Shakespeare Undead/Lori Handeland/291 pp.

William Shakespeare, actor, playwright, zombie hunter. Don't judge me. He's also a vampire necromancer, with the ability to create zombies, and an affinity for talking with ghosts. (That's where some of his best dramatic plots have come from, after all.) There's a zombie horde on the loose in Elizabethan England, and Shakespeare joins forces with a young hunter named Clay (who turns out to be a young lady named Kate, natch) to destroy the zombies and find out who's creating them, and for what purpose. Handeland, whose background is in romance, spends a bit too much time on the romantic/sexual relationship that develops between Shakespeare and Kate, but otherwise this is a fun, tongue-in-cheek romp in the same "vein" (sorry, I couldn't resist) as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter.