geeksofdoom.com has an interesting  list of book for this Fall, you might even want to make a Halloween book club for tomorrow, what better theme than some scary stories 😉

Geek Read 2009: 10 New Books To Read This Fall

Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter
By A E Moorat
Hodder | Eos
October 15, 2009 (UK) | January 5, 2010 (U.S.)

I’m a big fan of historical fiction, so even if various types of demon folk weren’t involved, I think I’d have enjoyed the story of a young Victoria coming of age as the Queen of England and falling in love with Prince Albert nevertheless. But add in the Queen’s inherit ability to battle demons, along with demons, zombies, reanimators, and two-headed creatures, and damn if that’s not good stuff. It’s an historical fiction/horror mash-up sprinkled with humor in all the right places. One of my favorite characters is a manservant who becomes zombie lunch only to return to life … to continue being a manservant! Seriously, I love this guy, and you will too.

I don’t want to go into the plot, as there is much that is revealed about the Queen’s enemies and allies, as well as how the dark forces came to be. The book is a very quick read, fast-paced and interesting; definitely hard to put down.

Zombocalypse Now
By Matt Youngmark
ChooseOMatic Books
August 5, 2009

Ok, so this came out in August, but this choose your own adventure style book still a perfect Fall read. I mean, everyone loves a good zombie story, right? Well, Zombocalypse Now offers up a variety of undead encounters with 112 possible endings — and apparently there’s a least 7 where you don’t die — score!

For those of you Zombie aficionados who always ponder the ‘what if’ scenarios of a zombie apocalypse, this is a fun way to find out how you would deal with it and what the outcome from your decisions would be.

Dracula The Un-Dead
By Dacre Stoker & Ian Holt
Dutton
October 13, 2009

Talk about long-awaited! This official sequel to Bram Stoker’s 1897 literary classic Dracula has the distinction of being penned by Stoker’s great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker along with Dracula documentarian Ian Holt. Reportedly based on notes and deleted material from the classic novel, Dracula The Un-Dead takes place in 1912, 25 years after the end Dracula’s demise.

Quincey Harker, who is the adult son of Jonathan and Mina, comes upon a stage production of Dracula directed and produced by Bram Stroker and learns of his parents’ run-in with the legendary vampire. Now, one by one, Dracula’s own enemies who hunted him down are now being hunted down themselves. Has Dracula risen from the death to enact revenge or is there another evil force at work?

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War Diary of a Vampire

www.tabletmag.com: Among the new vampire books is Sarah Jane Stratford’s debut novel, The Midnight Guardian, published this month. Set from 1938 to 1940, it follows a group of English millennials—vampires who have been undead for more than a thousand years—as they try to sabotage Hitler’s plans for world domination. Stratford’s elegant plot device establishes that war, by killing too many humans, leads to vampire famine. “This was defense of what both humans and vampires held dear,” Stratford writes of the millennials’ quest, “although the humans did not count among their own delights their status as delicious, and necessary, food.”

But as Hitler’s intent to cleanse Europe of vampires—as well as certain other undesirables, particularly the Jews—becomes apparent, the mission’s urgency grows. Yes, that’s right: Stratford has given this latest vampire revival its first Holocaust novel.

 This, of course, is not without its problems. Vampires—a secret cult with an ancient tradition, bent on world domination and feeding on human blood—fit a bit too snugly with the demented stereotypes that more imaginative anti-Semites have cultivated for centuries. Emory University professor Erik Butler traces this connection in his forthcoming book, Metamorphoses of the Vampire. Originating in 12th-century England, the blood libel—the idea that Jews ritualistically slaughter gentiles and feast on their blood—was so common by the late 19th century that Blutsauger, or “bloodsucker,” the German word for vampires, was a common derogation for Jews. Karl Lueger, the notoriously anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna, amplified the charge, in turn inspiring his admirer, Hitler, to call Jews parasites in Mein Kampf.

Though Stratford’s vampires are targeted for genocide by the Nazis, they are not allegorical substitutes for the doomed Jews of Europe. In The Midnight Guardian, there are vampires, and there are Jews. (There is even one vampire who used to be a Jew, though he no longer considers himself so: after all, blood is not kosher.) Instead, Stratford uses vampires as a double for Jews: real and stark examples of things the Jews were falsely accused of being. Lining them up together, she cleverly articulates the pseudo-biological basis of Nazi anti-Semitism and attempts to communicate what it means to wish to wipe away an entire people because of perceived biological differences.

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This is  a really interesting book, vampires mixed with the Holocaust, even they were being chased down. what do you think of this book? could it go on your list?