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Brutal Planet Delivers [Book Review]
Brutal Planet by Sean P. Murphy was a selection from my personal reading list, and I wasn’t disappointed with my choice. Told mostly from the POV of an anthropologist named John, this novel is full of incredible action scenes, and some great dialogue between characters. I think making the main character someone who is able to make professional observations about […]
Besser’s Zombie Western Short
Cursed Bounty by Rebecca Besser was a pleasant, but macabre surprise. I’m not big into Western themes, but I still enjoyed the story. After a bank robbery involving multiple murders, the Sheriff of Bristleton requests help from the governor. Let me tell you, Besser’s governor would scare the crap out of The Walking Dead governor. The foreshadowing in the governor’s […]
Dead North Is Not Any Safer [Book Review]
Dead North is an anthology of Canadian zombie literature featuring some of the most amazing & imaginative horror scenarios that I’ve ever read. Usually, when I think of zombie literature, I think of outbreaks described in the States, the UK and, on occasion, Australia. Canada has simply been that place that American survivors try to flee to in the stories. […]
Perfect Winter Reading: the DEAD series [Book Review]
DEAD Winter, Siege & Survival and Confrontation officially bring the DEAD series by TW Brown to the halfway mark, and also bring some of the most miserable and haunting images ever written to this zombie apocalypse saga. The characters have battled both zombies and their fellow survivors, only to face an even more deadly foe: Mother Nature. Obviously, any rough […]
DiLouie + McKinney + Knight = AWESOME!!
Pandemic, Episode One of The Retreat, is the first in a series co-authored by Craig DiLouie, Joe McKinney and Stephen Knight…and they have created another version of zombies that is nothing less than exceptional! “The world was going to die laughing.” While I am not familiar with the writing style of Knight, I can say that Pandemic will absolutely live […]
Lunchtime Quickie [Book Review]
The Bitten Man by Edward Chilvers takes place in the UK, and is told from the POV of a father trying to find a safe place for his son. This piece of flash fiction is similar to The Road by Cormac McCarthy, but instead of fighting cannibals, they have to fight zombies…um, wait…same thing? Hmmm… Chilvers manages to pack of […]
New Zombie Miniseries [Book Review]
British Zombie Breakout Part One: The Castle by Peter Salisbury immediately establishes that this is not the first zombie outbreak that the characters have had to deal with, although the characters do not seem to fare much better, apparently having gotten too comfortable living somewhat normal lives again, and, therefore, their evacuate-by-boat plan falls through. The two groups of survivors, […]
Liger Plague = Living Infected
The Liger Plague by Joseph Souza might possibly be a new twist in the zombie genre; if the living infected in 28 Days Later fall into the realm of zombies, readers should at least consider adding Souza’s latest creation to the list. The Liger infected are unable to control their actions, they feed on human flesh, and they “hunt” much […]
Zombie Dildos: Fuck Your Brains Out
Zombiephiles claim to love zombies…but do we love them so much that we want to masturbate with a zombie dildo? (Is this the new item we’re putting in our bug-out bags? REALLY?!) About a month or so ago, word was getting around the zombie community that Walgreens was selling a zombie dildo. (Because they “have what you need!”) The thing […]
Dead Tide Will Pull You In [Interview]
The Dead Tide series by Stephen A. North is kind of like a zombie soap opera: lots of characters, a rotating POV, and plenty of dramatic scenes with the undead. Usually I struggle with a cast this size, and I have to write down notes just to remember the individual survivors and their backgrounds, but somehow North managed to create […]
