Jonathan Maberry - They Bite

1. Kryger, Meir H., Thomas Roth, William C. Dement, Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1994

6. Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet , both published by Random House in 2008.

13. More formally known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event, this was an extinction of species that occurred about 65.5 million years ago which most scientists believe was the result of a meteor striking the earth.

14. In some versions of the tale she is called Mother Leeds or Abigail Leeds.

15. In Witch-bound Africa: An Account of the Primitive Kaonde Tribe and Their Beliefs by Frank H. Melland; J. B. Lippincott Publishers, 1923.

16. Job 41:134.

17. Any of the vertebrate amphibians without tails, such as frogs and toads.

18. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, On the Minhoco of the Goyanes. American Journal of Science , 1847; 2:4.

19. Not to be confused with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a separate nation.

20. Onza is based on the Latin word, Unica, meaning cheetah.

1. A fictional town in which Braunbeck sets many of his stories.

2. Death Be Not Proud by John Donne (15721631).

7. Any object that wards off evil.

3. A fictionalized account, The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost by Jonathan Maberry, appeared in the Legends of the Mountain State 2 anthology, edited by Michael Knost (Woodside Press). Other cases include the Rebecca Cornell case of 1673 and the Billings trial of 1878.

4. Of these, The Haunting is an easy call for the best ghost movie of all time; and Below gets our vote as the most criminally overlooked.

5. Though theres some truly wonderful bits of writing there. Try ityoull surprise yourself!

6. A traditional form of Japanese theater known for highly stylized drama and the frequent mix of folkloric elements and actual historical characters.

7. The author is unknown.

8. The full story of the Bell Witch is also chronicled in An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch by Martin Van Buren Ingram (1894) and Our Family Trouble: The Story of the Bell Witch by Richard Williams Bell (1846).

9. No relation to the actor.

10. No relation to that same actors wife. Oris there?

1. Also known as the Lovecraft Mythos, the phrase Cthulhu Mythos was actually coined by August Derleth.

2. The Necronomicon was supposedly written by Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred and was first mentioned in the 1924 short story The Hound.

8. Okay, call it what you will.

3. Revelation 13:1.

4. Numbers 25

5. Cannibalistic.

6. In German Faust means fist; the Latin variation, Faustus, means auspicious or lucky.

1. Voiced by the late, great Ossie Davis.

2. In southern Albania, it is spelled Buller.

1. The Lascaux caves in southwestern France were discovered in 1940 by four teenagers.

2. Derived from an Akkadian word loosely translated splendor serpent.

3. The collection of stories claimed by some to be excised sections of the Bible. Most major religions, such as the Catholic Church, and many biblical scholars dispute the authenticity of these stories.

4. The Apocrypha; The Book of Bel and the Dragon, Chapter 1, verses 2227.

9. Among other titles.

5. She is the author of The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times , Princeton University Press, 2001.

6. Hercules is his Roman name.

7. This list is a tiny fragment of world myth captured in epic poems and other writings.

8. Check out Young Frankenstein on Broadway or the DVD collection of The Munsters and youll get the point.

9. A concept first put forth by the Venerable Bede (672 to 735), the noted scholar and author of Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People), which gained him the title The father of English history.

10. Topsell (15721625), was an English cleric and author best known for his bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum , a significant early text on zoology.

11. A legendary Greek physician who later became the god of medicine; reputedly the son of Apollo and Coronis.

12. Scheduled for release in 2010 by Top Shelf Productions.

13. This number actually varies in different stories, though nine is the most commonly applied number.

14. Again, stories differ and some accounts credit Styx and the Titan Pallas as the parents of the monsters.

10. Some sources claim that Thomas Preskett Prest may have written the story, though this claim is not widely accepted.

15. In some versions of the story it was Aphrodite who did this.

16. The Serpent and the Rainbow , 1985, Simon & Schuster; Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie , 1988, The University of North Carolina Press

17. Tetrodotoxin (anhydrotetrodotoxin 4-epitetrodotoxin, tetrodonic acid, or TTX) is a potent neurotoxin.

18. Brazilian slang for voodoo/vodoun used by nonpractitioners of that faith.

19. From the screenplay for Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero. A line echoed in the 2004 Zack Snyder remakeboth lines delivered by actor Ken Foree playing different roles.

20. For a lot of creepy reasons why zombies are almost medically possible, check out Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead by Jonathan Maberry, 2008.

11. The original title was Second Coming , but King later changed it to Jerusalems Lot . The publishers shortened it to Salems Lot because they felt it sounded too religious.

12. His books have sold more than 350 million copies.

13. Lawson Welles is the writer, director, producer, and star of the motion picture Cricket Snapper , released in 2005 by Phoenix Rising Films.

14. Originally presented by H. P. Blavatsky in the 1870s in her essay: Masters of Wisdom.

15. A compilation of earlier revelations published posthumously in 1957.

2. In his novel Dracula , Bram Stoker incorrectly defines Nosferatu as meaning undead.

16. First published by Playboy Press in 1979.

17. The films science is pretty faulty. The measles virus depicted in the film is not a retrovirus, but a part of the Paramyxovirus family.

18. Published by Random House and filmed by Tobe Hooper in 1985 as Lifeforce .

19. Dafoe was hired to play The Green Goblin in Spider-Man (2002) after the producers saw this performance.

20. Horror Geek Trivia: The word vampire is never mentioned in the film.

21. At this writing its rumored that Johnny Depp will step into the role of Barnabas Collins. Jonathan Frid created the character for TV and Ben Cross took his bite out of the part in the attempted TV reboot of the show.

22. Based on Charlaine Harriss excellent series of novels.

23. Modern slang for an older woman who seduces younger men.

24. Not to be confused with the Alp-luachra, an evil fairy from Irish mythology.

25. A caul is an amniotic sac that, in rare cases, adheres to the face after birth. Cultures vary as to whether this is a sign of evil or of great positive psychic power.

3. See the entry on the Ebu Gogo, a dwarfish race of predatory humans ( Homo floresiensis ) whose remains were discovered in Indonesia in 2003 by anthropologists Peter Brown, Michael Morwood, and their colleagues.

26. The term horse leech first appears in Proverbs 30:15.

27. A term coined by Theosophist Franz Hartmann.

28. Astral projection is the practice of deliberately separating ones consciousness from the physical body in order to move unhindered by any limitations.

29. Other monsters that do this include Like the Phi Song Nang of Thailand, the Malaysian Penanggalan, the Krasue of Cambodia, and the Vietnamese Ma C Rng (see individual listings).