The Everhart Museum has combined forces with Library Express Book Club to bring you Everhart Reads, a community-engaged book club and discussion group! Book choices are based on the museum’s exhibits and the group meets on the third Thursday of every month.

These free discussions take place monthly at Library Express (located at the Steamtown Mall in downtown Scranton) at 6 p.m. on the dates listed below. To register for Everhart Reads, please call Stefanie Bush, Director of Interpretive Programs at the Everhart Museum, at 570-346-7186 or email programs@everhart-museum.org

The schedule/reading list for February-June 2013 is as follows (complements the exhibit The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Art & Nature):

February 21: “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova
March 21: “Bloodwork: A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution” by Holly Tucker
April 18: “Dracula” by Bram Stoker *meeting at Everhart Museum
May 16: A collection of vampire short stories (titles lead to PDF files): The Giaour by Lord Byron, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Wake Not the Dead by Johann Ludwig Teick
June 20: “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” by Karen Russell