How to Make a Zombie Librarian Costume

What could be scarier than dressing as a zombie for Halloween? How about dressing as a zombie librarian, coming after those overdue books from beyond the grave? AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Things You'll Need

• Frumpy dress or sweater vest
• White face makeup
• Green makeup (optional)
• Blue and gray paint or makeup
• Fake blood (optional)
• Name tag
• Gray hairspray or cornstarch (optional)
• Granny glasses (optional)
• Sensible shoes
• Horror novel

Instructions

1. Pick out a super-frumpy dress from a thrift shop--preferably something floral with a little Peter Pan collar. If you are male and don't want to dress in drag, consider something like a sweater vest--now that's scary!

2. Rub a little white face makeup all over your face, hands and any other exposed flesh (there shouldn't be much) to simulate that corpse-like pallor. You can also blend a little green makeup into the white for a sickly tinge.

3. Mix up some blue and gray paints or makeup to make fake mold. Splotch this mold all over your dress or sweater vest. (Hopefully you didn't pay more than a few dollars for it.)

4. Splatter some fake blood (or ketchup) if you want to be a zombie librarian who's met a violent end. hacked to death by an angry patron, perhaps, unhappy with having to pay $2,000 in fines. If you prefer to be a librarian who just dropped dead on the job, you can skip the blood.

5. Pin a name tag on to your dress or vest. If you can, try to borrow one of these from your local public library. If not, you can make do with any hard plastic name tag, or even make a fake one out of cardboard or a piece of soft plastic you've cut into a rectangle, about 1 inch by 2 inches.

6. Put your hair up in a bun if you are female. Sprinkle a little cornstarch on your hair or use spray-on gray coloring if you want to be a little old lady (or man) librarian. Granny glasses may also be used.

7. Remember to wear sensible shoes and say "ssssshhhhhhhh! aaaaggghhhhh! ssssshhhhh!!!!!! aaaagggghhhhh!!!!" Shamble along in your best zombie-like stumble, clutching a horror book, preferably something like "The Brain Eaters" or "I, Zombie."