{"id":267,"date":"2011-06-02T15:14:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=267"},"modified":"2012-09-26T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:29:29","slug":"the-monster-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/the-monster-mashup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monster Mash(up)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to <em>Booklist Onliine<\/em> for including this article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Core-Collection-Classic-nbsp\/Monster-Mash-ups\/pid=4617030\">Classic Monster Mash-ups <\/a>as the topic of their May 15 Core Collection feature. (Core Collection, for those of you who are not librarians, means &#8220;you gotta have this one in your collection, NOW!)<\/p>\n<p>Christine Meloni put together a nice introduction to the subgenre, with an annotated booklist of some of the better known books (she did note that some of them, like <em>Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer<\/em> are not actually mash-ups. I was familiar with a lot of these but good Lord, someone out there really thinks Jane Austen and zombies are a rockin&#8217; combination! I counted FIVE related books on Meloni&#8217;s list, and she didn&#8217;t even include the two sequels to <em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My only quibble, and I mention this mainly because I&#8217;ve recently become sensitive to it, is that once again, these books are never described as horror fiction- they are &#8220;supernatural literary fiction&#8221;. You know, if a teenage boy picks up a book promising zombies and &#8220;ultraviolent mayhem&#8221;, it&#8217;s probably not because he cares about the literary value of the timeless romance between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Outside of that, I really appreciated Meloni&#8217;s comments about monster mash-ups- that they can be fun and are worth reading. Thanks, Christine!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Booklist Onliine for including this article, Classic Monster Mash-ups as the topic of their May 15 Core Collection feature. (Core Collection, for those of you who are not librarians, means &#8220;you gotta have this one in your collection, NOW!) Christine Meloni put together a nice introduction to the subgenre, with an annotated booklist<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/the-monster-mashup\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[241,240,83,244,202,208,243,7],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-booklist","tag-core-collection","tag-horror-fiction","tag-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies","tag-supernatural-fiction","tag-the-h-word","tag-vampire-slayer","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}