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The Undead: Headshot Quartet (Four Zombie Novellas)
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Join authors D.L. Snell, John Sunseri, Ryan C. Thomas, and David Dunwoody as they fire four more rounds into the growing horde of living dead. * MILLION-DOLLAR MONEY SHOT: The dead are rising in Aruba, and Vince has just made off with a couple million in mob money. As if mob hit men and rotting corpses weren't bad enough, the big trouble is the creatures in the water-the ones who only come onto shore at night... * MORTAL GODS: A man with the ability to call objects into existence awakens in a zombie-swarmed alley with no memory of his past. Aided by a duo of heroes-one incredibly strong, the other psychic-he digs to uncover his identity and the source of his gift in a nightmarish landscape infested with mysterious creatures. * LOST SOULS: Three art students on a working vacation at an isolated New England cottage make a terrible discovery. The rustic setting seems to be perfect inspiration, but their lives are quickly consumed by the ghastly legacy of what lives beneath the nearby cemetery. * ENEMY UNSEEN: It's not the sight of the walking dead that scares CIA agent Rhonda White. It's the fact that someone is controlling them-someone whose new bio-weapon is up for bid on the black market. And if Rhonda doesn't stop it, the world will never be the same.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #348611 in Books
- Published on: 2008-02-15
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 300 pages
Customer Reviews
Four Great Tales
This is the fourth installment in Permuted Press' franchise of zombie thrillers THE UNDEAD. This time around, Permuted has collected four of their best writers and given them a little more room to stretch out the scares in a novella format. And they make excellent use of the extra pages. My two favorites in this anthology were D.L. Snell's "Mortal Gods" and David Dunwoody's "Lost Souls." Fans of Snell's first novel, Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines, will enjoy the wildly unique zombies in "Mortal Gods," which may very have the best opening of any story I have read in the past few years. And if you somehow managed to miss David Dunwoody's stories in the first three volumes of The Undead, "Lost Souls" is a great chance to see what he is capable of writing. Read this one, then check out his opening story in "History is Dead," his unique and genuinely disturbing take on a familiar fairy tale in Read by Dawn II, and his first published story, "Grinning Samuel," and you'll find yourself with a new favorite author. I've read most of his published works now and he hasn't missed yet.
The other two stories were also very good. John Sunseri has already proven himself to be an excellent short story writer, and now, with "Million Dollar Money Shot," shows he can thrill us at longer lengths, too. I don't know if he's ever gone to Aruba, but his fast-paced tale does a great job of generating a sense of place. Sunseri's story is followed by Ryan C. Thomas' tale "Enemy Unseen." Nice voodoo elements in this one, which sets it apart from the other three tales. Also, I think, we may see this one as a full blown novel someday. There's enough to this one to justify some added length.
Overall, a top-notch anthology from four outstanding authors. Definitely worth the investment.
Zombie goodness!
Once again Permuted Press does not let down. Four tales of zombie madness. each one is different and the collection as a whole manages to put a few new twists on the good ol' zombie genre. Good reading right here friends. Read or die!
Four for fighting
The latest installment of the Undead anthologies consists of four novellas that take us in four new directions for loads of zombie fun.
While each story is unique, at least three of them have anywhere from a scent to a full blown flavor of HP Lovecraft. I loved reading Lovecraft years ago and Million Dollar Money Shot in particular ties in well with the whole Lovecraftian Mythos. I felt that Lost Souls, with its dark and foreboding New England setting also had a hint of Lovecraft to it, and Mortal Gods ties in with DL Snells novel Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines, which seemed pretty heavily influenced by good 'ol HP as well. Enemy Unseen takes things in a slightly different direction, with traditional voodoo instead of a more Romeroesque approach to the undead.
Overall, this was a fun read and my desires to criticize each story fairly limited. Yes, I could have seen one or two of the stories being served well if they were full blown novels but each author was able to put together a pretty nice tale, mostly with less than 100 pages each.
Overall, a great compilation and I look forward to more novellas like this one in future editions of "The Undead".
