Recognizing my need to counterbalance the drooling, droning, Halloweenish caricature that has constituted my zombie reading/viewing up to now, I sought a promising literary antidote. Searching the library catalog with the subject heading “zombies–fiction”, you’ll discover 69 entries. On order and coming soon to the library are Ben Tripp’s Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller and Kevin Anderson and Sam Stall’s Night of the Living Trekkies. It’s by Alan Goldsher, and the library has it, along with “Harrison Geillor”‘s The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten, also The Book of the Living Dead. My favorite title: Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion. The same magazine that prompted me to once again regret my lack of knitting expertise devoted a two-page feature on zombie fiction. As the product description observes, “Black capes are so 1897.” And vampires are so last month. Spotlighting such items as the Werewolf Hat, Bellisima Mittens, and Blood Bottle Cozies, this imaginative guide surely represents the final stage of vampire domestication. Paging through book reviews, I encountered this title in a trade journal: Vampire Knits: Projects to Keep You Knitting from Twilight to Dawn. Sure, we’ve all noted zombies creeping up on the vampires (in prominence, that is), but here’s how you can tell they’ve won. (2) Zombies have now officially topped vampires on the Trend-o-Meter. That’s an unfair (and fun) stereotype based on one of those …. but the vampire isn't the monster.I’m savvy enough to know two important things about zombies: (1) They don’t specifically feast on gray matter or shuffle around chanting, “Brains! Braaaaaains!”. Because while Bonnie seems to her friends and family to be an ordinary, slightly clumsy, easily-distracted girl, she's really manipulative, calculating, power hungry, and not above committing murder to get her way or even just to amuse herself. But they're the kind who don't eat people, so it's okay.) Once Bonnie realizes what her new lover really is, she isn't afraid. But she soon becomes fascinated by another student the brooding, beautiful Edwin Scullen, whose reclusive family hides a terrible secret.

When Bonnie Grayduck relocates from sunny Santa Cruz California to the small town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota, to live with her estranged father, chief of the local two-man police department, she thinks she's leaving her troubles behind. Let Harrison Geillor reveal what lies beneath the seemingly placid surface. But all is not as it seems in Lake Woebegotten. a plucky heroine, a shiny vampire, and a hunky Native American rival with a secret.

The twilight of lake woebegotten