1. It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown leaf globe. I’d had an Amazon alert about this thing, and am glad to have now seen one for real. It’s small. It’s round and flat rather than spherical. The Peanuts figures aren’t in the purest Schulz style. And the “leaves” are really glitter. Not so great.

2. Crafts books: Zombigami, Gothic Jewelry and Super Scary Crochet. What grandmothers do after they die.

3. The Cracked.com compendium You Might Be a Zombie. Misfiled. It’s not really a zombie book.

4. The Weir, by Connor McPherson, astutely included. This Irish barroom discussion one of the great ghost-story plays of the last 20 years.

5. John Landis, Monsters of the Movies. It’s a pity when great film directors are doing memoirs and coffee table books instead of being given movies to direct. I felt the same way when Nicholas Meyer’s fine autobiography came out a couple of years ago.

6. Much fewer vampire books than there were last year.

7. Still way too many zombie titles. There’s one about zombies fighting Nazis, but nobody’s really improved on World War Z in all these zombie years.