Kansas City Horror Book Club

Anno Dracula

By Kim Newman

Details:
Date and Time: August 11, 2013 (Sunday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes:"Come and talk about Anno Dracula a Bram Stoker award nominee. We will also be selecting our next books."

Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead." In this first of what looks to be an excellent series, Victorian England has vampires at every level of society, especially the higher ones, and they engage in incessant intrigue, power games, and casual oppression of the weak--activities, as we know, that are all too human. Numerous characters from literature and from history appear in both major and cameo roles. Spectacular fight scenes, stormy politics, and a serial vampire killer keep the action lively. A scholarly bibliography is included. Amazon.com Review


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Kansas City Horror Book Club

The Strain 

By Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Details: 
April 14, 2013 11:30m - 1:30pm


"Trailside Center is next to the fire station and conveniently located a few blocks north of the intersection of I435 and Holmes."

Synopsis:

At New York’s JFK Airport, an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane—–and what he finds makes his blood run cold. 

A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like all-consuming wildfire—–lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric. And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here. 

In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world. 

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. (-Amazon) 

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Film Cadets

Film Cadets: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Date: June 24, 2012

Time: Last showing before 6pm (2D only!)

Place:Cinemark Palace on the Plaza

Restaurant: Noodle & Co. or (Bo Ling's, if Open)

Organizer: Ken Keller

While the name may seem hilarious, do not be fooled. This movie looks to be a strong summer action blockbuster worthy of a large tub of popcorn. Presented by Tim Burton; directed by Timur Bekmambetov (9 and Wanted); Staring: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie. Come one and all to watch one of our greatest presidents defend our country against it's most greatest  foe, Vampires (that don't sparkle, thank you very much!).

Based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith author of such stories as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. 


See the trailer below.




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