Alphabet Challenge Round 23

V is for Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies: Compendium Monstrum by Bruce Waldman, David Lindroth, and Margaret Rubiano. A pocket sized book about monsters in time for Halloween. Each section provides history, literary and cultural mythos, kill methods, and a geographic map with likely locations.

For something that billed itself as a guide to vampires, werewolves, and zombies, it was extremely one-sided toward vampires. The section on werewolves was lacking and the zombie section borrowed from the vampire section. Whether this is due to the lack of history or literary mythos, the latter two sections were disappointing after all the detail that went into the vampire section. Overall, I’d give it a meh. It was OK but I’ve read more interesting books in this genre.

A - American Virgin by Steven Seagle

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D - Divergent by Veronica Roth

E - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

F - Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

G - The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham

H - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

I - I Do But I Don't by Kamy Wicoff

J - Jane Austen Made Me Do It edited by Laurel Ann Nattress

K - Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman

L - A Little Night Magic by Lucy March

M - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen

N - Naked City edited by Ellen Datlow

O - One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde

P - Partials by Dan Wells

Q - Q & A by Vikas Swarup

R - Reality Bites Back by Jennifer L. Pozner

S - Songs of Love and Death edited by George R. R. Martin

T - The Tao of Dating by Ali Binazir

U - Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman

V - Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies by Bruce Waldman et al

W - White Girl Problems by Babe Walker

X - XVI by Julia Karr

Y - Yoga Bitch by Suzanne Morrison

Z - Zoo Story by Thomas French

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