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.
"Never apologize for your reading taste"
-- Betty Rosenberg, "Genreflecting"
The Undead Rat Takes Over the Squidoosphere
See just what I've been up to!
- Zombie Horror Novels Book List
- This Squidoo book list specializes on zombie novels and anthologies. Not surprisingly it features series of zombie books by Brian Keene, Kim Paffenroth and others. It also has a special segment talking about a new chapbook called Rot and videos of author Gary Braunbeck reading his zombie story at a convention. This lens has a mature rating only because of some four letter words in the story Gary Braunbeck read in the three part videos. The rest of the lens would get a G rating.
- Giant Monster Horror Book List
- Ever since I was a kid I have always loved giant monster movies. Recently, probably since the release of the movie Cloverfield, I've noticed a new trend in the horror genre -- the Giant Monster Story. And, although I would have sworn that giant monsters was a visual experience, these stories are working. Don't believe me? Take a look at some of the books in this list.
- Werewolf Horror Books
- Werewolves, lycanthropes, shapeshifters, these are the creatures of the night -- and the nightmare. And the books in this book list serve up a big batch of furry, fanged nightmare. If you enjoy reading horror novels and you'd like to sink your teeth into a rip roaring werewolf book, check out the titles in this list for a really good place to start.
- Ghost Horror Novels Book List
- This is a squidoo lens with an exciting ghost story book list. There is a book recommendation here for you whether you enjoy Victorian ghost stories or modern day horror fests. There is even a link to an Ohio author who is giving away downloadable copies of three published ghost stories in the Timmy Quinn series.
- Horror Fiction Books
- Created using the new Squidboo lens for Halloween, This lens is a list of literary horror fiction books that you might be surprised to find are considered horror fiction. Most were nominated for either the Stoker Award or the International Horror Guild Award.
- Halloween Stories
- Take a look at the number of wonderful books set on or around Halloween. We have Bradbury and Maberry, Earthling Publication's spectacular Halloween Series and many, many others. Drop in periodically because the list is growing.
- Richard Montanari Squidoo Lens
- 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 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.
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Horror Fiction in the Blogosphere
- A Terrifying Tour Of 'American Fantastic'
- That impulse has been around for at least three centuries, as American Fantastic Tales, the new two-volume horror fiction anthology from The Library of ...
- Kevin Jackson's top 10 vampire novels
- ... the Tipping Point is brilliantly terrifying; on the strength of that passage alone, King would qualify as one of the grand masters of horror fiction. ...
- Where horror truly lies ...
- Ah yes, the 80s was a great decade to be a fan of horror fiction. Stephen King was in his pomp, Clive Barker was enfant terrible, and James Herbert was ...
- The Very Witching Time Of Night
- The more grisly forms of horror fiction are always on parole with the reader or viewer, deploying artistic merit or layers of deeper meaning to justify ...
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