While scores of English teachers around the world ramble on about motifs, iambic pentameter, and deus ex machina, hordes of brain-swilling zombies and neck-chomping vampires are invading the major works of the world’s greatest authors! Now, Melville's infamous creature of the deep is actually a zombie whale. And while Will Shakespeare’s rhyme scheme ties tongues in knots, Hamlet’s uncle has become a villainous vampire in royal robes. That sexy beast Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter? He’s even sexier and beastlier . . . now that he’s a werewolf. Zombie Notes will quickly bring you up to speed on what's lurking in the literary canon. A study guide to literature's most famous scenes of love, heroism, brain letting, and countlessdecapitations, it is sure to reanimate your passion for the Great Books.