By Stephen King

When a writer returns to his Maine home town, he discovers that the peaceful hamlet is being overrun by vampires and sets out to curb this ancient evil before it can spread.

Became the TV Miniseries: Salem's Lot (1979 and 2004)

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Betrayed by her longtime vampire lover, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every kind of undead and paranormal creature, as well as the new man in her life, the shapeshifter Quinn, and the upcoming vampire summit (From the Publisher).

By Scott Snyder
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Includes King’s western tale about a sun-powered vampire with rattlesnake fangs + Snyder’s story about a female vampire who is seeking revenge against the European bloodsuckers who tortured and abused her.

By Scott Snyder
Series American Vampire Series
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This volume of the critically-acclaimed AMERICAN VAMPIRE follows the star of AV Volumes 1 and 2, Pearl, and her husband Henry, as he is recruited by a mysterious group of vampire hunters, off to World War II Japan to find a new breed of blood sucker. But what does the notorious vampire Skinner Sweet have to do with it?

By James S. Murray

The star of truTV's Impractical Jokers shares the story of a new state– of–the–art subway that is found empty and drenched in blood, signaling the release of an ancient horror and civilization–destroying dark forces.

By Kelley Armstrong
Series Women of the Otherworld Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.

By Mira Grant
Series Newsflesh Trilogy

“In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a team of CDC researchers, must find her way back to Shaun Mason, who is dealing with his own problems, before things get worse in her post-zombie, post-resurrection America (From the Publisher).” 

By Chase Novak

Teenagers Adam and Alice struggle with the terrifying reality that they are reaching the age when some of the children created by the fertility treatment that spawned them begin to turn feral, while their aunt, Cynthia, fights to protect their lives from a troop of feral offspring threatening to invade their refuge.

By Glen Duncan
Series Last Werewolf Series

Talulla settles down with her werewolf family only to be tormented by a fanatical cult and nagging thoughts about ancient vampire Remshi, who believes he knows Talulla from another time.

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Joe Ledger Novels

“When a team of killers breaks into the Department of Military Sciences and steals the world’s most dangerous weapons, Joe Ledger and Echo Team rush to stop a brilliant and devious master criminal from unleashing terror across the country (From the Publisher).”

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires

“When the body of a were-panther is discovered in the parking lot of Merlotte's, Sookie Stackhouse feels compelled to discover the identity of the killer, but encounters a much greater threat to the human and undead communities of Bon Temps (From the Publisher).”

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a vampire with ties to a crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers.

By Mira Grant
Series Newsflesh Trilogy

“When a CDC researcher, after faking her own death, arrives on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun Mason, the head of a news organization, is plunged into the biggest story of his life (From the Publisher).”

By Bram Stoker

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

By Justina Ireland

When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Dead of Night Series

Officer Desdemona Fox and her associates must figure out a way to rescue and evacuate the people of Stebbins County before the infected zombie horde completely takes over.

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, September 25, 2018. 1:30 PM.

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story. 

By Elizabeth Kostova

Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.

By Anne Rice
Series Vampire Chronicles

Confessions from a vampire of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead.

By Stephen King

A group of teenagers stumbles upon an evil force that will eventually draw them all back to Derry, Maine, for a final showdown.

By David Wellington
Series Zombie Trilogy

In the heart of America, in the world’s most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening — and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles.

By Justin Cronin

A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.

By Robin McKinley

Rae, nicknamed Sunshine by her stepfather, is the baker at her family’s coffeehouse. She’s happy getting up at 4 am to make cinnamon rolls for the breakfast rush, and dealing with people and food all day. But one evening she needed somewhere she could be alone for a little while, and there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years. She never thought of vampires.

By Robert Kirkman
Series The Walking Dead
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family isstill alive and endures many horrors along the way.

Became the TV show: The Walking Dead.

By Robert Kirkman
Series Walking Dead Trilogy

In the Walking Dead universe, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury. The world will finally understand what drove Philip Blake to become....The Governor.

By Anne Rice

When Reuben, otherwise known as Sunshine Boy, was sent to write a piece about the uncertain future of the giant house on the cliff, he wasn't expecting to warm so instantly to elegant heiress Marchent Nideck. Nor was he expecting to get caught up in a violent attack which will leave him changed in ways he could never have imagined.

By Max Brooks
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, October 29. 7 PM.

Max Brooks, son of actor Mel Brooks, chronicles the ficticious "zombie wars" that nearly decimated the human population, with first–hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the planet.

By Ryan Mecum

An author’s account written in haiku of his experience during the zombie plague and when he became a zombie and kept writing.