Here’s another “Blast from the Past” as I revise and update a post I made almost three years ago. Have things changed since the? Well yes — I’ve gotten a lot older.
Who is Greg Fisher?
By day I’m a librarian assistant in the Heights Library system serving Cleveland Hts., and University Hts., Ohio. I’ve worked here since 1990.
I was a charter member of the Readers’ Advisory Team Services (RATS) in 1993 and I’m still a RAT. It was this group that gave me the alias of Undead Rat because of my love of horror fiction.
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 nearly 20 years of library experience so that counts for something.
I’m also a husband and father.
I’m married to Deena Fisher, a beautiful, intelligent, and creative woman who launched her own micro-press called Drollerie Press.
I have a grown stepson and two children. The oldest is a girl in kindergarten who is scarily smart, loves dinosaurs and tells a story about a pretty vampire girl who destroyed New York City. The boy is a year younger. He has both albinism and autism. He loves buses, trucks, and especially loves trains.
Who is the Undead Rat?
By night I am the Undead Rat, your guide to finding the next good horror book to read. To do that I employ this website …With Intent to Commit Horror.
My current passion is this website, dedicated to helping people find new horror novels, short story collections, anthologies, graphic novels, and other horrific material.
I love to read and to listen to stories that scare me.
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 this website, calling myself the Undead Rat just seemed natural and it seemed a name more likely to stick in the minds of gentle readers than my name, Greg Fisher. However, 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.
About the Website
. . . With Intent to Commit Horror is your place to discover the rich world of horror fiction published by small and large presses . . . or to put it another way, I want to help the horror enthusiast find the next good horror book to read.
One of the easiest ways to communicate with me is by using the Contact Me page. I’ve fixed it up so it no longer sends e-mails to a dead e-mail address (my bad) and I’ll do my level best to respond in a timely fashion.
The Other Website
Thrillers, Horror, Comics and Audio Books: The Lair of the Undead Rat with Greg is a library sponsored blog. I tend to write about non-horror books, audio books and graphic novels here . . . although the occasional horror book does show up from time to time. Generally the material I write about here is available at one of the libraries in the CLEVNET system.
For more information about me, including a list of blogs and social media sites where I have put up stakes, click on this link and visit my more personal blog, So Saith The Undead Rat.
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Howdy! This is Jessica from Blogging for a Good Book (http://bfgb.wordpress.com), where you’ve been leaving some excellent comments. (“Excellent,” I say, because you’ve been agreeing with me. Hooray!)
So listen, you sound like the perfect person to help me. I love to read Horror. It might be my favorite genre. I love to be scared, and I love to be horrified.
Unfortunately, I’ve been neither scared nor horrified for about fifteen years. Am I too cynical? Am I beyond hope? Can you recommend anything for me? (Exhaustive details on my reading history and preferences on request, if you’re interested in taking on this assignment.)
Hey Jessica,
I’m game. Let’s see if I can find a good book to scare you.
Send me a copy of your reading history and preferences. If possible, could you tell me about the last book you read that sacred you and how old you were?
Fear not, I went through a ten or twelve year drought before I read “City of Masks” by Daniel Hecht which broke the dry spell and scared me. There is still plenty of hope that you’ll get the scare back.
–Greg
We “met” through Susan Pfeffer, who thought I was you. I’m also a librarian who loves horror, and, in fact, work next to another like us. I do some proofing and also manage my library’s horror reading collection (Western Carolina University).
I’m enjoying your sites and am looking forward, when I have time, to examining your book selections more closely. Feel free to email, to start a discussion….
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