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Zen of Zombie Series August 1, 2008

Now anyone can be safe from the undead—at home, at work, or out on the town.

Vampires have walked among us for thousands of years. These reanimated corpses survive by draining and consuming the blood of the living, and their threat to humanity cannot be ignored. Throughout the centuries, professors and peasants have offered their own vampire-fighting tips, but these were often old wives' tales, based more on superstition than on fact. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive vampire-fighting guide for the twenty-first century.

In the tradition of bestsellers like The Zombie Survival Guide and The Zen of Zombie, The Vampire Survival Guide covers everything you need to know to protect yourself from vampires. Topics include the habits and routines of vampires, how to tell if somebody you know has become a vampire, how to protect yourself from attack, how to set traps, what to do if you must fight off multiple vampires, how to cleanse an entire town after devastating vampiric attacks, and much more. It confronts head-on the most terrifying situation of all—that of being bitten by a vampire—by providing the reader with numerous approaches, rooted in both science and medicine and religion, for fighting off blood-suckers before it is too late.

Vampires are found in every country in the world—not just in Eastern Europe and Sunnydale, California. With the human population expected to reach over 9 billion by the year 2050, confrontations between men, women, children, and vampires are increasingly inevitable. This guide is the human race's best hope. 25 color illustrations

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Scott Bowen, author of The Vampire Survival Guide, is the ghostwriter for Luc Richard Ballion and lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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  • Perfect Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (August 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1602392749
  • ISBN-13: 978-1602392748
  • Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #962,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Dusk til Dawn, September 4, 2008
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The Vampire Survival Guide is brought to you by the same company that put out The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead and even has the same attractive look to it with the semi-pliable white cover. In this 'humor' text you are supposed to learn how to deal with the inevitable vampire uprising, how to defend yourself, find shelter, form hunting parties, and kill vampires; taking for granted vampires exist. Unfortunately, the vampires aren't the only things that suck about this book. There's far too much double talk and redundancy of material. Also, for a book found in the Humor section of your bookstore (and it says HUMOR right on the cover) the attempts at comedy are few and far between and just not funny. There was a lot of potential for this book to be quite amusing but basically movie knowledge of vampires are totally swept away. Sidebars throughout the book consist of unfunny Random Questions and the interesting Vampire Facts blurbs about historical references to vampires (which raises the rating to two stars). I wanted to like this book but just couldn't and found it rather boring to read. Zen of the Zombie was far better and this vampire survival guide would have benefitted more if it had been more light hearted like Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead.

Overall, great looking book with little meat inside. However, since this seems to be a genre series from this company, expect one about werewolves soon.
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4.0 out of 5 stars On Task Fun Guide, January 13, 2011
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If anyone wants to take this book seriously, they need to talk to someone and reflect on the very idea that there might be a virus that causes vampirism. If you enjoy amusing books written in a serious fashion about the mythical monsters we love to scare yourselves with, then this is a great book.

This is not from the same publisher of other "survival guides" that I have given to my partner but he returned the favor by giving me this. The book is on task and on topic from the beginning through to the end. Tackling questions of survival focusing on being against not with the vampires though there are some warnings about hooking up or wanting to join their ranks.

Written with a thought to economics, fighting, disease spread, and cultural changes, it imagines a world overturned for several months by a vampire uprising. However, that idea that such an uprising would occur and why is the weakest part of the book, threatening to undermine it so I deducted a star from my rating. If you can buy the premise, just go with it, then you can have fun reading this book.
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A really great book that is interesting and funny. It makes a great partner for a more serious study of Gothic fiction since you can analyze it while still being amused and entertained.
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