With a display featuring a serpent-infested Barbie boat and life-size bloody female zombie (see photos), Vicki Burger and Hugh Jenkins of Windy City Books, Casper, Wyo., have won the Quirk Classics Monster Mash-Up Display contest. They receive $500 and 10 copies of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters signed by at least one of the authors.
The second-place winner was Sandra Gernheuser of Mitchell Books, Fort Wayne, Ind., whose display included a cemetery and blue sea monster. She wins $200 and five signed copies of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
In third place: Whitney Spotts, Schuler Books & Music, Lansing, Mich., who receives $100 and five copies of the book.
Quirk Classics creator and editor Jason Rekulak was the judge for the contest, which ran from September 1 to November 1.