Posts tagged Joe McKinney
McKinney’s Controversial Book? [Book Review]
Plague of the Undead has caused some controversy. Zombiephiles have threatened to stop reading Joe McKinney books. Perhaps it’s because the story is based so far into the future, but McKinney has a way of describing this post-apocalyptic world without being too wordy, and yet the images stay with you, even when you’ve finished the story…very disturbing images. This story […]
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 […]
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, […]
Joe McKinney’s Dead World Series: Texas is Ground Zero
The first time that I read Dead City by Joe McKinney was when the book was first released in November 2006. Back then, my son was only a year old, so the scene with Eddie Hudson struggling to release his son from the car seat – while zombies closed in around them – really scared the shit out of me. […]