Bricks of the Dead

There’s a lot of zombie stuff out there, and most of it is crap. People like to jump on bandwagons and produce quick tie-ins rather than investing love and effort into their creations. Luckily for you, I’m here to help separate the wheat from the chaff. Check back every Thursday, when I’m going to share the coolest zombie-related creation I can find out there on the web.

The Zombie Creation:

This week’s creation, “Experiment Gone Wrong” by CD Stone (here’s another link with more photos), features one of my favorite tropes in the genre: mad/evil scientists experimenting on zombies, with the predictable result of the zombie escaping its bonds and running loose. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Get ready to be dragged to hell and back and then eaten and spit back out. Yea, you’re in for a ride.

Craig DiLouie throws us right back into the story of Infection. The survivors continue the war against Infection, however futile it may seem. Monsters, zombies and possibly their own government stand in the way of their life returning to semi-normalcy. If the war does end, though, will the survivors be able to face the demons they’ve been hiding deep inside? The Killing Floor is the tale of their battles: physical, mental and emotional.

The characters that I thought I knew so well from Infection continue to evolve from the people they were before “The Screaming” into the warriors they have been forced to become. This development is done smoothly using the characters’ own thoughts, conversations and actions. Once again I fell in love with each one of them, even the hate-filled, vengeance-seeking Anne. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

There’s a lot of zombie stuff out there, and most of it is crap. People like to jump on bandwagons and produce quick tie-ins rather than investing love and effort into their creations. Luckily for you, I’m here to help separate the wheat from the chaff. Check back every Thursday, when I’m going to share the coolest zombie-related creation I can find out there on the web.

The Zombie Creation:

This week’s creation, appropriately called “LEGO Zombies” by our old buddy Retrogarde, doesn’t really feature much in the way of building. But it’s packed with zombies, and I love the perspective. That’s good enough for me. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

This is a continuation of the last post, comments and ideas will be put into one section of the manifesto “Stay home or hit the road.” In this entry of the Zombie Manifesto, Joe McKinney, author of several Zombie novels and other short stories as well as winner of this year’s Stoker Award for Superior achievement in a novel for Flesh Eaters, was kind enough to participate in this and walk us through what a realistic reaction to an outbreak would be in his very own unique way. You are treated to a fiction/non-fiction story by one of the most talented writers out there. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

In a nutshell, Sunrise is a slow paced classic zombie survival story… with a gay twist. I want to say upfront that I don’t have anything against any of these elements. Well-written slow stories can manage to build an almost unbearable tension. Classic survival tales are, well, “classic”, which is is why we like them too. And gay stories – well -  I must admit I had never read any, but I do have several gay friends, went to two gay weddings, and I’m fairly familiar with the gay culture, so I was actually curious to read something different for a change.

So if I like all of this, why did this book left me with a frustrated feeling? Probably because Sunrise holds some serious flaws in each of these elements.

The first problem is that Kody Boye likes his characters too much. They are interesting, well constructed, we know where they come from and how they feel. But they have it way too easy. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…