The perk of the e-reader aside from easily concealing your embarrassing Dan Brown fandom? Free books. The Web is full of classic works inside the public domain, and it’s easy to take advantage of the thousands of free titles with most devices. Here’s a Techland ‘how-to’ in updating that reading queue for free.
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To celebrate the premiere of The Walking Dead on AMC this Sunday, we here at Techland will be picking out our favorite formerly deceased monsters across comics, games, film and other media. The zombie myth’s been around for centuries and has been reinterpreted almost as much as vampire lore. At their most basic, though, zombies represent …
Looking to cuddle up with something spooky? We just took stock of your options. Here are our picks for the best (and mostly free) horror shows and films available to watch online.
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Online entertainment for your October enjoyment:
White Zombie (1932)
The first full-length zombie film starring …
Begin (or continue) your horror literature education with our list of the top 15 classic horror novels published before 1950.
To honor the sleepy Swedish roots of Let Me In, we’ve listed twenty films that have gone somewhat unseen in the catalog of vampire films.
Comic fans can expect a new superhero this year in a young Muslim boy.
The new title from publisher Liquid Comics will launch in early November and feature a young Muslim boy in a wheelchair who discovers he has superpowers. Authored by a group of disabled children from the U.S. and Syria who were brought together last month in …
If the cultural sphere of nerds had a governing body, there’s no doubting Dr. Sheldon Cooper would be on the board. Big Bang Theory’s most lovable geek, a socially acute genius with a killer t-shirt collection, has etched his way into our hearts, one comic book reference at a time, making him one of the decade’s breakout television …
It’s hard to say what will fill the void left by long-running TV favorites LOST or 24, absent from our screens for the first time this season, but NBC’s The Event will certainly on of this year’s most willing understudies. A show that promises us one of the greatest government cover ups in this drama-filled alt history, tonight’s …
Hey nerds, hit “pause” and head over to TIME.com for a peek back at the legacy of Halo. Then pour yourself another tall one of Code Red for old time’s sake and plop back down to erase a few more aliens from the planet.
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Night Of The Living Trekkies ($10, Amazon), the latest release from publisher Quirk Books gives us zombies and Star Trek. I’m not sure I need explain much else, but because nothing snares my little zombie-lovin’ heart like a good “Holy shit, we’re trapped inside a convention center full of cosplaying zombies!” plot – well, I’ll wax a …
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