Who is the Undead Rat?

Who is the Undead Rat?

Who am I Really?

By night I am the Undead Rat, your guide to finding the next good graphic novel to read. On other websites I find horror books and Ohio authors for people to read too.

By day I am Greg Fisher - husband, father, and a librarian assistant in a mid-sized suburban library. I have a Bachelors degree in history and religious studies. I don’t have a Masters Degree in Library Science and probably never will. Still, I have over 15 years of library experience so that counts for something.

My current passion is this website, dedicated to helping people find new horror novels, collections, anthologies, graphic novels, and other horrific material. Besides that, I love to read and listen to stories that scare me. I’ve recently added websites dedicated to my other passions: graphic novels and Ohio authors.

I am married to a beautiful, intelligent, and creative woman who is launching her own small press called Drollerie Press. I’m a stepfather to a grown young man and father to two children. The oldest is a girl in kindergarten who is scarily smart, loves dinosaurs and tells a story about a pretty vampire who destroyed New York City. The boy is a year younger and he is both an albino and autistic. He loves buses, trucks, and especially loves trains.

Why the Name Undead Rat?

I belong to a team of librarians who have spent years studying readers’ advisory services. We study genres, hone our skills at finding books people will enjoy reading, publish informative bookmarks and pamphlets, and several of us specialize in one or more genres. Collectively we are the RATS (Readers Advisory Team Services) and after a while we were given or selected nicknames based on the word rat. Thus, with my love of horror, I became the Undead Rat.

The nickname stuck.

When I decided I wanted to make reading-help websites, calling myself the Undead Rat just seemed natural and it seemed a name more likely to stick in the minds of gentle readers than Greg Fisher, but I don’t want to hide behind Undead Rat. That wouldn’t inspire trust.

Call me Undead Rat.

Call me Greg.

I answer to both.