One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray." --- Lord Byron.

Lord Byron lived from 1788-1824 and influenced such poets as McDonald Clarke, Charles Lamb, John Nicholson, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Noting: Books is a great organizational website, a way to congregate notes and thoughts on a particular book, and see what other's thought all in one place.  It's like the microblog for books...

We are currently experiencing a resurgance of Zombie-fiction.  Everything from movies to novels to comics have become inundated with reference to the Undead.  Just think back to the number of Zombie films being made, or remade, in the past 10 years...

Part one of a series of articles focusing on Zombie Fiction.

ON the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon Prophet, John Ferrier went in to Salt Lake City, and having found his acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada Mountains, he entrusted him with his message to Jefferson Hope. In it he told the young man of the imminent danger which threatened them, and how necessary it was that he should return. Having done thus he felt easier in his mind, and returned home with a lighter heart.

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till it seemed
That Sense was breaking though -

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Author of Read Many Books, Sherry Thompson, has been a high school librarian for 31 years.  She reads mainly young adult books (because she's a librarian at a high school) and reviews them for publishers. She reviews books for her students and posts them on her blog.  Check it out!