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Avery Nolan vs. Zombies in 1959
Avery Nolan: Private Dick of the Dead by Tony Faville, edited by Felicia A. Sullivan, and with cover art by Robert Elrod, was not what I expected at all; the title led me to believe that this would be a humorous undead tale about a detective, Dick Tracy-style, but, instead, this was a serious and elaborate crime/mystery/thriller with zombies. Granted, [...]
Zombie Survival For Kids!
Brains Etc. (Activity Book) Zombie Survival for Kids! seemed like a good idea at the time, but it’s only available in e-book form…can’t exactly color the pages on a Kindle. Yes, you can transfer this to your computer to print out the pages, but it would have been nice if this was available in paperback, especially since it was made [...]
Vaughn Surprises in Zombie Wonderland [Interview]
Zombie Wonderland by Piper Vaughn is anything but a typical zombie story. Emery has a crush on a regular customer by the name of Ross, and Ross shows up on Christmas Eve to warn Emery about the undead outbreak. Ross even has a survival plan in place. Of course, Emery thinks he must be dreaming because he was hoping to see [...]
The Crossing in McKinney’s Dead World
The Crossing is much shorter than I expected…not unlike zombie flash fiction. It takes place in the setting of the Dead World series, which fans will really enjoy. Samantha is a reporter who snuck into the Zone to expose the government’s lies about the infection and the people who were trapped there. She joins up with a small group right away, [...]
Domain of the Dead: Zombie Duality
Unlike most folks, I read Domain of the Dead by Iain McKinnon after I read Remains of the Dead, and I’m glad that I did. I felt god-like knowing what had happened to the ones that were left behind, while the three who flew off in the helicopter were left to wonder about the fate of their friends. You see, [...]
Meigs Releases The Michaluk Virus
I never heard of Jessica Meigs before The Becoming was released by Permuted Press…I just started hearing people talking about a zombie story that was written entirely on Blackberry. I can’t believe this is Meigs’ first novel! As for the story itself, a handful of survivors form a loose-knit group as a virus spreads out from Atlanta. First people go [...]
Zombies vs. Bigfoot: Eric S Brown [INTERVIEW]
Somewhere as far back as 2010, I talked to Eric S Brown about an interview, and he was all for making an appearance at The Zombiephiles, but we were both so busy, it didn’t happen until the very end of 2011, after I read Last Stand In A Dead Land. Last Stand (Grand Mal Press) was a unique blend of [...]
Clement Moore and Zombies
Zombies Attack The Night Before Christmas by TJ Martin was a mere flash of bloody mayhem. I was hoping for something more than just a revised version of the famous poem by Clement Moore — it was over too quick! In this version, zombies attack Santa and his team of reindeer. The narrator’s family helps rescue Santa, but the reindeer [...]
Charles Dickens and Zombies
I love classical literature, but I’m not really a fan of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I think I was put off the original by all the modern takes of the story, especially the various movies with the Scrooge theme. So, I don’t know what the hell I was thinking when I willingly spent several hours reading three different [...]
Fortunes & Failures in the Dead Series
Dead: Fortunes & Failures is the third installment in the Dead series by TW Brown. He did a great job of recapping prior events through flashback memories of the characters reminiscing about their survival experiences, but I strongly recommend revisiting the first two novels if you have the time. In Dead: Ugly Beginning, the first book in this series, a [...]
