Zombies 'r' Us
Zombies are for boys and vampires are for girls. So says writer Charlie Higson in a recent Guardian piece. He writes:
Charlie Higson's new book The Enemy is out this month and has a very spiffy website where you can read an extract or even zombify yourself.
The book is just out and the press release makes me wish we were going to be in Toronto this coming weekend:
Of course, here in Montreal we can see zombies walking the street any night of the week.
And in Victoria, my brother Graham McDonald is directing a zombie-ful version of Mary Shelley's novel: Frankenstein in Oblivion (adapted by Graham McDonald & Kirsti Mikoda) which opens next weekend. So we also wish we were going to be in Victoria.
In one of my favourite family photos, our older son is dressed as a zombie (as he was every Hallowe'en over a span of years), and is standing next to his great-grandmother who has her arm around him and is beaming like she couldn't possibly have been prouder of this horrible-looking creature. Such is love.
Vampires are the undead of choice for girls, and zombies for boys. Vampires are cool, aloof, beautiful, brooding creatures of the night. Typical moody teenage boys, basically. Zombies are dumb, brutal, ugly and mindlessly violent. Which makes them also like typical teenage boys, I suppose.
Charlie Higson's new book The Enemy is out this month and has a very spiffy website where you can read an extract or even zombify yourself.
The book is just out and the press release makes me wish we were going to be in Toronto this coming weekend:
In Canada, Puffin Books will be celebrating the release of The Enemy at the Toronto Zombie Walk on October 24th in full zombie attire, with wound tattoo giveaways for the walkers. Be sure to visit us at 3:00 pm at Trinity Bellwoods Park bordered by Dundas St. and Gore Vale Ave.
Of course, here in Montreal we can see zombies walking the street any night of the week.
And in Victoria, my brother Graham McDonald is directing a zombie-ful version of Mary Shelley's novel: Frankenstein in Oblivion (adapted by Graham McDonald & Kirsti Mikoda) which opens next weekend. So we also wish we were going to be in Victoria.
In one of my favourite family photos, our older son is dressed as a zombie (as he was every Hallowe'en over a span of years), and is standing next to his great-grandmother who has her arm around him and is beaming like she couldn't possibly have been prouder of this horrible-looking creature. Such is love.
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