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June 30, 2014

Their Bloody Instruments

June 30, 2014/ Deirdre Crimmins

A ticking clock hangs ominously over every page of Craig DiLouie's genuinely creepy new horror novel, filled with beings who aren't quite zombies and not quite vampires. Our resident horror maven Deirdre Crimmins tells us all about it.

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June 30, 2014/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, July 2014, literary criticism
June 30, 2010

Crazy in the City

June 30, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins

In Craig Dilouie's new thriller Tooth and Nail, American troops are called home to New York from war-torn Iraq, only to find there are some horrors far worse than those of war

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June 30, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, July 2010, literary criticism
May 31, 2010

Brain Vegans

May 31, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins

George Romero, master of the zombie movie, returns to theaters with Survival of the Dead, and our resident zombie expert Deirdre Crimmins has a front row seat.

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May 31, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins/
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June 2010
April 30, 2010

Zen and the Art of Skull-Impaling

April 30, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins

Even in these fractious times, we can all agree that zombies are bad, and that killing zombies is good. But how exactly do you do it? A new book hones your technique.

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April 30, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction
Book Review, fiction, May 2010
October 31, 2009

Fun, with Zombies

October 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins

Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland straddles the divide between light family fare and flesh-eating mayhem; Deirdre Crimmins is naturally intrigued.

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October 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins/
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November 2009
August 31, 2009

The New, Improved Undead

August 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins

Hot-ticket director Guilermo del Toro has co-written a vampire novel that just happens to be about 50 percent flawed. Coincidence? Zombie expert Deirdre Crimmins is on the case.

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August 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, September 2009
July 31, 2009

Very Scared People

July 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins

Who’s the greatest hater, a killer or his victim’s avenger? Deirdre Crimmins takes a stab at David Moody’s Hater.

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July 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
August 2009, fiction, literary criticism
May 31, 2009

Reader, I Disemboweled Him

May 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins

Intrepid reporter Deirdre Crimmins tackles that last literary taboo: Regency zombies.

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May 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Deirdre Crimmins, fiction, jane austen, June 2009, literary criticism
April 30, 2009

Rom Zom Com

April 30, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins

Exiled to the basement, pelted with garbage, and unlucky in love: zombies have it rough in S.G. Browne’s new novel Breathers. Dierdre Crimmins lends a sympathetic ear (figuratively, of course).

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April 30, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, May 2009
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