An Introduction to the Undead Rat
I was born in the fevered imagination of a wannabe writer who needed a secret identity that would allow him to run around on the internet doing the good deed of scaring the cr*p outta people by hooking them up with really scary books - all in the name of his library.
Why a rat?
When the Readers' Advisory Team Services was formed in 1993, the team soon realized that the initials spelled RATS. Thus a mascot was born - the rat. When they sought to create a web presence, the library was uncomfortable with the team members using their real name, so each chose a name that described them in some way and added rat to it. As Greg loved horror fiction and was beginning to discover that there was more to the genre than Stephen King, he picked The Undead Rat as his nickname. That is how I was born.
He didn't think too much of The Undead Rat until he noticed his fellow librarians all knew the name and some even called him by it - and he was answering. After that realization, the identity of The Undead Rat fit like a comfortable glove. As he wrote: "Call me Undead Rat. Call me Greg. I answer to both."
What's in the future for the Undead Rat? Fame? Fortune? A Hot Movie Deal? Conquering the World with Undead Minions? Hey, the sky's the limit.
Why a rat?
When the Readers' Advisory Team Services was formed in 1993, the team soon realized that the initials spelled RATS. Thus a mascot was born - the rat. When they sought to create a web presence, the library was uncomfortable with the team members using their real name, so each chose a name that described them in some way and added rat to it. As Greg loved horror fiction and was beginning to discover that there was more to the genre than Stephen King, he picked The Undead Rat as his nickname. That is how I was born.
He didn't think too much of The Undead Rat until he noticed his fellow librarians all knew the name and some even called him by it - and he was answering. After that realization, the identity of The Undead Rat fit like a comfortable glove. As he wrote: "Call me Undead Rat. Call me Greg. I answer to both."
What's in the future for the Undead Rat? Fame? Fortune? A Hot Movie Deal? Conquering the World with Undead Minions? Hey, the sky's the limit.
My Favorite Quote:
"Never apologize for your reading taste."
-- Betty Rosenberg,
Genreflecting
-- Betty Rosenberg,
Genreflecting
The Undead Rat Takes Over the Squidoosphere
See just what I've been up to!
- Richard Montanari Squidoo Len
- This was my first Squidoo lens. Richard Montanari is an Ohio author of intense psychological thrillers who has reached bestseller status in England.
The Undead Rat Conquerors the Blogosphere
My early quests in world domination
- ...With Intent to Commit Horror
- My first website and blog. Horror is my favorite genre and here I make book lists of horror authors, series lists, thematic booklists and weblists. Oh yeah, I also run a blog about the genre. I'm making this your one stop shop for horror fiction.
- The Lair of the Undead Rat
- I began this blog at the request of my supervisors at the library. The liked what I'd done that they asked me to help set up blogs for the other reader advisers (RATS) including myself. I am passionate about Cleveland area and Ohio writers. The Lair is a website for these hard working, seldom praised authors with booklists and blog posts.
- The Sequential Rat
- We have no Sequential Rat for the comic/graphic novel world so I adopted a disguise. My scent, however, gave me away. I love reading graphic novels and I share that love here in booklists and blog posts. This is still a new site.
It is called Sequential Rat after Scott McCloud's definition of comics -- an expansion of Will Eisner's original definition -- being sequential art. - The Gamer Rat
- I love role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, Gurps, White Wolf's Storyteller series, Kult, Dream Park (yeah, based upon the Nivens-Barnes novels), and Little Fears. Here I list them and write about them, with a special slant for librarians considering adding this material to their collection. This is also a new site.
Random Horror Fiction by Stephen King on Amazon
Sample The Lair of the Undead Rat
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Sample . . . With Intent to Commit Horror
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Random Role-Playing Games on Amazon
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Horror Fiction in the Blogosphere
- RA Long grad returns home to promote horror fiction at Go 4th
- By Tyler Scott RA Long High School graduate Clint Romag has established himself as a writer in Los Angeles, but his writing has never strayed far from his ...
- Heather Brewer
- ... she's thrilled that demand for "Tenth Grade Bleeds" (Dutton, 292 pages, $16.99) has grown along with the overall interest in fantasy and horror fiction. ...
- Kizhathottam horror: Proof from the lab
- This is no horror fiction. It happens every day in 160 households at Kizhathottam which depend on Thavalayillakulam for their supply of drinking water under ...
- Lesbian and gay erotica in new Swing anthology out today in print
- A collection of his short horror fiction, Twisted: Tales of Obsession and Terror was published in 2006. Rick lives in Seattle, WA with his partner and is at ...
by Undeadrat
My name is Greg Fisher (a.k.a. the Undead Rat). I am a librarian assistant at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library system which mea... (more)
