The London Blitz In Connie Willis’ New Novel “Blackout”

Famed SF author Connie Willis’ first novel in five years, Blackout, returns to a scenario she’s explored before: Time-traveling scholars find themselves changing historical events they’re only supposed to observe. This sprawling novel veers between historical travelogue and futuristic thriller.

One of Willis’ strengths as an author is her attention to detail, both in terms of historical worldbuilding and characters. In Blackout (Bantam Spectra), which mostly takes place in early 1940s England, her main characters are finely observed, prone to fits of pettiness as well as moments of extreme bravery. We never forget that these are fairly ordinary history graduate students, dealing with departmental politics as well as time travel. On their missions, they discover that even in the midst of war, the British continue on with their lives, reading fashion magazines and worrying over their naughty children.

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via FlashNews: Werewolves Finally Get The Girl

Finally, werewolves – not vampires – have a shot at getting the girl.In the midst of vampire favoritism spawned by Twilight, personalized book company Book By You has released Fierce Moon, a steamy werewolf romance novel.

By completing a questionnaire, couples can be turned into the main characters in the book – a heroine and her werewolf love interest.

Book By You founder Mike Pocock says the novel finally gives werewolves a chance to shine since vampires are “getting a little old.”

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I still haven’t read The Host. It just doesn’t interest me as much as some other books at the moment. For instance, Blackout looks good; so does The Strain.

Are you excited about the new House of Night book? What are you reading next?

We have winners for the Zombie Book Face off: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! And OBS reader skyla11377  has won a copy! “I Voted For Pride And Prejudice And Zombies By Jane Austen And Seth Grahame-Smith Because I Loved The Original Book Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen And Thought How Great That Somebody Took Just A Great Novel And Gave It Such A unique Twist.“  Thanks and congrats!

And come back tomorrow to vote for February Book Face-off: Most Romantic Sci Fi, Fantasy, or Supernatural Book!