by Lauren M Wilson Recipe Share: Roasted Garden Vegetable Medley In a post-apocalyptic world where supermarkets no longer exist, if you want fresh veggies you’re gonna have to grow them yourself. The communities in The Walking Dead have found ingenious ways to grow fresh food, planting crops in filing cabinets, truck tires, pots and anywhere …
by Grivante Who remembers that candy bar from the 80’s? I used to love them, though this post actually has nothing to do with them, it has to do with what we call our favorite dead monsters! One of the most challenging things as an author of zombie fiction is coming up with new things …
by Jack Wallen Six years ago today, I published I Zombie I. That was my first horror-centric novel (after having written mostly thrillers and the Shero series). I’d held off for years, writing within the horror genre, simply because I wanted to ensure I had chops enough to serve the genre I’d loved for so …
by Adrienne Lecter Let’s not debate how realistic the central premise of a zombie apocalypse is—options vary greatly from contaminated food to a randomly mutated virus outbreak—but instead revel in the glory that is raw, gory truth. Because let’s face it—if the undead rise and you manage to survive the first, say, week or so, …
* The truck sputters to a stop and Jay Wilburn curses as he steps out. He sees the collapsed and abandoned tents from the old army camp. He’s already searched them, but he heads that direction to see if there is anything else he might be able to use. Maybe fuel for the truck. * …
* The truck rolls to a stop on the coastal highway. James Dean and two other men step out. They pace out a few feet ahead to the sound of the waves. The men hold their weapons at the ready as Dean marks off towns, neighborhoods, and resorts they already searched on the map with …
*With the armies gathered behind, they face Armand Rosamilia’s forces under the next overpass on the freeway. This is Florida, so there is no high ground and no clear winner yet. Chris Philbrook stands at the front of combined forces of the survivors. The Warlord Rosamilia has grown his numbers through his treasury of M&M’s.* …
by Jay Wilburn Great zombie stories build the human characters in the midst of the zombie monsters. Still, there is a need to build the monsters whether they are zombies, vampires, werewolves, a surrogate for these tropes, or something completely new. Zombies can be mindless and empty, but there has to be something built into …
*The army stops for the night. Jay Wilburn still wants to leave, but zombies continue to close in on all sides of the camp where posted guards wait to take care of them. He wanders through and notices a familiar face in one of the tents. James Schannep studies flowcharts hanging around the inside of …
*Jay Wilburn works his way through the slow moving vehicles and the thousands of ragtag warriors marching in uneven groups. Zombies approach the moving column from all sides. Gunmen on top of the vehicles take aim, but hold their fire. Wilburn is amazed at their discipline since many are mercenaries only fighting on the promise …
