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It’s Coming Down on September 30, 2010
What do the undead have in common? They’re dead. But that is where the similarities end in Deadcore. Join authors Randy Chandler, Ben Cheetham, Edward M. Erdelac, and David James Keaton as they unleash the carnage while breathing new life, and death, into the genre with four unique and zombie-licious novellas.
Dead Juju by Randy Chandler
He’s the mystery man on the news. Where he shows up, the shit goes down. The dead are rising, the immigration issue has reached the boiling point, the living are screwed, and unspeakable acts are being performed upon all involved. In this tale of Zombies Gone Wild, yes the dead walk but just where the hell are they going and why? Dead Juju gives you the hardcore truth, if you’re ghoul enough to handle it.
Randy Chandler is the author of the two solo novels Bad Juju and Hellz Bellz, and authored Duet for the Devil with the late t. Winter-Damon.
Night of the Jikininki by Edward M. Erdelac
After a comet is observed in the western sky of feudal Japan, a murdered inmate rises from the dead and attacks his fellow prisoners. Three disparate men: a casteless bandit, a mad, child-eating monk, and a renowned but sadistic samurai band together to escape the walled and moat-surrounded prison as it fills with the walking and ravenous dead.
Edward M. Erdelac is the author of Dubaku and The Merkabah Rider series of weird westerns from Damnation Books, as well as Red Sails from Lyrical Press. More…
Zee Bee & Bee (a.k.a. Propeller Hats For The Dead) by David James Keaton
At a “Zombie Bed & Breakfast” tourist trap, guests pay for the thrill of a staged zombie assault during an apocalyptic scenario, acted out by sluggish hotel workers who are well-versed in the zombie genre. But soon the script doesn’t go as planned, the guests become uncooperative, and the actors are taking their roles very seriously these days…
David James Keaton’s short fiction has recently appeared in Comet Press’s dark crime anthology The Death Panel, as well as Thuglit, Espresso Stories, Big Pulp, Six Sentences, Pulp Pusher, and Crooked. More…
Zombie Safari by Ben Cheetham
Survivors of a zombie apocalypse have carved out new existences on islands, only visiting the mainland to hunt zombies. But things start to go wrong. Zombies don’t die as they should. Hunters go missing. A trip that’s supposed to be fun turns into a struggle for survival as four men makes a discovery that causes him to question not only what it means to be a zombie, but what it means to be human.
Ben Cheetham’s short fiction has won awards and been published in numerous magazines and anthologies in the UK, US and Australia. More…
Anticipation is quite high for this anthology out here on the west coast, at least where I am employed. Hopefully this will make up for last year’s positively Spielbergian Zombieland. Have main characters ever been less in danger during a “horror” film? Inexcusable I say! Make it mean!
Hey Cap, I’m glad to see somebody who felt the same way about Zombieland. There was a hell of a lot of open land in that movie and not many zombies. It was funny yes, and the characters were great, but I recently tried to watch it again and didn’t even watch it past Bill Murray’s cameo.