The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, edited by Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99), came out this past February. It contains 19 previously-unpublished short stories about zombies. Overall, the collection is very strong. My personal favorites are: “What Masie Knew” by David Liss– I thought this was the best, most artfully-rendered story in the collection. Liss imagines a Fido-like alternate universeContinue reading “Book Review: The New Dead”
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Book Review: The Zombie Combat Manual
The Zombie Combat Manual (Berkeley Trade; April 1, 2010; SRP $14.00), is a great new book by Zombie Combat Club curator Roger Ma that seeks to enumerate the many benefits of fighting zombies with hand-to-hand weapons (or with your hands alone). The book opens with a startling vignette. During a zombie outbreak, a muscular young man armedContinue reading “Book Review: The Zombie Combat Manual”
Cover for The Code of the Zombie Pirate
Here’s the cover for my book The Code of the Zombie Pirate which will come out around October. (I think it’s a good sign whenever the author’s name is partially obscured by blood-spatter…)
Play Review: Legion
Last week I went to see the WildClaw Theatre’s new play Legion, and it was ridiculously awesome. It doesn’t have zombies in it per se, but if you’re a horror fan in driving-distance of Chicago, you’d be crazy not to come check it out. Legion is a sequel to The Exorcist, and is the story ofContinue reading “Play Review: Legion”
Z.E.O. illustrates the danger of satirizing dumb people…
Here’s a photo a friend sent me of Z.E.O. in the Greenwich Public Library, where it has been assigned a Dewey Decimal number designating it a “Business Book” and shelved in the Business/Self Help section: When stuff like this happens to my books, I always think of the great nineteenth-century American songwriter Dan Emmett. Emmett was a northern Yankee, fromContinue reading “Z.E.O. illustrates the danger of satirizing dumb people…”
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